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COMPETITION
Gold
Award Prize
10,000
US $
What is XANALIA NFTART AWARD 2021 ?
The wave of 'digitization' accelerated at a stretch after the COVID pandemic. NFTs have emerged with new possibilities for the artists. So, XANALIA, the best NFT marketplace, is hosting XANALIA NFTART AWARDS 2021. The purpose of the NFTART award event is to promote the talents of artists. NFT creators, regardless of their age, nationality, gender, or whether they are professionals or amateurs, who have had limited opportunities to present their works and activities in the past, will not be ignored but will be given hopes and desires for their activities. XANALIA NFTART AWARDS 2021 will be a chance for everyone to enjoy art freely and casually.
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The Award Prizes
1st
Gold Award
10,000 US $
2nd
Silver Award
5,000 US $
3rd
Bronze Award
3,000 US $
This prize money is an advance (advance payment ⇒ revenue guarantee) of the rights distributed to the rights holder from the subsequent sales (sales profit) of the work. Of course, if the revenue allocation exceeds the prize money, we will pay the excess permanently after that.
Application Deadline
1st Deadline:9/30
2nd Deadline:10/31
3rd Deadline:11/30
4th Deadline:12/31
※Marketplace will start as soon as applications are received.
Categories
The submitted work should be JPEG or PNG still images
video (video format: H.264, audio: mp3 or AAC with mp4 extension), or GIF.
It can be with or without audio.
video (video format: H.264, audio: mp3 or AAC with mp4 extension), or GIF
The submitted work should be JPEG or PNG still images
Artwork format can be 2D, 3D, VR, still images video (within 10 seconds)
Event Flow
Submit your work
Screening
First Screening Select Nominated Works.
After Screening, convert works that has passed to NFT
Website Display
All nominated works will be exhibited and auctioned at XANALIA Marketplace.
Auction Bid / Judges’ vote
※Auction Ranking will be updated anytime
Virtual Display
The winning entries will be displayed in the VR Gallery.
Auction result
The highest bidder will win each work at the end of the auction.
※Profit will be distributed to the creators according to the sales.
Winner announcement
The Best 3 winners will be awarded based on the overall ranking of the judges' scores + Auction ranking.
Secondary Market
Revenue of secondary market from trades between user will be shared too.
JUDGE
◆ KANA KAWANISHI：
Director of GALLERY/PHOTOGRAPHY. She has been involved in book editing at Rizzoli New York since 2006, and her recent books include ‘ANREALAGE: A&Z’ (Rizzoli, Fall 2021). After working for an artist management/editing office and an exhibition planning foundation, she established KANA KAWANISHI ART OFFICE in 2014 and KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY in 2015. She has produced various exhibition projects and book publications.
◆ JUNKO KURODA：
Professor/Designer at Digital Hollywood University. She is a graduate of Joshibi University of Art and Design, majoring in Western-style oil painting. She worked as an art teacher and then as an illustrator, participated in the ‘100 Up-and-Coming Illustrators Exhibition’ organized by Dentsu Ad Gallery, and won the Grand Prix from Osamu Tezuka in the illustration contest of Tokyo Disneyland. She has been a professor at Digital Hollywood University since 2005 and has been a faculty member at Musashino Art University’s Department of Visual Arts since 2018. Her main research theme is 3DCG expression research.
◆ KOSUKE TSUMURA：
Art Director / Professor at Department of Spatial Design, Musashino Art University / Part-time Lecturer, Fashion Craft Course, Bunka Fashion College / Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since 1983, he has been a member of the Miyake Design Office and has been involved mainly with the Paris Collection under Issey Miyake. In 1994, he started the fashion brand KOSUKE TSUMURA and FINAL HOME from A-net Co. In 2015, he became independent and launched the FINAL HOME project, which he presides over. Awards: Won the 52nd Soen Award in 1982, the Second Prize at the 21st Contemporary Art Exhibition of Japan in 1992, the New Designer Award, and the Shiseido Encouragement Award at the 12th Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix in 1994, and the Oribe Award in 2001.
https://www.kosuketsumura.com/profile
◆ ASAKO TSUJI：：
CEO and Creative Director of arca Inc. With a socially-conscious creative approach, he is a cross-border creator who works on everything from advertising to product production based on the two pillars of ‘ creating businesses with ideology and sociality’ and ‘creating works that are concerned with the world view.In the spring of 2019, she launched the ‘Ladyknows’ project, which focuses on women’s empowerment and healthcare.She has been appearing regularly as a Wednesday partner on the news program news zero since the autumn of 2019, and is taking on the challenge of approaching social issues from the perspective of both creator and communicator.
◆ JUNYA YAMAMINE：
Curator / Co-Chairman of Tokyo Art Acceleration Foundation Born in 1983. Major exhibitions include ‘Hello World: Towards a Posthuman Age,’ ‘Fog Resistance: Fujiko Nakaya,’ ‘Hanae Mori: Butterfly Fluttering to the World,’ ‘Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions (4th-7th),’ and ‘The world began without the human race, and it will end without it.,’ which will be held at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts from October 2021. She has supervised the Japanese side of ‘KAWS TOKYO FIRST’ (Fuji Television Network, Inc.), supervised the TV Asahi art program ‘Ars-Kun and Tekne-chan,’ served as a member of the Art Platform Project Committee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and is vice president of Tokyo Photographic Research.
AMBASSADOR
◆ IKEHAYA：
Founder of CryptoNinja. He is one of Japan’s leading NFT influencers, with over 700,000 followers on social medias. and is also an NFT collector, actively collecting both domestic and foreign NFTs. His own collection CryptoNinja has been one of the most successful NFT collectibles from Japan, reaching 133 ETH (about 60 million yen) in its first 30 days, and he is involved in a wide range of activities including NFT collection, NFT media, NFT charity, and NFT agency to spread the potential of NFT. His main collection is CryptoPunk #2280 BAYC #5643. https://opensea.io/collection/crypto-ninja-nft
FAQ
Could you share the details regarding application period and the exhibition?
Second deadline: (Sun), 10/31, 23:59 (JST)
Third deadline: (Tue), 11/30, 23:59 (JST)
Fourth deadline: (Fri), 12/31, 23:59 (JST)
◎Virtual Gallery Exhibition: 01/10 (Mon.) –
◎Bidding Deadline: 02/28/2022 (Mon)
◎Announcement & VR Award Ceremony: Scheduled for early March 2022
Whether I (buyer) can use my purchased NFT work for commercial purposes (to make goods, commercial print etc.)?
No, you cannot. A separate agreement (deal) is required to allow commercial use.
When an NFT work is sold, does the copyright also transfer to the purchaser?
The copyright belongs to the creator (original author). The purchaser is buying the ownership of the work.
Do you sell in Japanese yen or virtual currency?
Sales will be made both in US dollars and in ALIA, the platform token. The suggested selling price will be set according to the price in USD at the time of sale.For example, if the selling price is about $150, the price will remain the same if you use a credit card. If you are using virtual currency and 1 ALIA is $1 on the day of purchase, you will be able to purchase the product for 150 ALIA.
Is the transfer in virtual currency?
Transfers will be made in Bitcoin (BTC). All purchases made with tokens or credit cards will be calculated in dollars and converted into bitcoins (BTC). You will be able to check your sales, register an account, and make withdrawals on the dashboard of your profile page.
How much money will the creators receive if their work is sold in the awards auction?
For the first transaction, we will pay you 50% of the sales amount. For example, if the first sale is for $500: $500 x 50% = $250 will be paid to the creator.
Does the creator (original author) also receive a profit when the NFT work is sold as a second sale, third sale, etc.?
Yes. You will receive. From the second transaction onward, you will receive 10% of the sales amount: $1,000 for the second transaction: $1,000 x 10% = $100, $2,000 for the third transaction: $2,000 x 10% = $200, and so on.
On which platforms will NFT works be sold?
It will be sold at XANALIA NFT Marketplace.
Where can I set up the account into which the funds for the distribution of my work will be paid?
If your work is selected as a winning bidder, you will be able to check your allocation, register your bitcoin (BTC) address, and withdraw it on your profile page after logging in to your XANALIA account within one month. （※Please note that the price of the bitcoins (BTC) you receive as your distribution will fluctuate, so please be careful when exchanging them for cash. We recommend using BitFlyer, one of the largest exchanges in Japan, to convert your BTC into Japanese yen.
To create an account on bitFlyer
https://www.coindeskjapan.com/bitflyer-open-account/
Do I need to use virtual currency to buy NFT works?
The basic payment method is with ALIA, the platform’s token, but credit card payments are also supported.
If the work is not accepted, can we return it and use it freely for other applications?
Yes you can use it freely.
Submit
- Submit the original artwork. It should not be copyrighted by anyone else.
- The submitted artwork must be displayed and run on a Macintosh or Windows environment.
- Though the copyrights of the selected ‘nominated works’ belong to the authors, they may be used by the Executive Committee for activities such as an announcement of the results of this competition and publicity and for advertising purposes.
- The selected ‘Nominated Works’ will become original digital contents with a certificate of authenticity and a certificate of ownership that cannot be forged, utilizing NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens), or in other words, ‘Blockchain’, which is known as the basic technology of cryptographic assets (Virtual Currency).
- The content will be displayed on the XANALIA marketplace and sold through auctions, etc., as an asset with the same value as real works of art.
- In the event of a sale, ownership will remain with the ultimate purchaser. Still, the original copyright remains intact, and the original copyright owner is paid a stipulated royalty(guarantee)in perpetuity.
- In the event of a sale, the rate of return ( royalty ) to the original copyright holder ( creator ) is 50% of the sale price for the first sale ( auction ). For the second and subsequent sales (resale), the fee will be 10% of the sale price continuously.
- If your work is not selected as a ‘Nominated Work,’ it will not be converted to NFT and will not be exhibited.
- However, works that have already been converted to NFT are not eligible for this event.
- If there are no buyers at the end of the exhibition, we will continue to sell the work at the fixed price, but we may withdraw the work after a certain time.
- The number of entries per person can be as many as you like, but the number of ‘nominated works’ may be limited.
- Any work that falls under any of the following categories will be disqualified from the selection process. In the event that plagiarism or copyright infringement is discovered after a work has been nominated, it will be immediately disqualified.
- Entries that violate a third party’s copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights, portrait rights, privacy rights, or any other rights under the laws of any country.
- Any content that defames or libels a specific person or damages the reputation or credibility of a specific person. In addition, any content that provides personal information about a specific person without the permission of that person.
- Content that violates public order and morals or the laws of each country. Any content that is, or may be, contrary to public order and morals or the laws of any country.
- Any other content that is deemed inappropriate by the Project Committee as listed below.(above are Examples only, not limited to these)
- Violent, grotesque, or other material that the general public would find offensive.
- Discrimination or encouragement of discrimination based on ethnicity, race, religion, gender, nationality, etc.
- Content that contains explicit sexual expression.
- Any content that contains political claims or political content. that leads to the solicitation, dissemination, profit sharing, or cooperation of specific religious groups, anti-social forces, political groups (including similar groups), or ideological groups.
- Any content that may lead to the invitation, dissemination, benefit provision, or cooperation of specific religious groups, political groups (including similar groups), or ideological groups.
- Any content that may lead to the invitation of Infinite Chain Scheme, Multilevel Marketing, etc.
- The work will be administered by the ‘XANALIA NFTART GRAND PRIX 2021 Project’.
About XANALIA
XANALIA is the world decentralized leading NFT Marketplace for Metaverse and Gamefi era. it is on Etherium, BSC, Polygon Blockchain. It marked 1.5b US$ Fully diluted market cap after a month of launch.
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