Ear/Eye Award 2024

Ear/Eye is a new Witty Books project aimed at creating a dialogue between a visual artist and a sound artist through the publication of limited edition audio cassette + book.

Overview

Ear/Eye is the experimental project of Witty Books. Number of copies, design, and other technical characteristics will be decided based on the project and can vary from 150 to 500 copies. Printing costs will be entirely covered by Witty Books, the authors must provide the final files ready for printing. The authors will receive a percentage of copies of the double publication.

Practical Info

The open call is addressed to visual artists and sound artists interested in creating a dialogue between these two art forms. Artists don't need to submit their works as already paired. It is also possible to submit a single visual arts entry or a single music entry. The idea is to create a spontaneous dialogue between two different artists. At the same time, artists that already work together are welcome to apply. Unpublished works are preferred. Applicants can send their proposal including a PDF for the visual content and/ore a mp3 tracks or Bandcamp link for the sound content. No graphic design project needed to apply. Winners will be announced in June. The publication will be released starting from Fall 2024.

About Witty Books

Witty Books is an independent publishing house that aims to promote contemporary photography and visual arts. Was founded in 2012 with the name of Witty Kiwi by Tommaso Parrillo.

They focus on the publication of books as an object and as a research space, working closely with artists and designers. They strongly believe in the dialogue between the different arts, so they have created the Ear/Eye project. In addition, Witty Books project doesn’t stop at the publication of books, they focus a lot on the education of the images.