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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">KURATOR and LX 2.0: Commissions and Residencies 2009</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><div><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US">INFECTED: VIRAL CALL for VIRAL WORK</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><u><i><b><br></b></i></u></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><u><i><b>DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 31 JANUARY 2009</b></i></u>, sent by email to </span><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: blue;" lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:info@kurator.org" target="_blank">info@kurator.org</a></span></u></p><p><br><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: blue;" lang="EN-US"></span></u></p><p><u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: blue;" lang="EN-US"></span></u><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> Cultural Olympiad, UK </span></p><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US">ANNOUNCEMENT OF SELECTED PROPOSALS: 19 FEBRUARY 2009, in conjunction with the launch of <span style="color: black;">'Anti-Bodies: Beyond The Body-Ideal' </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.anti-bodies.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Andale Mono";">http://www.anti-bodies.net/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US"></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"><br> </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US">KURATOR and LX 2.0</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono"; color: black;" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US">are looking for a new work to infect the Olympics.</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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><div><span lang="EN-US"> </span><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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="margin: 13.7pt 36pt 13.7pt 0cm;"><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" lang="EN-US">Anti-Bodies</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Andale Mono";" 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> <br> <br><br></body></html>