words per minute

Written By Rachel Deakin

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

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).

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