Winners 'Once upon a time' wins the Commons-sense/Creative Commons South Africa Digital Arts Competition The winner of the Commons-sense/Creative Commons South Africa Digital Arts Competition has just been announced. The winner is Tessa Comrie with her 60-second video incorporating stop-frame and computer animation entitled, 'Once Upon a Time' (download mpeg here). Runner-up of the competition is Nicholas Nesbitt with his multimedia entry entitled, 'The Electronic Diary of Kidu' (view here). Competition winner, Tessa Comrie is a student at the Rhodes University Department of Fine Art. She developed her entry for a UNESCO workshop entitled 'Africa Animated' in June this year. The workshop was run by local and international animation and film gurus and was attended by about 16 people from around the continent (see www.animationsa.org for more). The judges of the competition were positive and encouraging of the winning entry. Marcus Neustetter said that it was the element of 'fun' that made Comrie's work stand out from the rest. Nathaniel Stern said of Comrie's entry: 'It speaks to Africa and its tendency towards re-appropriation, shared histories of storytelling, Creative Commons' mixing ethos, politics of power and money/access - and let's be honest: it's really cute.' On winning the award, Comrie said, 'I think the greatest thing about this is that I am being rewarded for doing something I consider fun! I am also very excited about the future of animation in South Africa, which is growing fast and offering many opportunities for creative people.' Nesbitt is a student at the Wits University School of Arts. He created the work in the form of a storybook. 'I wanted to create a world that had a narrative that could be deciphered after a few iterations - a digital illustrated story book, like the one you got when you were a kid that asked you to turn the page. Plus, 'kidu' is cute so people like it.' Congratulations to the two winners for their 'more-than-cute' entries! | ||||||||||||||
Competition entry requirements Creative Commons South Africa invites digital video, artwork and interactive displays that expresses your view of African digital creativity, remixing and innovation. Make use of public domain, Creative Commons-licenced materials or your own original work - or a mixture - to create something truly inspiring!
To enter the competition, produce either one of the following: • All submissions will be licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 licence (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ for more details). All entries will be attributed to their author with a link back to the Commons-sense website where they will be hosted. Make sure you get permission from any collaborators to use this licence in your work! • For references, re-mixing raw materials, and re-mixing examples, go to: ‘Free Culture’ by Lawrence Lessig www.free-culture.org; www.creativecommons.org; the Internet Archive: www.archive.org; and http://za.creativecommons.org. Judges Professor Christo Doherty
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