[curatorial.net] COMPETITION ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO: the Art of exhibiting Art Online. Third Edition.

[Vicente Matallana]

 OPEN CALL 2010    
 
 
COMPETITION ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO: the Art of exhibiting Art Online. Third
Edition.
 
 
Open call for proposals by VOCENTO in collaboration with ARCOmadrid 2010
International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid.
 
 
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid announce a competition of ideas to provide art
galleries with web solutions, and to provide opportunities to enhance their
online presence and networking potential.
 

The competition wishes to respond to the shifting context of online
environments -- from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and beyond -- and to draw attention
to the dynamic potential of the web as a research, production and
presentation platform for the specific context of art.
 

 ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO invites individual and collaborative proposals by
programmers, software engineers, designers and artists alike, that combine
creative and critical thinking, technical solutions with practical
competence. 
 

ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO aims to enable the development of a powerful tool or web
environment for art context, and to promote creative, original, innovative
and speculative thinking in a fast developing field, reflecting new social
sensibilities and art’s ability to surprise.
 

Total award is 15.000 euros.
 
 
Description
 
VOCENTO and ARCOmadrid invite proposals for innovative and experimental
online platforms or 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 realize 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 and art
market more generally in the context of the Internet. The intention behind
the competition is to enhance communication and exchange between the field
of art and wider society.
  
The proposal - a complete web concept, environment or a tool - shall offer
an application to be implemented by individual art galleries and / or ARCO
Fair. 
 
The winning proposal will be selected by an international Jury, made up of
two experts in the field of art and technology: Dr. Joasia Krysa
(KURATOR/University of Plymouth, UK), CSDVA (winner of the 2009 edition with
the project WAAP, Croatia) and a representative of VOCENTO (Spain).
LaAgencia will act as coordinator of the award and jury secretary.

 
·       Production of the award-winning proposal has to be completed in a
maximum period of nine months. Once produced, a complete web concept, or
environment, or tool, will be freely distributed for implementation by the
participant galleries at ARCOmadrid´s 2010 edition and the galleries
participating at ARCOmadrid´s 2011 edition.
 
·       Notification of the winner date: 19th February 2010.
 
·       The Award prize of the winning proposal will receive a total of
15.000 euros budget (taxes included).
 


 
Conditions for entry to participate:
 
 
·       The competition ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO is open to any individual or group,
of any nationality or legal entity. It is an open and international award
contest. 
 
·       The proposal must be submitted through an online application form
available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at
http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php
 
·       Proposals sent by e-mail, post or any other way will not be
accepted.
 
·       Each individual or group is allowed to submit only one proposal. In
case of the submission of more than one proposal, only the first proposal
will be considered.
 
 
·       Applications for the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition can be submitted
in English or Spanish. We highly recommend submitting bilingual versions of
the proposal.
 
·       The participating proposals must be for projects realizable for the
value of the prize money, i.e. €15,000 (including taxes), within a maximum
production period of nine months from the date of the Jury’s decision.
 
·       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 ARCOmadrid 2010 and those taking part
in the 2011 edition. VOCENTO agrees not to commercialize nor distribute it
in any other form than that described. After two years VOCENTO may make the
project available to the public under the license CreativeCommons,
Attribution 2.5 Spain
 
 
Applications 
 

·       Opening date for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the
1st December 2009 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call for Proposals
website.
 
·       Deadline for applications to ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition is the
31st January 2010 at 17:00 hours (GMT+1) through the Call of Proposals
website. 
 
·       The application form and guidelines will be available from 1st
December 2009 ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO’s website at the proposal must be submitted
through an online application form available on the dedicated ARTE 2.0
VOCENTO’s website at
http://www.vocento.com/en/concurso_ideas_arte2_vocento.php
 

 
For further information about the ARTE 2.0 VOCENTO competition, please get
in contact with:
 
 
 
LaAgencia
 
Vicente Matallana 
 
Tel: (34) 91 366 8821
 
E-mail: Arte_Web-VOCENTO at laagencia.org