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

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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The competition jury will award a prize of ?2,500.00^{^} to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies.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 4^th 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 4^th 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.

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Aim

The prize aims to discover, promote and sustain digital arts.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 4^th 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)

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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

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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.

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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