Hualien Art Exhibition

• Object

  To encourage artistic creation, explore the connotation and expression of art, and respond to the spirit of the times, we hereby establish the Hualien Art Exhibition.

• Hosted by

  • (1)Organizer: Hualien County Government
  • (2)Co-sponsor: Cultural Affairs Bureau, Hualien (hereinafter referred to as the Bureau),
    Cultural Foundation of Hualien County
  • (3)Executor: YXCL Media Ltd.

• Eligibility

  • (1)Individuals or creative teams from home and abroad are welcome to participate in the contest regardless of their ethnicities or nationalities.
  • (2)Each person (group) is limited to one application and no duplicate applications are allowed; individual creators are not allowed to join the creative team at the same time.
  • (3)Group participants shall send a representative.
  • (4)If there is any doubt about the qualifications, the jury committee will make decisions.

• How is it held

  • (1)The application is made by public solicitation.
  • (2)All applications are made online without exception. For application, please go to 2022 Hualien Art Exhibition Artwork Soliciting Application System of Hualien County Cultural Affairs Bureau (https://www.hccc.gov.tw/hualienart/).
  • (3)The application period: July 5 to August 12, 2022, 5:00 pm.

• Entry Requirements

  • (1)Entries should be original and new creations.
  • (2)There is no limit to the types, media and sizes of the artworks entered the contest (the sizes of the artworks will be adjusted according to the actual exhibition space).
  • (3)The contest is open to all themes. The participants can reflect their creative consciousness on their personal Hualien experience and break through the framework of media, bridge the traditional and contemporary, imagine the margins of Hualien regional culture, make cultural measurement or social observation with research-based expression, response to intergenerational style, heighten ethnic cultural consciousness, or present emerging visual experience by combining technology with traditional culture, as well as interactive art and so on artworks.

• Exhibition location

  The 10 th Building at Hualien Cultural & Creative Industries Park (This is a tentative location. The exhibition space will be subject to actual arrangement.)

• Online information login

  • (1)Personal information (including academic degree, exhibition history, award and prize records, etc.)
  • (2) 3 pieces of past artworks (including title, media , sizes, date of creation, creation concept within 100 words and a file of the artworks)
  • (3)The entry exhibition proposal (in 600 words or less, diagram of effect of indication, etc.), photos no more than 10MB per image with JPG file format are required. Only 4 images (1 shows panoramic and 3 indicate partial appearance) are allowed for an entry applying for this contest. For audiovisual works, video and sound files, the total length of uploading entry is limited to 5 minutes, and the size of the video and sound files is less than 100MB, with both mp3 / mp4 formats are acceptable. Please login the link to the application website via Vimeo / YouTube web space.

  • (4)Description of past artwork files:

    • Static imagine file: Photos no more than 10MB per image with JPG file format is required. 3 images (1 shows panoramic and 2 indicate partial appearance) are allowed for a past artwork and total files are limited to 9 at most.
    • For audiovisual works, video and sound files, the total length of uploading each entry is limited to 5 minutes, and the size of the video and sound files is less than 100MB, with both mp3 / mp4 formats are acceptable. If necessary, please edit and condense the files by yourself. Please login the link of audiovisual works to the application website via Vimeo / YouTube web space.
  • (5)The above requirements (1) to (4) must be completed to be considered as having accomplish the application process.

• Three-stage Review Process

  • (1) Preliminary review: The entries will be reviewed by a jury online and 12 participants will then be selected for the secondary review. The list of candidates for secondary review will be declared on the official website of the Bureau. Anyone who is not selected will not be notified by the Bureau.
  • (2) Secondary review: When sending the written notification of the secondary review, the Bureau will provide the dimension of the exhibition venue to the participants for spatial layout. The candidates will submit the "Detailed Plan of the Entries", and an oral presentation of the creation plan will selected by the Bureau be scheduled to explain their entries and their philosophy of execution, the planning of the exhibition space (such as electricity requirements and so on), and other reference works. During the secondary review, the jury will ask questions on site, and the participants will have up to 10 minutes to explain, then answer questions from jury members for 8 minutes. It is expected that 6 (groups) and 2 (groups) alternates will be selected to participate in the final judging for the exhibition. Those who fail to meet the criteria of the jury committee will not be given a ranking, and the award will be without a winner.
  • (3) Final review: The finalists in the final review shortlist must complete the move-in(installation) within a specified period of time according to the "Detailed Plan of the Entries" and exhibit their actual artworks for the jury to evaluate. The final review will select 1 "First Prize (Hualien Award)" and 5 " Judges' Award" winners.

• Rewards

  • (1) The winner of the " Hualien Award " will be awarded a prize of NT$500,000 (including tax) and a trophy. The artworks will be collected by the Bureau, and the ownership of the artworks will belong to the Bureau, and the non-exclusive and perpetual copyright of the artworks will be granted to the Bureau.
  • (2) The winner of the " Hualien Award " will be awarded a prize of NT$500,000 (including tax) and a trophy. The artworks will be collected by the Bureau, and the ownership of the artworks will belong to the Bureau, and the non-exclusive and perpetual copyright of the artworks will be granted to the Bureau.

• Exhibition Information

  • (1) Contact Information: Please contact with Executive Team of Hualien Art Exhibition
  • (2) Hotline Tel. No.: 886-965-038304, service hours 8:00-12:00 13:30-17:30 (Taiwan time)
  • (3) Email: hualienartexhibition@gmail.com

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