Art Competition
🎨 Unleash Your Inner Artist at MEG UKI 2024! 🖌️
This year at MEG UKI, we’re hosting an Art Competition — a platform for you to showcase your hidden talents, "happy accidents", the story that’s been waiting to be told, or any creative masterpiece you’ve been itching to share!
🗓️ Submissions Deadline: 12noon Monday 28th October 2024
đź“© Submit Here: https://forms.gle/HSe9g919fD2jqPJD8
Your work will be featured on dedicated desks for physical artworks and digital screens for your virtual creations. Additionally, your
creations will take centre stage on the main projector screen between talks. And let’s not forget — exciting prizes await the best entries! We know that some art just can't be compared so if you prefer to only have it displayed, that's fine too :) Let us know in the form if you would like to enter the competition.
🔍 What Can You Submit?
We’re keeping things wide open this year! So anything that fits a conference setting is very welcome ! While we can’t quite accommodate a full-on performance art piece on magnetic flux or a sprawling audiovisual installation on optical pumping, we’re thrilled to welcome:
Digital or Analogue Artworks: From whimsical analyses that went awry to beautifully glitched coding errors (that, apart from their scientific value, are just plain stunning), interesting stories, poems, digital creations, and more!
Paintings and Sculptures: Got a reasonably sized oil painting or a sculpture made from OPM sensor prototypes? Bring it on! As long as it's reasonably sized and somewhat MEG-related, we’d love to see it.
✨ What’s in for you?
Besides basking in the admiration of your peers and the “oooohs” and “aaaawwws,” your submission could win you a fantastic prize! Of course, we know that some art is simply beyond competition — if you’d prefer just to display your work without entering the competition, that’s absolutely fine too!
đź’ˇ Need Some Inspiration? Here Are a Few Categories to Get You Started:
Art from Method
Have you stumbled upon a new way to apply your analysis techniques in a different domain? Or has your data analysis unexpectedly turned into a work of art? Maybe you’ve done a Fourier analysis that proves you replace the milk in the fridge more often than your flatmates! Submit any piece related to your analyses or methods that has an artistic flair!
Artful and Beautiful Mistakes
Sometimes, things go off the rails in the most wonderful way. Maybe it’s the “Pizza plot” that didn’t quite impress your supervisor but sparked joy in your artistic soul. Share those accidental masterpieces that deserve the spotlight!
A Story Worth Sharing
Science is full of unbelievable (yet true) stories. Did something hilarious or unexpected happen during a recording session? Or perhaps you’ve got a tale of a bizarre request from a participant. Share your funniest or most absurd moments in science in the form of a short, abstract-sized story!
Digital Art
If your creative prowess extends beyond data analysis to digital canvases, we want to see it! Digital illustrations, photographs, or anything else you’ve cooked up related to MEG research — bring it on!
Physical Artworks
Are you passionate about painting, sculpting, carving or sewing? Bring your MEG-inspired creations to the conference! If entering the competition, please also upload a photo with your submission via the submission form.
đź”— Submit Your Artwork Now: https://forms.gle/HSe9g919fD2jqPJD8
🚨 Note: File size limit is 10MB. If you’re struggling with that or if you have any other questions, reach out to Tommy at: t.clausner.1@bham.ac.uk and we'll find a solution.
Get ready to showcase your creativity, dazzle your colleagues, and maybe even take home a prize! We can't wait to see what you've got to share!
A example wood carving of a brain by Tommy Clausner!