The New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX:05 CONTEST

The New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX is one of the most important stages for expression and analysis of contemporary artistic practices by technology and digital culture. The event's main objective is to support, recognize and disseminate current research and production around artistic media technology, through an exposition, a contest, a symposium and workshops, the first edition was held in 2005, since then every festival has had a specific theme, in 2013 the festival will address the issue of Biomediaciones.

The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), through the Centro Multimedia of Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART), opens call for the following awards:

TRANSITIO_MX PRIZE: Open to all artists over 18 years, Mexicans and foreigners, groups and active associations in the technological and digital media artistic production and hybrid productions generated by the intersection between art, science, technology and humanity.

• First prize valued at $120,000.00 (One hundred and twenty-thousand pesos 00/100).
• Second prize valued at $80,000.00 (Eighty thousand pesos 00/100).
• Third prize valued at $60,000.00 (Sixty thousand pesos 00/100).
• The honorable mentions the jury considers pertinent.

TRANSITIO_MX PRIZE FOR YOUNG MEXICAN ARTISTS: Target young mexicans residing in Mexico or abroad, between 18 and 25 years of age on the closing date of this announcement.

• Prize valued at $40,000.00 (Forty-thousand pesos 00/100).
• Honorable mentions the jury considers pertinent.

The awards ceremony will take place within the New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX 05, to be celebrated through September 20 to 29, 2013.

More info an register: transitiomx.net