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From: S\u00f8ren Pold \nDate: Monday, 6 October 2025 at 16:26
\nTo: DARC mailinglist <\/p>\n

Dear all,<\/p>\n

We welcome you to this online and Aarhus event celebrating the launch of the archive of the 2004 Readme Dorkbot videos. To mark this occasion and discuss the last 20 years in art, culture and computation, some of the original presenters will come together online to talk about then, in-between and now. From 2002 to 2005 the Read_me Software Art and Culture festivals took place in Moscow, Helsinki, Aarhus and Dortmund, establishing a new scene for software art, culture and theory. In connection, the Runme.org software art repository was launched in 2003, just before platforms and apps came about and reconfigured what we knew as the Internet.<\/p>\n

The 2004 Readme Festival in Aarhus was the largest of these gatherings of international software artists, experimenters and theorists. In partnership with Dorkbot, it ran a \u201ccamp\u201d for \u201cpeople doing strange things with software,\u201d where over 50 people anarchically presented their projects. These presentations were recorded and have now been digitized. Most of these software art projects have since stopped working, so these videos offer a unique opportunity to see these projects explained, contextualised and working.<\/p>\n

We welcome you to the event celebrating the launch of the archive of the 2004 Readme Dorkbot videos. To mark this occasion and discuss the last 20 years in art, culture and computation, some of the original presenters \u2013 then young and now beautiful \u2013 will come together online to talk, for 5 min each, about then, in-between and now.<\/p>\n

6 November
\nAarhus (UTC+2) 16.00-18.00
\nLondon (UTC+1) 15.00-17.00
\nLos-Angeles (UTC-7) 7.00-9.00
\nHong Kong (UTC+9) 22.00-0.00
\nMiami (UTC-4) 10.00-12.00
\nRegister here (important for online access \u2013 if in Aarhus you\u2019re welcome at AIAS)
\nhttps:\/\/event.au.dk\/events\/re-readme-workshop-2025<\/p>\n

Lineup
\nS\u00f8ren Pold and Christian Ulrik Andersen, Troels Degn Johansson, Olga Goriunova, Geoff Cox, Christophe Bruno, Inke Arns, Alessandro Ludovico, Dave Griffiths, Saul Albert, Matthew Fuller, Pau David Alsina Gonzalez, Joan Leandre, Annina Ruest, Amy Alexander, Casey Reas, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer, Jon Satrom, Goodiepal<\/p>\n

https:\/\/darc.au.dk\/blog\/nyhed\/artikel\/readme-software-art-festival-20-years-on-launch-of-video-archive<\/p>\n

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