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Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour

Animate Projects/QUAD

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The Animate OPEN is for complete works by UK and international artists, animators and filmmakers, produced since January 2014. We will select up to 20 works for gallery exhibition at QUAD in Derby (from 28 November 2015 – 24 January 2016) and for a UK cinema touring programme.
A jury will award an Animate OPEN Prize of £1,500. There will be a £750 Audience Prize.
Artists included in the gallery exhibition will receive a £150 fee.
Submission deadline is 3 September 2015. Submission fee is £10.

Animate Projects
QUAD
Derby DE1 3AS
United Kingdom
gary@animateprojects.org
Gary Thomas
Phone: +447905742319
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For the second Animate OPEN, Animate Projects and QUAD, Derby (UK) invite submissions of experimental single channel animation work that relates to the broad theme Parts & Labour. The exhibition will emphasise the craft – analogue and digital – of contemporary artists' animation practice and is intended to convey a sense of animation as something that is made and crafted – whether physically or digitally - and the cultural importance of the artist and maker.

The Animate OPEN is for complete works by UK and international artists, animators and filmmakers, produced since January 2014. We will select up to 20 works for gallery exhibition at QUAD in Derby (from 28 November 2015 – 24 January 2016) and for a UK cinema touring programme.

Works will be selected by: Abigail Addison and Gary Thomas (Animate Projects), Peter Bonnell and Michael Sargeant (QUAD), Adam Pugh (curator and writer, Artists' Moving Image Project Manager at the Independent Cinema Office), Maria Manton (producer and director, Munky).

The jury for the Animate OPEN Prize of £1,500 is: Louise Clements (Artistic Director, QUAD), Ruth Jarman (artist, Semiconductor), Chris Robinson (Artistic Director, Ottawa International Animation Festival) and Gary Thomas (Animate Projects).

Please carefully read the terms and conditions; be sure that your work fits with the aims of Animate Projects and our programme. You can submit a maximum of two works for consideration. Submissions must be made using the online form:
www.scribd.com/doc/268918226/Animate-OPEN-Parts-Labour-Guidelines

Animate Projects is an arts charity that champions experiments and creative risk taking in animation across a broad spectrum of practice. Working out of Derby and London, we are the only UK organisation dedicated to commissioning and exhibiting innovative animation online, in galleries, cinemas and public spaces. The Animate Collection at animateprojects.org has an international reputation as a place to encounter outstanding work by British artists from the last 25 years. www.animateprojects.org

QUAD is an international centre for engagement in contemporary art and film, based in Derby, UK. Projects include FORMAT International Photography Biennale and the UK's largest international portfolio review, as well as recent exhibitions by Gibson/Martelli and Susan MacWilliam. KAPUT by Benedict Drew runs 26 June – 6 September 2015. www.derbyquad.co.uk

Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Jerwood Charitable Foundation, and the This Way Up Exhibition Innovation Fund, a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network.