READ_ME 2.3 FESTIVAL, HELSINKI / FINLAND, MAY 30-31, 2003 http://m-cult.org/read_me - first published as lecture on the conference and on http://www.hansbernhard.com, may 2003 - abstract - 1] HANS BERNHARD "EXTREME.RU, TOTAL DESASTER AND SIMPLICISMUS" i will talk about the long-term project "EXTREME.RU" [1999-2003] and it's successful features [creation, bulgaria, database, esof ltd.] and total desaster moments [esof ltd, money, communication, zurschaustellung]: http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/inde8.htm http://www.ubermorgen.com/etxtreme_v1_0/ http://www.ubermorgen.com/etxtreme/home.html http://www.esof.net in opposition to this long-term project, i will present some simplicismus bbedit literature 2002-2003 in the form of genetic, binary and math codes, an easy-brain-machine-creation, snipplets of work, chapters, slogans, functions and sequences rather than huge systems: http://www.runme.org/project/+geneticbinarymathpoetry/ http://www.hansbernhard.com - http://www.m-cult.org/read_me/program.php Friday, May 30, 15.30, Media Centre Lume Tool is the Message. Artistic Interfaces Unlike traditional artistic tools such as a paintbrush or a violin that had been developing through centures by generations of anonymous craftsmen, the new, software ones always have their authors named - individual or corporate. Such situation drastically changes the meaning of a tool: instead of being part of a tradition, it starts carrying out some new functions: making profit in case of proprietary commercial software or becoming an ultimate objective, an art piece in itself if developed by artists. Can software-produced sounds and images exist in a 'pure' form, without reference to the tools they were made with? To which extend software tool developers delegate their creativity to their products? Why many artists choose to develop software tools these days instead of just 'making music' or 'creating images'? - text 1] HANS BERNHARD "EXTREME.RU, TOTAL DESASTER AND SIMPLICISMUS" -ca. 30 minutes! hier moechte ich von dem riesen-projekt etxtreme.ru den spannungsbogen runterbrechen auf die mini texte und klein experiemente im aestehtischen und pseudotheoretischen bereich der binary, genetics, math formulas, gamma-ray sequences, etc.. irgendwie muss ich einen weg finden, meine "kunst" des einfach tuns, unstrukturierten tuns, meines zufallsnehmens und verarbeitens, meines diletanttimsus, meiner naivitaet und neugierde, meiner unglaublichen faulheit gekoppelt mit meinem ungezaehmten ehrgeiz, meiner aesthetischen experimentierfreudigkeit zu kommunizieren.. zu zeigen wie diese art des angehens in groesseren projekten wie etoy, ubermorgen, voteauction, etxtreme.ru, ipnic aufgehen kann. etxtreme.ru - ud idee - hans vision etxtreme v1.0 - hans draft etxtreme v2.0, engine development in sofia 2 years, fake daily e-nfo_breakfast, man thinking like machine... genetics / binary conceptual framework for manual or script/software manipulation of genetic or digital code. test runs visible on runme.org and on hansbernhard.com. you can do analyses of special sequences, i.e. for a special protein you wanna find out if it is in order or not, and you know exactly where to find it, i.e. between a region ranging from markers D19S879 to D19S866 (excluded) from the 19q13.3 fragment of chromosome 19. this would be to analyse if you are defunct with cardiac conduction disease. that is the one thing you can do, interesting and i work on stuff like that, cause these sequences stay the same [should be the same] in almost every human / homo and are therefore very good text-material to be manipulated and then injected back into humans for testing wheter my genetic "poem" or "interpretation" works or not. but this testing will take years and years, because you need access to human embryos or even base-cells and test-facilities to do it. and it is not my primary intention to realize it, my intention is to manipulate and resequence experimentally. the other thing i did with my family is much more real and contemporary in terms of useability. i collected sample dna of all my family members and close friends of the family [without them knowing it! - my dad and my mum used to be genetic researchers in the 70s and 80s!! hehehe]. now i sent these samples to a lab to do fathership tests, and look at the fuck, it turned out that some of the kids of my parents [me and my 2 sisters] are not actually by my father but by 2 other fathers, which are close friends of the family. now i publish this on http://www.bernhards.net step- by-step, each time for x-mas as a family-present. problem is, for non-specialists, it is very hard to read who is related to whom, also because i do not disclose the names / identites of the friends of the family for privacy reasons. so, its like fucking easter eggs searching.. but a specialist can easily deduct, but there i built in another security level, because i have not identified properly which fingerprint belongs to whom, its non of anybodys but my families business. so, yes, its real data and i am really fucking around with my relatives, you know the term cockoo, the bird that lays eggs into other birds nests.. there we go! general ... von WORDWAR ueber etxtreme.ru zu binary modulation [conceptual work]... ... MAIN hans TOPIC, TEXT in any form... ... bringing out code to the frontend, to make code visible as text... ... to see people speak in code to each other [coders, programmers]... - READ_ME 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. READ_ME 2.3 partner events: - Demoskene - "The exhibition that presents demo pieces and the demo scene as a cultural phenomenon", Kiasma - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 28.3.2003 to 15.6.2003 - Digital II, MUU Mediabase, Helsinki, May 16-18