Abbas Naaseri / Law is a set of general and binding rules that govern social life in order to establish order and justice, whose enforcement is guaranteed by the legislator.
Pay attention to the end of the sentence: enforcement is guaranteed by the legislator.
Now, law and lawmaking in an art festival depend above all on the full understanding and knowledge of its directors and judges.
These days, the codification, implementation, and supervision of law by judges and directors, using incomplete and incorrect data, cannot correct the growing mistakes in the results, and every day we witness new scandals when the results are announced.
The regulations of a festival are considered its fundamental laws, and every clause must be observed. If the organizers fail to comply with them, it undermines the credibility of the festival as well as the personal reputation of the organizers and their team.
The festival rules state that artworks must not have previously won an award. However, after the results were announced, a piece that had clearly already won still received a prize, violating the rules. Furthermore, the judges and organizers refused to return the award or acknowledge their mistake. Another regulation states that AI-generated works are not accepted, yet two out of its three awards belong to AI. This shows the weakness and lack of awareness of the organizing and judging team. Let’s be frank. Bending the rules always feels tempting. We run red lights, and if the police catch us, we pay the fine; if they don’t, we think we’ve outsmarted the system.
This kind of cunning has replaced ethics in festivals, and artists, whether intentionally or simply out of ignorance of the rules, submit works that do not comply with the regulations. This is why lawmakers need to draft rules that match their own and the judges’ level of understanding, so that neither they nor their flawed regulations are discredited.
Your poorly designed regulations and these unethical cunning behaviors of some artists may seem to bring short-term benefits, but in the medium and long term, they lead to nothing but discredit, resentment, and hostility.
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Weekly Single Page of Cartoonmag
No 56
Saturday , 20. Sep . 2025
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