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"Read_Me 2.3" Festival, Helsinki, Finland, May 30-31, 2003

"READ_ME 2.3 Festival"

May 30-31, 2003, Helsinki, Finland

ReadMe 2.3 is a festival of software art that explores the territory between art and software culture. Read_me 2.3 draws connections between histories and practices in both software culture and art, and aims at creating an extended context, against which software art may be mapped.READ_ME 2.3  is the second edition of Read_Me, the first festival dedicated entirely to the phenomena of software art. It will take place on May 30-31, 2003 in Helsinki. Read_me 1.2 was held in Moscow in May 2002.

 READ_ME 2.3  continues with the open structure of Read_me: all projects are submitted on-line to a publicly accessible database. However, the second Read_me edition has logically developed this idea further: the simple database has turned into the software art repository Runme.org.

All projects, submitted to Runme.org up to the  READ_ME 2.3  deadline (1st of March) will be reviewed by a collective of "experts" and the best ones will be presented on the  READ_ME 2.3  event. However, Runme.org will continue accepting projects on an ongoing basis. Projects entered after the deadline will be considered as entries to the future Read_me festivals.

 READ_ME 2.3  is not a competition in the traditional sense, and it will not have monetary prizes. The festival event on May 30-31 will present, discuss, and celebrate a selection of works singled out and featured without ranking by the Read_me experts collective.  READ_ME 2.3  will focus on the variety of discrete contexts and will aim at building bridges between them.

ReadMe 2.3

May 30 and 31. Media Centre Lume.
Hämeentie 135 C, Helsinki, tel. +358 9 756 30444