International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja (28)



Deadlines

01 Feb 2024
Call for entries

29 Feb 2024
Early deadline

15 Jun 2024
Standard deadline

30 Jun 2024
Late deadline

10 Jul 2024
Extended deadline

3
mths

01 Sep 2024
Notification date

10 Oct 2024
12 Oct 2024

Address

Đorđa Rajkovića 6b,  21000, Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia


Festival description
Short film festival


Festival requirements
 Film festival
 Fiction
 Documentary
 Animation
 Fantastic
 Terror
 Experimental
 Music Video
 Other
 Any Genre
 Any Theme
 Has submission fees
 International Festival
 Physical Location
 January 2022
 Production countries: Any
 Shooting countries: Any
 Director nationalities: Any
 Debut Films 
 School projects 
 Short Films 
 Any language
 Subtitles 
English
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Photo of International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja
Photo of International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja

Photo of International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja
Photo of International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja

English


Festival start: 10 October 2024      Festival end: 12 October 2024

Videomedeja is International New Media Art Festival founded in Novi Sad, Serbia in 1996, produced by Video Art Association VIDEOMEDEJA.

International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja is a unique event that brings together international and regional artists, with tradition and quality that is highly recognized internationally.

This is an annual non-profit event lasting for three days. The basic idea is to promote independent video art production, affirmation of video creation and innovative art forms, avant-garde art and new media.

The program focuses on art projects that use new media for artistic expression and communication, and have a wide range of genres and forms that combine images and sound, advanced communication, objects, in a symbiotic or avant-garde style in following categories:

- SCREENINGS: video art, short films, digital animations

- MEDIA PROJECTS: media installations, interventions in the exhibition space, advanced technologies in artistic practice, interactive visual art, XR (eXtended Reality), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), MR (mixed reality), robotic objects, net and social media projects, Metaverse, audiovisual performances and experiments, AI art.

We have free online Video Art Library platform and archive that contains over 10.000 video works.

On the festival arrive volunteers from all over the world, it is always very lively and partying after the festival program is mandatory.

The Videomedeja Award, for the best work, for creativity, innovation and artistic value - a money prize of 1.000 euros + a digital diploma and a PDF file for printing, is awarded by an International three-member jury.

The Bogdanka Poznanović Award, for the best work produced in Serbia - digital diploma and PDF file for printing, is awarded by a three-member selection committee.

Audience Award - digital diploma and printable PDF file, awarded by the audience.

Special Mention - digital diploma and printable PDF file, awarded by an International three-member jury.

TEARMS AND CONDITION VIDEOMEDEJA 2024

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES JULY 10TH 2024


THEME AND FORM
Like previous years Video Art Association VIDEOMEDEJA is looking for new art works from the next category and audio-visual media:

• SCREENING: video art, short films, digital animations

• MEDIA PROJECT: media installations, interventions in the exhibition space, advanced technologies in artistic practice, interactive visual art, XR (eXtended Reality), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), MR (mixed reality), robotic objects, net and social media projects, Metaverse, audiovisual performances and experiments, AI art

The program focuses on art projects that use new media for artistic expression and communication, and have a wide range of genres and forms that combine images and sound, advanced communication, objects, in a symbiotic or avant-garde style.

There are no fixed criteria concerning work theme or form. The only works that selection committee will not consider are the ones containing any kind of offensive or aggressive message/content. The submitted works should be produced in 2022, 2023 or 2024.

AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL SELECTION
-International Jury Award: Videomedeja Award - 1000€ + digital diploma + publicity
The Videomedeja Award is for the best work, for creativity, innovation and artistic value.
-International Jury Award: Special Mention - digital diploma + publicity
-Audience Award: digital diploma + publicity

SERBIAN SELECTION
-Selection committee Award: Bogdanka Poznanović Award - digital diploma + publicity
The Bogdanka Poznanović Award is for the best work produced in Serbia.

Publicity: publication and promotion of awarded works in electronic and printed media, as well as on portals and social platforms. The news about the awarded works is sent to over 500 e-mails of local and foreign media.

CRITERIA
The selection committee will consider submitted applications and works that meet all the stated formal requirements and general conditions of the competition, according to the following criteria and method of selection:

• quality, originality, authenticity of theme, content and form
• substantive and/or formal innovation of the work
• experimentalism and questioning of the environment and standard norms
• use of new technologies in work and/or presentation
• interaction and impact on the individual and society
• professional and technical capacities required for the presentation of work
• economy and facilitated transportation of equipment and work


PREVIEWS
Please note that we accept only online-based previews (you tube, vimeo or similar). No snail mail sending option.

COSTS AND PARTICIPATION
Submission through our online Entry form on Videomedeja website require donation. Due to the limited budget, we can’t provide screening fees or cover the travel expenses for the participants. In some cases the Festival is able to provide accommodation in Novi Sad for participants who wish to attend if they send request at least one month before start of the Festival.

DEADLINES
Selection committee will make the final selection no later than September 1st 2024 and will inform you immediately upon doing so through temporary entry mailing list where you automatically subscribe by entering the form. If you wish to subscribe to newsletter mailing list, you can do that through contact page on our website https://videomedeja.org/sign-up-for-newsletter/?lang=en If your work is selected for the competition program, we might request a digital file of the screening copy from you.

COPYRIGHTS AND ARCHIVE
This part applies only to works and selections selected for the Videomedeja 2024 program. No other entries are included in the festival archive, neither are they presented at the Videomedeja website or considered for broadcasting or tour programs. By submitting your work for the festival program you agree that preview of your work will remain in the festival archive. The Archive is our institutional property and only used for internal purposes and only available to the Videomedeja curators. You agree that your work (or program) will be included in the 28. Videomedeja program: screenings/media projects 2024, in the printed catalogue, in Videomedeja promo video (10-15 sec of each work) as well as in the Videomedeja web pages within its database listings, represented by the title, author’s name, format data, description text and still image.

The 28th International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja is planning to present the regular edition of the Festival, live in front of the audience in the screening room in Novi Sad, Serbia.


  

 
  

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