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International Videoart Festival - VII Edition

Is now starting the new edition of Magmart, the well-know and wide
participated Festival of videoart.

Our call for entry is open to all artists, without limits of age or
nationality. We invite you to participate, and to spread the world about - on
your blog, your website, among your artist friends, on art-related portal and
website of your country.

Read the rules, connect to our website, and be one of us!

RULES

The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Partecipation is
free.

Between all submitted videos, will be done a final selection based on vote
of a Jury composed by experts. The 30 selected artworks will become part of CAM
permanent collection.

All sended materials don't will be return, and will be stored in the
Festival's archive like documentation.

Sending the participation form, the artist accept fully the present
rules.

The Jury verdict is incontestable.

The artist accept that his/her own videos will be broadcasted online and
offline, on site www.magmart.it; he/she accept that, if selected, the video
become part of permanent collection of CAM, and should be freely screened CAM
rooms.

All the videos, selected or not, become part of Magmart's archive, and can
be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline,
with exclusion of any commercial use.

Still-frame from videos can be freely used for the Festival communication,
mentioning title and author of artwork.

All rights on videos remain property of author. The author assert, under
his/her own liability, the complete right of use on used materials (images,
sounds, videos) and that compose the artwork; the author undertake completely
the liability for any breach of copyright laws.

To participate is necessary fill out the form available online, on this
website. The omission, or the incorrect filling, of one or more parts of form
itself, will involve the exclusion of video by selection of Jury.

Will be accepted only the videos received within midnight of February, 28
2012.

The possible selection by Jury is in any case subordinate at an essential
condition for the proclaim of winners: the author of selected video must send,
via ordinary mail, and within midnight of March, 15 2012, the donation act to
CAM of the copy of his/her own video, and the hard copy on DVD itself. The
donation act don't underlie in any way a transfer of right, but certify
exclusively the willingness of author so that a copy of his/her own video
artwork will be permanently keeped - and, with limitations above, utilized - in
the permanent collection of CAM.

Without this donation act, the videos will be rule out by group of 30
selected artworks, and replaced by those immediately subsequent in Jury's
ranking.

Any author can participate with max 5 videos.

TECHNICAL FEATURES OF ARTWORKS

The videos must be fully realized with digital tech.

The videos must be mono-channel.

The videos must be sent in format .mpeg or .mov (PAL); any other format
will be rejected.

The max lenght of videos don't must surpass 10 minutes.

The videos must be accompanied by participation form fully and correctly
compiled.

The videos must be accompanied by a still-frame from video itself, in
format .jpg, and with dimension not less than 400 px X 300 px.

The videos must have a quality (dimension, resolution) right for a public
screening, without any further shipping of an high-res copy. Suggested size is
720px X 576px; minimum size required is 640px X 480px.

If the video is a shooting of a performance, this must be fully visible
within video lenght.

Videos already submitted to previous editions of Magmart, even if not
selected by Jury, aren't admissible.

SUBMISSION WAY

Is possible to send required materials for participation (video, form,
image) just in one way, online:

- Filling out the form, before midnight of February, 28 2012;

- In the form, must be indicate an URL http or ftp for downloading the
video (i.e.: http://www.mydomain.com/myvideo.mov)
and the still-frame from video (i.e.: Http://www.mydomain.com/myimage.jpg);

- Is possible to utilize a service for big files transfer, like
www.wetransfer.info.

Call the files in this way: title_of_video-name_of_author.extension_of_file
(i.e.: my_video-my_name.mov)

The video and the image must be effectively available at indicated URL
within the deadline. If required by service you choice, indicate the email
address submission (at) magmart.it to alert us of availability of your
files.

Don't send us link to video hosted on YouTube, Vimeo* or similar websites!
They don't match our rules! We need your original artwork.

* (Vimeo link are acceptable just if is downloadable an HD version of
video)

JURY

The composition of VII edition's Jury will be communicated soon.