Deadline: 26-Mar-23
The Magmart is now seeking applications for the 13th Edition of Video under Volcano Festival, an international video art festival, which over the years has seen the participation of more than 1400 artists from +80 different countries, with thousand submitted videos.
Since its foundation in 2005, Magmart has always had CAM – Casoria Contemporary Art Museum as a partner, which houses the selected videos in its permanent collection.
Rules
- The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Participation is free.
- Between all submitted video, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts. The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM permanent collection.
- All sended materials don't will be return, and will be stored in the Festival's archive like documentation.
- Sending the participation form, the artist accept fully the present rules.
- The Jury verdict is incontestable.
- The artist accept that his/her own video will be broadcasted online and offline, he/she accept that, if selected, the video become part of permanent collection of CAM, and should be freely screened at CAM rooms.
- All the video, selected or not, become part of Magmart's archive, and can be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline, with exclusion of any commercial use.
- Still-frame from video can be freely used for the Festival communication, mentioning title and author of artwork.
- To participate is necessary fill out the form available on this website. The omission, or the incorrect filling, of one or more parts of form itself, will involve the exclusion of video by selection of Jury.
- The possible selection by Jury is in any case subordinate at an essential condition for the proclaim of winners: the author of selected video must send, via ordinary mail, and within 15 days from Jury's verdict communication, the donation act to CAM of the copy of his/her own video, and the hard copy on DVD itself.
- Without this donation act, the video will be rule out by group of 30 selected artworks, and replaced by those immediately subsequent in Jury's ranking.
- Any author can participate with max 5 video.
Author's rights
- All rights on video remain property of author. The author assert, under his/her own liability, the complete right of use on used materials (images, sounds, video) and that compose the artwork; the author undertake completely the liability for any breach of copyright laws.
- The donation act don't underlie in any way a transfer of right, but certify exclusively the willingness of author so that a copy of his/her own video artwork will be permanently keeped – and, with limitations above, utilized – in the permanent collection of CAM.
Technical features of artworks
- The video must be fully realized with digital tech.
- The video must be mono-channel.
- The video must be sent in format .mpeg, .avi or .mov (PAL); any other format will be rejected. Magmart absolutely rejects .m2v format.
- The max lenght of video don't must surpass 10 minutes.
- The video must be accompanied by participation form fully and correctly compiled.
- The video must be accompanied by a still-frame from video itself, in format .jpg, and with dimension not less than 1280px / 720px.
- The video must have a quality (dimension, resolution) right for a public screening, without any further shipping of an high-res copy. Suggested size is 1920px / 1080px (16:9); minimum size required is 1280px / 720px.
- The video file must not exceed 2gb!
- If the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be fully visible within video lenght.
- Video already submitted to previous editions of Magmart, even if not selected by Jury, aren't admissible.
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