[spectre] Share Award 2008

Andreas Broeckmann ab at tesla-berlin.de
Wed Jun 27 04:40:05 CEST 2007


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From: Luca Barbeni <luca.barbeni at toshare.it>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:08:08 +0200
To: Vicente Matallana <ube at laagencia.org>
Subject: Share Award 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
The Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share 
Prize 2008 for digital
art.
The competition jury will award a prize of EURO 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(published or unpublished)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 on 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 all Italian and foreign artists. The contest 
is dedicated to artists that use
digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all 
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 groups can enter up to 3 works. 
Artists who are part of a
group entering 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 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
- dependents or collaborators of Jury members and the announcement committee
- anyone involved in the layout of the competition or associated documents
- any dependents of Public Institutions or Administrations unless 
specifically given permission
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 Documentation necessary to take part in the contest
Candidates must compile 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 dedicated to work 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 present on URL
Every participant must present further information on a dedicated web 
site that follows on
from that given on the application form. It must contain:
- Description of the work (max 500 words) explaining the central 
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 any costs incurred 
in producing the site
dedicated to taking part in the contest.
Associazione The Sharing, Via Rossini, 3 - Torino
Tel. 0039 011 5883693 | fax 011 8391304 www.toshare.it info at toshare.it

Art. 7 Selection jury
Meeting in non-public sessions, the jury will select 6 works within 
November, 2007 from the
works and projects presented in the contest. 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 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:
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 at Association The Sharing premises.
General coordination: Manuela De Caro
tel. +39.011. 588.36.93 faxes: 0039.011.83.91304
manuela.decaro at 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 right to the
Association The Sharing 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 the 
Internet at the following
address: www.toshare.it. News will also be available via all 
interested parties.


Associazione The Sharing, Via Rossini, 3 - Torino
Tel. 0039 011 5883693 | fax 011 8391304 www.toshare.it info at toshare.it



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