Online Art Contest - Art Made possible by the 21st Century

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Contest Rules

Art Made possible by the 21st Century Looking back over the past decade and a half a LOT has changed. When you look at your art, are you using any new techniques, materials, or approaches that simply did not exist in the 20th Century and earlier?

Some ground rules:
1. Please submit only high quality original work, all media welcome. Abstract, representational, algorithmic - any subject as long as the piece respects the rules about technologies and techniques
2. In the Contest Discussion briefly tell us what about the work was not possible in previous Centuries (trust me, this is rarely obvious. Educate us.)
3. On the last day of submissions, the moderator will DELETE entries that don't have an explanation of how 21st Century advances made this work possible - unless it is really obvious to the moderator (so just go to the Discussion and write a few sentences)
4. This contest is about Art that USES materials and technologies (even ideas - make your case) that became available after the year AD 2000. IT IS NOT a contest for pictures or paintings of new things.

Some examples:
An acrylic painter using some of the new advanced acrylic media in unusual ways - only possible since the paint companies added them
An oil/acrylic/or watercolor painter working with novel and new pigments and pigment technologies (these will not be obvious from your jpegs - use the discussion and tell us what you're doing!)
A painter or sculptor or mixed media artist working with smart materials or fiber optics or miniaturized motors or other new stuff
A photographer working with HDR or with cell phone cameras or spycams or webcams or other technologies that are post 2000 (but you have to make it ART)
A digital artist working with algorithms too complex to compute and render on the old Pentium PCs, or with new algorithms developed for CERN and applied to art or ...

Or maybe something else - you tell us in the Discussions

DO NOT submit:
1. Pictures or paintings of things that were made post 2000. This is NOT a pictures of new things contest
2. Digital 'oil paintings' (or watercolors or drawings) - sorry guys, the tech for this has been around since roughly 1990.
3. Photos using simple digital filters. Even the newest filters are just variations on algorithms that have been around since the 1980's and 90's. If you think your piece is an exception, be sure to carefully justify your reasoning in the contest discussions.
4. Amateurish art, simple snapshots, good 'modern art' paintings and photos that don't use new materials or tech.