READ_ME 2.3
Software Art Festival
May, 30-31, Helsinki

http://www.m-cult.org/read_me
http://runme.org 

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FRIDAY, May 30  
Media Center Lume, Hämeentie 135 C
tel. +358 9 756 30444
Entrance: Free

> 12.00 Welcome  

> 12.20 Community: Software and People 
Moderator - Amy Alexander 

Amy Alexander (USA) 
Introducing Discordia a New Weblog Community 

Carl, Wanga (Switzerland) 
Microbuilder - community construction kit  

Alessandro Ludovico (Italy) 
Neural.it, editing new media culture's ideas

Panel discussion will follow.

> 14.00 Tony Scott (UK) 
Taxonomy of Glitches  

> 15.30 Tool is the Message. Artistic Interfaces 

Alex McLean and Adrian Ward (UK) 
Slub System 

Ash Nehru and Christopher Fraser (UK) 
Frankie the Robot 

Adrian Ward (UK) 
Auto-Illustrator 

Hans Bernhard (Austria)  
EXTREME.RU

Tim Pritlove, Chaos Computer Club (Germany) 
Blinkenlights project 

> 18.00 Runme session  
Introduction of Runme.org, the online software art database by its developers
Overview of projects submitted to Runme.org software art online database

Team Paperikori (Finland)
Paperikori - a collaborative story chain  
 
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SATURDAY, May 31  

> 12.00 Software Cultures 

Tapio Mäkelä (Finland) 
Conceptual games, software toys and software art 

Lev Manovich (USA) 
Cultural Software 

Florian Cramer (Germany) 
Our writing tools are also working on our thoughts' (Nietzsche) 
Artistic Subjectivity and the Unix Commandline. 

Tim Pritlove, Chaos Computer Club (Germany) 
Chaos Computer Club 

Panel discussion will follow. 

> 15.00 Performance 
Ubergeek, deprogramming.us (USA) 
Extreme whitespace - read between the lines.  World premiere.

> 16.00 Guerrilla Engineering. Uninvited Interventions 

Sintron (USA) 
Touching without Touching 

UberMorgen (Austria) 
The Injunction Generator and [V]ote-auction 

The Yes Men (International) 
Value-Added in a Changing World   
 
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INSTALLATIONS 

Tempest for Eliza, Erik Thiele
aa-project / ttyquake, Jan Hubicka and others / Bob Zimbinski
Connector, ixi-software
n_Gen design machine, Move Design
Discomus, Anonymous
SPS, (Karl-)Robert Ek
DOS pseudoviruses, Various Artists

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READ_ME Festival Club  

SATURDAY, May 31, 21:00 - 4:00  
Alahuone bar, Mannerheimintie 13A 
Entrance: 5 Euro

Live:  
O Samuli A / FIN  
Slub / UK 
Micromusic / SWISS  
Frankie the Robot / UK  

DJ's:
TOTALLY! -dj team:
annie (telle rec.) 
kaukolampi (lefta rec.) 

VJ's:
c-men 
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