2016/17 Award "DISABILITY AND INTERACTION. THE BODY AS A MEANS OF EXPRESSION"

ELEANOR WORTHINGTON PRIZE

Open to Schools, Institutes, and Academies of Art and Design at tertiary, B.A. level

In cooperation with the Liceo Artistico “Scuola del Libro", Urbino

With the sponsorship of the  Urbino local authority

and of various institutions

RULES OF THE PRIZE, 2016_2017

THEME:

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITY

Disability and Interaction; the body as a means of expression

1. THE THEME.  The theme of this year Prize for tertiary education is:

The international day of people with disability

Disability and Interaction; the body as a means of expression

Sport disciplines, fitness, dancing, miming, sign language allow an effective kind of communication which differs from verbal communication. The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated by the United Nations on the 3rd December of each year.

2. RULES OF PARTICIPATION. Participants are asked to enter the competition with works of visual communication,  using relevant techniques and disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, illustration, animation, graphics, photography, design, and multimedia.

Entry to the Prize is free. Students intending to take part in the Prize must declare their intention to do so by 31 October, 2016, with an email to info@premioeleanor.it

All entries should be submitted in digital form only, by midnight of Sunday November 13, 2016, to info@premioeleanor.it by WETRANSFER.

All files should be compressed, for instance .zip or .rar

 All works submitted must have a title, which may coincide with the Prize title. They can also be accompanied by a short statement of their “concept” (max 400 characters, spaces included, for the purpose of appearing on the web site of the Prize). All concepts must be in .doc or .docx

The judges will have access only to the digital form for all submitted works.

All images must be in .jpg (not .pdf); they must be at a high printing resolution (min. 300DP), for the purpose of appearance in the exhibition.

Films and animations must last at most 3 minutes, in quick time, compression H264.

Two versions are needed for all works submitted, one with the name of the entrant(s) (for the exhibition and for the web site), and an anonymous one, to be submitted to the judges.

3. EVALUATION. Evaluation of the works will be carried out by a panel of judges,  on the basis of four  criteria:

Relevance to the theme

Communicative effectiveness

Originality

Overall impression.

All submitted works are evaluated anonymously.

The panel of judges is composed of:

Bruno Bartoccini, ANFFAS

Giulio Calegari, Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milano, Professor

Gaby Lees, York Art Gallery, Assistant Curator of Arts Learning

Mariella Roberti, Psyco-pedagogist

Robert Teed, New School House Gallery, Director

Martin Worthington, University of Cambridge, Lecturer

4. PRIZE and EXHIBITION. The winner of the prize will be announced on the web site, by November 25, 2016.

At each level  (first, second and third) there is one prize for a student from an Italian institution, and one prize for a student from a British institution.

The first prizes consist of one week’s board and lodging in a  Hall of Residence  of the University of Urbino, Italy, during summer 2017, dates to be determined. If, as  seems likely, in the summer 2017 the University of Urbino organizes the summer School on Italian Renaissance (in English), the dates will be those of the summer school and the winners of the first prize will be able to attend this School for one week,  free of charge.

Should there be no summer school, the prize will consist in the week of hospitality above mentioned. In autumn 2016 the University  will decide on the School and its dates; this information will be published on the www.premioeleanor.it website, and communicated directly to each entrant for this Prize via email.

The second prizes consist  of € 300 each.

The third prizes consist  of art books.

For entrants as a group, the prize remains the same.

The prize giving event will take place on Saturday 3 December, at 10:00 a.m. at ISIA (Istituto Superiore Industrie Artistiche), via S. Chiara, Urbino, Italy.

All works submitted to the competition will be displayed in a public exhibition devoted to the Prize, to be held in the  UK, date and place to be announced on the web site.

5. WEB SITE.

http://www.premioeleonor.it/

The web site shows documentation on  past Prizes, and on the exhibitions held in June 2015 and in February 2016 at the New School House Gallery, York.

6. CONSENT. Each candidate authorizes the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington, and also its legal representative, to deal  with the received personal data according to Italian law 675/96 (Legge sulla Privacy) and later alterations D. Lgs. 196/2003 (Codice Privacy), for the purpose, among others, of inserting the data in data banks run by the Associazione.

Each participant grants the Associazione Premio Eleanor Worthington free rights to reproduce the works and the concepts submitted to the Prize, for the sole purpose of possible inclusion in the web site  of the Prize, and of other forms of communication, promotion and activities of the Associazione.

Those who do not want  their work to appear on the web site of the Prize must declare it in writing when they enroll in the Prize.

The decision of the organizers of the Prize on whatever is not specified in this document is final.
The organization retains the right to alter this document if it considers it necessary.

For the  Associazione  Premio Eleanor Worthington

Giuliana Parodi

Urbino, June 25, 2016

info@premioeleanor.it