Read_me 2.3 - software art festival, Helsinki, 2003

Read_me is the first international festival dedicated to software art. Organized for the first time in Moscow, 2002, the festival is now brought to Helsinki by its curators Alexei Shulgin and Olga Goriunova. The event is a co-operation between NIFCA, The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Media centre Lume and m-cult, centre for new media culture.

Software art is a leading edge phenomenon of new media culture - a field of art whose material is algorithmic code or which addresses cultural and social aspects of software. Software art differs from the pragmatic concerns of traditional software production - it is not about software tools but conceptual or aesthetic, deconstructive, 
activist or 'folk' interpretations of software.

Read_me 2.3. is a festival with an open structure: the database of proposed projects will be available for the public in the software art repository runme.org. After the first online phase, the festival will culminate in an event at Media Centre Lume on May 30-31. The event will include presentations and contextualisations of the projects, as well as a celebration of the projects singled out by the festival's collective of experts.

A warm welcome to learn more about software art at:

http://m-cult.org/read_me/ - read_me 2.3  festival
http://runme.org  - runme.org software art repository