words per minute
Words Per Minute micro-paid Open Call
Selected Artists:
Richard Krantz
Tyler Mellins
Colin Priest
Ben Long
David Stupple
D R O S S
Kamen Nedev
Richard Ducker
Steve Spithray
Stephen Irving
Cell_less
John Elliott
LOW PROFILE
K Rowan
Brinnan Chantal Schill
Claire Harrison
Aisha Lama
Blake Ballard
Benedict Davies
Cecilie Fang Jensen
lou Bushel
WORDS PER MINUTE (WPM) is a paid, open-call for a text installation project at Middlesbrough Art Week 2024. We are seeking short text contributions to show on an electronic, solar-powered traffic management display that will be situated in Middlesbrough during the festival.
The signage format lends itself to short texts (13 characters per line, 6 lines). Entries are paid at a rate of words per minute (WPM).
How we work out the rate:
Contributions are paid at the rate suggested by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) for press releases (£600 per 1000 words). The example text ‘ARTWORKS HERE EXPECT DELAYS’ uses four words and would be paid £6.40 total (4 x 1.60 = £6.40).