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 The following describes a possible future program under the [[Foundation:Planning:Catalyst|Mozilla Catalyst]] umbrella.
-Note that this is a totally blue-sky idea; there is no guarantee whatsoever that we would do this as a formal funded program. However this may inform unfunded activities we might undertake as a part of other programs like Mozilla Education.
+Note that this is a totally blue-sky idea; there is no guarantee whatsoever that we would do this as a formal funded program. However this may inform unfunded (or lightly funded) activities we might undertake as a part of other programs like Mozilla Education.
 * Problem: The Mozilla project wants to promote the use of open web technologies (e.g., HTML5 and Canvas) for advanced graphical applications such as digital art, but creative individuals working with online media are still generally wedded to proprietary or non-web-native technologies (e.g., Flash or Java).
 * Entrepreneurial partner: TBD.
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 ** support of the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Education/Projects/ProcessingForTheWeb Processing for the Web] project to migrate the [http://processing.org/ Processing] language and environment to the open web
 ** support for efforts to create new open web applications for online collaboration by artists
-** sponsorship of competitions, challenges, workshops, and other events to promote creation of artworks using open web technologies.
+** sponsorship of commissions, competitions, challenges, workshops, and other events to promote creation of artworks using open web technologies.
 * Funding: TBD, but likely would be relatively small in comparison to other programs.
 * Other partners: TBD
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 == Further reading ==
-Art on the web doesn't exist in isolation, but rather is part of larger art movements that exist as part of (and at times in opposition to) the overall contemporary art world. The following is a brief list of information resources relevant to understanding what's going on in these scenes.
+Art on the web doesn't exist in isolation, but rather is part of larger art movements that exist as part of (and at times in opposition to) the overall contemporary art world. The following is a list of information resources relevant to understanding what's going on in these scenes.
 Books:
 * ''[http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Days-World-Sarah-Thornton/dp/039306722X Seven Days in the Art World]'' by [http://sarah-thornton.com/ Sarah Thornton] is a lively introduction to the contemporary art world and the people and institutions within it; it's a good place to start if you're a novice. New media art was and is in some ways a reaction against the existing contemporary art world, just as free software and open source were a reaction against the world of proprietary software. But understanding that world is key, just as understanding the proprietary software world is key to understanding how FOSS evolved. (A [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/schwabsky review of the book] in The Nation gives a good summary of its themes.)
 * ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3822830410/ New Media Art]'' by [http://www.marktribe.net/bio-cv/ Mark Tribe] and [http://www.businessweek.com/bios/Reena_Jana.htm Reena Jana] (also available as a (CC-licensed) [https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/New+Media+Art wiki]). Tribe was the original founder of the new media art web site/community Rhizome (see below). The introduction is worth reading in full; the other parts of the book are descriptions of and links to particular art works and projects discussed in the introduction.
-* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Art-Second-World/dp/0500203989/ Digital Art]'' by Christiane Paul is a survey of digital art from the 1980s to circa 2007.
+* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Art-World-Rachel-Greene/dp/0500203768 Internet Art]'' by Rachel Greene is a survey of art based on Internet techologies (email, the web, etc.) from the mid-1990s to circa 2004. Greene is a former director of Rhizome.
-* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Internet-Art-World-Rachel-Greene/dp/0500203768 Internet Art]'' by Rachel Greene is a survey of art based on Internet techologies (email, the web, etc.) from the mid-1990s to circa 2004 (part of the same "World of Art" series as ''Digital Art''). Greene is a former director of Rhizome.
+* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Art-Second-World/dp/0500203989/ Digital Art]'' by Christiane Paul is a survey of digital art from the 1980s to circa 2007. The book is part of the same "World of Art" series as ''Internet Art'', with a wider scope.
 * ''[http://www.amazon.com/MediaArtHistories-Leonardo-Books-Oliver-Grau/dp/0262072793/ MediaArtHistories]'', edited by Oliver Grau, is a collection of essays that attempt to place digital and new media art in historical context.
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 Selected articles:
-* [http://www.immersence.com/publications/2002/2002-SDietz-10dreams-full.html Ten Dreams of Technology] by Steve Dietz (2002). Describes ten themes associated with the intersection of art and technology (e.g., human/machine symbiosis, emergent behavior, immersive environments, etc.) and links to art works touching on each theme.
+* [http://www.immersence.com/publications/2002/2002-SDietz-10dreams-full.html Ten Dreams of Technology] by Steve Dietz (2002). Describes ten themes associated with the intersection of art and technology (e.g., human/machine symbiosis, emergent behavior, immersive environments, etc.) and links to art works touching on each theme. It's useful in identifying concerns that are relatively unique to digital art and go beyond typical concerns of contemporary art in general.
 * [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2960 Interview with Casey Reas and Ben Fry] by Daniel Shiffman (2009). Great background on the history and evolution of [http://processing.org/ Processing].
-* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4489 Q + A with Jon Ippolito and John Bell on Open Source Art].
+* [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4489 Q + A with Jon Ippolito and John Bell on Open Source Art]. A discussion of how open source values and practices can inform artistic practice. Ippolito and Bell are two of the people responsible for [http://pool.newmedia.umaine.edu/index.php The Pool], an online site for artists somwhat analogous to open source sites like [http://www.mozdev.org/ Mozdev.org], [http://sourceforge.net/ SourceForge.net], and others.
 Selected examples of artists working with open tools:
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 * [http://netflag.guggenheim.org/netflag/ net.flag] by Mark Napier. "Net.flag is a flag for the Internet. ... The visitor to net.flag not only views the flag but can change it in a moment to reflect their own nationalist, political, apolitical or territorial agenda."
-Sample Exhibitions:
+Sample exhibitions:
 * [http://rhizome.org/editorial/2975 Open Source Embroidery]. "... part of an ongoing project, initiated by Ele Carpenter in 2005, which examines how both embroidery and code can be used as tools in participatory, open source production and distribution models."
 * [http://www.rhizome.org/montage Montage] at Rhizome.
+* [http://www.gaffta.org/2009/08/23/inaugural-exhibition-open/ OPEN] at the [http://www.gaffta.org/about/statement/ Gray Area Foundation for the Arts] in San Francisco. Includes works by [http://reas.com/ Casey Reas], co-inventor (with Ben Fry) of Processing, and [http://www.camilleutterback.com/ Camille Utterback], who was recently selected as a [http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.5458045/k.A999/Camille_Utterback.htm MacArthur Fellow] for 2009.
+University programs:
+* [http://newmedia.umaine.edu/ New Media at the University of Maine]