Nesta and Sedition are pleased to invite international artists and creatives to submit work to the 2016 FutureFest Art Prize. FutureFest is a weekend festival of radical ideas, compelling talks and interactive experiences designed to inspire people to question and shape the future. The third edition of the festival takes place at Tobacco Dock in London, 17-18 September 2016, and will be programmed around four themes: Love, Play, Thrive and Work.
Submit your digital videos and images through Sedition in response to one of the four programme themes. Twelve works (three for each theme) will be shortlisted and exhibited at the festival. A panel of judges will shortlist the best work for each theme and the final winners will be announced at FutureFest after a live public vote. Winners will receive a £500 cash prize and the opportunity to launch their work on Sedition with promotion to an international audience of art collectors and digital innovators.
Judges include:
– Ghislaine Boddington, Co-founder and Creative Director of body>data>space, Reader, CPDA University of Greenwich
– Paul D. Miller artist, writer, musician known as DJ Spooky
– Claudia Hart, artist, curator and Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
– FIELD.IO, a specialised creative studio in London that combines art and technology
+ others
Deadline to apply is: 10 June 2016, midnight GMT.
For questions regarding submissions, contact: artist-support@seditionart
Submission guidelines: https://
Image: Blind Robot by Louis Philippe Demers, FutureFest 2015