Description

Event Date: 8 February 2025
Submission Deadline: 15 December 2024
The Singletary Center presents the inaugural Visual Music Festival in the SCFA Recital Hall. Join us for a day of dynamic expressions of abstract art featuring a curated program of multimedia works from an international collection of contemporary artists. Experience the harmonies of light and sound as we explore what goes on in the mind while listening to music!

The Visual Music Festival program begins at 10:00am and will play continuously throughout the day until 5:00pm. Audiences are welcome to attend at any time throughout the day. Admission is free.

GENERAL SUBMISSION RULES:

• The films must be made entirely with abstract imagery, avoiding representation. That is: no cars, no people, no landscapes, no texts, etc.
• You can use any technique you’d like: drawing, video composition, cgi, scratch, op-art, stop-motion, camera-less…
• The soundtrack cannot feature any words, in any language. If you’re using a song, this must be instrumental or feature non-narrative voices, (no lyrics).
• Maximum running time is 8 minutes.
• Open and/or closing credits are welcome.
• Films must have been produced after 2017.
• We kindly request authors to enter their film/s in Full HD/1080p, as we’ll screen all the selected works in that resolution.
• You must provide a direct download link (or via FTP) to your work, as we need offline access to it. Submitted works without a download link might be disregarded.
• Our preferred formats are .mov/.mp4. Please use none or high-quality compression whenever possible.
• Audio can be presented in mono or stereo but surround sound or spatial audio can’t be supported.
• This festival is not a competition. There are no monetary prizes and no judging panel.

ELIGIBILITY:
• All people in the world are eligible to participate in this festival. There is no entry fee.
• Each author can submit as many works as they please, but only up to three works per author may be selected.

Email all submissions, via direct download link or FTP to: visualmusic@l.uky.edu
Deadline is 12/15/24.

By participating in this call, the author conveys the non-exclusive rights to screen their material at the UK Visual Music Festival. By taking part in our call, participants confirm being the owners of any license, copyrights, and image/sound rights. Submitting your work does not guarantee exhibition at the Festival. All applicants will be notified of their final decision via email. By submitting to and being selected for the festival, you are giving UK permission to potentially use a portion of your piece, stills or short clips, for festival promotion. Additionally, you are giving permission for your work to be potentially included on the Singletary Center for the Arts Vimeo page (non-monetized, educational, non-downloadable).