Name of the Organization : The Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
Name of the Contest : Art Onboard‘ Contest 2014-15
Country : Lebanon
Website : https://www.usek.edu.lb/en/home
Art Onboard‘ Contest :
Saradar Group is organizing the ’Art Onboard‘ project which is offering free billboards to artists for the whole month of September 2015.
Related : American University of Beirut Darwazah Student Innovation Contest Lebanon : www.statusin.org/5821.html
If you want to have your artwork displayed on a billboard in greater Beirut, you should subscribe to the ‘Art Onboard’ contest now. Entries are being accepted until December 19, 2014.
The “Art Onboard” project contest (the “Contest”), created by Fondation Saradar and the universities listed below (the “Universities”), is a billboard street art exhibition that will take place in greater Beirut and suburbs, displaying artworks of young promising Lebanese talents.
Terms and conditions :
Each candidate should acknowledge and understand that, in order to be eligible to participate in the Contest, she/he should comply by the following terms and conditions:
1. To be a student duly registered in one of the five Universities:
** Academie Libanaise Des Beaux Arts (“ALBA”) – BALAMAND
** American University Of Beirut (“AUB”), Department of Architecture and Design
** Lebanese American University (“LAU”), Department of Design
** Universite Libanaise (“UL”), Institut des Beaux-Arts
** Universite Saint-Esprit De Kaslik (“USEK”), Faculté des Beaux-arts et des Arts appliqués
2. Not to be younger than 18 years old and not older than 30 years old.
3. Not to be affiliated to any art gallery whether in Lebanon or outside Lebanon.
4. None of her/his artwork has been previously to her/his participation exhibited in local shows or exhibitions.
5. Style and techniques and themes are free. However, participants are invited to comply with the principles of decency at the risk of being disqualified and excluded from the Contest.
6. None of the artwork submitted for the Contest should be in any way offensive.
7. Participants’ artwork, if selected, will be reproduced on billboards as detailed below.
8. Promomedia SARL, the sole advertising partner company, shall provide for a period of 1 month from [September 1 to 30, 2014] with four categories of billboards as detailed below:
** Frontlits
** Backlits
** Scrollers
** LED screens
9. The participant’s artworks will have to adhere to the billboard printing specifications, to assure the best quality possible when reproduced and mounting on a large scale.
10. Production of artworks will be made on Flex.
11. Participants are not allowed to use any material that would damage the Backlits, Frontlits, Scrollers or LED screens billboards, nor use any heavy material or extensions.
12. Billboard types and categories selected and communicated to the participants are the only kind of panels authorized during the Contest.
13. The selection of the Billboard locations, as detailed in the Billboard List, is determined by Promomedia SARL only.
14. Artworks will be submitted at the latest on April 30, 2015, at 9 a.m., on a CD in accordance with the specifications and techniques listed hereabove.
15. Artworks will be elligible only when submitted through the participant respective university.
16. A CD that represents opening and/or reading deficiencies will be automatically disqualified and excluded from the Contest. The candidate will be notified accordingly.
17. The participants’ artworks will be submitted to a pre-nominated 8-member jury (the “Jury”) that will review them select the best workpieces, in a 2-phase process, according to a pre-set calendar: May 5 & May 10,
2015. The List of selected artworks will be announced following the Jury’s final decision.
18. Each participants’ artwork will be displayed on a visual including the Project Name, SARADAR logo and logos of the Universities and major Project partners – as outlined in the attached patterns.
19. Each candidate will hereby grant to FS and the Universities, a royalty-free license to use images of her/his artwork(s) on all promotional material (including website) published or issued by any of Fondation Saradar, the universities listed above and/or Promomedia in connection with the Project,including the media image reproduction or dissemination of these workpieces.
20. The Selected artworks will be exhibited on billboards during the whole month of September 2015.
21. Each participant remains the sole owner of his/her artwork and all copyrights of specific images that the artists submit belong to the individual artist, not the Parties or the Billboard Project. Hence the sale of any artwork, whether selected to be exposed on the billboards or having won a prize in a particular category, shall not imply any of Fondation Saradar or the Universities.
Download Registration Form : https://www.statusin.org/uploads/5784-20141208Registration.pdf
For more information or registration, contact the Faculty’s administration