The Art & Graphic Design career from the San Ignacio de Loyola University has the pleasure to invite all designers, plastic artists and visual communicators from all the five continents to participate in the fourth international poster exhibition named YAKU (which means ¨water¨ in quechua language). The exhibition will take place in the city of Lima, Peru, while establishing a close connection within all the diverse artists around the world.

The fourth international poster exhibition is the result of the extense effort from the Art & Graphic Design career to create a space where our students and every designer in the field can express their own point of view on a common issue. The exhibition tries to alert everyone about the problem our world is having in regards to this vital element, water. Every human being must be able to take conscience over our reality at hand and take a look t the extreme statistics. Something that seemed a silly prophecy has become a shocking reality that hunts us day by day.

Water has become a scars resource in our planet, known by us in its three basic forms; solid, liquid and gas. Due to global warming caused by humans, in the last years we have witness how mankind eliminates every possible source of water in massive amounts. Some zones have been affected directly by humans, later to have acid rain, hurricanes, typhoons, becoming the center cause of overflowing rivers, inundations and overwhelming destruction. The solution lies in our hands, us humans as rational thinkers, have the responsibility to revert the actual doing, one of destruction and devastation, into one of prosperity. There has to be a push towards positive progress, stepping into quick action and preserving this vital element. The solution has to come very fast, due to the current warnings by geologists, which say that by the year 2025, more than 2000 million people are going to have absolutely no water.

Even though this reality might seem fictional, the result from the overexploitation of resources has taken presence in many cities and countries across the globe. Their actions have become a clear example of the core problem. A clear example is Borneo, one of the four biggest islands in the world. Their biodiversity is about to vanish by the so-called ¨agricultural exportation¨, resulting in the decay of grounds all across and the quick death of an incredible array of plants. The natural biological life cycle finds itself being altered by external influences. Another candidate is the United States, more specifically, the surrounding south-east states. These states consume in a daily bases water from the Colorado River, that even though it might have an incredible size and very health water movement, it ends up almost dry when coming out into the Pacific Ocean. Many countries from Africa will have a severe drought, demanding that many people transfer to bigger cities to fill their primary necessities. Every city that finds itself close to a body of water will run the risk of being flooded due to the quick melting of the glaciers. Almost 40% of the world’s population will be affected directly or indirectly by this happening. High-altering effects enclose the alteration of drinkable clean water and watering of fields, becoming a menace to the world´s ecosystem.

Right now, 20% of the world´s population consumes 80% of the world´s resources and nearly 5000 people die every year from polluted water, mainly affected by the mining industry. It is incredible the amount of water that is being used in this industry, without any care or consideration for its reuse. Something similar is happening in the countries surrounding the Persian Gulf, were they are using a mechanism of dis-alignment to process ocean water, becoming a viable solution in a short time. Experts say, that due to the recurring circulation of oil ships around the ocean, the process being used to fight contamination, might turn upside-down becoming a colossal problem in just eight years.

Everything mentioned follows many other investigations related to the topic at hand. Many organization are worried about what is going on in our world and where are we going to end up. The Business Graphic Design career consists of becoming a social visual communicator towards the world in front of us, finding it necessary to commence a solution. This assembly is a way of contributing with the solution, taking action, showing a reality that many choose to not see and opening the doors to conscience. The problem is one critical proportion, but we are in the right moment to switch reality.

RULES AND CONDITIONS

All local and foreign designers, artists and visual communicators are invited to participate in this international exhibition.

1. – There are no limits to the amount of proposals presented. There could be just an individual proposal or a series of them, making a series.

2. – Participants need to express their point of view on the main theme (WATER). They can touch topics such as scarcity, pollution, waste, etc, but always keeping in mind the need of rising awareness about what mankind doing with this vital element to earth´s life.

3. – All posters must be 70cm x 100cm, landscape or portrait. It should be between 200dpi and 300dpi, JPEG format (all posters that do not keep these conditions will not be accepted). Photos must be in good conditions, avoiding any blur or distortions. The techniques are free, given that the poster´s format will be digital.

4. – You must follow the example to save your poster file*:

Example: NAME_SURNAME_01.JPG

*If there is one piece, write 01 and if there are two pieces, write 02, and so on.

5. – When you save the PDF file, please attach the entry form found below. Fill the entry form and send it to yakuposter@gmail.com and write ¨SUBMISION POSTER¨ in the subject box. Once we receive the poster, we will send you a confirmation.

6. – The author(s) should attach a personal photo, size 6cm x 8cm, 300dpi and saved in JPEG with their name under it.

7. – An international jury will evaluate and select the best 120 posters. From the 120 posters selected, there will be three first place pieces.

8. – All selected participants will receive a diploma in PDF format, via e-mail certifying your participation. This will be given by The University of San Ignacio de Loyola, Art & Design Programme. The three first places will receive a printed diploma and the official book of the exhibition via standard mail.

9. – All participants will authorize the Art & Design Programme from The University of San Ignacio de Loyola to reproduce the posters submitted in any catalogues, exhibitions, advertising editions and electronic means, as well as in any non-profit advertising events. If published, we will give the respected authors credits when publishing it.

10. – The committee will reserve the right to refuse the participation of posters due to any morally offensive or insulting message related to any cultural views of any specific country.

11. – The exhibition will be in Lima, Perú, from October 1st, 2010 to October 30th, 2010. It will be at the ¨Hall of RAUL PORRAS BARRENECHEA¨ in the ¨Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma¨ (Av. Larco 770, Miraflores).

12. – We will receive any admissions from March 5th, 2010 until June 4th, 2010.

13. – The list of selected participants will be published through this page and by email, on June 25th, 2010.

14. – There is not a fee for participation.

15. – Any questions or comments please write to: yakuposter@gmail.com

JURY

BOLIVIA – Susana Machicao

CUBA Carlos – Zamora

LIEBANON – Antoine Abi Aad

IRAN – Hossein Abdolmohammadzadeh

IRAN – Iraj Mirza Alikhani

IRAN – Onish Aminelahi

ITALY – Sergio Olivotti

VENEZUELA – John Moore

PERU – Rita Vidal Chávarri

PERU – Rafael Vivanco Álvarez

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