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wanted to let you know about this project I'm doing for LX 2.0, in
partnership with KURATOR. I'm attaching the document with the info
about the commissions and the residencies for the winners. Could you
pass this to people you think may be interested? Also, since this is a
VIRAL CALL, I would like to ask if you could forward this to anyone you
think relevant in the field so we get an infection going :)<br> <br>Many thanks, <br><br>Best, <br>Luis<br><br><br><br><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">KURATOR and LX 2.0: Commissions and Residencies 2009</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">INFECTED: VIRAL CALL for VIRAL WORK</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Artist commissions for 'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal', the South West</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">Cultural Olympiad, UK </span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br>
</div><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><u><br></u></div><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><u>DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JANUARY 2009</u>, sent by email to </span><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:info@kurator.org" target="_blank">info@kurator.org</a></span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">ANNOUNCEMENT OF SELECTED PROPOSALS: 19 FEBRUARY 2009, </span></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">in conjunction with the launch of <span style="color: black;">'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal' </span></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.anti-bodies.net/" target="_blank">http://www.anti-bodies.net/</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US">KURATOR and LX 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">are looking for a new work to infect the Olympics.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">We <span style="color: black;">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 </span>and affect other<span style="color: black;">
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.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br></div><p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
<span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">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</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://0100101110101101.org/" target="_blank">0100101110101101.org</a>
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.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"><br>
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<p style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">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 (<a href="http://www.art-social.net/" target="_blank">http://www.art-social.net</a>). Accommodation and travel will be covered (up to UK£500 /per commission). </span></p>
<span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;" lang="EN-US"> </span><p style="margin: 13.7pt 36pt 13.7pt 0cm; font-family: times new roman,serif;">The proposal should include:<br>
- name, contact details, url<br>
- short description of the proposed work (up to 500 words) including how the<br>
proposal fits/responds to the brief<br>
- specification of the production process/technical data/requirements<br>
- personal statement / short resume of your work with further links (up to<br>
500 words)</p>
<p style="margin: 13.7pt 36pt 13.7pt 0cm; font-family: times new roman,serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">Anti-Bodies</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> is co-ordinated by <b>Relational</b>, supported by Arts Council England and has been granted the London 2012 Inspire mark as part of the Cultural Olympiad.</span></p>
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