Dear Colleague
All those working in interactive digital art are invited to submit for
this international prize, awarded annually by the Eurographics Association.
The first prize has a cash value of 750 Euros and there is 250 Euros for
the runner-up. The closing date for submission is 28 April 2006. The
submission process and full details of the prize and the submission
process are available at the EG 2006 web site
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/events/EG06/JohnLansdown.php
The criteria for the Award centre on the creative use of the digital
medium for interactive art, in any form.
The Eurographics 2006 conference also has animation and multimedia
programmes; full details of these categories are available at
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/events/EG06/animations.php
As chairman of the judging panel for the John Lansdown Prize this year,
I very much look forward to receiving your entries and would also
appreciate your help in drawing this prize to the attention of other
colleagues, and present and former students, who might have suitable
material to submit.
For reference background and judging criteria for the prize are included
below.
Yours sincerely
David Duce
John Lansdown Award Chair
Department of Computing
School of Technology
Oxford Brookes University
Wheatley Campus
OXFORD
OX33 1HX
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
tel: +44 (0) 1865 484528
fax: +44 (0) 1865 484545
Background
Eurographics presented the John Lansdown Prize for Multimedia for the
first time at the Eurographics 2000 conference. This year the prize is
renamed the Prize for Interactive Digital Art, to better describe the
kind of entry that the judges are looking for.
The prize is dedicated to the memory of Professor John Lansdown, who
died in February 1999. In his varied career, John Lansdown was involved
in many creative activities, from his first discipline of architecture,
through computer graphics to computer-mediated artwork of many forms,
culminating in multimedia production. Creativity is an overworked word,
but it can be justly applied to John Lansdown’s approach to everything
he explored, so the criteria for the award centre on the creative use of
computers to generate interactive art.
The results of the competition will be announced at Eurographics 2006 in
Vienna in September 2006. A certificate will accompany the cheque.
The judges look forward to receiving a stimulating set of submissions
and wish all submitters good luck with their research and development work.
Judging Criteria
The submission awarded first prize will demonstrate innovation in the
use of interaction with images, sound and animation. The judges will
take into account whether the work looks and sounds *good* and behaves
*well*, the strength of the underlying ideas and the degree to which the
system *works* both conceptually and mechanically, in other words the
fitness for purpose of the submission. A successful work will show a
significant understanding of the needs, motivations, conceptions and
actions of the user.
Fundamental characteristics that the judges will expect to find in a
successful submission include:
• Innovation • Coherence • Selectivity or appropriateness
• Usability • Usefulness • Fertility for development
• Degree of finish • Meeting declared aims
• Awareness of ‘state of the art’
• Technical ingenuity
The judges reserve the right to make no award or to award only a second
prize if, in their opinion, the standard of work submitted does not
reach the high standards of creativity associated with John Lansdown.
The judges’ decision is final. They may, at their discretion, give
private advice or comments to submitters of work on future development,
but will not openly discuss their decisions nor respond to direct
questioning on the reasons for decisions after the award ceremony.
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