Join Art Club

Applicants

We’re looking for rad people who want to join our growing community of artists and those who are interested in exploring the intersection of the digital and physical.

We work with great artists who create some of the most beautiful, weird and amazing things on the internet. You can learn more about all the participating artists here.

This opportunity is competitive due to limited resources –– we typically select about 10% of applicants.

What You’ll Make

A series consisting of 5-6 images, animations, videos, or art websites (More details on specs below).

Some Examples

In Optische Konstruktion, Sandra constructs her own mobiles and captures stop motion animations that retain the handmade feeling of the sets.

Portrait Mode showcases what Lauren has coined as "moving paintings," an expressive hybrid of mediums that combines oil painting with stop motion techniques.

Over the course of one hour, Hateplow slowly breaks down his Greakheads busts to reveal the sculptures' structural mesh, then builds them back up to show how they're made.

Installing virtual sculptures into vacant locations, Birch's Threshold Figure Encounters blurs the line between the physical and the virtual world.

What You’ll Get

Selected artists will receive an EO Display plus a $500 commission fee, and will be featured and promoted in Art Club.

Review Process

We review applications for Art Club on a rolling basis.

Due to the volume of submissions we receive, we do our best to respond to each one but sometimes it can take a couple of weeks. Thanks for your paintence!

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Specs

Still Images

1080px x 1920 pixels
9:16 aspect ratio
PNGs or JPGs
10MB maximum

Video

1080px x 1920px
9:16 aspect ratio (portrait)
100MB max
H.264 codec
MP4 container
Frame rates of 24, 29.97, or 30 will look smoothest on the EO1
No audio stream (smaller files and prevents performance errors)
Very high bitrates (20K +) may cause video to stutter at loop point. Experiment with lower bit rates if you notice your loops have unsightly gaps.

Art Websites

EO1 is running an embedded chromium. For work that using a JavaScript 3D library, EO1 has a maximum framerate of 14-15 FPS and works best at lower (720p and below) resolutions when using pure WebGL code. We have not tested all Javascript graphics frameworks and we encourage our artists to experiment, but for the best results use pure WebGL.

Art Club Fund

The Electric Objects Art Club Fund is a commitment of $100,000 to commissioning new works of digital art in 2016. That’s $100,000 for JPGs, GIFs, PNGs, MP4s and art websites. Learn more in our Art Club overview.