This is specifically a digital art prize, welcoming all forms of digitally created art works including photo-montage and manipulation to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, and animation. The only requirement is that the creative process involve a digital device as well as commercial or originally-coded software.

A Stranger to Words by Meng Chih Chiang

The prize is a celebration of the digital genre and the winner will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges in this field.  The event will be further celebrated with the tour which will include workshops and seminars on digital art in order to engage with local digital artists and the public.  As of spring 2015, the Lumen Prize has staged 14 shows around the world, including venues in China, the US, and across Europe. For more about the prize and tour, please see our FAQs.

The Platform of Suffering by Seok-Jun Ha

Garden by Rui Hu

A not-for-profit organisation, Lumen is honoured to be working with a range of education and art partners around the world including the Computer Arts Society,  New York Institute of Technology; Cardiff School of Art and Design; the School of Visual Arts, NYC; and London’s Camberwell School of Arts MA Fine Art Digital programme, CADW, the heritage arm of the Welsh Government and Swansea School of Management.

If you are interested applying visit their website or for updates about the tour you can sign up to the newsletter.

Call for entries opens: 15 March

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A call for entries has been announced for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize. The opportunity is open to all UK painters over 18. Works are selected anonymously by an independent jury.

The winner will receive a grand prize of £25,000, with a further four awards of £2,500 going to the runner ups. An additional prize of £2,016 will be awarded to the winner of the Visitor’s Choice award, voted for by the public during the exhibition.

Please read the entry criteria and rules here. An entry fee of £30 applies and all submissions are to be made online here.

Deadline: 9 November

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Bridging the Gap provides training, mentorship and a first commission to Scottish-based filmmakers. Here’s your opportunity to work closely with the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) and make a 10 minute documentary.

Bridging the Gap is Scotland’s flagship short documentary film scheme for new talent and every year, the initiative provides an £8k budget to get your film made. This year SDI are looking for short films inspired by ‘women’. This is an opportunity for filmmakers of all genders to be part of the conversation and make a visually innovative, character-led story with ‘women’ as a starting point.

For the new season of Bridging the Gap, the SDI team will hit the road this month, hosting workshops and screenings across Scotland to help filmmakers prepare their submissions. The workshops will explain the aims of the scheme, provide tips on how to improve your chances of selection and offer you a chance to pitch your short documentary idea informally and receive feedback. They are free and open to filmmakers at any level. But places are limited so make sure to RSVP in advance.

DUMFRIES
7 September (4-6pm) | Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
This workshop will be followed by a screening of Bridging the Gap: Resilience shorts from 6-7pm
Workshop & screening organised in collaboration with the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre.

INVERNESS
8 September (4-6pm) | Eden Court Cinema
This workshop will be followed by a screening of our most recent Bridging the Gap: Resilience shorts at 6pm and by a Q&A with filmmaker Theresa Moerman Ib (The Third Dad).
Workshop & screening organised in collaboration with Screen Hi & Eden Court Cinema.

To attend either the Dumfries or Inverness workshop, please RSVP to rebecca@scottishdocinstitute.com with your name, postcode and a brief summary about yourself.

EDINBURGH
9 September (5:30-7:30pm) | ECA – Evolution House boardroom
For this workshop, and to echo this year’s Bridging the Gap theme of ‘Women’, we have invited Engender, an organisation that has worked in Scotland for 20 years to advance equality between women and men, to come and introduce their work.

GLASGOW
10 September (5-7pm) | GMAC
Workshop organised in collaboration with GMAC.

To attend either the Edinburgh or Glasgow workshop, please RSVP to flore@scottishdocinstitute.com with your name, postcode and a brief summary about yourself.

If you have any question please email flore@scottishdocinstitute.com and we are looking forward to meeting you!

See full application guidelines online here.

Deadline: 4 October

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What could we have as our Facebook, Google+ & Twitter cover images? How could we possibly come up with something as good as any of the work produced by the brilliantly talented community of creatives we have at Central Station? Hang on a minute…

We’re giving you the opportunity to be Central Station’s ambassador, with the unmissable top spot on all of our social pages. Every month we’ll change the image and choose from a previously featured work to find the next “face” of Central Station. All images will be credited to the artist and there’ll be a link to the original featured work spot on our website.

To be considered, just follow us on Behance, Cargo Collective, Flickr and/or Vimeo. We’ll follow you back so that when we choose featured work we can browse your portfolio. It also means that we’ll get updates whenever you upload new work.

Email us if you have any concerns or aren’t sure how to join us.

Previous social cover images:
1. Cities by Atelier Olschinsky [winner of the Central Station 50x50 project]
2. Leg Bound by Sam Spreckley
3. Postcards For Fernando by Alan Wilson
4. COOKIES n BOOBIES by Conzo Throb
5. Optical Nerve by Natalie Kenna
6. Untitled by Lesley Ann Ercolano
7. Bend, Oregon by Sam Brewster
8. Mon Oncle by Andrew Lyons
9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Lesley Barnes
10. Christian by Martin D Barker
11. Transition Collective #002 by Luna Jungeun Lee
12. Negative Experiment by Abdul Hye
13. Norway Infographic by Connor Campbell
14. Untitled by Jim Cowan
15. North by Stephen Edwards
16. Thorn by Ben Risk
17. Table Top Goniometer by Jack Sawbridge
18. Never Seen Burnham by Richard Broomhall
19. Morning in the city by Mika Kuusela
20. Behold! The earth giant has risen by Matthew Carey Simos
21. Theatres on the Bay, Singapore by Stuart D. Maitland
22. Roam & Seek t-shirts by Caroline Tomlinson
23. Venice Double, 2013 by Jonny Lyons
24. Illustration by Cosmic Nuggets
25. Paper Sculpture by Sara Cunha
26. Concealment film still by Josh Murfitt
27. Ghost Web by Ben Bainbridge
28. The Flight by Gemma Cotterell
29. She wears a lion on her heart by Karine Fortier
30. Incredible Places by Matteo Romellini
31. Tristag by Peter Carrington
32. K A L E I D O S C O P E by Sylvie McGowan
33. Sarah by Christopher Fernandez
34. Untitled by Samantha Wilson
35. The Saddle by Richard Gaston
36. Untitled by Joe Crogan
37. Dowel Repeat by Kirsty Macleod
38. Composition K12 by Jen Devonshire
39. Portrait by Amy D’Agorne Craghill
40. Photograph by David Dear
41. Paper Collage Illustration by Isen Aliji
42. Androgyny by Samuel Jones

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What do you think makes a great image? Should it tell you a story or simply capture an incredible moment? Would it be something unique that takes you by surprise? Entries are now open for the Creative Review Photography Annual 2015, celebrating the power of the image to communicate ideas and stories across all media.

Categories range from the most popular Personal/Non-published (showcasing photographers’ personal projects) to Photography in fashion and in Editorial/books. You can see all categories here.

Selected work will be published in a special double issue of Creative Review in December and showcased to an invited audience of leading creative industry figures at the Photography Annual launch party. In addition, the winners will be showcased across CR’s digital and social media platforms, reaching over a million people from across the globe.

Ensure you read the entry criteria and rules here. There is an entry fee of £80 +VAT and all submissions are to be made online here.

Deadline: 18 September

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The Scottish Society of Artists, one of Scotland’s major exhibiting societies, has always used the Royal Scottish Academy for its annual shows. The society was set up to represent the ‘more adventurous spirits in art.’ Its current strapline emphasises an open outlook: ‘international art in Scotland, Scottish art internationally.’

The 118th Annual Open Exhibition will take place from 21 December – 18 January. Selected works will be eligible for a number of cash prizes, residencies and exhibition opportunities on offer.

There are two options for submitting work:

1. Digital submission of *installation and large scale work (over 180cm) – proposals/sketches will be considered at this stage.
Deadline: 30 August

2. Digital submission of all work under 180cm.
Deadline: 4 October

* Includes all site-specific works, digital artwork, video, sound, performance and any artwork measuring over 180cm in any direction.

For full guidelines, FAQs and to enter your work online please visit here.

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The BREESE LITTLE Prize for Art Criticism was launched in September 2010. The aim of the prize is to support, encourage and provide a platform for aspiring writers of art criticism.

This year’s judging panel includes Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford, and Jan Dalley, Art Editor at Financial Times for Volume XI.

Art Quarters Press, the prize’s primary sponsor, was joined by Elephant Magazine and Laurence King Publishing, increasing the prize from £600 to £1,000. The regularity of the prize cycle is now twice a year, accompanied by a minimum age limit of 21 years old and no upper age limit. Elephant will invite the writer of the winning submission to write a commission. The magazine and Laurence King look forward to finding new voices in publishing and visual culture, specifically the potential for ongoing development and support such as print and book projects.

For inspiration, take a look at last year’s winner, Gary Zhexi Zhang with his review of Ed Atkins at the Serpentine in Volume X here.

For guidelines and to find out how to apply, please visit here.

Deadline: 18 September

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The second Animate OPEN exhibition call for entries and commission opportunity was recently announced by Animate Projects and QUAD. These are detailed separately below.

Animate OPEN is an international call for experimental single channel work that relates to the theme Parts & Labour: emphasising the craft – analogue and digital – of contemporary creative animation practice. Selected works will be presented in a gallery, in cinemas and online.

The Animate OPEN is for complete works by UK and international artists, animators and filmmakers, produced since January 2014.

Up to 20 works will be chosen for gallery exhibition at QUAD from 28 November 2015 – 24 January 2016, for online exhibition and for a cinema programme as part of Move It, a season of British and international animation, touring the UK in 2016.

Prizes up for grabs include a jury award of £1,500 and an audience prize of £750 will be selected by visitors to the exhibition at QUAD. Artist fees will be given for works included in the gallery exhibition and UK tour.

A small submission fee applies. For application details and more information, please visit here.

Deadline: 3 September

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The Parts & Labour commission call for proposals is for a UK based artist to make on-site and moving image work that employs animation, drawing and digital technologies, for exhibition in QUAD’s Extra Gallery Spaces in Derby and online. The commissioned work will be presented alongside, and reflect the themes of, the Animate OPEN: Parts & Labour, opening at QUAD on 28 November 2015.

The selected artist will be based in QUAD’s dedicated studio space, with access to QUAD facilities. The fee is £3000 inclusive of VAT plus £1000 towards material and production costs and £250 for delivery of a workshop and talk. There will be some additional support towards travel and accommodation. The artist will receive curatorial support from the commissioning partners and assistance with installation at QUAD from the gallery team.

For guidelines and to find out how to apply, please visit here.

Deadline: 22 July

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The UWS Creative Media Academy and New Media Scotland’s Alt-w Fund have joined forces to offer a new £25,000 digital art commission for Paisley with investment from Renfrewshire Council. The project invites artists to explore, reinvent, and re-imagine Paisley’s rich cultural heritage in support of the town’s ambition to become City of Culture in 2021. They are looking for expressions of interest from artists in Europe to make a new piece of work for the town.

Artists are encouraged to take inspiration from Paisley’s vast historical and cultural heritage. During the Industrial Revolution, Paisley was an important textiles manufacturer and the colourful Paisley pattern became known worldwide. Paisley museums boasts a collection of over 350,000 objects and the town has over 100 listed buildings.

The commission will be run as a pilot scheme for a potential series of Creative Media Academy projects exploring art, technology and research. The final work is to be completed and presented by 30 June 2016.

For more information, please visit New Media Scotland.

Deadline: 12 June

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The Lumen Prize is a digital art prize and global exhibition open to artists across the globe. Entrants are eligible to win a place on the 2015 Lumen Prize Exhibition, which will travel to venues in Europe, the US and Asia, as well as one of eight cash prizes starting at US$3,000.

All works are reviewed by Lumen’s International Selection Committee which is made up of academics, gallerists, artists and art historians from around the world. The top 100 works chosen by the ISC will win a place in the Lumen Prize Online Gallery and be eligible for the People’s Choice Award – a US$250 prize chosen by public vote.

These 100 works are then reviewed by the Lumen Jury Panel who choose the top 25 works that form the 2015 Lumen Prize Exhibition as well as the 2015 Lumen Prize winners. The winners will be announced in a Gala Ceremony in London in September 2015.

For more information and to register, please visit here.

Deadline: 8 June

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