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MAKE ART 2009
What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art 

CALL FOR PROJECTS


make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration 
of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.

The fourth edition of make art - What The Fork?! distributed and 
open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR),
from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009.

make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an 
exhibition, focused on the encounter between digital art and free 
software.

We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: 
music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, 
and installations.

This year make art focuses on distributed and open practices in 
FLOSS art. 'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is 
the new black. Forking, copying the source code of a project and 
continuing work on the copy instead of the original, used to have a 
bad reputation. It would split a project and its developer community 
in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible, projects.  
Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated 
concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to 
compete with it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables 
quick implementation of features and customization, bypassing 
acquiring committer status, bugfix or feature request protocol, 
working in a distributed way, together with others but not necessarily 
towards one goal, working from one source, cross-fertilising, 
inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting, changing 
direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised 
software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's 
not about quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting 
go of the one working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas.

Please read the submission guidelines below, download the submission 
form, fill it in and return it to: makeart2009 =at= goto10 =dot= org 
before the 15th of July 2009.

http://makeart.goto10.org
http://goto10.org

Timeline
15th of July            – Deadline call for proposals
Beginning of September  – Selected projects announced
7th-13th of December 09 – make art 2009

Submission guidelines
1. Download the submission form here. The submission form is in
OpenOffice .odt format. Please leave the document in this 
format when returning.

2. Only projects that are and are made with 100% FLOSS, running on 
a free Operating System, will be accepted. So NO Windows, OSX, 
MaxMSP, Reaktor or Ableton Live!

3. When submitting an installation, a performance or a presentation,
please send us the following documentation: 
- performance: 2 high quality photos and 1 high quality audio or 
video file 
- installation: 2 high quality photos and 1 high quality video file
- presentation or demo: 2 high quality photos (in case of software 
demo screenshots)

If the files are >3 MB please send us a link instead of an attachment. 
We prefer to receive documentation in open formats. 

4. When submitting an installation or performance, please include a 
technical rider describing the technical setup, the hardware you'll 
be bringing yourself and the hardware you need the festival to 
provide. Be precise and specific!

5. Incomplete submission forms will not be processed.

Types of projects
We are looking for installations, performances, and presentations 
that fit the focus of the festival. The festival theme 'What The 
Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art' is not meant 
to be restrictive, and can be linked to both the content as the 
technical realisation of a work. 

For examples of previous editions, please visit the archives of the 
2008, 2007 and 2006 editions. 

Funding
make art is a small festival, we can provide selected projects with 
housing, travel and a modest fee. We cannot provide artists with 
funding for the development of projects.

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