Travel Shorts a Moving Image Festival for SECAC 2016

TRAVEL SHORTS A Moving Image Festival
SECAC Conference 2016
Call For Work

Calling for video, animation, motion graphic works that in some way deals with the theme of travel. Works are to be no longer than 10 minutes and may include sound. The selected works for the festival will be exhibited during the SECAC Conference at the Armory Mezzanine Gallery, Virginia Tech and on the bus ride between Roanoke and Blacksburg, VA to attend the keynote address by Lynn Hershman Leeson, at the Moss Arts Center’s theater in Blacksburg on Oct 21, 2016.

HOW TO ENTER
Email a vimeo or youtube link to simpat@vt.edu using TRAVEL SHORTS as subject.
Submit entries prior to 11:59 PM EDT August 31, 2016
Entry is free
Up to three entries per person is permitted.
Late entries will not be reviewed.
On acceptance uncompressed files will be called for via WeTransfer (a free transfer service up to 2 GB)

ELIGIBILITY
Travel Shorts, A Moving Image Festival is open to all. However, membership to SECAC is required within 10 days of acceptance to the festival. For membership information, visit the Membership page on the SECAC website: secacart.org.

JUROR
Dr. Simone Paterson, Associate Professor of New Media and Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Technologies at The School of Visual Arts, Virginia Tech.

SCHEDULE
Submission deadline August 31, 2016
Notification of acceptance Sep 18, 2016
Deadline for selected work via WeTransfer Sep 30, 2016

Travel Shorts, A Moving Image Festival
Armory Mezzanine Gallery, Virginia Tech, SECAC Conference October 19-22, 2016.
Bus ride between Roanoke and Blacksburg, VA Friday Oct 21, 2016.

SECAC 2016 – Roanoke, VA
The city of Roanoke, Virginia, Virginia Tech, and Hollins University are proud to host the 73rd annual SECAC meeting October 19-22, 2016. Kevin Concannon, Director of the School of Visual Arts and Professor, Art History, at Virginia Tech, serves a conference director.

Join us in the beautiful mountains of Southwest Virginia for SECAC 2016. Sessions will take place at the official conference hotel, the Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center. The Hotel Roanoke, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, is located in the heart of vibrant downtown Roanoke within easy walking distance of the Taubman Museum of Art, The Harrison Museum of African American Culture, and the O Winston Link Museum, and many restaurants and bars.

Evening excursions to Virginia Tech and Hollins on Thursday and Friday evenings include the SECAC 2015 Artist’s Fellowship exhibition opening, Juried Exhibition, and keynote speaker Lynn Hershman Leeson, who will be speaking in the Moss Arts Center’s spectacular Snohetta-designed theater on the Virginia Tech campus. The annual SECAC Awards luncheon will be held on Thursday.