2010 Genome Alberta Digital Art Contest

Genome Alberta Art Contest Rules
Guidelines for Entrants

Genome Alberta is looking forward to marking National Biotechnology Week in Canada this coming September and we're starting now with a digital art contest. We have posted a blog entry to help give you some ideas about where biotech and art come together.

We are looking for original digital works of art that look at what biotechnology has done and can do for society. For the purposes of this contest, digital art is defined as art that is created in a digital form. It can be drawn using a computer, created from a source such as a digital photograph, or be entirely computer generated. We will not accept digitized images of oil, acrylic or mixed media paintings.

There are no fees or any charges to enter the contest and we will award a 1st prize of $300.00 (Cdn.), 2nd prize of $200.00 (Cdn.) and 3rd prize of $100.00 (Cdn.) All prizes must be accepted as awarded.

Submissions will be initially judged online by the general public. The final winners will be chosen from the top 10 in the voting.  A judging committee will consider the merit of the art and thematic considerations from those 10 entries.

The deadline for submissions is September 16th. Voting closes September 24th, 2010


Submission Guidelines

  • Only 1 submission per person.
  • Entries must be the original work of the author or artist and must not have been published elsewhere.
  • You must have full permission to use the work and if it is derived from another source must have full permission to use that source as well.
  • Entries with photographs or images of a person must have permission to use likeness
  • The final submission image must have been created in 2010
  • Submissions will be displayed online with the artist’s name and the title of the work
  • You must agree to have your work include a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada license.
    Full details of which can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/
  • All entrants agree to have their work displayed on Genome Alberta's Picasa photo sharing site, on our GenOmics site and on our main web site 
  • If your work is selected you also agree to have your work considered for Genome Alberta's Annual report and in print brochures
  • Entries must be submitted in a .jpg format with a suggested resolution of 300dpi. Entries should not exceed 8mb in file size.
  • You must submit your entry as an e-mail attachment to art@genomealberta.ca
  • Entries must include the artists full name, postal address, and e-mail address. Only the name and title of the work will be posted online.
  • The coordinators reserve the right to reject entries or not post entries to the web that are considered unsuitable
  • Entries will remain online for 6 months. After that time the images will be removed from Genome Alberta managed sites 
  • By entering the contest, the winner(s) authorizes the use, without additional compensation, of his or her artwork for promotion and/or advertising and/or display and/or education purposes in any manner and in any medium (including newspapers and other publications and in television or film releases, slides, videotape, distribution over the internet and picture date storage) which Genome Alberta may deem appropriate.
  • In accepting the prize, the winner, and any guest(s), acknowledges that Genome Alberta may not be held liable for any loss, damages or injury associated with accepting or using this prize(s).
  • Employees of Genome Alberta. its contest sponsor, and their respective affiliates and associates and such employees' immediate family members and persons with whom such employees are domiciled are excluded from this contest.
  • Deadline for submission is September 16th , 2010 however Genome Alberta reserves the right to withdraw or terminate this contest at any time without prior notice.


Voting Procedure

  • You can vote online by going to http://www.genomealberta.ca/vote.aspx  after August 2nd, 2010
  • As this is a thematic art contest we ask that you vote for images that include a strong sense of the issues surrounding biotechnologhy in the 21st century
  • You can only vote once. If you vote a second time only your most recent vote will count.
  • If it is discovered that you have hacked your way into multiple voting, all of your votes will be removed.
  • Voting closes September 24th , 2010


Judging Guidelines

  • A panel of people drawn from the field of art and/or biotechnology will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes from the top 10 vote getters.
  • The judging panel will consider the merits of the work and of its thematic representation in their final decision(s).
  • Winners will be announced online at http://genomealberta.ca and at http://facebook.genomealberta.ca 
  • All decisions of the judges will be final