aec@[epidemiC]$ java DoubleBlind __ ____ ___,,, ...,..-------,.___ - [epidemiC] for CODeDOC II 2003 (http:// epidemic.ws/double-blind/). = DoubleBlind Invitation joins three points together online. = double-blind: of or pertaining to an experiment or clinical trial in which neither the subjects nor the researchers know which subjects are receiving the ac- tive medication, treatment, etc., and which are not: a technique for el- iminating subjective bias from the test results. = Executing DoubleBlind, you [point 1] invite, on behalf of Ars Electronica Festival [point 3], one of the 99 winners [point 2] of IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest, http://ioccc.org/) to participate at CODeDOC II 2003. CODeDOC I was launched in September 2002 by Whitney Museum. DoubleBlind Invitation will expire on September 6, 2003. ^(drcqdcdqdbcq.bdb bdsrcrsberd.dbsbqb b.bqredg,dbq db^ (dbccdrd)^==^^==dr bdqcrcdrqbd.dbdr==^^===^^(pebdbdbq. .qbdbdb) (dbqcde) (pbceq,q) (dcdcgb) (cbdedb) ^bdq,bdb) (eccqdrd^ (dqr,db) (bdcdbd) ^dbdcdbd) (cbdq b) ^qdqc,dq) (qb.egbd^ (cbqb.e) (bdbr q) (dbrbdbd) (dedbd.) (bdcdr,b) decbcrdb^ (db bd.e) (bqbdb.q) (qedbdbd) (cbdq .b) ^bdgdr.b) (dgdr bgb) (dbdbd.b) (bdbd,rb) .dbcb bde) (drcbq.b) (cdcdr.bd) (dcd.dbdb^ (rbebd.b) (bdrdc.bp 'dcdb.bded^ (dcdqd.b) (bdbdb,de) (dcc.dbdb) (dbrb..b) ^(dbdc.ddb) .dbdb bqbd^ (dreb.b) (bqbdr.bdb) (qbdb,bdb) (bqrd) (bdrdbc.db), .dcdr.bdbd^ -- ^(qdbdr..dq) (ded..bqb) (bdrdb:,db), (dqdr:.dbd) (bdrqr:, eq) .qdcr. .dbd) rqbdrc .rd) (qbrr.,dbdb (bcbrr:.dq) (dqr, .dbd) (bdbc.dbc) (dbc, .dbd) (eqbdbc) (qre, bd) ---- (qberd) --- Press Enter to read the e-mail Dear Frank Black, as part of the Ars Electronica Festival 2003 -- Code - The Language of Our Time -- Ars Electronica will commission an 'extension' of the online exhibition CODeDOC, which I curated for the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport site (see http://artport.whitney.org) and which launched in September 2002. For the original CODeDOC, a dozen artists were invited to code a specific assignment in a language of their choice and were asked to exchange the code with each other for comments. The results of the programming are made visible only after the code -- what visitors to the site encounter first is a text document of code from which they can launch the 'front end' of the project. Since the Whitney Museum is by mission devoted to American art, only American artists (citizens or artists living and working in the U.S.) could participate. For CODeDOC II, Ars Electronica will invite 8 (mostly European) artists to continue the project and it would be great if you could participate. The assignment remains the same. The original assignment can be accessed at http://artport.whitney.org/commissions/codedoc/CODeDOC.html -- a shorter version of it is attached to this message. (If you visit the original CODeDOC site you will notice that some of the artists went over the limit that was set in the assignment. This is ok, the idea behind the limit just was to prevent that artists would write a one-liner of code that would call massive external libraries.) Once an artist's assignment has been submitted, it will be made accessible to all the other artists who have finished their project for comments. In the original project, some of the artists started remixing each other's code, which is fine (if you feel like it, you can also use and remix code from CODeDOC I). The commissioning fee for each project is $ 500. I ccd Iris Mayr from Ars Electronica on this message -- she is responsible for contracts etc.; please contact her if you have any questions. Unfortunately, the deadline is ASAP and it would be great if you could let us know what would be realistic for you in terms of a 'delivery date.' Below is some information on this year's Ars Electronica Festival and the way in which CODeDOC II will be presented. Please let us know as soon as possible if you can participate. Thanks! Christiane Paul Iris Mayr Code - The Language of Our Time Ars Electronica 2003, "CODE - the Language of our Time," is set for September 6 - 11. Three thematic domains "Code=Law, Code=Art, Code=Life" provide a framework for the issues on which this year's festival of art, technology and society will focus: - How strong is the socially regulative and normative power of the structures and rules of the game that computer programs and their standards implement and enforce? What possibilities exist to get around them? - How do software and digital codes impact the essence and identity of media art as "art created out of code" that is, as a generative and processual artform that has developed from and consists of algorithmic and computational processes? To what extent can this be captured and represented by means of conventional, art-immanent criteria? - What paradigms relevant to our future can be derived from artistic and scholarly speculations about the emerging epoch of bio-information and genetic engineering? Via interdisciplinary encounter and confrontation, the strategy Ars Electronica has been utilizing productively since 1979, artists, scientists, scholars and technicians will elaborate on these considerations from theoretical and practical perspectives. CODeDOC II and Festival Ars Electronica 2003 - CODE - The Language of Our Time Within the Festival Ars Electronica 2003, "CODeDOC II" will be part of an exhibition focusing on Code in the Brucknerhaus. Those who have been at the Festival know that the "Brucknerhaus" is the physical center of the Festival, as it hosts the Code-exhibition, the Symposium, concerts and performances, the Electrolobby, and the Electrolobby Kitchen. Other invited artists as part of the larger Code exhibition are: Casey Reas, Roman Verostko and Ben Fry. The exhibition of CODeDOC II is planned to be installed on up to 9 computers, one presenting CODeDOC I, the others CODeDOC II. The online-presentation will be done similar to the Whitney Museum's CODeDOC implementation and we will give you more detailed information on that asap. Iris Mayr production team festival ars electronica AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz Museumsgesellschaft mbH Hauptstrasse 2 A-4040 Linz tel: +43-732-7272-74 fax: + 43-732-7272-674 email: iris.mayr@aec.at www.aec.at/code
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