For the third year in a row, FMT Co-Director has been invited to join the selection committee for the Live Media and Performance category of the Celeste Prize 2012. Celeste Prize is dedicated to emerging and mid-career artists. Last day to enter your work is 31 July.

Finalists’ exhibition and awards at the City of Rome’s converted power station Centrale Montemartini, 1-9 December 2012.

more information on the Celeste Prize Website

You can enter works in these prize categories
€ 20,000 prizes:
Painting & Graphics Prize € 4,000
Photography & Digital Graphics Prize € 4,000
Video & Animation Prize € 4,000
Live Media, Installation, Sculpture & Performance Prize € 4,000
Curator’s Choice Prize € 3,500
Public’s Choice Prize € 500

What’s new this year
° Katya Garcia-Anton, curator of the Spanish Pavilion at 54th Venice Biennial 2011, is curator of 4th Celeste Prize 2012
° New team of international art critics and curators in the Selection Panel
° 40 finalist artists will vote € 16,000 prizes
° Two new prizes: Curator’s Choice and Visitors’ Choice
° Two artist residencies and one course offered free to 3 finalists, by:
The Invisible Dog, New York, USA
Ondarte Residency, Cancun, Mexico
Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy
° Opportunity for video selection, VisualcontainerTV , October
° Opportunity for video selection, FonladFestival , September-December

Curator:
Katya Garcia-Anton

Selection Panel
Irina Chmyreva
Michael Connor
Micol Di Veroli
Maymanah Farhat
Lara Khaldi
Eva Gonzalez-Sancho
Jack Persekian
Lydia Pribisova
Nigel Prince
Maria Inés Rodriguez
Risa Shoup

Live Media Panel:
Fonlad Festival – José Vieira
Forward Motion Theater – Eric Dunlap
Otolab-Orgone – Bertram Niessen
Claudio Sinatti – IED
Alessandro Ludovico – Neural Magazine.

Entry fee: € 40 / 1 work

Each work submitted to Celeste Prize:
° is seen and properly considered by members of the Selection Panel
° is part of a clear and open selection process which is visibile in a special online section –
each selector will publish his or her choices for all to see.
° is immediately viewable throughout Celeste Network’s community of 40,000+ members
° benefits from top web indexing, which means it can be found instantly in the web

Celeste Prize 2012 is working in collaboration with
City of Rome’s Musei Capitolini – Centrale Montemartini, Zetema, Glocal Project and ZeL Edizioni