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R.TXT is an ongoing research-project by the Vienna-based organisation CONT3XT.NET, collecting methods, resources and theories concerning the changing constitutions of "text" in the digital realm.

R.TXT broaches the issues of the linguistic and literary category "text" and its special characteristics on the Internet. The application of language theory to New Media publishing results in the recontextualisation of the Internet and its main medium, language.

CONT3XT.NET is a Vienna-based organisation founded in 2006 as a collaborative platform for the discussion and presentation of issues related to Media Art. Against the background of an interdisciplinary theoretical approach to all forms of communications technologies its mission is the critical investigation and documentation of actual tendencies in contemporary art production.

CONT3XT.NET works both online and offline and offers regularly news and announcemnets as well as initiatives developed by its members in collaboration with artists, theorists, curators, writers and other Media Art affiliated people. The organisation was founded by Sabine Hochrieser, Michael Kargl (a.k.a. Carlos Katastrofsky) and Franz Thalmair.

Further projects:

ATCALLS - free call-service for artists/theorists
RE MAGAZINE - online interview magazine
TAGALLERY - experimental curating platform
PUBLICCURATING - curating/therory-blog