NCCR SPIN Art and Science contest 2024
We are excited to announce the NCCR SPIN Art and Science Contest 2024: The competition is open to all researchers working on projects that are part of NCCR SPIN. To enter, please send your artwork including a caption/short description to marie.ledantec@unibas.ch before May 17, 2024.
The goal of the contest is to highlight the role of visual communication in scientific research as well as to give a face to the researchers conducting it and to encourage researchers to document the environment in which they work.
Categories:
Scientific: Object of study (image, photograph)
People, Places of Science & Scientific Art: observations in the lab, situations in the life of a researcher, humorous illustration or comic strip, 2D and 3D artwork, etc. (photograph, illustration, comic strip, sculpture, etc…)
Both categories include a jury and a public prize.
Jury:
A jury will award the first prize. The Jury is appointed by the NCCR SPIN office & board of directors. The participants of the NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2024 will vote on a public prize.
Prizes:
Jury Prize: CHF 300.00
Public Prize: CHF 300.00
Rules:
The image for the category “Scientific:Object of Study” can be a photograph or have been taken with any type of instrument (must include a scalebar).
Participation in the competition is free of charge.
The following persons may not take part in the competition: professional photographers, employees of the communication departments of research institutions, members of the competition jury.
Outreach & Exhibition of Images
By submitting your image, you grant NCCR SPIN the right to use your picture/artwork for the promotion of the NCCR SPIN. The NCCR SPIN may use the submitted entries on the internet as well as on social media and may resize/crop them for this purpose. Submitted images may also be put on display at one or more exhibitions, e.g. at the Annual Meeting. The submitted text may be adapted and published by the NCCR SPIN.
Image rights
The participants in the competition guarantee that they have produced the entries themselves and that they hold all the necessary rights and authorizations. They remain the owners of the copyright relating to their entry. They give their permission for the entries to be published by third parties under a CC-BY-NC-ND license: the entries may also be freely used for non-commercial purposes, provided they remain unaltered, and the author is duly credited.
The works submitted must respect image ethics and must have been authorized by the persons concerned. Any representation of a physical person must be subject to that person’s consent to dissemination of his/her image. The NCCR SPIN refuses to accept any liability in this respect.
Picture: “The Failure Beauty” by Pierre Chevalier Kwon, winner of the Jury Prize in 2023 in the category “Scientific: Object of Study”.