- Key concepts:
- SHARE festival 2008, SHARE contest, digital art prize
- Attention Conservation Notice:
- an announcement probably pretty typical of the work I will be up to for the next seven months. It's about Italian cyberculture and design.
Competition Announcement: Share Prize 2008 Introduction
SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008
Competition announcement
Art. 1
Subject
Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition
of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.
The competition jury will award a prize of E2,500.00
to the work (published or unpublished) which best
represents experimentation between arts and new
technologies.
(((I am the chairman of this competition jury.
Yes, me! As all entrants to Viridian Design Contests
know, I take such duties with lethal seriousness.
Are you an experimental new-media digital-arts
type with a hankering to stun all Europe? You
are? Then trot that thing over pronto.)))
The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be guests at the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2008 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. In order to be declared winner of the prize, every artist has to take part in the 4th edition of Share Festival, by preparing his or her work of art, to be properly evaluated by jury and public.
The organization is available at offering all the costs regarding the preparation of the 6 selected works as well as travel and accommodation expenses for the artists, and, possibly, the prize itself. (((That's right, we will FLY YOU TO EUROPE and likely feed you spaghetti there, given that the Euro is at an unprecedented $1.38. That'll might even make up for mysterious Italian withholding taxes on the Italian prize.)))
Nomination of 6 candidates for the prize: by November, 2007. The announcement will be published on the following website: www.toshare.it The winner will be announced in March 2008 during the award ceremony at Share Festival. (((And I certainly plan to attend that and to congratulate the winner personally.)))
Art. 2
Aim
The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain
digital arts. (((Who can't like THAT?!)))
Art.3
Entry Conditions
The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist
using digital technology as a language of creative
expression, in all its shapes and formats and in
combination with analogical technologies and/or any
other material (i.e. computer animation / visual
effects, digital music, interactive art, net art,
software art, live cinema/vj, audiovisual performance,
etc.). Each artist or group can enter up to 3 works.
Artists who are part of a group participating in the
contest may also enter up to 3 individual works.
Participating entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it using the registration form.
Registration and description of the competition entry forms should be either in English or Italian; English is preferred.
Art. 4
Conditions of exclusion
The competition is not open to:
- Jury members, organising body, their partners or relatives up to the sixth degree inclusive (((That's right, I can't plan to enter myself! Even though I am a net.art critic of long standing, and I not only know what I like, I even know why it's good!)))
- employees or collaborators of Jury members or announcement committee
- anyone who drew up the competition or any associated document
- any person working as a civil servant in Public Institutions or Administrations unless it is specifically permitted by the administration of affiliation (((This is Europe, they have to say stuff like that)))
- unfinished projects or work (((This means you, design students == you actually have to finish the project and ship it.)))
Art. 5
Deadlines
a. Entries must be registered on the site
www.toshare.it by using the registration form only.
b. Registration must take place by 12.00 pm on 30 September 2007. Entries after that date, for whatever reason, will be excluded from the competition. (((That's why I'm telling you NOW.)))
Art. 6
Required documents
Candidates must fill in the on line registration form
available at www.toshare.it
Applications must contain the following information:
- Title of the work
- C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each member's C.V. is necessary)
- Concise description of the work (max. 150 words).
- URL documents concerning the work itself, where further details of the work can be found (see Art. 6bis)
- No material must be sent (paper, DVD, CD, etc) in addition to the specific requests of the public notice. Art. 6bis Further details on URL document Every participant must provide further details from those given in the information on a specific web site. It must contain:
- Description of the work (max 500 words) explaining the main concept and technologies used
- Images (.jpg) and/or video (.avi) and/or audio (.mp3) of the work
- C.V. of artist or artists (in case of new groups of artists, each member's C.V. is necessary) NB: competitors are responsible for the design and costs incurred in producing the Web Site regarding the work for the contest.
Art. 7
Selection jury
The jury, meeting in non-public sessions, will select
6 works among those presented for the contest within
November, 2007. The candidates for the prize (a short
list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be asked to
take part in the 4th edition of the Share Festival,
taking place in Turin March 2007 at the Accademia
Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. (((An academy not
far from the romantic banks of the River Po,
an area of slanting sunbeams, cute cobbled plazas,
straw-wrapped Chianti bottles, sunglassed babes
in tailored Milanese suits and stiletto heels,
yes, when they said "Belle Arti" they weren't
kidding about it)))
The announcement will be published on the following
website: www.toshare.it
The winner will be announced on March 2008 during
the award ceremony at Share Festival.
The jury is composed by:
Bruce Sterling (writer and journalist, Austin) -
chairman
Piero Gilardi (artist, Turin)
Anne Nigten (managing director, v2 e DEAF, Rotterdam)
Oscar Abril Ascaso (curator Sonar, Barcelona)
Stefano Mirti (architect, Interaction design Lab,
Milano
(((That's right, your jury's from Austin, Turin,
Rotterdam, Barcelona and Milan == so try not to
suck!)))
Art. 8
Information
The Contest Information offices are located at
Association The Sharing premises.
General coordination: Manuela De Caro
tel. +39.011. 588.36.93 faxes: 0039.011.83.91304
manuela.decaro@toshare.it
Art. 9
Property and rights concerning projects and
selected works
With the registration to the contest, the authors
of the winning works grant The Sharing Association
the right to publish and reproduce the works,
totally or partly, as part of cultural promotion.
Art.10
Publishing this notice
This notice is made up of three pages and will be
published via Internet at the following address:
www.toshare.it. News will also be available via
all interested parties.
*two thousands five hundreds gross taxes and
national insurance contributions (((I'll let
you know when I figure out what that means.)))
Manuela De Caro
SHARE FESTIVAL
experiences in digital cultures
manuela.decaro@toshare.it
www.toshare.it
