ISSUE 7:11  →  Brussels, AUGUST, 29, 2011
		Alice Awards' Artist Category
		Today, artists use a wide range of formats; hence the Artist Category of the Alice Awards-Artistic Landmarks in Contemporary Experience-recognizes twelve (12) sub-categories and is designed to promote fluidity and flexibility in contemporary art. Winners in the artist category represent widely differing forms of visual art, but are united by their dual commitment to carefully defined practice and the advancement of contemporary visual art.
		Emerging Artist So, what is the next generation of artists? The Alice Society is very keen to contribute to the open participation of younger artists in the dynamic development of contemporary art - and lack of restraint is key, with all media and materials eligible. Of particular interest in this category are those artists that explore the impact of contemporary art on our world and life experience. for more information.
		Landmark Artist Book The energy of books is key in this category - the aim is to discover and encourage artists' books as a vibrant contemporary art form. Books or book-like objects that are intended as a work of art in and of themselves - the choice is yours. for more information.
		Landmark Collaborative Art Work together - co-operation as an art form. This category aims to support collaborative art practices as an emerging and compelling trajectory within the international contemporary art scene, and the collaborative art category exists to encourage the inter-human sphere between people, communities, individuals, groups and social networks in contemporary art. for more information.
		Landmark Artist-Curator Overlapping is essential - and artists who curate encourage the overlapping and complementarity of the expanding role of artists and curators. Of particular interest in this category are artistic practices that expand beyond the boundaries of the production of objects, and consider curatorial impulses, gestures and practices such as selecting, displaying, editing and interpretation. for more information.
		Landmark Public Art Art outside museums and galleries must also be supported and encouraged - serving the community or individuals is what this category is all about, and eligible projects are works of art that come into the public domain that may be intentionally ephemeral, as in the case of temporary installations and performance pieces, located in a public space (both inside and outside), or a permanent feature in a landscape. for more information.
		Landmark Internet Art The Internet has had such a profound impact on every aspect of everyday life, and art is no exception - the aim of this category is to encourage aesthetic experiences via the 'Net. for more information.
		Landmark Network Art The aim of this category is to discover and encourage art works that have ceased to be primarily a physical entity, such as artistic ideas that can be applied to different places, processes and activities - these don't fit into traditional museum and gallery spaces but, in collaboration with these spaces, network art may expand the normal perception of the gallery's role and influence how the gallery may be perceived as an institution. for more information.
		Landmark Political Art This category seeks to encourage artistic practices that have a relation with 'the political' and challenge established hegemonies, for example cultural, political, and social or other hegemonic spheres of influence. It's no longer 'art for art's sake' - these works have far more to say. for more information.
		Landmark Performance Art Breaking the fourth wall - this award seeks to honour individual visual artists and collaborative artists for using the body and behaviour as a medium for artistic creation, and to encourage the critical role of live performance in 21st-century visual art and to encourage new performance directions. for more information.
		Landmark Film-Video Art Awarded to artist or collaborative artists for the use of moving images, video and film - motion is everything! for more information.
		Landmark Sound Art For this field, the aim is to explore the intersection between visual art and music or sound - of particular interest are art works that are interdisciplinary in nature, or takes on hybrid forms and emerge from artistic lineages with other forms of art such as conceptual art, minimalism, site-specific art, sound poetry, spoken word, avant-garde poetry and experimental theatre. for more information.
		Landmark Interdisciplinary Art This is awarded to an artist or collaborative artists for expanding the interdisciplinary dialogue between the arts and other sciences - the Alice Awards understands that each artist, individually and collectively, is intrinsically a part of the future. Hence this category calls the global community of creative thinkers to reach across the disciplines towards an innovative, twenty-first century vision of the artist, the scientist and the technologist. for more information.
		All participants of the Alice Awards program must first become member of the Alice Society, to apply for membership visit www.alicesociety.com. Entries must have been presented to the public in a verifiable location or medium during the eligibility period, from September 1st, 2010 to November 20th, 2011, but do not need to have been created during this period. The deadline for entries to the Alice Awards is Sunday, November 20th, 2011. Nominees will be announced in January 2012 and winners will be honoured in February 2012.
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