Contest Guide

Hello, DMAF 2026 participants. Please find the detailed information for the DMAF 2026 Open Call below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 DMAF Art Contest ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Amateur Open Exhibition Eligibility • Applicants interested in digital art - University/graduate students in art and design-related fields - General applicants with two or fewer experiences in digital media art exhibitions/submissions Work Format • ※ Detailed format guidelines will be announced later. Theme • Reinterpretation of Korean Minhwa (main theme) Schedule • Exhibition period (main and offline): July 20 - August 30 - Participation application period: March 6 - March 13 - Technical training: VOD anytime / Offline: Apr 25, 26 and May 2, 3 (3 hours per session) - Work submission: June 22 - June 26 / Results announcement: Early July Benefits • Awards, invitation to DMAF exhibition, exhibition participation certificate, technical education, recommendation for represented artist opportunities, and more Awards • ※ Detailed award information will be announced later. Evaluation Criteria • Theme understanding (30), creativity (30), applicability (15), and technical utilization (25) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2. Invited Artists Special Exhibition Eligibility • Active artists in general art and digital media art Theme • Free theme and format (presentation of representative works and new works) Schedule • Exhibition period: July 20 - August 30 - Participation period: March 6 - March 20 / Technical training in April-May - Work submission: June 15 - June 19 / Exhibition setup: June 22 - July 17 Benefits • Invitation to DMAF exhibition, exhibition participation certificate, technical support, additional exhibition opportunities, and more ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Further details will be provided through upcoming notices. Thank you. DMAF2026 Secretariat