What:
Readme festival in the year 2005 aims at supporting the production of software art projects and texts critically engaging with software art. Readme 100 will support up to 6 projects and up to 6 articles on the competition basis. Each project will get a budget from 500 to 3000 euros (depending on the project complexity) and each article – 500 euros. The completed or close to completion works and texts will be presented at the off-line event scheduled for November 4-5, 2005 in the State and City Library of Dortmund, Germany. Completed works will be honorably published at Runme.org repository.

How:
Proposals for projects and texts should be sent to og {at} dxlab.org and inke.arns {at} hmkv.de no later than August 8. Readme 100 only supports new projects and texts. The decision will be publicly announced on August 15, 2005. Please prepare the material in whatever format you see fit. Make sure you include the concept / outline (around 1 page of text -approx. 1.800 characters), a short CV, links to your previous projects, the estimate budget, and any material you find appropriate.

Focus:
Different ways of software art production, including self-employing, hiring, using open source solutions, interfacing with IT economy sector and educational/cultural institutions.

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