diff --git a/grants/SCORE.md b/grants/SCORE.md index 373abbbbc1..6ce5c727b3 100644 --- a/grants/SCORE.md +++ b/grants/SCORE.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Active applications, deadlines, and status. Newest deadlines first. | Application | Deadline | Amount | Status | Folder | |---|---|---|---|---| +| **.ART Award 2026** | **2026-11-01** (winners Dec 3) | **$15,000** grand prize + residencies (FR/ES) + press + $10k .art domain (pool $50k+) | **RESEARCH + DRAFT v0 scaffolded** (2026-07-19) · spine = *No Paint, 2016–present* at **nopaint.art** — recovered/hash-verified `.c3p` as lineage, native AC remake as the current artwork (`plans/NOPAINT_CONSTRUCT_MIGRATION.md`; step 1 landed `e75489f08`). No fee, no geo gate; multiple entries allowed → optional 2nd entry cancelok/nopad.art, decide mid-Oct. Jury incl. Jerry Saltz + Regina Harsanyi (MoMI). | `dot-art-award-2026/` | | **Restless Egg — Batch 2** (accelerator, London/Berlin) | **2026-06-30** | ~**$100k** + up to ~$175–200k follow-on for **~5% equity** (Shared Earnings side letter) | **Full DRAFT v1 ready** (2026-06-15; + RESEARCH + OUTLINE) · NOT a grant — equity accelerator for "artist-founders" / "luxury tech." Pitch = **Aesthetic Inc. as an instruments studio, notepat flagship** (commons stays open, company productizes instruments). Already have the vehicle: C-corp + aesthetic.direct SAFE model. Apply via sign-in-gated Google Form (open to map fields). **Founder call: dilute ~5% + reconcile booted-by SAFEs.** | `restless-egg-2026/` | | **SSRC Just Tech Fellowship** | **2026-06-28 (23:59 EST)** | up to **$60,000 unrestricted** (1 yr, Jan–Dec 2027) | **DRAFT v0 ready** (2026-06-15) · spine = AC as a digital community commons + AC Native low-end creative OS / public device library. Personal statement (~560 words, room to grow) + full work proposal mapped to all 6 required sub-questions; `RESEARCH.md` has exact caps + fellow precedents (incl. p5.js's McCarthy). **Next: confirm portal fields, trim to caps (≤1,000 / ≤3,000 words), pick 2 work samples, refresh number ledger.** | `ssrc-just-tech-2026/` | | **transmediale Lattice Labs 2027** (Berlin residency) | **2026-06-07 (23:59 CEST)** | travel + Berlin-week lodging + production budget; FREE to apply (no personal stipend confirmed) | DRAFT v0 ready · pitched to "Reclaiming the Interface" lab (Olia Lialina). **Confirm if 2 letters required — 6-day window** | `transmediale-lattice-labs-2027/` | diff --git a/grants/dot-art-award-2026/DRAFT.md b/grants/dot-art-award-2026/DRAFT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..ce949b05d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/dot-art-award-2026/DRAFT.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +# .ART Award 2026 — DRAFT v0 + +Entry: **No Paint, 2016–present** · https://nopaint.art +Deadline 2026-11-01. Draft-only — never auto-submit. Trim to the actual +form's fields/caps before submitting (see RESEARCH.md open questions). + +--- + +## Entry URL + +`https://nopaint.art` — the canonical home of the work. By deadline it +should present the native remake front and center, with the preserved +2021 Construct build at `/classic` and the lineage page at `/story` +(migration plan step 5). + +## Artist biography (≥100 words) — draft + +Jeffrey Scudder (@jeffrey) is an artist and programmer in Los Angeles +who builds and performs his own painting software. Since 2016 his +instrument-like programs have been shown as live "radical digital +painting" performances and as public websites anyone can play. No +Paint, his collaboration with a proposing machine and a community of +brush makers, ran from 2016 through 2021 and now continues inside +Aesthetic Computer — a networked creative computing environment he has +developed in public since 2021, where every tool, brush, and painting +is addressable by URL. His work is held in public collections +[verify: KADIST, SMK — confirm exact credit lines], was profiled by +Rhizome in 2017, and passed through Akademie Schloss Solitude's Web +Residencies. He treats software as an artwork that does not end: a +living domain, versioned and replayable, maintained the way a painter +keeps a studio. + +*(~140 words; tighten to the form's cap.)* + +## Process narrative (≥100 words) — draft + +No Paint is a game of consent between a painter and a proposing +machine. The software chooses a brush or a filter from a weighted deck +— Softy, Bubbles, Grid Worm, Walker, a rare wanderer, a common stamp — +and animates a live proposal over the painting. The person has two +buttons: **No** discards the proposal; **Paint** freezes time and +commits it. Every painting is a negotiated history of accepted +accidents. Between 2016 and 2021 the deck grew brushes and stamps +contributed by friends under painter handles, and playlists that +performed the deck in sequence. In 2026 the original project file was +recovered, hash-verified, and inventoried — 82 layouts, 1,197 images, +35 weighted proposals — and the loop was rebuilt natively inside +Aesthetic Computer, where it keeps running at the same address. The +artwork is the whole span: the person, the proposing machine, the +community, and the domain that holds them. + +*(~160 words; a 30–60s screen-capture video is the alternate format — +the proposal loop demos beautifully in one take.)* + +## Artwork documentation plan + +- Screen recordings: 2021 Construct build (classic) + 2026 native AC + remake, same painting session shape — shows continuity. +- A selection of committed paintings across the years [locate archive: + the recovered `.c3p` stores paintings/dates; plus any published AC + paintings]. +- Technical specs: web, JavaScript; 2016–2021 Construct 3 engine + (source recovered, SHA-256 recorded); 2021–present Aesthetic + Computer runtime (open source, `disks/nopaint.mjs` + + `systems/nopaint.mjs`); runs in any browser at nopaint.art. +- Provenance note: source recovery + preservation practice (this is + the Harsanyi-facing material — hash, immutable original, versioned + remake). + +## Checklist to submission + +- [ ] Migration step 0.4–0.5: export classic build via Construct r449 + LTS; mount at `nopaint.art/classic`. +- [ ] Refresh `nopaint.art` root to present the native piece (or an + honest interim: classic playable + story + "remake in progress" + — decide by Oct 1 based on step-2 brush progress). +- [ ] `/story` lineage page. +- [ ] Verify collection/press claims in the bio; fix credit line + question (solo vs collective). +- [ ] Cut the 30–60s video (optional but strong; one-take proposal + loop session). +- [ ] Open form, map fields, trim, submit well before 2026-11-01. +- [ ] Decide on second entry (cancelok / nopad.art) by mid-October. diff --git a/grants/dot-art-award-2026/RESEARCH.md b/grants/dot-art-award-2026/RESEARCH.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..844785585f --- /dev/null +++ b/grants/dot-art-award-2026/RESEARCH.md @@ -0,0 +1,88 @@ +# .ART Award 2026 — Research + +Sourced: `grants/prospects-research-2026-06-01.md` (flagged as highest +open-eligibility cash on the board). Promoted 2026-07-19. + +## The call + +- **URL:** https://www.award.art/ +- **Deadline:** 2026-11-01 · winners announced 2026-12-03 +- **Fee:** none · no geographic restrictions · 18+ · collectives OK · + previously exhibited work OK · cross-disciplinary welcome +- **Prizes (pool $50k+):** + - Grand Prize: **$15,000 cash** (one artist) + - One-month residencies: Chateau du Fresne (France) + Anfitrion.art (Spain) + - Editorial coverage in international art media + - A premium .ART domain (valued $10,000) + +## Jury (as listed 2026-07) + +Jerry Saltz (Pulitzer-winning critic), **Regina Harsanyi (Museum of the +Moving Image — variable media / software preservation)**, Dean Phelus +(American Alliance of Museums), Akanksha Ballaney (Artsy/Artnet), plus +six additional curators/art professionals. Harsanyi is the vote our +entry speaks to most directly: a still-running, URL-addressable +software artwork with documented lineage and preservation practice. + +## Submission format + +The entry **is a .art domain URL**, pointing at one of: + +1. a dedicated website on the .art domain; +2. a .art redirecting to a site on another extension; +3. a .art redirecting to social. + +Plus three content components: + +- artist biography (≥100 words) +- high-quality artwork documentation with technical specs +- process narrative: text ≥100 words OR video 30–60s + +**Multiple entries allowed — each on its own .art domain.** + +## Our entry: No Paint, 2016–present, at nopaint.art + +Spine per `plans/NOPAINT_CONSTRUCT_MIGRATION.md`: *No Paint, +2016–present* — a long collaboration between a person, a proposing +machine, and a community of brush and stamp makers. The Construct +recovery (source `.c3p` recovered + hash-verified 2026-07-17) is +evidence of lineage; the native AC remake is the current artwork. + +Domain state (verified 2026-07-19): `nopaint.art` is live (Vercel, +76.76.21.21) serving the 2021 Construct build ("No Paint: Summer +2021"). Planned routing from the migration plan, step 5: + +- `nopaint.art` — the new native work + short explanation +- `nopaint.art/classic` — preserved 2021 Construct build +- `nopaint.art/story` — 2016 → 2021 → Aesthetic Computer → present +- `aesthetic.computer/nopaint` — the same live native piece inside AC + +Refresh progress as of 2026-07-19: + +- ✅ `.c3p` source recovered from Dropbox, verified, fully inventoried + (45 event sheets, 82 layouts, 205 object types, 1,197 images, + 128 sounds; brush/filter vocabulary + weighted picker extracted) +- ✅ Migration step 1 landed (commit `e75489f08`): native proposal loop + in `disks/nopaint.mjs` with explicit states + `lib/nopaint-proposals.mjs` + weighted picker + test suite +- ⬜ Classic build export via Construct r449 LTS (step 0.4–0.5) +- ⬜ Authored brush ports (step 2), social-artwork manifest (step 3), + playlist/prompt language (step 4), nopaint.art routing (step 5) + +## Second entry (optional) + +Rules permit multiple entries. **cancelok** (nopaint-style iterative +software; `nopad.art` was free as of 2026-07-14) could be a second +entry *if* it matures by Nov 1. Decision can wait until October — +No Paint carries the flag. + +## Open questions + +- [ ] Open the actual entry form; capture exact fields + caps. +- [ ] Confirm which categories/art-form tags exist on the form. +- [ ] Confirm whether the entry judges the domain *as it stands at + deadline* (assume yes — plan the nopaint.art refresh milestones + backward from Nov 1). +- [ ] Whose name on the entry: @jeffrey solo, or with the 2021 + collaborator credits as on the existing site (Alex Freundlich, + Ella Fleck, Camille Klein & Friends)? Collectives are allowed. diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html index 83cac51b90..9bd95d6b39 100644 --- a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html +++ b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html @@ -545,6 +545,20 @@ status: 'new', statusLabel: 'New', }, + { + section: 'open', + venue: '.ART Award 2026', + venueUrl: 'https://www.award.art/', + track: 'Open call — all art forms; the entry is a .art domain', + deadline: '2026-11-01', + conference: 'Winners announced Dec 3, 2026', + status: 'go', + statusLabel: 'Active', + proposalUrl: 'https://nopaint.art', + proposalLabel: 'No Paint, 2016–present', + draftPath: 'dot-art-award-2026/DRAFT.md', + notes: '$15,000 grand prize + one-month residencies (Chateau du Fresne FR, Anfitrion.art ES) + press + a $10k premium .art domain; pool $50k+. No fee, no geo gate, collectives OK, multiple entries allowed (each on its own .art domain). Jury includes Jerry Saltz and Regina Harsanyi (MoMI, variable media / software preservation). Entry spine: No Paint, 2016–present at nopaint.art — recovered + hash-verified Construct source as lineage, native AC remake as the current artwork (see plans/NOPAINT_CONSTRUCT_MIGRATION.md). Optional second entry: cancelok on nopad.art, decide by mid-Oct.', + }, { section: 'decided',