The Open Prize

Nichols & Clarke, Blossom Street, E1 6BX

22nd - 24th July 2010

"Intelligent and innovative" Saatchi

The Open Prize, designed to celebrate young artists working within the video painting medium, has attracted in excess of 500 entries. The winner will be selected from the shortlisted group of then and will receive funding towards their future video projects and exhibitions with Open Gallery.

Open Gallery is dedicated to video painting, a new form of video art developed by the Artscape Project. Video Paintings are filmed in a single take with a stationary camera. Unlike other forms of film art, they contain no edits or subsequent manipulation. They show the world in real time and are non-narrative. There is no dialogue, no sound.

In contast to the film and videot radition which has been dominated by the provision of meaning and iunderstanding, the vidoe painting aims to escape our culutural and peceptual closures, freeing the viewer to play in the openness of the image.

The gallery has developed technology that enables video paintings to be combined into collections so that they play in intelligent seuqences, according to the criteria determined by the artists. Unlike traditional video art, the collections don't operate on a loop system so there is no repetition.

This year's judging panel includes Ziba de Weck  (Parasol Unity), Marc Valli (Elephant and Magma Books), Ben Lewis (BBC) and Hilary Lawson (Artscape Project).