CUBED: LUMINOUS 2018 Open Call

CUBED LUMINOUS

OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS

Festival Dates: NOVEMBER 8 - 11, 2018
Deadline: October 13, 2018
Submission Fee: FREE

Location: UWFHT MUSEUM PLAZA
PMA WEBSITE, ACRE TV WEBSITE, CUBED GULFCOAST WEBSITE

The UWF Pensacola Museum of Art invites all artists to submit silent digital works to CUBED Luminous, a four day and night outdoor digital art festival consisting of one 18 ft. tall LED mega cube and four 8ft x 8ft cubes with sixteen laser projectors. Digital works include video shorts, short animations, animated GIFs, Split Depth GIFs, Perfect Loops, Cinemagraphs and Digital Stills for CUBED Luminous 2018.

CUBED Luminous will take place at the University of West Florida Historic Trust Museum Plaza in downtown Pensacola, Florida on the closing weekend of Foo Foo Fest, November 8 through November 11, 2018.

Open Call Artists are eligible to submit up to three, silent digital works that will be presented on the 18 foot LED mega cube. Artists are encouraged to respond to the theme of liveness and luminosity. Juried artists’ work will also be shown on the Pensacola Museum of Art website as part of the festival archive. Works may be on view in day and night time hours.

Project Description:

CUBED: Luminous will partner with the University West Florida Historic Trust, the UWF Pensacola Museum of Art and ACRE TV Artist-Made-Tele-Vision will feature a diverse selection of digital and projection art from a combination of both invited and juried (open call) artists. CUBED: Luminous is made in part by Foo Foo Fest grant. Curated International artists will consider liveness and luminosity as digital video states of being. Juried artists from the open call will have opportunity to see their work on this year’s fifth cube, the LED mega cube. This visually dynamic public art project will activate and illuminate the urbanscape of Pensacola, Florida and offer myriad opportunities for our community and visitors to enjoy the city and the dynamic visuality of both emerging and established artists alike. The festival will include live music and performance, interactive cube painting, food trucks, and a Makers City Marketplace with Bare Hand Collective.

CUBED was created by Evan Levin and Ashton Howard in 2017.
CUBED: LUMINOUS curators include: CUBED, UWF Historic Trust, UWF Pensacola Museum of Art, Joseph Herring (House Pencil Green), Andrew Mausert-Mooney (ACRE TV), Kera McKenzie (ACRE TV) & Bare Hand Collective.
CUBED: LUMINOUS technical designer/director: Ryan O'Keeley (O’Keeley Media)

Submission Deadline: October 13, 2018

HOW TO SUBMIT:

Click here to Register

After registering, send a viewable and downloadable file link to pmoasubmissions@gmail.com (For example share a Vimeo link).

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL SUBMISSION

Include in email: First Last Name, Title of artwork, Year of artwork, and a link to your website. If viewable and downloadable file is password protected, provide password. Make subject line “CUBED Luminous 2018 Submission”.
All files must be converted to video file formats to be incorporated into LED cube program.
File name format example: LastName_FirstName_Title_Year.mp4
All works must be silent
Aspect ratio 1:1
60 second max duration for short videos and animation
15-20 second duration for all GIFs, Split Depth GIFs, Perfect Loops, Cinemagraphs, and digital stills.
- Video and Audio Format Support Specifications (see specific effective resolutions below)
- Video File Support: MKV, AVI, TS/TP, MP4/M4V (4GB file size limit), MOV, VOB, and M2TS files encoded with H.264/AVC, VC1, and MPEG1/2/4, up to 1920x1080, 30fps, 10mbps. Note: formats not listed here, such as H.265/HEVC, are not supported.
- *Note: Preferred format is h.264 compression in MP4 container.

Submission Deadline: October 13
Notification: October 19 UPDATE: WILL BE SENT TO ACCEPTED SUBMISSIONS BY OCTOBER 24.