Thursday, August 23, 2007
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art "Snap to Grid" is fired up, we have 300 people so far and the deadline is September 2. This show is total anarchy, everyone that sends in an image gets it printed and hung. We get hundreds of people from all over. Someone from Vietnam sent us two images yesterday.
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.
http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html
Labels: digital art, juried competitions
