[Closed] Juan Downey International Media and Audiovisual Arts Contest 2024
The Corporation announces the Juan Downey 2024 International Media and Audiovisual Arts Competition, held since 1993 and which has awarded nearly thirty artists and groups from Chile and the world who base their work on video culture and aesthetics, media arts, interactive narratives and creative work with contemporary technologies. This Competition is financed by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile’s government, through the Audiovisual Promotion Fund and the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations.
Until August 18, 2024, applications will be open for a new version of the Juan Downey International Media and Audiovisual Arts Competition, created in honor of the Chilean architect and artist Juan Downey (1940-1993), recognized for his contribution to video art, video essay, expanded cinema and interactive installations.
Organized since 1993 by the Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts (CChV), this contest has accumulated 17 editions, constituting an instance for video art on the local and international scene, which critically accounts for changes in formats, languages and technologies in the field.
This Competition is financed by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile’s government, through the Audiovisual Promotion Fund and the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations.
For this edition, the Juan Downey contest seeks to stimulate reflection on the construction of realities in a context of permanent crossing of limits: between the tangible and the intangible, the truth and the lie, the human and the non-human. Under this premise, this year participants are invited to explore topics such as virtual reality, cyborg nature and transhumanism, the dreamlike and the magical, myths and everything that promotes a reflection on what can be considered real, or not, in contemporary times.
This year there are two lines of applications. Microrealities Line is dedicated to experimental audiovisual works conceived to be presented on a single screen, as well as works that escape the single-channel format and venture into new technologies and languages with the web, Internet, mobile devices, among others, as a platform, expanding the fields of audiovisual action. Meanwhile, Videoart and animation Line is designed for audiovisual works conceived to be presented on a single screen, located in the field of video art, experimental animation, essays and/or non-traditional audiovisual genres.
In the first line, people from all over the world can apply; while in the second, it is reserved for Chilean people and/or residents in Chile. In this last category, at least 50% of the selected works will be by artists from regions different from the Metropolitan Region.
“We invite the visual and media arts community from Chile and the world to participate in this historic event that on this occasion seeks to reflect on the construction of reality, articulating thematically with the next Media Arts Biennial. We especially expect works that demonstrate the intention of creative inquiry, both in the form of the treatments and in the reasons addressed,” comments Catalina Ossa, executive director of the CChV.
Awards and distinctions
Since its creation, the Juan Downey International Media and Audiovisual Arts Competition has distinguished international artists and collectives such as Silvia Cacciatori (Uruguay), Andrés Denegri (Argentina), Borja Rodríguez (Spain), Colectivo ECOS (Colombia), Ilê Sartuzi (Brazil ), Yaela Gottlieb (Argentina), Nataliya Ilchuk (Ukraine), Random Clickers (Argentina) and Victoria Oliver Farner (Spain). National winners have also been Marcelo Ferrari, Claudio Rojas, Guillermo Cifuentes, María Soledad Ramírez, Fernando Arredondo and Luis Horta, Nicolás Grum, Tiziana Panizza, Nicolás Sánchez, Gabriel del Favero, Mario Z, Bárbara Oettinger, Javier González Pesce, Juan Cifuentes Mera , Aníbal Bley, Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña and Francisca Khamis.
On this occasion, a single prize will be awarded to each contest line, consisting of $1,000,000 (one million Chilean pesos). Additionally, the jury may determine one or more honorable mentions at its discretion for each line of the contest, which will have no associated prize.
The selected works will be part of the viewing program in spaces determined by the CChV, and may also be exhibited online for a certain time on national platforms, as well as with communication alliances of the CChV. In addition, we seek that the works can be part of the 17th Santiago Media Arts Biennial, either in in-person exhibition spaces or online formats.
Applications
Works must have been carried out after September, 2022. To apply, you must complete the registration form and send it before 11:59 p.m. on August 18, 2024 (local time in Chile – UTC-4).
For more details and queries, it is possible to write to the email convocatorias@cchv.cl before August 12, 2024 under the subject «Concurso 2024».
Consult the complete rules here.
Application form at link.
About the organizers
The Chilean Corporation of Video and Electronic Arts (CChV) is a non-profit organization that, since 1993, has been dedicated to promoting the training, research, production and dissemination of media arts in the country, as well as promoting the union between art and science, based on a cultural exchange between Chile and other countries. It is financed, among other sources, by the Support Program for Collaborating Cultural Organizations of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile’s government, which seeks to strengthen and provide continuity to private and non-profit cultural institutions and organizations. This program is also part of the Financing System for Organizations and Cultural Infrastructure of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage of Chile’s government which integrates, articulates and coordinates in a transversal way the plans, programs and funds aimed at the promotion and support of organizations, cultural infrastructure, and artistic mediation.