ArtistTalk Is Searching For Your Best Interview

Deadline: 15 February 2013
Open to: everyone over 18 years old
Award: €2.600 for the six winners, plus free hotel accommodation and entry to the 15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 in Wrocław, Poland, for the top three entrants.

DESCRIPTION

The deadline has been EXTENDED to 15 February 2013 for this competition!

ArtistTalk – Culture and Knowledge Platform, a project by MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art, Ljubljana in partnership with CIANT Prague, WRO Art Center, Wrocław has announced an open call for your best interview.

ArtistTalk Culture and Knowledge platform invite you to submit your video recordings to an international competition for the best interview with an artist or cultural worker of any medium, profile or age. ArtistTalk is an online collection of interviews about art and culture, to which you may contribute with a video interview. They invite you to engage in conversation with your favorite or least favorite artists, ask the right questions, engage in a debate on their work, and share your interview with everyone on ArtistTalk! The most creative and original interview will receive a 1.000 euro prize.

ELIGIBILITY

Participants must be 18 or older in order to apply. Video recordings must be a maximum of fifteen minutes in length. Each applicant can submit up to five interviews, but only one may be awarded. Video recordings and interviews must be your original work and previously unpublished. Video recordings which are not in English must include subtitles in English language.

PRIZES

1st prize: €1.000
2nd prize: €700
3rd prize: €300

  • Each month of the competition up to nine best videos chosen by the ArtistTalk curatorial group will be published at www.artisttalk.eu. The selected videos will be announced on 15 October, 15 November and 15 December 2012.
  • Each month, one from among nine monthly published videos will be honored with a fee of €200,00. The winner will be announced on 15 October, 15 November and 15 December 2012.
  • Among all received entries, the ArtistTalk curatorial group will select one winning video recording and two runners-up, which will be awarded money prizes and presented at www.artisttalk.eu.
  • The main prizes include a free hotel accommodation and entry pass for the opening events of the 15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 (May 8-12, 2013)
  • Selected videos will be presented at 15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013 in Wrocław, ArtistTalk conference at Enter Festival 2013 in Prague and Sonica Festival 2013 in Ljubljana.

HOW TO APPLY

  1. Add your video on YouTube. For any YouTube option you are required to open an account, but they are FREE and easy to setup. By uploading a video recording to YouTube you agree with their terms and conditions. Please read YouTube’s Privacy Policy, Terms of Service or Community Guidelines before you submit any video recordings. Works which do not comply with these regulations will be automatically removed.
  2. After your video is uploaded, fill in the CONTEST ENTRY FORM HERE, sign it and send it to artisttalk.award@gmail.com together with the link to your video. Please don’t forget to include your contact details in your email. Should your video recording be selected, we will send you an agreement, which must be signed in order to receive any of the the prizes. We shall present the selected video recording/s on ArtistTalk, YouTube and Vimeo channels. The subject of the email should be: artisttalk open call 2012 – surname – video’s title.

Deadline for submission is 15 February 2013 at 23:59 (GMT). Applications and video recordings submitted after deadline will not be considered. Selected participants will be notified on the 15th of each month of the duration of the competition. An award ceremony to announce the winners will take place in February 2013.

The winner of the ArtistTalk Best Interview Award will be notified in January 2013 via e-mail.

For more information, see the contest TERMS AND CONDITIONS HERE.

Find an informational YouTube video about the contest HERE and the original website HERE.