"Artscist" Student Competition

About the Hulda Festival
The Hulda Festival is a project coordinated by the Ilhan Koman Foundation with 14 local co-organisers across Europe. The festival takes its name from the boat M/S Hulda, a 105-year old two-mast Swedish-make schooner where the sculptor Ilhan Koman lived and worked for more than twenty years. Inspired by the scientific and innovative work of Koman, the Hulda Festival essentially exploits the notion of creativity, and uses both an onboard exhibition of the scientific artworks of Ilhan Koman, and experimental art and science workshops to explain scientific knowledge with a playful approach.

For futher information about the scientific works of Ilhan Koman please visit http://www.koman.org.
For more inbformation about the competition and registration: www.huldafestival.org

The Competition - artscist
The main objective of the Hulda Festival is to create alternative perspectives to awaken public interest in science. As indirect approaches that exploit art are more effective in attracting laymen to science rather than by simply presenting science per se; art can serve as an efficient tool in awakening attention through aesthetic and ludic associations; creativity-being the common denominator of art and science-is an essential actor in the development of knowledge-based societies which do not build merely on learned knowledge.

Basing on this objective, the Hulda Festival is launching a student competition under the title of "artscist" among higher education students in the 10 countries where the festival is taking place. "artscist" invites students to participate in the competition with innovative and creative artistic projects that vulgarise scientific phenomena. One winning author from each of the 10 cities will be invited to Istanbul for 4 days, to participate in an "Art and Science" symposium and attend the opening of the exhibition of their works.

Expected Content of Projects to Be Submitted
Students wishing to participate in this competition are invited to present their creative projects that communicate information linked to scientific disciplines, or that are based on scientific phenomena, aiming to introduce a scientific theory or phenomenon in a vulgarized manner for the general public. Laymen observing the work should understand the scientific aspect without requiring prior knowledge. These works, which are thus expected to be "scientific artworks" or "artistic experiments", shall be accompanied with vulgarising descriptions and can use any medium, as long as they don't require their authors to be permanently present to demonstrate their work (for example, no performing arts unless on filmed support screenable in a gallery).

Below, please find further details about the format of the submitted projects.

Who Can Participate
Students over 18 years old from any department in the 10 cities (Stockholm, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Lisbon, Barcelona, Naples, Malta, Thessalonica, Istanbul) are invited to participate in the competition with their innovative projects. Science students are encouraged to collaborate with other students experienced in pedagogy and arts, and vice versa.

Deadlines
Participants are expected to register on "www.huldafestival.org' up to June 1, 2010 and submit their projects latest by June 1, 2010.

Disclaimer
The Hulda Festival is implemented with the financial support of the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission and the local partnership of major science and art institutions in each respective city. The festival also benefits from the support of public authorities in the visited cities, Turkish and Swedish diplomacies, Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and private institutions. The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the Ilhan Koman Foundation and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Commission or the 7th Framework Programme or any of the related institutions. The jury of the competition consists of specialised professionals. Members of the jury cannot be held responsible of the content or the organisation. Group projects can be submitted but only one person representing the group will be invited to Istanbul in case the project is selected. The organisers of the Hulda Festival shall take no responsibility if the winner cannot attend the trip to Istanbul that will take place in the second half of September 2010, The participant invited to Istanbul should hold insurance as required by the laws of his/her country of residence. The organisers of the Hulda Festival are not responsible for any damage that could occur to the works. The works will remain at the author's disposal after the exhibition. Copyrights remain the owner's property; the Hulda Festival only retains the rights to use the texts and illustrations within the Festival publications.


Format of Projects
All projects should be submitted electronically for evaluation. Files submitted by each participant should be gathered in a single folder. The folder name should bear the personal number of the participant and max 8 alphabetical characters representing the title of the project. Every file included in the folder should also bear the personal number in the file name.

Participants are expected to submit a 2000 character abstract explaining their project, namely the scientific phenomenon on which the project is based and how their approach vulgarises the phenomenon involved. This should be self-standing, but may also refer to a source/url accessible via internet for those who wish to elaborate further on the introduced phenomenon.

All texts must be submitted in English. Texts may be submitted on any word processor or PDF. Separate from the 2000 character abstract, the participant should include the following information as header:
the personal number they received after applying on-line
the title of their work
4 key-words related to the medium they used and the scientific discipline(s) and/or phenomenon(s) their work relates to.
the material used, dimensions and weight
names of all authors

There is no limitation for the "type" of the projects to be submitted. Performing arts, however, are not recommended unless submitted on appropriate audiovisual media. Any projects that involve audio or visual components must be provided on electronic media such as:

1. Photographs: JPEG (.jpeg)
2. Videos: Quicktime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mpeg4), Flash Video (.flv), Windows Media (.wmv), AVI (.avi)
3. Sound: MP3 (.mp3)

1. A project can be refused in the following cases:
2. if the personal information provided by the applicant is found to be incorrect;
3. if any of the mandatory attachments are missing;
4. if the application doesn't comply with the general rules;
5. if the scientific phenomenon depicted in the project is faulty and/or has been misused;
6. if the project is found to bear any offensive content (legally, politically, gender- or otherwise unethical by EC standards).