Due to the start of war reposting this.... +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Hello everyone The Banner Art Collective (http://bannerart.org/), in collaboration with Velvet-Strike (http://www.opensorcery.net/velvet-strike/), announces the Banner-Strike Contest. Banner-Strike is a contest for digital graffiti and net.art that is created under specific limitations and which critically examines the impending war in Iraq. All entries will be displayed in bannerart.org's ongoing banner art exhibition and also turned into a Velvet-Strike spray (to be installed in Counter-Strike). The winner of the contest will win the October 2003 release of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and will be highlighted on the front page of both sites for one month. The deadline for submissions is 16 April, 2003. The winner will be announced on 18 April, 2003. - Technical Requirements - Submitted banners need to be in gif or jpeg/jpg format with no animation. All of the following sizes are acceptable: 234x60, 88x31, 120x60, 120x240, 125x125, 240x400, 300x250, 336x280 and 250x250. To submit, go to bannerart.org and use the submission form upload your work for review. Please mark in the "special requirements" field on the upload form that your submission is for the contest and not just for normal entry to the site's continuing banner art exhibition, submissions for which are continuing as usual. All entries will be shrunk proportionally and converted to a spray paint .wad file by the creators of Velvet-Strike. You can do this conversion yourself to test how your work might look, by downloading the freeware application "Wally 1.55b" on the "Counterspray" site (http://www.counterspray.com/makeyourown.htm). Below is the list of conversion sizes that will be used: 234x60 half-banner->192x48 88x31 microbar->96x32 (with a transparent border) 120x60 button->96x48 120x240 button->64x128 125x125 button->96x96 240x400 rect->48x80 300x250 rect->96x80 336x280 rect->96x80 250x250 popup->96x96 Any technical questions should be directed to Brandon Barr ([log in to unmask]), Garrett Lynch ([log in to unmask]), or Anne-Marie Schleiner ([log in to unmask]). +-----------------------------------------------------------+ a+ Garrett Lynch / Brandon Barr -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ [log in to unmask] http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.bannerart.org/ http://www.zendco.com/ http://rhizome.org/member.rhiz?user_id=1000113 +-----------------------------------------------------------+