open call remainder /- Competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO: the art of exhibiting art online Second edition

Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2009 International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art galleries with web solutions responding to the concept of Web 2.0, and to provide opportunities to enhance their online presence and networking potential.

Total award is 15.000 euros.


Description

VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental online platforms and effective web tools to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet. The selected proposal will be awarded with a production budget of 15,000 euros (taxes included) to realize the project.

The competition wishes to encourage research in the field of social technologies and artistic practice, and more specifically to identify current needs and provide suitable solutions for art galleries in the context of the Internet. The solutions will notably benefit communication between art and society.

The proposal, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be an application to be implemented by art galleries.

The winning proposal will be selected by an international Jury, made up of two experts in the field of art and technology: Joasia Krysa (KURATOR/UoP, UK), Robert Lisek, (winner of the 2008 edition with the project NEST) and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain). LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.

- Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a maximum period of nine months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the participant galleries at ARCOmadrid´s 2009 edition and the galleries participating at ARCOmadrid´s 2010 edition.

- Notification of the winner date: 13th of February 2009.

- The Award prize of the winning proposal will receive a total of 15.000 euros budget (taxes included).


Conditions for entry to participate:

- The competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO is open to any individual or group, of any nationality or legal entity. It is an open and international award contest.

- The proposal must be submitted through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php. Proposals sent by e-mail, post or any other way will not be accepted.

- Each individual or group is allowed to submit only one proposal. In case of the submission of more than one proposal, only the first proposal will be considered.

- Applications for the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition can be submitted in English or Spanish. We highly recommend submitting bilingual versions of the proposal.

- The participating proposals must be for projects realizable for the value of the prize money, i.e. E15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum production period of nine months from the date of the Jury’s decision.

- The Jury reserves the right to accept or reject any of the projects, and its decision is final.

- Accepting the prize implies the transfer of property rights of the awarded project to VOCENTO, after the termination of its free distribution among art galleries participating at ARCOmadrid 2009 and those taking part in the 2010 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialize nor distribute it in any other form than that described. After two years VOCENTO may make the project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons, Attribution 2.5 Spain.

Aplications

- Opening date for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 1st January 2009 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call for Proposals website.

- Deadline for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the 31st January 2009 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call of Proposals website.

- The application form and guidelines will be available from 1st January of 2009 ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php


ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition aims not only to enable the development of a powerful tool or web environment serving art, but also to promote the development of a creative, striking and original environment appropriate to its target, ART, which can express the sensibility of both creators and a dynamic public eager for creative environments.

Therefore, this Call for Proposals is not only a search for efficiency but also for creativity, originality and innovation; for collaborative proposals by programmers, software engineers and artists alike reflecting the new social sensibility, and art’s ability to surprise.


For further information about the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition, please get in contact with:

LaAgencia
Vicente Matallana
Tel: (34) 91 366 8821
E-mail: [email protected]