Guidelines for Entry
Closing date 08.00 on Monday 3 December 2007
www.jerwoodmovingimage.org
The Prize
These new awards will celebrate and reward artists in the early stages of their careers working in digital moving image. An independent panel of judges will undertake a rigorous and artistically focussed selection process, leading to up to 30 pieces of work being presented on a dedicated website. A shortlist of work by up to eight artists will be exhibited at the Jerwood Space in London in 2008. Three winners will be selected from the shortlist, with each being awarded a prize of £10,000.
There will be a public vote where people will be invited to vote on their choice of work. The winner of this public vote will be featured on the website. No prize will be awarded.
The Website and How to Enter
All submissions will be received and judged online through our website at www.jerwoodmovingimage.org. You will need to be able to submit your work and fill in the application form through our site, according to the technical specifications outlined here. The judging will take place online but privately. The public will then be able to view the shortlists, finalists and winners online. They will be able to download your moving image works onto their laptops, to their telephones and to their MP3s. Please read these Guidelines and our Terms and Conditions
Digital Moving Image
We are using the term digital moving image to describe the range of artists’ practice with the moving image. We are using the term in an inclusive way. We prefer it to film or video, as it includes not only film, but all practices beyond film, and in the world of fine arts (including painting, video, drawing, digital art, and so on), animation, illustration, dance, music, as well as digital arts, new media and installation work. Generally we are using it to refer to work made within the context of contemporary art as opposed to work made under the context of mainstream cinema or television. We are also using it to refer to work made for the digital online context.
What are we looking for?
Three awards of £10,000 will be presented on 4 March to three artists whose work, in the opinion of the judges:
- Demonstrates originality, imagination and excellence
- Presents high-quality, well-produced digital moving image
- The work will be judged
- on the artistic merit and imagination of the idea behind the work
- on the imaginative use of digital moving image as art
- on how the structure and concept of the work suits the online environment, and the editorial decisions made to conceive the work
Eligibility
Work submitted must fulfil the following criteria:
- They must be high quality imaginative digital moving image works between 1 and 10 minutes long
- The digital moving image works must have been made in the last two years (i.e. since September 2005)
- The applicant (or applicants) must have conceived of the idea and be responsible for the final editing. All collaborators must be identified and the applicant is responsible for seeking their permission for entry and distribution through our website
- By submitting an application artists are agreeing to comply with our Terms and Conditions
- The work submitted may form part of a larger work, but will be judged on the basis of the work submitted and not the larger concept.
Applicants must be:
- Principal artist or collaborators resident in the UK for the last three years
- Graduates of a recognised training institution within the last 10 years
- OR practising artists who have publicly exhibited digital moving image in the last 10 years
- Over 18 years old
Entry of work
Applications will only be accepted online via the Jerwood Moving Image Awards website www.jerwoodmovingimage.org
Work must be submitted in uploadable format Typically, your video file will have one of the following filename extensions:
.mov, .mpg, .dv, .mp4, .3gp, .asf, .wmv
An application form must be completed online
Key dates
Closing date for entries is 3 December 2007
Shortlist announcement 18 January 2008
Finalist announcement 8 February 2008
Exhibition at the Jerwood Space 20 February to 20 March 2008
Winner announcement 4 March 2008
Jerwood
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation is dedicated to imaginative and responsible funding with a particular remit to support talented artists in the early stages of their careers. We already run a number of prizes and awards across several disciplines and in particular in visual arts disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and applied arts. The Jerwood Moving Image Awards will sit alongside these prizes and awards under the existing banner of Jerwood Visual Arts.
