ArtistScope now sponsors two major
International Art Contests
The International
Art Contest, which provides awards in several
categories of Fine Art has been sponsored by Artistscope since
its debut on the Internet. The Artistscope team has been
providing web space, programming skills and
security.
The International Art Contest
is online for voting between August and December each year.
The final decisions are derived from the votes from both the
online visitors and a special judging committee formed by the
entrants themselves, making this contest the only truly
democratic event on the globe. It was also the first serious
art event to be staged without boundaries.
The International
Digital Art Awards is now also sponsored by
Artistscope who will be providing their premier image
protection system, known as CopySafe, to the winner and next
top five selected artists as encouragement awards.
The IDAA boasts an
international jury including US digital pioneer Laurance
Gartel and Dr Sasha Grishin from Australia. Dr Sasha Grishin
studied art history at the universities of Melbourne, Moscow,
London and Oxford and has served several terms as visiting
scholar at Harvard University. In 1977 he founded the Fine Art
Program at the Australian National University and now is a
Reader in Art History and Head of the Department of Art
History and Visual Studies at that university. He has
published extensively in digital, contemporary and medieval
art.
William Kent, Artistscope team
leader, life time professional artist and an advocate of
intellectual property, has headed the judging committee for
the Art Dept International Art Contest since 1998. As founder
of the first online contest to encourage participation without
boundaries, his experience with online artists and the
diversity of art internationally was warmly welcomed to the
IDAA judging panel.
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