TMA Hellerau hosts an international competition of CYNETart, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects every two years. They can apply with projects that fully utilise digital technologies in their conceptual, creative and performing processes, thereby opening up opportunities for digital performance and their relationship to factors such as time, space, physical presence and social encounters. An international jury with representatives from well-established media culture institutions and experienced scientists with a background in media art history will decide about the winner of the CYNETart-award and the sponsorship award. It will also decide on the award of the artist-in-residence-scholarship funded by the Ministry of Culture. On the occasion of the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden (12th until 25th November 2008) we will together with Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMD) tender a so-called chess-media-art-award for the amount of €5.000 for the first time.

Deadline for submissions: 22nd March 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Chris Joseph

The annual YCN Design & Communication Awards exist to inspire, support and showcase emerging creative talent, and to connect it with the creative industries. The awards centre around a collection of Live Creative Briefs, written each year by partnering organizations, and spanning broad creative disciplines. Every Summer, an exhibition of all Commended work is hosted in central London. The event presents all work Commended as part of the most recent awards, alongside much
more besides. The intention, as ever, is to put Commended work in front of as many senior figures from across the creative industries as possible – with a big celebratory Private View.

Categories include artwork, films and animation, interactive work (Mac-readable format DVD or CD with full URL), and any accompanying scripts. Submissions are invited from anyone aged 30 years or under at the time of their entry, and not working full time in a creative department (i.e at a design or advertising agency). If you are undertaking work experience or a creative placement then you are welcome to enter. Submissions are welcomed from overseas, and there is no entry fee. If you are in full-time education, there are no age restrictions. The deadline for submitting work is 6pm on the 28th March 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Agora Gallery of New York City is pleased to announce its 23rd juried competition. Awards valued at Thirty Eight Thousand dollars ($38,000) will be distributed as follows: exhibition at the Chelsea gallery, cash awards, Internet exposure and publicity in ARTisSpectrum magazine.

The exhibition will take place in Chelsea, New York City. The gallery/artist split will be 50/50. In the spirit of giving, Agora Gallery will split its share of artwork sales resulting from the competition exhibition with Art Start, an innovative program that brings art and artists to homeless children.

Visit http://www.agora-gallery.com/2008 to enter online or download the submission form. Deadline: 7 March 2008.

MAILMeArt has finally had enough work sent via the post. A deadline has been set for 30 January to allow the compilers to start preparing for the MAiLmeART Exhibition and to allow them more time to compile the MAiLmeART Book which will be being published by HOW books. Their website will no longer be being maintained or updated until the Exhibition, and I’ve removed their ‘permanent’ link from the ongoing contests in the middle column. Visit the site to learn more.

The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and its Regional Affiliates are reaching out to schools across the nation to identify America’s most accomplished teen artists and writers. More than 75,000 students will accept the challenge to present their best creative work for review by artistic and literary professionals. More than 30,000 teens will be recognized regionally and approximately 1,000 will go on to earn national awards.

Many of these young artists and writers will have their work exhibited, published, and presented to a national audience by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, and more than $1.5 million dollars in scholarships will be made available to high school seniors who receive national recognition. The Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, a consortium of leading art and design colleges in the U.S., recognizes The Scholastic Art Awards program of the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers as an appropriate and effective way for students interested in art and design to develop successful portfolios for college admission.

Learn more about The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and how to submit your work (or tell a talented teen you know about this contest). Check out the virtual gallery of the nationally-recognized work from 2007.

Presented by Antimotion + Floating Gat, FUTR WRLD is an open source collaborative effort among artist to create a conceptual rendering of earth and its inhabitants in the year 2060. Antimotion is asking artists from all over the world to participate. Chosen submissions will be showcased in a limited edition art-book and on view in a gallery show in NYC.

Deadline is 1 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

LEA (Laboratory for Artistic Experimentation) announces the second edition of its prize for the arts. The competition is open to all Latin American artists and its aim is to enable the production of two unique works especially conceived for the “Los Molinos” building of Buenos Aires, a building of historical significance and the future home of the Faena Foundation.

They are looking for artistic projects that interact with the space, the history of the building and/or with the urban context in which it is located, in a manner that is novel, intelligent, and poetic. The projects may include installations, sculptures, drawings or paintings, videos, new media, sound, or any of their combinations. A portion of the prize will finance the production of the works in this rare opportunity to realize large-scale artistic projects.

Deadline for submission is 15 February 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: E-Flux

Enter the Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (LACDA) juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographic locations.

The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44×60 inches on canvas or museum quality paper (approximately a $1500-$2000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in a main gallery from 10 January - 1 February 2008. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artist.

Deadline for entries: 5 December 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Adina’s Art

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition - which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software - honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close 2 May 2008. Visit Adobe to learn more.

The Westport Arts Center (Connecticut) is inviting artists to submit work for a new juried exhibition in 2008 that will explore the significance of water. “The Paradox of Water,” juried by Mary Sabbatino, will open in March 2008. Artists must submit entry forms including an entry fee of $30. Each artist may submit from one to four artworks in any media for consideration.

Deadline is 11 January 2008. Entry forms and more information about “The Paradox of Water” exhibition are available on WAC’s website.