Terms & Conditions to join 'Deserting Reality'

These terms were published Monday 4 May 2015.
Last day to enter is Wednesday 15 July 2015 (extension announced on 30 June).

Art 1 - Theme
Curators are looking for work which reflects the ways in which technology is creating a world of mediated experience, which has changed the traditional relationship between human beings and the environment in which they live.
In our daily lives, two planes intersect and seem to have become inseparable, the real and the virtual. This union profoundly modifies relational modes which now require constant interfacing.
What are the effects on our ability to maintain relationships with other people? Which are the factors in this new, mediated world which alter relationships between human beings and their environment?

Art 2 - Single work or project
It’s possible to freely submit, either a single work or a project which contains up to 10 images, in any media or combination of media (for example, painting, photography, digital graphics, sculpture, installation, art-design, web art, etc),  created in the last 36 months. The exhibition of 10 selected works or projects will be curated by Officina Temporanea who will take into account the space available and the characteristics of each work.

Art 3 - Participation
Anyone, regardless of age, experience or nationality, can enter the open call. The call is open to artists, photographers and designers, whether they be established, emerging, self-taught or students.
Artwork is uploaded directly online from your personal administration page in Celeste Network.
To start, login or sign-up: http://www.celesteprize.com/eng_auth_login/ 
Once in your administration homepage in the box 'Enter the prize' find 'Deserting Reality'. Click on 'Enter a work/project', follow the steps to upload images and texts of your work.

Art 4 - Technical specifications
The file format of artwork images is JPG or PNG (the latter, optimized for the web), with at least 2,500 pixels on the longest side. During upload you can approve or not approve to display the image in high-resolution.
For works presented in video, animation, or performances and sound installations presented as a video, you must first upload your video on Vimeo.com (you create a free account). Once the video is uploaded in Vimeo, copy the given weblink: https://vimeo.com and paste the weblink into the appropriate upload step in Celeste. For the purposes of the call, your video file should not exceed 500 MB. The original version of the video will be requested if selected for the exhibition. You will need to upload a still image taken from your video.

Art 5 – Selections and exhibition
The curators will select 10 single works or projects for the final exhibition. All selected works will be published online by 30 September 2015 and will be invited to the exhibition which will be held alongside Celeste Prize 2015 final exhibition in Milan.

Art 6 - Ownership and transport
All selected works will remain property of the artists or their rightful owners. If selected, artists invited to bring their work the exhibition will be responsible for the costs of production of their work, transport  and transport insurance to and from Milan, as well as any personal travel and accommodation expenses. Artists are responsible for any onsite installation costs.

Art 7 - Acceptances and Copyright
1. By ticking online Deserting Reality’s ‘Terms & Conditions’ participants accept and are responsible for all that these ‘Terms & Conditions’ and Celeste Network’s website ‘Terms of Use’ contain and declare.
2. All works appearing onsite and in print remain copyright and property of the artists who created them or the works’ legal owners. But participants expressely allow Celeste Network to use the images of works they upload in Deserting Reality for communication and promotion purposes only, for use in Celeste Network’s websites or in other promotional material associated with the Deserting Reality inside or outside Celeste's websites.
3.  Those persons who upload text, images, or videos, and/or those persons who upload on behalf of participating artists, are all personally responsible for the texts and for the visual content of the uploaded images. The Organizers reserve the right to remove any defamatory images or texts, they consider defamatory, unless these are motivated in writing by the artist. Artworks uploaded and presented to Deserting Reality and seen also in all other webpages in Celeste Network relating to the artist will remain visible online and in use as described in (B) above, as part of the complete visual documentation of the submissions made to Deserting Reality and cannot be removed.
4. Applicants to Deserting Reality authorize the Organizers Steven Music, Celeste Network and all those persons charged with working for them to handle personal data and images of creative work submitted to Deserting Reality, according to Italian Law - Legge 675/96 (the so-called ‘Privacy Law’) and successive amendments to it, D.lgs 196/2003 (Codice Privacy), for the purposes of insertion of information in databases and website. Any controversies will be argued and settled in the Italian legal forum. Personal data, images of creative work, or films and videos taken by the Organizer during the course of any event organized by Celeste Network, might be used by the Organizer to promote artists, other contemporary art events, web promotion, communications, and marketing without necessarily seeking another written consent from third parties.
5. The Organizer and Officina Temporanea retains the right to change the Terms & Conditions should the need arise.


More information:
From the Organizer, Celeste Network: info@celesteprize.com
From the curators, Officina Temporanea: info@officinatemporanea.it