**FutureTense** strives to foster collaboration and intellectual exchange within the realm of new media arts. Since its inception in 2019, FutureTense has served as a non-profit platform dedicated to bringing arts, design, and technology to the public. Our primary focus is on curating and nurturing artists and creative practitioners who harness the transformative power of art and technology. By actively promoting new media arts, we aim to inspire creativity and engage communities in the emerging possibilities of the future. The **FutureTense Awards** specifically target professionally trained students in arts and creative disciplines, providing them with opportunities to expand their networks and gain global exposure for their talents. Together, we cultivate a vibrant ecosystem that embraces innovation and artistic excellence.

  
**Theme: How would you "Define Safe"?**

  
FutureTense Awards 3rd Edition is inviting creative interpretations on the theme of "**Define Safe**" across different dimensions. Artists are encouraged to explore one of the following themes and submit their work:

  
**1\. Define Safe for “Humans”:**

Illustrate what safety means for humans. Your artwork can depict physical, emotional, psychological, or societal aspects of human safety. Consider how environments, relationships, and systems contribute to a safe existence for individuals and communities.

  
**2\. Define Safe for “Environment”:**

Create a piece that represents the safety of our environment. Show practices and principles that protect ecosystems, biodiversity, and natural resources. Highlight measures that prevent environmental degradation and promote sustainability.

  
**3\. Define Safe for “A.I.”:**

Depict what safety means in the context of artificial intelligence. Explore themes such as ethical AI, transparency, reliability, and security. Consider how AI can be designed and implemented to align with human values and operate safely within society.

  
**4\. Define Safe for “Mind”:**

“心安” translates to "peace of mind" or "inner peace." Capture the essence of achieving “心安” through your art. Reflect on cultural, philosophical, spiritual, and personal interpretations of inner tranquility and how individuals can find peace amidst life’s challenges.

  
\*Note: The phrase “此心安處是吾鄉” translates to "Where my heart is at peace, there is my home," comes from 蘇軾 (Su Shi)'s poem “定風波‧南海歸贈王定國侍人寓娘” written during his exile, the poem reflects Su Shi's contemplations on life and inner peace. The phrase emphasizes that true belonging is found within oneself rather than in a specific place. The line captures the essence of finding comfort and contentment, no matter the external circumstances. 

**Media Art Award:** This award focuses on the works that are difficult to evaluate by conventional standards, as well as those with any new forms of expression that have the potential to be revered as works of art in the future. Types of artwork include:

* Experiential Installation
* Immersive and Interactive Art Installation
* Robotics, Kinetic Art, Cyborg Art and Biotechnology
* 3D Printing, Digital Fabrication and IoT Device Art
* Light/Sound/Generative Sculpture
* Performative Installation

**Prize:**

* Up to HKD 15,000 for Artwork Production (up to HKD 5,000 for Artwork Production for honourable mentions)
* Exhibition Opportunity and Exposure
* Award Trophy and Artwork Production Assistance

  
**Digital Art Award:** This award accepts any genre as long as the works present an original digital expression which can be viewed, carried out, operated, and/or recorded digitally. Types of artwork include but not limited to:

* Artificial Intelligence (AI), Deep Learning
* Extended Reality (XR) includes: Augmented Reality (AR),
* Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR)
* Blockchain Based and Crypto Art
* Metaverse
* Audio-Visual Performance
* Software Art
* Net, Mobile Art and Video Games
* Sound Art and Graphical Notation
* Generative Art and Procedural Animation
* Virtual and Digital Community

**Prize:**

* Up to HKD 15,000 for Artwork Production (up to HKD 5,000 for Artwork Production for honourable mentions)
* Exhibition Opportunity and Exposure
* Award Trophy and Artwork Production Assistance

  
There is also a **Best Popularity Award** (up to HKD 10,000 for Artwork Production) and **Present Prize** (HKD 15,000 for Artwork Production).

FutureTense Awards 2024

The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work that was completed in the previous year and combines poetry with any other art or discipline.

  
Work that qualifies includes but is not limited to books that blend visual art and poetry, original performances of dance and poetry (or dance based on poetry) and of music and poetry (including libretti based on poetry), as well as more eclectic collaborations involving poetry and technology, the sciences or math.

  
Candidates are required to provide materials documenting their projects. These will be key to the judging process. Panels, discussions, and programs focused on dialogue between disciplines rather than the creation of a new work are not eligible.

  
The finished work should have been produced or published in 2024 but can involve or be based in part on work from any era. All are welcome to apply singly if the work involving more than one discipline has been accomplished alone.

Honorarium: $1,000 to be divided equally between or among the principals if not awarded to a single artist.

Anna Rabinowitz Award

Sony World Photography Awards 2025 just launched! **The 18th edition is now open for entries from all around the world.**

  
Have you been working on an exciting new project? Or perhaps you’re focusing on striking single shots instead? Are you a photography student wanting to take the next step in your career, or maybe an aspiring creator 19 years-old and under, eager to share your talent with the world?

  
Whatever your experience in capturing the world around you, the Sony World Photography Awards has a competition that’s right for you and your work.

  
The Sony World Photography Awards is World Photography Organisation’s principal programme. Established in 2007, it is one of the world’s biggest and most prestigious photography competitions; celebrating the work of leading and emerging practitioners and attracting tens of thousands of visitors annually to its exhibitions worldwide.

  
World Photography Organisation is the photography strand of Creo, responsible for delivering initiatives and programming across three sectors: photography, film and contemporary art.

Top prizes include **$25,000**, a **solo display at** the Sony World Photography Awards **exhibition in London** and globally, top Sony **digital imaging equipment**, inclusion in the book, worldwide recognition through press and media coverage – plus more!

Sony World Photography Awards 2025

**Youth, the Future of Arts and Crafts**

  
Since 1960, the Young Crafts Creation Prize has revealed young crafts talents every year. Organized by Ateliers d'Art de France, this prize highlights a new generation of creators, all chosen by a jury composed of experts and professionals in the arts and crafts.

  
At each edition, several winners are selected based on criteria of artistic quality and technical mastery of know-how associated with an innovative perspective. They benefit from support, an ambitious communication campaign and have the opportunity to exhibit at a prestigious trade fair adapted to their preferred market.

  
The Young Crafts Creation Award (PJCMA) is a real finder of young crafts professionals (under 35) who, through their know-how and innovative outlook, illustrate the incredible creative abundance of crafts. These young creators emerge on the occasion of this award which testifies to the ever-increasing attractiveness of these professions. A real springboard, many winners of this Award have now won several awards, gaining national and even international recognition for some.

**The Young Creation in Arts and Crafts Prize rewards the winners with:**

  
* Access to a training day covering participation in a general public and/or professional trade fair;
* Participation in a professional or general public trade fair (MAISON&OBJET \*, the International Cultural Heritage Fair, or Révélations);
* A communication campaign: press kit, photo shoot, presence on social networks, press relations.

Young Artistic Craftsmanship Award 2025

Glanzlichter is one of the greatest international nature photography competitions, which has been honoring fascinating, touching and spectacular photographs from around the world since 1999\. 

  
Nature photography is more than just capturing landscapes and animals – it is a way of understanding and appreciating our relationship with nature. Founded by Mara Fuhrmann, the competition has been putting emphasis on rewarding responsible and genuine nature photographs for many years. Capturing the beauty of nature and showing impressive moments. In an age in which is nature under increasing pressure, photography is a powerful medium to reflect and reinforce our responsibility towards the planet.

The award-winning images will be honored at the award ceremony at the start of the Naturephotography Days in Fürstenfeldbruck and shown in a high-class exhibition. Winners that are present will receive a photo book from CEWE with all the award-winning images and their picture on the cover. In addition, winners who are present can take part at the gala dinner. The exhibition will tour throughout Germany and can be seen at over twenty locations.

  
In total there are prizes worth over €28,000 to be won. Cash prizes totaling over €12,000 and additional non-cash prizes amounting to €16,000\. 

  
**Categories 1 – 8**

• € 500 for 1st place in the categors • Trophy • Glanzlichter book • € 50 for the nine highlights of the category • Glanzlichter book 

  
**Junior Award** 

• € 500 for the Junior Award Winner • Photo exhibition by CEWE • Trophy • DVF silver medal • Glanzlichter book • € 50 for the two highlights in each age group • Glanzlichter book 

  
**All Over Winner** 

• € 2.500 • Trophy • DVF gold medal • Glanzlichter book All award-winning participants will be invited to the award ceremony.

International Glanzlichter of Naturephotography 2025

FluxusMuseum encourages applications across art forms, whether you’re a visual artist, dancer, performance artist, film maker, animator, writer, actor, musician or none of the above, we look forward to considering your proposals.

We welcome all proposals which are in the experimental spirit of Fluxus, but not in any way bound by any particular understanding of Fluxus; proposals do not need to reference Fluxus directly in any way. In our selection process we focus on the experimental and anomalous; works deviating from the expected norms of narrative structure; works with originality, strong visual style and fresh spirit.

The finished work you are proposing must:

* Be a single channel film able to be shown on a screen/monitor or a projector
* Be new, original work
* Be between 1 and 15 minutes in length.

Your Proposal

We welcome works in progress as proposals for this new work. There are no submission fees. We seek at least two of the following to be submitted as part of your proposal:

* 1 video clip. This could be anything, from a sample of the proposed work, a treatment or even you explaining the idea to camera. **Maximum 3 minutes**.
* 1 PDF (with images/text etc). **Maximum 3 pages**.
* One website/social media link showing your work

**You do not need to include an artist statement/bio or CV in your PDF or application.**

Selected works will be commissioned at a fee of €600\. On acceptance of a proposal the Fluxus Museum will pay €300 to commission the work and deliver a further €300 upon receiving the completed work. The completed films will then be exhibited within the gallery space throughout summer 2025 and prize winners announced in September.

All participating artist’s maintain the ownership of their works and FluxusMuseum welcomes artists to screen the commissioned works elsewhere. In commissioning these works FluxusMuseum seeks the rights to exhibit the works in the museum and on our online platforms in perpetuity.

After its successful debut FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video is now in its second year.

Over the duration of this year’s prize, €45,000 will be given to participants, with a portion used to support the development of their projects initially and the remainder awarded as prizes at the exhibition’s end.

20-40 proposals will be selected from this initial application and those artists will be awarded €600 each to assist them in executing their proposal. The finished works will then be featured in our gallery space from June – September 2025 as well as on our online platforms. FluxusMuseum will then award remaining cash prizes towards the end of the exhibition period.

  

FluxusMuseum Prize for Experimental Video

The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize that is valued at $24,000 annually and is open to all artists. All art forms, mediums, and completion dates are eligible. We're excited to welcome artworks of all dimensions, on any theme.

  
Read more and apply on the Homiens website: https://homiens.com/homiens-art-prize/

  
View our recent winners here: https://homiens.com/homiens-exhibitions/

* 6 Winning artists are exhibited by Homiens, each receive an unrestricted cash award of $500, may participate in an optional interview, and may request a letter of recommendation from our Jurors.
* 12 additional Finalists per round also exhibit with Homiens.
* Up to 200 artists are Highly Commended and celebrated across our media.
* All entrants are considered for exhibition and may apply to participate in our Meet the Artists initiative, or to become a Homiens Featured Artist.

The Homiens Art Prize

The Call for Apila’s First Printing Award 2025 aims to promote the production of children’s picture books by illustrators with no previous published works!

  
The publishing house Apila Ediciones, in collaboration with the School of Design of Aragón and with the support of the Zaragoza City Council, announces the Apila’s First Impression Award 2025, the thirteenth edition of an International Illustrated Children’s Book competition aimed at strengthening graphic and literary creation by supporting illustrators who have not yet published any books.

  
The projects may have any format, but may not exceed 40 pages (20 double pages), including legal pages (credits page and title page) and flyleaves. The cover: front cover, spine and back cover are not included in the 40 pages of the book. Apila Ediciones reserves the right to exhibit a selection of the projects submitted to the competition as part of the exhibition programme of the Aragon School of Design.

The award will consist of the signing of a professional contract with Apila Ediciones for the publication of the selected work, which will include the payment to the author(s) of €4,000, equivalent to 10% of the value of the first print run of the book, as well as the dissemination and international distribution of the book. In the event that the rights of the project are shared between writer and illustrator, the percentage of 10% will be divided between them according to the prior agreement reached by both.

Apila’s First Printing Award 2025

**£3,000 first prize for writers worldwide and stories on any topic up to 2,000 words!**

  
2024 marked ten years since we first launched the short story competition. With a £3,000 first prize (ten times higher than our first prize ten years ago) it has grown to become one of the UK’s leading short story competitions.

  
We are especially thrilled with the success of the Isobel Lodge Award, one of the specialist prizes in the competition, which every year brings new Scottish talent to the fore. The award is presented to the top story entered in the competition by an unpublished writer living in Scotland.

  
We welcome stories in all genres: literary, historic, crime, romance, gritty realism, contemporary, humour and more. The Write Mango Award is another specialist award within the competition that celebrates those bizarre, quirky stories that can sometimes leave us laughing out loud. The Write Mango winner receives £300 plus the fabulous mango award sculpture created by artist Fiona Maher.

  
The writers of at least twenty long-listed short stories are offered publication in our next anthology featuring a fabulous cover by Edinburgh-based artist Gordon Mitchell RSA. The top twenty includes the Isobel Lodge Award winner plus at least five of the top Write Mango stories.

If you live in Scotland and you or your immediate family receives any form of income support or universal credit you are entitled to free entry to the competition.

Publication is offered to authors of the top twenty stories in The Edinburgh Anthology, published annually.

  
Edinburg Short Story Awards:

* First Prize £3,000
* Second Prize £500
* Third Prize £250

  
The First Write Award - Open to unpublished writers worldwide

* £300 plus publication

  
The Write Mango Short Story Award - Open to writers worldwide

* Prize: £300 plus publication

  
The Isobel Lodge Award - Open to unpublished writers living in Scotland

* Prize: £750 plus publication

  
The Edinburgh Writing Awards Dinner - All the finalists for the short story competition are invited to the Edinburgh Writing Awards Dinner when the prize winners are announced. It is held each year at the Scottish Arts Club in Edinburgh on the last Saturday in September.

  
A limited number of bursaries are available for talented, under-represented writers and illustrators through our bursary scheme. Bursaries may be awarded to entrants affected by low household income, all forms of discrimination, disability, who are full-time carers, ex-offenders or affected by any other barrier. No questions asked. In your application we ask you to submit the actual work you wish to enter for the competition - **_Applications for Short Story Bursaries are open now and until 10 December 2024_**.

Edinburgh Short Story Award 2025

Entries for the 2025 prize launched on 9th June 2024\. The winning entry will be an 800-word review of a recently released book, film, album, concert, exhibition, ballet, play, TV show, online stream, performance art piece or anything else that could be covered by a newspaper’s arts review pages.

  
Anthony Burgess wrote for the _Observer_ for more than thirty years, and this prize celebrates his connection with the newspaper. He had a wide range of interests, so there is no restriction on the art form featured in your review.

  
Maybe you’re a journalist, critic or blogger – or none of those. All we ask is you impress us with your best work. Your entry should be a previously unpublished review of up to 800 words on new work in the arts. The winning piece could be about an album, book, concert, exhibition, film, live stream, social media entertainment, or television show, or anything else that offers the opportunity to write a lively and thoughtful piece. We define “new work” in the arts as anything that has happened since 1st January 2024, although some flexibility with that date is fine. The arts world has changed beyond recognition since last year, and we expect to see some entries focusing on the online world of lockdown entertainment.

 The entry fee is usually £15, but we also offer a free-entry scheme for entrants on low incomes.

– a sum of £3000 to one winner

– a sum of £500 to two runners-up.

  
– Publication opportunities for the winning pieces, or another suitable piece, in the _Observer_. Publication will be at the discretion of the editor of the _Observer_.

  
– Short-listed entrants may be invited to attend an evening prize-giving ceremony in May 2025\. The winner will be announced at this event. Short-listed entrants will be notified by email or telephone and asked to confirm attendance at the ceremony. In cases where short-listed entrants are unable to attend the ceremony, they will be invited to send a representative (a friend or relative) on their behalf; if a representative is unable to attend, short-listed entrants will be asked to submit a short written statement to be read out at the ceremony should they win.

the observer / anthony burgess prize for arts journalism

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