The John Lansdown Prize for Interactive Digital Art

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 18th January 2008.

The criteria for the Award centre on the creative use of the digital 
medium for interactive art, in any form. The work submitted must have 
been created within the last two years.

Details of the winning entries from the 2007 and 2006 competitions 
have been published on the Eurographics Web site, http://www.eg.org/
about/awards.

Background

Eurographics presented the John Lansdown Prize for the first time at 
the Eurographics 2000 conference. The award was renamed the Prize for
Interactive Digital Art in 2006, 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 2008 
in Crete in April 2008. 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
     * Usability
     * Degree of finish
     * Technical ingenuity
     * Coherence
     * Usefulness
     * Meeting declared aims
     * Selectivity or appropriateness
     * Fertility for development
     * Awareness of "state of the art"

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.

Rules for submission

A submission may be made by companies, Universities, Research 
organisations, individuals -in short anyone- from any country in the 
world. The work submitted must have been created within the last two 
years. The work must be submitted on CD-ROM or DVD (five copies). The 
submission should be accessible using standard software on standard 
equipment (for example, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, 
Microsoft Explorer, Adobe Acrobat on PC and/or Macintosh platforms). 
If specialist plug-ins or Xtras are needed, arrangements to download 
these should be made clear in the submission. If the work is a web 
site, a disk copy should be submitted. If the work is an 
installation, it is acceptable to submit a video describing the work 
and including a tour through the work. Videos may be submitted on CD-
ROM or DVD. Entries that run on mobile devices should also be 
submitted as video, e.g. by capturing the screens.

Submissions should be received by the Chairman of the judges, Nuno 
Correia, on or before 18th January 2008. Submissions received after 
this closing time will not be considered.

Each submission should contain:

     * the name, address, telephone, FAX, email and company or 
university
affiliation (when relevant) of a contactable submitter, as well as a 
signed and dated statement indicating willingness to accept the rules 
of the competition and for Eurographics to have the right to use 
extracts from the work for publicity purposes;
     * the names, addresses and affiliations of any collaborators, 
plus a
signed and dated statement from each indicating their agreement that the
work should be submitted to the competition and that they accept the 
competition rules;
     * TWO signed copies of the "Licence to Use Agreement" (DOC, 
PDF). One copy, signed by Eurographics, will be returned to you;
     * a brief statement (no more than one A4 page) indicating the 
aims and status of the work (for example, commercial product, joint 
or individual student project, "proof of concept" development, etc.);
     * complete operating instructions for the work, to include any 
special requirements of the operating platform and/or software.

Contact details

Professor Nuno Correia
Eurographics 2008 John Lansdown Award Competition
Informatics Department
Faculty of Sciences and Technology
New Universyty of Lisbon
Quinta da Torre, 2829 -516 CAPARICA
Portugal

Fax: +351 21 2948541
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