Competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO:
the art of exhibiting art online. Third edition.
Conditions
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a Call of Proposals to provide art galleries with web solutions in Internet adapted to their needs responding to the concept Web 2.0.
Since its origins Internet has changed the face of the art scene, and this is true both from the viewpoint of creativity in the context of the Internet based art, often termed net-art, as well as its use by galleries, generating a forceful online presence of art.
Art galleries are addressing the challenge to develop tools to make themselves and art more versatile, modern and effective in the emerging scene of the Web.
The competition addresses the shifting context of web environment from web 2.0, to web 3.0 and beyond and that we are looking for experimental and speculative thinking on the potential of web as as a research, production and presentation platform for the specific context of art (3.0 and beyond);
and that we are looking for proposals that combine critical thinking and practical solutions, with practical competence to deliver.
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce this call for proposals to develop an innovative and experimental online platform and effective tool to foster and stimulate the presence, exhibition, communication and management of art on the Internet.
The prize for the winning entry is 15,000 euros (taxes included) for the development of a tool or web environment which can optimize the presence of art galleries in the Internet. Once designed, such web environment or tool will be made available free of charge to all galleries participating at ARCOmadrid for implementation in their own Internet spaces.
This Call of Proposals wishes to encourage specific research into the Internet needs of art galleries and to provide them with suitable solutions addressing these needs. The solutions will notably benefit communication between art and society.
This Call of Proposals 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 of Proposals is not only a search for efficiency but also for creativity, originality and innovation. A proposal made in collaboration between computer and software engineers and artists reflecting the special sensibility of art, and art’s ability to surprise.
ARTE 2.0 is a Call of Proposals open to participants anywhere in the world whose goal is to find and develop the most suitable, optimum and creative proposal for promoting the presence of art galleries in Internet. The organization has made available a web page for the Call of Proposals at http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php where the conditions and registration forms can be downloaded.
Proposals will be assessed by an international jury, made up of two experts in art new media art (CSDVA, winner of the 2009 edition with the project WAAP and Joasia Krysa of KURATOR/UoP, UK) and a representative of VOCENTO, meeting at the ARCOmadrid-IFEMA offices on Thursday 18th February 2010. After deliberating, it will announce the winner on Friday 19th February 2010. The winner shall realise his/her proposal in a maximum period of nine months, making it available to the art galleries free of charge from the date the delivery period expires.