When preparing your
application documents, please follow the instructions
carefully.
Applications that are incomplete or do not comply with
the requirements will not be accepted.
These application guidelines are based on the project
plan of the year 2010 and the details can be changed if
necessary.
If you have any questions, mail tovideoholica@gmail.com
The 3rd edition of the VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL
VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2010 will take place in the
period 10 – 17 August 2010 in Varna within the
framework of the International Biennial for Visual
Arts AUGUST IN ART.
VIDEOHOLICA 2010 will present a series of video art
projections and exhibitions and will make
presentations of well-known international video art
forums and honored video artists in parallel with
discussions concerning video art topics.
The 3rd
festival edition will pass under the KEEP THE
ILLUSION ALIVE motto.
In the process of increasingly stiffening economic
spheres, multimedia, hyper realities and cybernetic
culture, ‘the network of simulacra’ has become
increasingly live phenomenon. High technologies,
information, internet, clicking, downloading,
setting commands, editing memories, cutting out
dreams! The art sets the issue: "Shall we use all
this, or shall we transform ourselves into very it?"
The "hyper reality", thus created, dictates
personality’s behavior, perception and
consciousness, causing loss of subjectivity. The
motto of this year's festival appeals to preserving
one’s identity/ authenticity in the process of mass
modification and unification of the individual. The
term "illusion" is the subject of many cultural,
sociological, religious, philosophical and
psychological studies from the time of
postmodernism, and continues to be a live issue,
both with positive and negative connotations. In
this sense, the conservation/ preservation of the
unreal is a negation of the material world and a
protest against the omnipotence of information,
socio-cultural and politico-economic speculations.
WHO CAN
APPLY?
Any
contemporary visual artist (individuals or in a
team) pursuing an innovative practice in a
professional manner is eligible to apply.
There are no age limits or any other restrictions.
All the applicants, who observe the rules and the
deadline, will have admission to the jury, which
will take place in early July 2010.
CRITERIA FOR SELECTION
Successful artists are chosen on the basis of
quality and innovation of work and potential
benefits to the applicant.
HOW TO APPLY?
Your
application
should include:
-
Completed and printed application form A4 format,
which must be signed by the applicant.
-
The application form is available on the
web site of VIDEOHOLICA FESTIVALwww.videoholica.org
- Each video art has to be on a single DVD (PAL, "Region 2: Bulgaria" or "
All Regions - PAL")
- 3 frames (still images) of each video, you apply with, have to be on
separate CD-ROM. The still
images must have the same title as the movie with
numbers and to be in JPG format, 300 dpi and CMYK
colour.
- Artist’s / artist team’s updated short CV, printed in A4 format, as well
as electronic version record on
CD-ROM with the images of the videos.
- Make sure the materials (Images and CV) on the CD-ROM are readable under
the WINDOWS.
DEADLINE
- The
complete application should be received by 30 June 2010 at the latest.
-
After the complete application has been received,
you will be notified by E-mail.
-
Applications, which will arrive after June 30, are
NOT valid.
FEE
This year,
there is no submission fee.
DECISIONS
-
Decisions are made by the 5 members
of the
VIDEOHOLICA 2010 jury, which is made up of artists
and other art professionals.
- The final results will be announced and sent to the applicants by e-mail
approximately by the end of
July 2010.
-
Individual queries concerning the selection process
will not be answered.
-
Decisions of the jury are final and cannot be
negotiated.
REQUIREMENTS TO THE APPLICATION
We
advise you to consider the following when preparing
your application:
-
Please note that the time, which the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 jury can spend on your application,
is limited. Therefore it is important that your
documentation is of good quality, clear, accessible
and easy to read.
-
Check that your DVD functions properly and provide clear details of technical
specifications.
- If
you have participated in collaborative projects,
please specify your contribution.
- Prepare your documentation, taking the technical specifications into
consideration.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR APPLYING
- Viewing time should be maximum 7 minutes.
-
Please, make 5 seconds black before the video.
- You
can apply with maximum 3 videos.
- The
videos with speech need to have English subtitles.
- If
you apply with more that one video, please make
each
video on different DVD. Compilations will not be
accepted.
-
Make sure that your DVD
(PAL) works on different players.
- Do
not use complicated menus or time-consuming
processes. Make sure a DVD is able to fast-forward.
-
Only the DVD (PAL) systems can be viewed.
- A
DVD must be PAL and region 2 or region free and only
contain AUDIO_TS and
VIDEO_TS folder (standard DVD video).
-
Indicate the ideal viewing conditions (on a monitor
or as projection).
- Do
not send VCDs (video CD), (mini)DV or HDV tapes,
Hi-8 or digital Hi-8,
DVCPRO or betacam tapes. They cannot be viewed. DVD
NTSC cannot be viewed
either.
-
Clearly indicate what the DVD contains: indicate on
the
very DVD
the
title of your work, your name, year and running time; and
on the application form: the title(s), the running
time, colour,
or black and white, with or without sound.
- Do
not use stickers on the DVD!
COPYRIGHTS
Before filling in the
application form you must agree with our copyright
terms.
- The artist declares that he/she has the copyright
of the work and should be regarded as the sole
artist.
- The artist allows the
VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL to use his/her movie for non-commercial activities organized or
promoted by the VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL.
- Activities consist of: presentation of the work in an exhibition, at
a lectures and presentations of the festival,
on a TV
broadcast, during an Award event, in a catalogue on
video or DVD, accompanying printed materials and on
the web sites of
VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL and the project partner.
- VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL cannot use the
work in any other way than as described above,
unless with the explicit permission of the artist.
- The artist agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL, its officers, directors, employees, agents, distributors and its
affiliates from and against any and all claims made
by employees of the productions and any and all
third-party claims arising from or in any way
related to any copyrights, thereby expressly
including the music rights. All costs arising out of
or as a result of copyright claims by third parties
shall be for the artist’s
account.
- The director of
the VIDEOHOLICA
FESTIVAL has the right
to dispose by himself of
those cases,
which have not taken place under
these terms of conditions.
- The signing of the application form means that the applicant accepts all items
of the
VIDEOHOLICA’s
terms and
conditions.
RETURN OF DOCUMENTATION
No application will
be returned. All the material will remain as archive
of VIDEOHOLICA.
ADDRESS TO SEND YOUR APPLICATION
Please send your
application to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 on the following
address:
VIDEOHOLICA 2010
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL
POST BOX 318
9000 Varna
Bulgaria
