From: "INFO SHARE FESTIVAL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 June 2007 12:39:31 AM
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ::fc-announce:: share prize 2008
Competition Announcement: Share Prize 2008
Introduction
Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by
calling a competition
Piemonte Share Award . See registration form.
Registration
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 ?2,500.00? to the work
(published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation
between arts and new technologies.
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".
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.
Art. 2
Aim
The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts.
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
- 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
- unfinished projects or work
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.
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.
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)
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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
SHARE FESTIVAL
Experiences in digital art & culture
Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti
Torino / 23-28 January 2007
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The Sharing
Via Rossini 3 - 10124
Torino - Italy
www.toshare.it
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