MAKE ART 2009 - What The Fork?!
distributed and open practices in FLOSS art

CALL FOR PROJECTS


make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of
Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art.

The fourth edition of make art – What The Fork?! distributed and open practices
in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th to the 13th of
December 2009.

make art offers performances, presentations, workshops and an exhibition,
focused on the encounter between digital art and free software.

We're currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and
audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations.

This year make art focuses on distributed and open practices in FLOSS art.
'What the fork?!' is about decentralisation. Forking is the new black. Forking,
copying the source code of a project and continuing work on the copy instead of
the original, used to have a bad reputation. It would split a project and its
developer community in pieces, leading to different, often incompatible,
projects.  Wasted effort, rivalry and developer fights were all associated
concepts. This is history. Forking a project with the intention to compete with
it is another story, but the freedom to fork enables quick implementation of
features and customization, bypassing acquiring committer status, bugfix or
feature request protocol, working in a distributed way, together with others
but not necessarily towards one goal, working from one source,
cross-fertilising, inspiring, copying, patching, improving, experimenting,
changing direction, and merging. This practice is boosted by decentralised
software development tools, such as Darcs, Mercurial and Git. It's not about
quick hacks, but about creating room to experiment, letting go of the one
working copy and creating a multiplicity of ideas.

Deadline : 15th of July 2009.

For more details, please visit
makeart.goto10.org/call