[aha] INFECTED: VIRAL CALL for VIRAL WORK

[Dedalus]

KURATOR and LX 2.0: Commissions and Residencies 2009  

INFECTED: VIRAL CALL for VIRAL WORK

Artist commissions for 'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal', the South West

Cultural Olympiad, UK  
 

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JANUARY 2009, sent by email to info at kurator.org 


ANNOUNCEMENT OF SELECTED PROPOSALS: 19 FEBRUARY 2009,

in conjunction with the launch of 'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal'  

http://www.anti-bodies.net/ 
 

KURATOR and LX 2.0 are looking for a new work to infect the Olympics.

We will commission two online projects that respond to the idea of the
'virus' for 'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal', a series of projects that
reflect on the ideal 'body-machine' of the Olympic athlete. By virus we
mean to draw attention to any agent that is able to reproduce itself and
spread over communications networks and infect the host body. For instance,
a computer virus describes the self-reproducing activities of a program
that can simply spread and affect other programs, and thereby reflects the
structural properties of the computer and the network it operates through.
Moreover, the cultural form of a virus embodies the principles of negation
in keeping with the anti-bodies theme.  

The commission fee is UK£1000. In addition, the artists will be offered a
short residency (up to 10 days) to develop the work with the Art & Social
Technologies Research group at the University of Plymouth in UK
(http://www.art-social.net). Accommodation and travel will be covered (up
to UK£500 /per commission).  

There are a number of precedents for artists dealing with the virus as
metaphor in the broadest sense. An example is the 'biennale.py' virus that
contaminated the Venice Biennale's web site (produced by
0100101110101101.org with epidemiC, for the Slovenian pavilion of 2000).
For the programmer Jaromil, the source code of a virus is potential lyrical
poetry. Related to this, the elegance of his Unix shell ‘forkbomb’
(2002) encapsulates this aesthetic approach in presenting only thirteen
characters to dramatic effect. Once entered into the command line of a Unix
shell and run, the program exhausts the system's resources, causing the
computer to crash. It was also included in the exhibition ‘I Love You:
Computer, Viren, Hacker, Kultur’ (held at the Museum für Angewandte
Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, in 2002), referring to the ‘I Love You’ virus
(of 2000) that spread through the communities of the Internet. The
destructive potential of a virus operates in the spirit of auto-destruction
and Dadaist tactics to negate the destructive tendencies of the social
world.

Anti-Bodies is co-ordinated by Relational, supported by Arts Council
England and has been granted the London 2012 Inspire mark as part of the
Cultural Olympiad.


http://www.kurator.org
http://www.lisboa20.pt/lx20/
http://www.relational.org.uk/




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visto la Madonna.
Io sono un cretino che la Madonna non l'ha vista mai.
Tutto consiste in questo, vedere la Madonna o non vederla."

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