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Newsletter 04.4.2009?
REFF / RomaEuropa Fake Factory. A detourned competition
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RomaeuropaFAKEfactory is an international Videoart, Music, Literature, GIF-Art, Architecture, Design, Landscape and Law Art competition started in January 2009 as a critical reaction to the Fondazione RomaEuropa's WebFactory, to develop an action/reflection on the meaning of art, culture and creativity in the contemporary era, on the models for access and on the relations among intellectual property and new business models.

The competition, revolves around the "Freedom to Remix" theme, and is dedicated to young creatives, new media artists, writers, musicians, architects, designers, landscape artists, jurists and to intellectual property enthusiasts and researchers, but also to all those cybernauts that have a will to get their creativity involved.


SECTIONS
:: 100Cuts -Videoart [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/100Cuts.php]
   Curator: Gianmarco Bonavolontà
:: 100Samples - Music [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/100Samples.php]
   Curator: Marco Fagotti
:: 100Quotes - Literature [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/100Quotes.php]
   Curator: Oriana Persico/penelope.di.pixel
:: 100Flashes - GIF-Art [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/100Flashes.php]
   Curator: Francesco "Warbear" Macarone Palmieri
:: 100Spaces - Architecture, Design and Landscape [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/100Spaces.php]
   Curator: Rossella Ongaretto
:: LawArt - Remixing the Law [http://www.romaeuropa.org/conc/LawArt.php
   Curator: Marco Scialdone

All the works created using any technique related to remix, cut-up, mash-up, analog and digital, including works created using software and algorithms are accepted to the competition. To register and send in your works please refer to the website and to the specific sections.


PRIZES
The competition does not assign prizes or create linear rankings. The prize consists in the critical review of the works and in their active promotion through operators and distribution circuits, starting from the international network of the 70+ partners that are currently supporting REFF, and in the creation of public events creating involvement and visibility.

With this goal in mind, the works will be reviewed by the curators through an open, transparent and monitorable online process. The scientific committee will also participate to the evaluation process, just as the public audience, that will be able to contribute through the mechanisms of voting and commenting, available on the platform.

The works will be used to form a catalog that will be the final product of the overall evaluation and review process.

Everything will flow, in fall 2009, into a big exhibition/performance happening, distributed around several locations in Rome, London, New York, and possibly some more.


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
In alphabetical order:

Zafer Aracagök (aka SIFIR) - Loretta Borrelli (aka lo|bo) - Massimo Canevacci - Francesca Canu - Carlo Cappa - Martina Coletti - Stefano Coletto -Pier Luigi Capucci - Antonio Caronia - Casaluce/geiger Sinusi@ - Simona D'ambrogi - Davide D'atri - Derrick de Kerckhove - Arturo Di Corinto  - Antonin Josef di Santantonio - Marco Fagotti - Gennaro Francione - Maurizio Gargano - Marc Garrett - Alex Giordano - Barbara Gualtieri - Carlo Infante - Maria Rita Intrieri - Andreas Jacobs - Katrien Jacobs - Fulvio Lenzo - Simona Lodi - Geert Lovink - Andrea Masciantonio - Francesco "Warbear" Macarone Palmieri - Francesco Monico - Stephen Natanson - Rossella Ongaretto - Stefano Ostinelli - OtherehtO - Luigi Pagliarini - Antonella Passani - Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi - Domenico Quaranta - Federico Ruberti - Marco Scialdone - Guido Scorza - Luca Simeone - Adam Stanley - Luisa Valeriani - Tania Vetromile - Paola Zampa - Giovanni Ziccardi

The scientific committee will produce a collective publication that will constitute the methodological and theoretical introduction to the issues assessed through the competition.


DEADLINE
June 21st 2009

* Due to the late start of the 100Spaces e 100Flashes competitions, their dedline is set to Julay 31st 2009


ABOUT
RomaeuropaFAKEfactory lives through the free and willing contribution of the people, networks and associations that form the equipe, the scientific committee and that support the initiative, allowing for the creation of a global relational network sharing experiences, resources, skills and capabilities.

RomaEuropaFAKEFactory has been presented on March 20th 2009 at the Italian Senate as the trigger that is stimulating the creation of an official "Table for Digital Cultures" inside the Cultural Commission of the Italian Senate.

The competition has been selected to become an official part of the European Year of Innovation and Creativity.

Recently, thanks to our action, the original regulations of the RomaEuropa WebFactory, containing vexatious clauses on intellectual property, has been partly modified by the promoters (http://www.artsblog.it/post/3204/romaeuropa-webfactory-modificti-i-termini-del-concorso).


RomaeuropaFAKEFactory is an initiative created by

[A]rt is [O]pen [S]ource

with the fundamental collaboration of

Torino Share Festival - DegradArte - Istituto per le Politiche dell'Innovazione - BeatPick - ComputerLaw 2.0 - LPM, Flyer Communication - PerformngMedia - FLxER - ShockArt.net - NeRVi - Digicult - Associazione Partito Pirata - Nephogram.net - Les Liens Invisible - A.H.A. - Francesco "Warbear" Macarone Palmieri - Superfluo - Deliriouniversale - My Jemma Temp - ArtsBlog.it - CodiceBinario - PEAM - Artificialia - Biodoll - Ninja Marketing - Arturo di Corinto - Linux-Club - Guido Vetere - The National Cynical Network - NoemaLab - Nictoglobe - Free Hardware Foundation -  Collettivo Nove - Yesmoke - IPJustice - Rejected -  casaluce/geiger synusy@cyborg - Fake - Liber Liber - Rossella Ongaretto - Domenico Quaranta - Espace paRtout - creActive commUnity - Metromorfosi - Descentro – Anomolo – Giovanni Ziccardi – Wilfied Agricola de Cologne – Isotype - aStronza - Ramallah Underground - Uqbar - Luisa Valeriani - SIFIR - m-node - muvideo - E32 - Leo Sorge - myMedia - Derrick de Kerckhove - OtherehtO - netBehaviour - Milano in Digitale - Castelvecchi Editore - 01.org - art a part cult(ure) - gruppo Infobyte - Cooper - Lorenzo Mazza - Chorusonline - Puglia Creativa…