Meet the Winners of the AI Art Challenge

In recent years, art-creating AI has pushed the boundaries of how we define art. This competition challenges the African AI & Data Science community on Zindi to create original artwork and music track(s) using AI.

The challenge is to create an original piece of artwork or music that leverages AI. There will be one winner for each category (visual art & music) and winners must be citizens of an African country and must be living in Africa.

Awards will be presented to the winner at the exclusive AI Expo Africa VIP event on the opening night of AI Expo Africa in Cape Town South Africa on 3 September 2019 – with the music track(s) being played during the event and art work on display. Both works will be auctioned during the exclusive networking / drinks reception event 5 September with proceeds going (50%) to the artist and (50%) to the event charity “Starting Chance.”

This competition is sponsored by The AI Media Group, creators of AI Expo Africa, and Cortex Ventures, Africa’s first AI only focused VC company.

About The AI Media Group (aimediagroup.co.za)

The AI Media Group are the creators of AI Expo Africa and believe the tech media landscape is changing. We are leveraging new formats and platforms to communicate the 4IR opportunity in the African AI & Data Science landscape for entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, governments and corporations. We make our content accessible across the whole of Africa by removing price and knowledge barriers to content, creating new event formats and sharing the fastest growing business opportunities across the continent to create an AI powered future for Africa.

About Cortex Ventures (cortexgroup.ai)

Cortex Ventures is a business unit of the Cortex Group. The Cortex Group Is An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Focused Holding Company Building Value In The IR4.0 Economy On A Local, Regional And Global Scale. Cortex Ventures is an AI-focused seed to growth stage Venture Capital Company that develops, incubates and invests in entrepreneurial businesses within African AI Communities to help accelerate their growth and international expansion

With each submission, you are required to submit an “artist statement” that explains the art and how you created your work. This is for judging and verification purposes. Upon acceptance of the prize, you thereby agree to assign all worldwide rights of copyright in and to such winning solution to Zindi & AI Media PTY Ltd.

Your solution must not infringe the rights of any third party and you must be legally entitled to assign ownership of all rights of copyright in and to the winning solution code to Zindi.

Competitors are currently able to register and submit solutions as individuals only. For the avoidance of doubt, individuals and their submissions originating from multiple accounts will be disqualified. However competitors can still collaborate with others and work in teams towards a submission. (We plan to enable team functionality on Zindi in the near future). If collaborating with others as a team, it will be your responsibility to designate one person to submit your team’s solution on your team’s behalf. Prizes are transferred only to the individual user that submitted the winning solution.

Multiple accounts per user are not allowed and neither is collaboration nor membership across multiple teams.

The solution must use publicly-available, open-source packages only.

To be eligible for this competition you must register for this competition on Zindi. You must upload your submission to the competition leaderboard. Note that there will be no scores on this leaderboard. We will judge you on only one submission per category (music and visual art). Both can be submitted to the same leaderboard. If you make multiple submissions, you will be judged on only the most recent submission per category.

Upon the close of this competition, the judging panel will score your art according to the evaluation criteria. The panel’s determination is final. Winners will be announced within 10 working days of the competition close.

If you choose to decline or are otherwise unable to accept the prize of travel and tickets to AI Expo in Cape Town on 3-5 September 2019, you will not be eligible to win this competition.

Refer to the FAQs and Terms of Use for additional rules that may apply to this competition.

You acknowledge and agree that Zindi may, without any obligation to do so, remove or disqualify an individual, team, or account if Zindi believes that such individual, team, or account is in violation of these Rules.

We reserve the right to modify these rules at any time as necessary.

As this competition has closed we have increased the number of daily submissions to 30.

Note that winners must be citizens of an African country and must be residing in Africa.

All entries will be judged as follows:

1) Artistic creativity

2) Level of innovation used in the process to generate the art work / music

The judging panel will be made up of a representatives from Cortex Ventures, AI Media & Zindi

Note that winners must be citizens of an African country and must be residing in Africa.

1st prize in each category (music and visual art) will receive:

• 1 x VIP / full access ticket to AI Expo Africa worth $650 including all refreshments and food
• $600 contribution to flights to Cape Town (limited to economy flights only within Africa)
• $250 in total contribution for 2x nights hotel accommodation in Cape Town
• 50% share in auction proceeds of the art works & music with 50% going to the event charity, Starting Chance.
• A TV / Media Interview plus social media and press release for winners
• Speaking opportunity in the case study track at AI Expo
• Valuable networking opportunities with largest AI tech community in Africa
• Photography of the event will also be provided
• Awards will be presented to the winner on the AI Expo Africa VIP opening night (3rd September) with the music track(s) being played during the event and art work will be on display.
• Both works will be auctioned during the exclusive networking / drinks reception event 5th September with proceeds going (50%) to the artist and (50%) to the event charity.

Prizes for both winners are worth $3 000 USD total.

2nd and 3rd placed creators will be given special mentions in press and social media.

Note that for the 1st place winners must attend AI Expo in Cape Town on 3-5 September 2019. If they cannot attend, the prizes and awards will go to the next winner.

This competition closes on 29 July 2019.

Final submissions must be received by 11:59 PM GMT.

Winners will be notified and announced by 12 August 2019.

We reserve the right to update the contest timeline if necessary.