[Reader-list] [Announcements] Call for Applications: Magmart International Festival of Video Art

[Aarti Sethi]

Magmart | International Festival of VideoArt | 2nd edition

Is now starting, till February 2007, the 2nd edition of Magmart | video
under volcano, international festival of video art.
The festival is a production of studio tad, with partnership of Casoria
Contemporary Art Museum, GenomART and Computer Arts magazine (italian
edition).
In the first issue of Computer Arts, subsequent festival's end, the  
authors
consider more interesting by editorial staff, will be interviewed,  
and their
videos reviewed.
The show, start in early days of October 2006, with publication of  
call to
participation, and culminate with final event, scheduled for February  
10/11,
2007, at Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, on two days.
February 10, at Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, will be screened the
selected 30 videos, and other artists will do some performances.
February 11, the selected videos - that become part of Museum's  
permanent
collection - will be screened looping for Museum's visitors.
February 8, will take place a meeting, with envolvement of art's  
experts and
critics, on theme: "Videoart in digital age"; this meeting will be at
Sociology College of University Federico II of Naples.

RULES
Festival is open to all international video artists; no entry fee.
Festival is exclusively devoted to videoart, and there isn't any  
particular
theme.
Between all videos submitted, will be execute a final selection by a  
Jury.
The 30 selected videos will become part of Casoria Contemporary Art  
Museum's
permanent collection.
All submitted materials will be not rendered, and will be stored in
festival's archive like documentation.
Submitting entry form, artist agree to this rules.
The Jury's verdict is undisputable.
The artist agree to show his video(s) on-line on website www.magmart.it,
like in Museum's permanent collection (if selected by Jury), and in any
other event or place related to festival, on-line or off-line, with
exclusion of any commercial use.
All right on video are of author. The author declare, under his
responsability, to be the owner of any right on used material (images,
sounds, videos) and that are part of the artwork; the author thake  
charge of
any violation of copyright's laws.
Will be accepted only videos received whitin the deadline, December 31,
2006.
Technical features of artworks
* Video must be realized enterely with digital tech.
* Must be in .mpeg or .mov (PAL) format; any other format will be  
rejected.
* The video's time must be 15 minuts max. Must be accompanied by  
entry form
duly compiled.
* Must be accompanied by a video still/frame by video, in .jpg  
format, with
size 400px for 300px.
* The video must have quality features (resolution) to make possible the
public show, without any subsequent sending of high quality copy.
* In case the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be  
enterely
visible within the video's time.
How to send
Is possible to submit the artworks and other materials (video, entry  
form,
image) in two ways:
On-line: the entry form, enterely filled, must be send within  
December 31,
2006.
Inside the entry form, must be indicated an http or ftp URL from who
download the video (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.mov) and  
the still
image (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.jpg); in case, should be  
use an
online service for large files transmission. The video and the image  
must be
really available at signaled URL within the deadline date.
Off-line: After send entry form, enterely filled, the image and the  
video
files must be sent by mail to the address that will be communicate via
e-mail after form submission.
The two files must be on one device (CD-Rom or DVD); the device must be
Mac/Win or Windows compatible. The mail stamp date attest.

For info: info at magmart.it
For submission: www.magmart.it

Enrico Tomaselli
Festival Art Director
info at magmart.it
http://www.magmart.it
Skype: MetaArt


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