VOCENTO and ARCO 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 realise 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 that would 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) and Santiago Ortiz (artist, moebio.com, Colombia), and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain). LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.
To participate in this competition, proposals must be registered by the person or the group in this website.
* Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a maximum period of six months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the participant galleries at ARCO??s 2008 edition and the galleries participating at ARCO??s 2009 edition. * Notification of the winner date: 16th of February 2008.
The Award prize of the winning proposal will receive a total of 15.000 euros budget (taxes included).
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ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals
1. Description
This Call of Proposals is open to any person or collective, regardless of their legal condition, who may develop a project focused on the promotion, speeding up and optimization of art presence in Internet. The project will be endowed with ??15,000 for its execution (including taxes).
A proposal is understood to mean any proposal specially created for the purpose of the Call of Proposals and which can be made feasible thanks to this Call of Proposals. This proposal should be a specific tool or a complete, feasible and applicable web environment.
This proposal shall be implemented by art galleries.
In order to participate in this Call of Proposals, the proposal must be registered by the artists or collectives on the website created especially for such purposes: www.VOCENTO.com/castellano/accion-cultural/arte-web.html
?? The Jury will decide the result of the Call of Proposals.
?? The chosen proposal shall be executed within a six-month period. Once
the proposal has been developed, this environment or tool will be distributed free of charge to all art galleries participating at ARCO 2008, and to those taking part in the 2009 edition.
?? The winner will be announced on 16th February 2008.
?? Prize: the winning proposal will be endowed with ??15,000 euros, including taxes.
2. Participation terms
?? Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals is targeted at any person or collective, regardless of their legal condition, and is open to both Spanish and international participants.
?? Projects shall be registered by the participating person or collective in the forms available on the Call of Proposals website.
?? Only one project per person or collective shall be registered. In the event that more than one project has been registered, only the first project shall be considered as valid.
?? The organization shall not accept any proposals sent by e-mail, postal mail or other method besides the stipulated form.
?? Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals registration form shall be submitted in Spanish or English, although we recommend bilingual versions supervised by the participants themselves.
?? The participating projects must be realisable for the value of the prize money, i.e. ??15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum execution period of six months from the date of the Jury??s decision.
?? The winner undertakes to deliver with the final project a user manual of it.
?? 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 ARCO 2008 and those taking part in the 2009 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialise nor distribute in any form other than the described. After two years VOCENTO will make the project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons, Attribution 2.5 Spain.
3. Registration
3.1. Registration deadline
?? Registration for the Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals opens at 5 pm (GMT+1), on 1st January 2008 through the Call of Proposals website.
?? Registration for the Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals closes at 5 pm (GMT+1), on 31st January 2008 through the Call of Proposals website.
3.2. Registration form
Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals: only those registrations submitted using the form on the Call of Proposals website will be accepted.
The registration form shall include the following details:
?? Title of Proposal.
?? Personal details of participant(s).
?? Brief description of the proposal (max. 100 words).
?? Links to extended proposal, other realised works or explanatory documents. This data may be sent as attached files.
?? Compatible formats of attached files: ??.rtf??, ??.doc??, ??.pdf??, ??.jpg??, ??.mp3??, ??.mov??, ??.swf??.
3.3. Extended proposal
Participants may provide additional information on their proposals by including an URL of their own website in the registration form. This extended proposal submitted through the web should include the following basic elements:
?? Description of the proposal (max 1000 words) explaining its core concept, method of execution and viability. If the project requires input from assistants, advisors or collaborators, their functions and, where possible, their names should be specified.
?? We recommend including a detailed schedule for production and a budget for the project, which should include the winners fees. In the event of being able to access alternative funding for the project, please include these in the budget. The inclusion of alternative sources of funding will not affect the ownership, distribution and public use of the project.
?? A maximum of 10 previous works. We recommend supplying information only on those projects, which may be significant to the project to be presented. Please provide contextualising information (title, date, media, client, and perhaps a brief description), which would help the jury to understand what they are seeing. This sample of previous works may be in any format, provided that it is accessible on the web using universal browsers.
?? R??sum?? / CV of participant. In the case of collective entries, a group CV may be presented or individual CVs of all members.
?? When designing the web proposal, participants should bear in mind that the Jury have limited time. Consequently, we would ask you to be as concise and clear as possible in the execution of the web.
?? The development and hosting of the web for the extended proposal will be the sole responsibility of the participant.
4. Jury
Submitted proposals shall be revised by an international Jury made up of two experts in art new media art (Joasia Krysa and Santiago Ortiz), a representative of VOCENTO and also a representative of LaAgencia who will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.
5. Decision
?? On 15th February 2008 the jury will meet at the ARCO-IFEMA offices.
?? The winner shall be announced on 16th February 2008 at ARCO (International Contemporary Art Fair).
?? VOCENTO reserves the right to publicly announce the winner on 16th February 2008 in its different publications.
?? The prize may be left void and unawarded if the jury so decides.
6. Winner
?? Prior to the announcement of the jury??s decision, the winner or winning collective shall be contacted by the Call of Proposals management.
?? VOCENTO shall pay 50% of the stipulated prize 30 calendar days after the jury decision date, 25% on submission of the first report and the remaining 25% on submission of the final proposal.
?? Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals winners shall be requested to enter into an agreement with the Call of Proposals organization comprising the terms, revision of fulfilment of delivery dates and payment dates.
?? The prize shall be paid to the winners or their legal representatives as designated by them.
7. Information and Queries
For more information or additional queries about the Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals, please contact: LaAgencia
Vicente Matallana
Tel: (34) 91 366 8821
email: ArteWebVOCENTO@laagencia.org
Registering for the Arte 2.0 VOCENTO Call of Proposals implies full the acceptance of these conditions.