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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