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| - | r2ALkh | + | Application text for <£5k grant: |
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| + | 1] working title: exquisite_code** | ||
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| + | **2] 50 word description: | ||
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| + | exquisite_code interrogates notions of read/run processes in a radical experiment hothousing a collaborative novel. Participants work 8 hours/day for 5 days generating text-prompts, | ||
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| + | 3] 1000 word description, | ||
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| + | **1 You and your work** | ||
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| + | exquisite_code interrogates notions of read/run processes in a radical experiment hothousing a collaborative novel to be published using Mute's print-on-demand services. | ||
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| + | 8/9 writers will work relentlessly eight hours daily for five days, in an event hosted by E:vent Gallery in London' | ||
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| + | Text chunks will be produced and written over six minute sessions in response to a set of prompts generated by participants at the beginning of each day. | ||
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| + | At the end of each six minutes, bespoke and reconfigurable edit-software will worm through the chunks, adding to the text repository to elaborate the exquisite_code life novel. | ||
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| + | The edit-software is interrogated and re-written in scheduled code writing sprints by participants, | ||
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| + | The project will culminate in a final night launch of the novel and will include performances/detournements made by participants from the accumulated materials. | ||
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| + | Publication of all code, prompts and text making the novel will be by way of print-on-demand publication in collaboration with Mute. | ||
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| + | The project continues recent work with xxxxx [http:// | ||
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| + | Such a theatrical design premise will create in the project speculative, intense, and playful mechanisms for a new and necessarily decentralized and collaborative artistic environment for all those involved. | ||
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| + | A range of participants have been invited, including: | ||
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| + | Pippa Buchanan[DE/AUS] writer/ | ||
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| + | Leif Elggren [SWE], writer/ | ||
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| + | Dave Griffiths | ||
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| + | Stewart Home [UK], | ||
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| + | Brendan Howell | ||
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| + | Jonathan Kemp [UK], writer/ | ||
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| + | Olga Panades Massanet | ||
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| + | Eleanora Oreggia [IT/ | ||
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| + | Sabrina Small [US], | ||
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| + | A technical manager/co-ordinator will also be appointed. | ||
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| + | **2 How the public engage with the work** | ||
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| + | **exquisite-code** will attract a mixed audience given that its concerns are not totally defined within the terms of new media art, with the remit of the project playfully inviting a diverse public interested in art, computational and literary domains. All materials will be on live display at all times via projectors and a CRT monitor, and all writers will be available for public scrutiny, interrogation and interaction. | ||
| + | Hardcopy will also be available for inspection as it is to be continuously extruded by line printers. | ||
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| + | The event will culminate in a final night launch, with extracts of the novel presented to the public through human-machine readings, performances and detournements by participants made from the weeks accumulated materials.. | ||
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| + | Subsequent publication of all code, prompts and text components of the novel will be by way of the print-on-demand publication with Mute, to create an important legacy to further debate within a wider context. | ||
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| + | **3 Making it happen** | ||
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| + | Participants have been identified and invited; discussions and an agreement has been made with E:vent Gallery to host the event and launch. Simon Worthington of Mute has been very keen to support the event and discussions on implementing the print-on-demand (pod) technology are ongoing, with the possibility of an instant publication via an on-site pod station being actively pursued. A dedicated website has been set up both for disseminating project information and, in part, for use as a text dump for the event, and for which convergence with the available Mute templates for the pod publication is being implemented. | ||
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| + | Information and publicity leading up to the event and about the release of the book will be distributed across various online newsgroups and litservs, promoted from the dedicated website, http:// | ||
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| + | Furthermore an organisational wiki has been established for use by all those involved. | ||
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| + | This event follows on from previously acclaimed work including the xxxxx season of nine events as a part of node.London in March 2006 http:// | ||
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| + | 4 Finance** | ||
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| + | The proposed budget has been kept low by the agreement of all participants to arrange their own accommodation for the duration of the event. This in-kind financing has greatly helped keep the budget on-target for <£5k. This allows for an adequate subsistence payment (£25/day) and a nominal fee of £250 (£50/day) for the ten participants (nine artists and one co-ordinator/ | ||
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| + | Budgets and accounts will be available for scrutiny on the organisational wiki and all receipts will be kept and available for audit as required. | ||
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| + | 5 Evaluation** | ||
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| + | Evaluation will take the form of monitoring three identifiable staging posts within the projects development: | ||
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| + | a) that the projects marketing and publicity campaign is widespread and effective | ||
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| + | Criteria: significant project presence registered in online listings and to maintain statistical monitoring of unique visits to host site and associated partner sites (eg. E:vent Gallery site) throughout period of project. | ||
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| + | b) that the project' | ||
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| + | Criteria: that the projects described aims and their means of production are in place, the event is executed successfully and delivers all described outcomes, including a well attended launch event | ||
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| + | c) that completion and distribution of publication takes place within 4-6 weeks of the event' | ||
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| + | Criteria: that publication quality, design and layout are determined and publication goes to print in an inititial run of 50 for distribution via online and UK/Europe outlets. | ||
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