Animate OPEN Parts & Labour Guidelines

Animate Projects and QUAD are pleased to announce an international call for the second Animate OPEN exhibition. We invite submissions of experimental single channel animation work that relates to the theme Parts & Labour. The theme emphasises the craft analogue and digital of contemporary creative animation practice and is intended to convey a sense of animation as something that is made and crafted whether physically or digitally - and the cultural importance of the artist and maker. The Animate OPEN will present work in a gallery, online and in cinemas spaces for contemporary visual arts and cultural film. Animators today are engaged in extraordinarily diverse activities, across and between the arts and the creative media industries; animation is a site for innovation, risk taking and the development of new artistic techniques and approaches. We are looking for works that explore, question, celebrate, subvert or confound our expectations. We want to represent a range of creative practice - bringing together different forms, approaches and perspectives, which nevertheless connect through their exploration of the concept of animation as craft. You can opt out of the onl ine exhibit ion opt ion and ask us to consider your work for gal lery and/or c inema only please check the box on the form. The Animate OPEN is for complete works by UK and international artists, animators and filmmakers, produced since January 2014. We will select up to 20 works for gallery exhibition at QUAD in Derby (from 28 November 2015 24 January 2016), for online exhibition and for a cinema programme as part of Move It, a season of British and international animation, touring the UK in 2016. A publication will include information about the selected works and the artists who made them, alongside commissioned writings that reflect and develop current debates in contemporary animation practice. At QUAD there will be a programme of related talks and public and professional workshops. Works will be selected by: Abigail Addison and Gary Thomas (Animate Projects), Peter Bonnell and Michael Sargeant (QUAD), Adam Pugh (curator and writer, Artists' Moving Image Project Manager at the Independent Cinema Office), Maria Manton (producer and director, Munky). Awards and payments A jury will award an Animate OPEN Prize of 1,500. The jury members are: Louise Clements (Artistic Director, QUAD), Ruth Jarman (artist, Semiconductor), Chris Robinson (Artistic Director, Ottawa International Animation Festival) and Gary Thomas (Animate Projects). An Audience Prize of 750 will be selected by visitors to the exhibition at QUAD.

Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour Call for submissions

Artists included in the Animate OPEN gallery exhibition will receive a fee of 150. Artists included in both the Animate OPEN exhibition and Move It tour will receive a fee of 200. Artists included in the Move It cinema tour only will receive a fee of 75. How to enter Please carefully read the terms and conditions; be sure that your work fits with the aims of Animate Projects and our programme. You can submit a maximum of two works for consideration. Submissions must be made using the online form, which can be found here: http://animateprojects.wufoo.com/forms/animate-open-parts-labour/ The form asks for: your contact details

details of the work(s) you are submitting, including a brief synopsis/statement link(s) to the work (plus password, if applicable) dialogue list/script (for films not in English, without English subtitles)

There is a submission fee of 10 for one work, 15 for two wor, to be paid at time of submission. Animate Projects is a charity and all fee income contributes to the administration of the Animate OPEN. The deadline is: 11:00 (British Summer Time), Thursday 3 September 2015 Film submission format The submission form asks for links (and passwords, if applicable) to Vimeo, YouTube or other online platforms where the work can be streamed immediately. We wont download works to view. Please check links (and passwords) before submitting. If you cannot submit your work in this way, please contact us: [email protected] Fee payment When you press submit on the form, you will be taken to PayPal to pay the submission fee (you do not. You can pay there by credit/debit card if you do not have a PayPal account. Payments are in pounds sterling. Fees are not refundable. Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and the This Way Up Exhibition Innovation Fund, a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network.

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Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour Terms and conditions

1. Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour is a curated gallery, cinema and online exhibition of experimental animation to be selected from an international open call for submissions. It is organised by Animate Projects in partnership with QUAD.

2. Artists/animators/filmmakers over 18 are eligible to submit works.

3. Works must have been completed since January 2014.

4. Work commissioned, or previously presented, by Animate Projects or QUAD is not eligible.

5. You can submit a maximum of two works for consideration. A work in several parts can be considered as a single entry.

6. All works submitted must be the original work of the person submitting, with any third party rights fully cleared. In submitting work, you warrant that the work does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person.

7. There is no limit to running time.

8. Work must be presentable in a single channel format, and available for exhibition in gallery (as projection and on monitors) and cinema contexts.

9. Submissions must be made using the online form and will be acknowledged with an automated response. We will not be held responsible for entries that do not reach us.

10. We will view works on Vimeo, YouTube or other online platforms where the work can be streamed immediately. We will not download works to view. Please check links (and passwords) before submitting. If you cannot submit your work in this way, please contact us: [email protected]

11. There is a submission fee of 10 for one work, 15 for two works. Fees must be paid at time of submission and are not refundable. All fees income contributes to the project.

12. The deadline for submission is 11:00 (British Summer Time), Thursday 3 September 2015

13. You will receive an automatic acknowledgment on submission. We aim to announce our selection by Friday 16 October 2015. We are not able to provide individual feedback.

14. Contact details will be used for direct contact about the Animate OPEN only and will not be shared with any third parties.

15. Up to 20 works will be selected. A jury will award one Animate OPEN Prize of 1,500. The prize may be split and honourable mentions given at the Jurys discretion. One Audience Prize of 750 will be selected by visitors to the exhibition at QUAD. Decisions are final and we will not enter into any correspondence.

16. Animate Projects and QUAD Derby will have the right to present the selected works in an exhibition at QUAD between 27 November 2015 and 24 January 2016.

17. A selection of works will also be presented online at animateprojects.org and/or Animates Vimeo channel for a minimum period of 12 months and may also be selected as part of a cinema touring programme in that same period.

18. Works will be presented from digital files, on monitors, gallery and cinema projections, and selected works may be presented online. In submitting work, you agree to the presentation decisions made by Animate Projects and QUAD as to how the work is shown (we will not edit or alter work).

19. Selected artists will be required to:

provide an uncompressed or hi-res PAL Quicktime file via FTP or an external hard drive provide three hi res digital stills and other information for the catalogue and marketing provide a brief biography undertake a brief interview for publication

20. Animate Projects will have the right to reproduce images from the work, of the artist, and other information on its website and in print.

21. In consideration of the above, each artist will receive a fee. Artists included in the Animate OPEN gallery exhibition will receive a fee of 150. Artists included in both the Animate OPEN exhibition and Move It tour will receive a fee of 200. Artists included in the Move It cinema tour only will receive a fee of 75.

Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour

Background information

The first Animate OPEN: Digitalis in 2011 was an online exhibition of works by UK artists that set out to explore, question, subvert or confound our expectations of art and the digital. The Jury Prize was awarded to James Lowne for Someone behind the door knocks at irregular intervals. Joe Hardy and Kristian de la Riva also received Special Mentions. The Audience Prize winner was Max Hattler for his films 1923 aka Heaven and 1925 aka Hell. The Animate OPEN was supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and by public funding through Arts Council England.

http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/digitalis/animate_open

Animate Projects is an arts charity that champions experiments and creative risk taking in animation across a broad spectrum of practice. Working out of Derby and London, we are the only UK organisation dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting innovative animation online, in galleries, cinemas and public spaces. The Animate Collection at animateprojects.org has an international reputation as a place to encounter outstanding work by British artists from the last 25 years. www.animateprojects.org

QUAD is an international centre for engagement in contemporary art and film, based in Derby. The year round programme focuses on major exhibitions, professional practice for artists, mass participation, commissions, independent film and the creative use of emergent technologies. QUAD is a charity focused on intercultural dialogue through supporting diverse audiences to engage, develop skills and contribute to contemporary culture. Major projects include FORMAT International Photography Biennale and the UKs largest international portfolio review, as well as recent exhibitions by Gibson/Martelli and Susan MacWilliam. KAPUT by Benedict Drew runs 26 June 6 September 2015. www.derbyquad.co.uk Move It is a touring season of British and international animation covering a breadth of film and art practice, from Aa to A (Aardman to artists moving image), led by Animate Projects in partnership with Centre for the Moving Image, Edinburgh and QUAD. Network partners are FACT, Liverpool; Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle; Dundee Contemporary Arts.

The four programmes are:

Animate OPEN: Parts and Labour 25 Years of the McLaren Award: a retrospective programme of shorts from Edinburgh International Film Festivals prestigious McLaren Award for British animation A programme for young people (co-curated with Flatpack Film Festival) A programme of animated documentary shorts (co-curated with Animated Documentary)

The project will be launched in Summer 2015, with programmes touring from December.