BCA Global Young Digital Art Scholarship Program
The scholarship is initiated by BCA, Zonff Partners, Tsinghua x-lab, CAFA School of Deisgn and Technology Program.
About the Program
The BCA Global Young Digital Art Scholarship Program is funded by the BCA (BlockCreateArt) and is initiated by the BCA Blockchain Art Center and Tsinghua x-lab under the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, CAFA School of Design and Technology.
The purpose of the scholarship is to promote the development of the Digital Art. The scholarship is meant to draw public attention and champion the artistic practices of contemporary young digital artists and reward those who engage in in-depth exploration of this new artistic medium. While promoting outstanding award-winning digital artists and their artworks, it aims to deepen global understanding and appreciation for young digital artists, in order to facilitate the development of Digital Art on a global scale.
This scholarship is open to students and graduates of art schools around the world. This scholarship will provide a total of 200,000 RMB. The forms of the artworks include (not limited to): any form of digital artworks such as digital paintings, digital sculptures, programmed images, and video etc.
The winning works will be exhibited in BCA Art Center and BCA Virtual Art Center. (on CryptoVoxels). The shortlisted works will be minted by BCA Art Center for free.
Scholarship Amounts
This program will provide a total scholarship of 200,000RMB.
It includes first prizes of 50,000RMB (1 prize), second prizes of 20,000RMB (3 prizes) and third prizes of 6,000RMB (15 prizes)
- Gas fees for minting will be waived for the TOP100 finalists.
Award rights:
- Free Gas fee: The top 100 award-winning works will get free gas support, and are guided by BCA professionals on the chain.
- 2. Media support: Finalists will enjoy BCA large online + offline exhibitions, auctions, and 500,000+PV media exposure.
- 3. Tsinghua x-lab、BCA Academy、Vulcan Dao provides scholarship honor certificates.
Applicant qualifications
- Applicants can apply regardless of age, nationality. Art and design students and graduates, and freelance artists.
- Applicants must have registered and uploaded their works on MetaOpus.co
Application rules
- Applicants must guarantee the originality of they artworks and take full responsibility for the intellectual property rights involved. Do not copy, plagiarize, or embezzle others’ artworks to upload.
- 2. It must not contain content that violates national laws and regulations.
- 3. Applicants are never allowed to apply for third-party artwork as their work. If plagiarism or other infringement is found, the applicant will be immediately disqualified from the scholarship.
- 4. The intellectual property rights of the artworks involved in the application belong to the authors, and the organizer has the right to publish and use the applied works for publicity and display on a global scale without providing additional subsidies to the applicant.
- 5. Those who participate in the application will be deemed to have fully understood and agreed to abide by the rules of the competition.
- 6. The final interpretation of the scholarship program belongs to the organizer.
Work application requirements
- The concept of the work is not limited, but it must be digital artwork.
- 2. The picture is required to be in JPG format and the file size is within 30MB. Dynamic pictures must be in GIF format, with a resolution above 1080 and a capacity of less than 50mb.
- 3. The video image has no time limit and aspect ratio. The optional format is mov or mp4, and the file size does not exceed 300mb.
- 4. A macOS or Windows executable file required; It can be an interactive or a display program, less than 500mb; If uploaded in RAR or ZIP format, the compressed package should contain a video and a description of the program, less than 300mb.
- 5. For other forms of works, such as digital installations, video interaction etc., please contact us via email or WeChat.
Application method and selection method
Applicants need to log on to the art online platform MetaOpus http://metaopus.co, and fill in the application form in the scholarship program column (click the link to fill in the form).
*Note: The application page should be accompanied by works or portfolios in the form of pictures, videos, programming, etc., each work should include details such as scale, materials, time, etc., and the application attachment should contain no more than 800 words of personal introduction in Chinese and English Attached information.
Submission time: May 26, 2021 – August 21, 2021
Selection time: August 21, 2021 – September 01, 2021
Contact Us
Twitter: @BlockCreateArt
Wechat: bcasiri
Email: bca@bcanetwork.info
Website: metaopus.co
About us
BCA (BlockCreateArt) is the world’s leading decentralized art-tech platform that integrates the creation, trading, collection, and culture & education outputs of crypto art. BCA aims to create a crypto ecosystem in which everyone is empowered to participate. The crypto ecosystem that BCA intends to build includes the primary business segment, MetaOpus (Asia’s leading art decentralized NFT platform), coupled with other business subsidiaries: BCA Studio (crypto art studio) and BCA Gallery (digital curation), BCA Display (screen display) etc. As an industry benchmark in the field of NFT, BCA brings together cross-industry expertise to maximize the potential of blockchain technology in the art world and collectively reimagine the future of crypto art. Since its launch in October 2020, MetaOpus has covered 16 countries and regions, has gathered. 498 artists, and the platform serves 80,000 global users. As of February 2021, the total turnover of BCA has reached $5 million.
About Tsunghua x-lab
Tsinghua x-lab was founded in the spring of 2013 to support and motivate the Tsinghua community and culture around innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. To learn more, view Tsinghua x-lab’s official account:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/mp/profile_ext?action=home&__biz=MjM5NDg4ODQzMQ==&scene=124#wechat_redirect
