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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(published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation 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
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 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
 
 
Manuela De Caro
SHARE FESTIVAL
experiences in digital cultures
 
manuela.decaro at toshare.it
www.toshare.it