KURATOR is collaborating with LX 2.0, Lisbon, Portugal, to develop a programme of new work to infect the Olympics. Artists Carlos Katastrofsky and Heath Bunting have been selected from an open call INFECTED: VIRAL CALL FOR VIRAL WORK which invited proposals for online commissions that respond to the idea of the 'virus'. By virus they mean to draw attention to any agent that is able to reproduce itself and spread over communications networks and infect the host body. For instance, a computer virus describes the self-reproducing activities activities of a programme that can simply spread and affect other programs, and thereby reflects the structural properties of the computer and the network it operates through, the cultural form of a virus embodies the principles of negation in keeping with the anti-bodies theme.

The fee is £1000. In addition each artist is being offered a short residency (up to 10 days) to develop the work with the Arts & Social Technologies Research group at the University of Plymouth, UK. Accommodation and travel will be covered (up to UK500/per commission).

The INFECTED selction panel included Joasia Krysa and Geoff Cox, Curators, KURATOR, Plymouth, UK; Zoe Shearman, Curator, Relational, Bristol, UK; Luis Silva, Curator, LX 2.0, Lisbon; and Franz Thalmair, Curator, cont3xt.net, Vienna.

INFECTED receives additional support from LX 2.0 and the University of Plymouth.

For further information on INFECTED visit KURATOR