Fino al 15 settembre e' possibile partecipare al premio "netarts.org" organizzato dal Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo. Possono partecipare tutti i progetti che utilizzano internet come medium principale. Il comitato selezionatore scegliera' un lavoro al quale verra' assegnato un premio di 100.000 yen. 

Per iscriversi mandare un e-mail a webmaster@netarts.org con le seguenti informazioni:

1. The URL address of your nomination.

2. If you are the copyright holder of the nomination, your name, physical Address, phone number/fax. number, e-mail address are required.

Il tema di quest'anno e':

 

The Ghost in the Machine
What role do artists play in haunting the Internet? Is being an art hactivist part of a larger interventionist strategy to destructively create a spirit world within the network protocols? How can a work of net art set off a viral aesthetics that provokes a chaotic "butterfly effect" in the all-consuming culture of information?

 

The works we are seeking in this year's Project Net.Arts competition are ghosts in the machine. They create counter-protocols, hactivist ethics, or a distributed viral aesthetics whose function is to insert the artist and/or artwork as medium.

According to Arthur Koestler's "The Ghost in the Machine" (1967), the holon can represents a semi-autonomous unit which is part of complex hierarchies, which both govern, and are governed by other semi-autonomous holons on higher or lower orders of the hierarchy. Holon is a combination of the Greek word holos, meaning whole, and the suffix on meaning particle or part. Koestler argues that parts and wholes, in an absolute sense, do not exist in the domains of life; in both stable social, and biological systems, and the concept of the holon therefore, is then mobilized to reconcile the atomistic and holistic nature of these systems. The relationship between holons is governed by specific rules; rules which serve to preserve the structure of the system. This hierarchic approach, in fact replaces the dualism we so often struggle with in social systems, enabling us to maintain some sort of internal mental mapping of the different hierarchal systems that we are part of; as individuals, in a family, tribes, or nation. We hope to identify those holons that are governed by other holons, and explore the ways these holonistic units are situated above or below other holons in networked systems.

For example, a single instruction from a high level holon can result in the triggering of the holons at lower levels, which in turn, due to their semi-autonomous nature, respond to the higher command only after filtering out the specific information that it considers relevant. The strength of holonic hierarch, or holarchy, lies in its flexibility, in its efficiency
respond to disturbances, in its flexible distribution and consumption of resources, and in its ability to adapt easily to change. The characteristics of robust biological or social systems can be transposed to other systems, including those found on digital networks, and we hope that these ghosts we discover will prove to be not only engaging and intriguing but once the whole holarchic system is revealed, will be also illuminating.

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