Digital & Virtual Experiments Competition “Nomad 2024: The Infinite Sky”
The “Nomad 2024: The Infinite Sky” Festival invites artists from around the world to enter the Digital & Virtual Experiments Competition. The Competition provides a space for creative dialogues around "hypermediation" as a potent communication force permeating self-identity conceptions and cultures in the ever-expanding ENIAC galaxy we are inhibiting.
We are looking for fresh ideas from emerging talents with a passion for experimental digital and virtual storytelling. Submissions must present original productions in which multimedia/virtual narratives are constructed in a single motion frame – not on parallax scrolls. Submissions may take the format of virtual performance or storytelling, data visualisation, digital reel and simulation, or immersive exhibition in connection with the overall theme of the Festival. Submissions should be between 5 and 15 minutes in length, and suitable for presentation or performance during the Festival. Works in languages other than English should contain English subtitles.
The Competition will be curated and administered by the Communications and Media Department, School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Central Asia and the winners announced at the Festival in September 2024.
The awards will be as follows:
- Best Experiment - 500 USD
- Most Promising Artist - 300 USD
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline: July 31, 2024
- Notification Date: August 12, 2024
- Event Date: September 19-22, 2024
Terms and Conditions
By submitting to the Digital & Virtual Experiments Competition "Nomad 2024: The Infinite Sky", the participants acknowledge understanding and agreeing to the Festival Rules, Terms, Conditions and Guidelines as listed below. Participants agree and consent to that their work or any other materials that present their projects may be used and/or published by UCA as part of the digital and print event programmes or promotional materials as deemed appropriate by the Festival Organising Committee at UCA. The participants also consent to collection, processing, and use of their personal data by UCA for the purposes and within the Festival Rules, Terms, Conditions and Guidelines of UCA.
UCA reserves the right to make any necessary changes in the Festival Rules, Terms, Conditions and Guidelines or scheduling.
- There is no entry fee for the Festival.
- The work must be entirely the original work of the participants. Entries must never have been published, self-published, published on any website or broadcast in any form nor currently entered in any other competition before September 2024.
- Entry to the competition is open to all citizens of Central Asia and beyond aged 18 and over. Entries must be submitted in the entrant’s real name.
- The work/s can be presented in any language of Central Asia but must be submitted with an English translation.
- Under no circumstances can alterations be made to works once submitted.
- Each entrant may submit up to 3 entries.
- The copyright of the winning pieces remains with the authors. However, by entering the competition, the artists grant the School of Arts and Sciences permission to publish their works online for one year from September 1, 2024. Permission to publish other submitted works online will be requested from the authors on a case-by-case basis.
- Submissions to be made via the online form available on website.
- Winners will be notified by email by July 31, 2024.
- Judges will be appointed by the School of Arts and Sciences, University of Central Asia. Their decision will be final, and no correspondence will be entered into.
- By entering this competition, entrants agree to abide by these Festival Rules, Terms, Conditions and Guidelines, and grant UCA all required consents and permissions as outlined by the Festival Rules, Terms, Conditions and Guidelines.
