According to the festivals website:The 1st International Festival of university students Visual Arts is an outcome of unceasing scholarly and research activities of the art community conveners, According to its range and variety in expert and super-expert areas, it can be considered as a comprehensive and unique event in the academic community. We hope that, this event will be a fertile ground for

interaction and cooperation among the artists, and be successful in a quantitative and qualitative increase in the art products, as well as introducing the artistic potentials to the global community.
Ali Zahani
The Secretary of Festival

Goals and Approaches
-- Research in thought & meaning as the basis of global art
-- Clarification of modern art's approaches with focus on the Iranian visions
-- Genealogy of global art in contraction with eastern art
-- Investigation of art relating to the nobility and concept of national and local arts
-- planning for participation of all scholars and students for transnational co-pondering in the realm of visual arts

Major parts:
Painting
Miniature
Sculpture
Calligraphy
Research (article)
Graphics (Poster, Symbols)
Caricature (Portrait, Comic Strip, Free)
Modern Art (Installation , Video Art, Photo Art, Digital Art, Multi media, environmental art, performance art , process art)

Topics:
First subject: Spirituality in art (painting, miniature, sculpture, modern art and articles)
Second subject: The festival’s goal and attitudes (only in articles)
Third subject: university student (in caricature & free part)
Forth subject: peace (in graphic)  
Free subject: (in all of the parts)

General rules:
    There is no limitation on the technique and the usage of the materials in all parts.
    There is no limitation on the size of the work in all parts.
    Individual or group works are invited with no restriction regarding age or nationality.
    Works previously awarded at the other festivals will not be accepted in competition part.
    The techniques and creations which are based on national or native arts of all the countries will be appreciated.
    There is no limitation regarding novel ways in expression and structure.
    There is no entry fee for all parts
    All university students may participate in this festival.
    The committee will provide insurance cover for all work in its possession and during the return journey of works to the applicant's address.

Particular Rules
The parts which are not mentioned here should follow the General Rules.
Research
•     The articles should be related to the concept of spirituality or the goals and attitude of the festival.
•    Each main article has to have a maximum of 25 pages or 6000 words in English, with the images in JEPG or TIFF format.
•    Deliver the abstract and the main article in 3 copies on A4 paper (one side of paper), accompanied with a CD.
•    The abstract should be 150-300 words, with a maximum of 5 keywords
•    The articles previously published in ISC/ISI will not be taken into the competition, but will be appreciated in another (neighboring) part.

Sculpture
•    Complete application forms plus proposal form 2
•    Photograph the model from at least 3 different direction :1 front that shows the entire piece and 2 different angles of your choice or more

Modern Art
Follow the sculpture rules
In this part if you need any especial place, time or any other materials which regards to the festival committee, please attach extra explanation to the proposal form 2


Assessment and Selection
An initial selection based on Pictures, slides, and movies will be taken by the assessment committee before entering the exhibition. The successful applicants from the initial selection process will be invited to submit their work(s) for entering the final assessment.
The committee will contact the artists to ask them to submit the original work.
Deliverables:
First reception: delivering the image of the works with a high quality (a maximum of 5 works in each part).
Second reception: asking the accepted artists to submit the original work or a picture of the work in a manner that it can be exhibited.

Important dates:
•    First Reception: deliver Images and photos  (until the end of 10th January 2010)
•    Second Reception: deliver Real works (period: January10th_10th   February 2010)


Delivering ways:
E-mail address

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Post CDs to the festival committee address (see the address below)
As the festival recomands, first go to the www.iufva.com and then move to the submission part and then send your image files through the recipe

Awards and privileges  
•    The author of selected works will be invited to Iran
•    Festival's tablet and cash prizes will be donated to the selected works
•    The picture of some works will be exhibited in the international part.
•    All the accommodation charges will be paid by the festival committee

Registration
    All  the applicants have to fill in the application form 1
    All the applicants in Painting, Miniature, Calligraphy, Graphics and Caricature parts have to also fill in proposal form 1, for each Individual work.
    Applicants in Sculpture and Modern art parts, plus to the form 1, are need to fill in the proposal form 2
    Each applicant may deliver the images of a maximum of 5 works in the first reception.
    The works should be in video format (DVCAM- HD- BETACAM-MIN DV)
    A maximum of 3 works in each part will be accepted by the festival committee In the second reception
    The delivered works in the second reception should be without frame and glass.
    Send the applications forms and other required things to

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     As the festival recomands, first go to the www.iufva.com and then move to the submission part and then send your image files through the recipe.
    If application is sent by post, it must include a CD with images as specified.
     Deliver CD(s)in tif or .jpg formats, with the quality of 300 dpi the title)
    Applicant must ensure that the image represent the object as clearly as possible. Images of inadequate quality will be rejected.
    All the registration parts have No entry fee
These should be also accompanied with these certificates:
(For the international participants we recommend that the scan of ID card and photos also be submitted by E-mail address)
A copy of student ID card,
2 photos 3cm×4cm.
Postal Address:
Festival Office,
Flat No 4, 2nd Floor,
No 298, borje sabz,
Keshavarz Blvd,
Tehran,
Iran.

Telephone Number: +98 21 88993390
Telefax: +98 21 88993391
Website: www.iufva.com
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For more information, please refer to the following link: http://www.iufva.com