digital
art and photography open call
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here to register
second annual
SNAP
TO GRID:
the
UN-Juried Competition
Every Entry Shown!
September
8-October 1
Opening Reception Thursday September 8, 7-9pm
Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried Competition: Snap to Grid. In our second annual exhibition of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.
After the exhibition the images and artist information will be available to view in our artist portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area gallerists, curators and arts journalists. Everybody wins!
Entry fee $30US. Proceeds benefit gallery programs.
Show is international, open to all geographical locations.
Entrants submit one JPEG file of original work up to 2mb. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable.
Multiple entries are permitted. $30 registration fee for each additional image.
Complete (un)Prospectus
Description:
LACDA
announces an open call for our un-juried show featuring digital
art and photography: "Snap to Grid". All entries will be
printed (8.5"x11"
on heavyweight matte paper) and shown in our gallery arranged
in a grid. Entrants submit JPEG files
of
original work. Multiple
entries are permitted. Seperate registration required for
each image. Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised.
All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.
After the exhibition the images and artist information will be available to gallery visitors to view in our artist portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area gallerists, curators and arts journalists.
Location:
This
call is international, open to all geographical locations.
Show Dates:
September 8-October 1, 2005
Deadline for entries:
August 28, 2005
Entry
Fee:
Registration fee is $30US.
Submission
Rules:
Registration and submission are done through our web site only.
File uploads are the only accepted submissions maximum of 2MB
each. Please
do not send materials
to LACDA. All
materials sent to LACDA will not be viewed and cannot be returned.
Multiple Entries:
Multiple
entries are permitted. $30 registration
fee for each additional image. Seperate registration required for
each image.
Intellectual Property Rights:
Winners retain
ownership of all intellectual property rights to their artwork and prints
are made by permission only.
Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open
Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry
fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center
For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature
where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The
hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of
postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited.
The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious
few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone
gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show
represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging
has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers" around
the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal
and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes
an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative
effect that has a life of its own.
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