For the fourth year, Alys Beach is allowing its iconic white walls and understated architecture to be the screens on which innovative digital works of art will be projected at the Digital Graffiti Festival, a juried digital art competition and exhibition. Alys Beach gives artists from all over the world the opportunity to display their original work while competing for $10,000 worth of combined prize money, awarded in five different categories.

The digital works will be evaluated by a panel of esteemed judges with backgrounds involving the arts, film, architecture, and journalism. Among them are Florida’s State Film Commissioner, Lucia Fishburne as well as the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City’s Assistant Curator of Digital Media, Jason Eppink. Works will be judged in five categories including Best of Show, Judge’s Choice, Most Innovative/Experimental Submission, Best Local Submission, and Best Animated Submission.

“We are seeing work that continues to push digital materials in unique ways, allowing for more expressive, even soulful, results. The diversity of work has expanded as well, with submissions coming to us from Turkey, New Zealand and Senegal, to name a few. This year’s walls at Alys Beach will see even brighter and more provocative work, building on a global awareness and maturity that makes the festival an important venue for projected art and artists,” says Brett Phares, Digital Graffiti Curator for Alys Beach.

The festival will be held from 8:30pm until Midnight on Saturday, June 11th, 2011, rain or shine. Advanced tickets are on sale now by clicking here. Tickets are $20 for adults (12+) and $5 for children (ages 3-12) until May 15th. From May 16 through June 10, tickets are $25 for adults and $5 for children. Any tickets sold at the event gate will be $35 for adults and $10 for children.

2011 DIGITAL GRAFFITI FESTIVAL AT ALYS BEACH FINALISTS

The following works have been selected for display and competition during the 2011 Digital Graffiti Festival at Alys Beach:

1. “Another Perspective” by Stephanie Thompson of Belford, New Jersey
2. “Blue Orange” by Polina Zaitseva of Hackensack, New Jersey
3. “Boyson” by Erin Stevens of Destin, Florida
4. “changes embedded in nature” by Mathew West of Souix Falls, South Dakota
5. “DG Kaleidoscopia” by Andy McKewon of Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
6. “Digital Graffiti 02” by Graffiti Technica of Brisbane, Australia
7. “Duchamp Spinning Glass” by Francesca Fini of Rome, Italy
8. “Ebrio” by Amber Bushnell of Missoula, Montana
9. “Florida Earth/Sky” by Russell Deaton of Fayetteville, Arkansas
10. “Flowers with Tendrils” by Don Relyea and Mark Charneski (Flower Photos) of Dallas, Texas
11. “FLUX” by Candas Sisman of Izmir, Turkey
12. “FocusPocus-videoparadox” Albert Laine & Kristina Laine of Helsinki, Finland
13. “From All Over” by Yandell Walton (credit for animator Tobias J Edwards) of Victoria, Australia
14. “Helios” by Coral Morphologic aka Colin Foord and Jared McKay of Miami, FL
15. “Here Be Dragons” by Manuel Barenboim of ValVerde, California
16. “Interpose” by Shyra DeSouza of Alberta, Canada
17. “It’s Sad, but the Telling Takes Me Home” by Brandon Neubauer of Brooklyn, New York
18. “Love Will Guide You” by Niky Roehreke of New York, New York
19. “N1.0” by fuse* of Modena, Italy
20. “Once More” by Florence Artur of Montreuil, France
21. “Playground” by Amber Bushnell, Charles Raffety & Charles Nichols
22. “Reulf” by Tout Court of Paris, France
23. “Sound Architecture” by Michael Murphy of Milledgeville, Georgia
24. “Spooker” by David Terranova of Brooklyn, NY
25. “Sun Beginning” by Linh Lam of Chandler, Arizona
26. “Tawhirimatea” by Tanya Ruker of New Zealand
27. “The City Unfolds” by Dmitry Kmelnitsky/Lustre of Venice, California
28. “The Colorflow” by Jonathan McCabe of Turner, Australia
29. “The Garden” by Michael Burton of Lincoln, Nebraska
30. “The Path EYE See” by Russell Beans of Panama City Beach, Florida
31. “Untitled #76” by Stefan Reibel of Liepzig, Germany
32. “Veils” by Irene Mamive  of New York, New York
33. “Warm Signal” by Silke Sieler of Hamburg, Germany
34. “Wrestle” by Ann Carter of Nashville, Tennessee
35. “Wool and Water” by Lemeh42 of Monterado, Italy
36. “Yellow Whirl #2” by Marjan Moghaddam of Brooklyn, New York