Call For Digital Art And Photography

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Call For Digital Art And Photography

 

Jurors:

Edward Robinson, LACMA

Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum

Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art

 

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

107 West Fifth Street

Los Angeles, CA 90013

 

Contact: lacda

 

Formatted version and complete prospectus:

http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

 

LACDA 2010 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION

 

LACDA announces our juried competition for digital art and

photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All

styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind

were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The

competition is international, open to all geographical locations.

 

Registration fee is $30US (three images).

Multiple entries permitted, additional $30 entry fee for each three images.

 

The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on canvas or

museum quality paper (approximately a $1500-$2000 value) to be shown

in a solo exhibition in our main gallery from February 11-March 6,

2010. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception

for the artist.

 

Second place prizes: Five second place winners will receive one print

of their work up to 24x36 inches ($150-$200 in value) to be included

in upcoming group shows. Second place winners will be scheduled into

group shows within twelve months of announcement of winners.

Consideration is given to placing these works in shows appropriate to

their style, genre and/or content. These shows will be widely promoted

and will include a reception for the artists.

 

Special consideration will be given to all entrants for inclusion in

future shows at LACDA. Many entrants from past competitions have

already been included in our exhibits.

 

Deadline for entries: January 19, 2010

Winners Announced: January 26, 2010

Exhibit Dates: February 11-March 6, 2010

 

Registration fee is $30US.

 

Direct link to for registration:

http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=195164

 

 

Online registration only.

 

Complete prospectus:

http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

 

For questions email us at lacda.

No phone calls please.

 

 

About the jurors:

EDWARD ROBINSON is the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg

Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

(LACMA). He curated the Los Angeles presentation of New Topographics:

Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, co-curated The Sum of Myself:

Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Collection, and

is working on the upcoming exhibition William Eggleston: Democratic

Camera (Fall, 2010). New media components of these exhibitions include

commissioning a video installation by the Center for Land Use

Intrepretation on the theme of oil in the landscape; 'Testament' by

Nathalie Bookchin, a meditation on the collective self-portrait

garnered by on-line vlogging; and the presentation of Eggleston's

video work, Stranded in Canton. He contributes regularly to LACMA's

blog, Unframed, including a recent series of video interviews with

LA-based photographers. He earned his PhD at Oxford University in the

History of Art and Photography and his BA in Art History at Brown

University. Formerly the Beaumont and Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the

Dept. of Photography at MoMA, he initiated and organized over four

years a number of exhibitions and programs. He has collaborated with

such artists as Reneke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Stuart Klipper, Boris

Mihailov, Vik Muniz, Mark Steinmetz, and Beat Streuli. He has served

as well as the editor of Blind Spot magazine, has published a number

of articles on photographic history, and has taught at New York

University and Yale University.

 

MAX PRESNEILL is an artist and the Director and Curator for the

Torrance Art Museum as well as the former Founder and Director of Raid

Projects (1998-2008) and Director of the Mark Moore Gallery (2005-8).

He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having

organized exhibitions often including new media and photography for

museums, institutes and galleries in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Mexico

City, Sydney, Istanbul, Paris, and other international cities as well

as numerous projects in New York and the rest of the US in addition to

over 100 exhibitions for Raid Projects. He has worked as an art critic

and as a Professor of Fine Art at several universities in the UK and

the US. As a practicing artist himself he has shown regularly

throughout the US and internationally. He has also sat on the

Selection Committee's for NOVA Young Art Fair (Chicago), PULSE Art

Fair (New York/Miami/London) and the PILOT program and publication

(London) amongst others, and will be a speaker at the 2010 American

Association of Museums Conference.

 

REX BRUCE is the founder and director of Los Angeles Center for

Digital Art. He founded the digital program at Artists Television

Access (San Francisco) for which he curated exhibits and created

curriculum. He received his masters from SFSU in Interdisciplinary Art

where he also taught and developed curriculum for many years. His work

has been shown internationally for over twenty years. Most recently he

has emerged as a significant artist and organizer in the burgeoning

Renaissance in downtown Los Angeles as well as becoming a leader in

the exploding international scene revolving around art and technology.

Video and photography from his current series have been exhibited at

the Centre Pompidou, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Poland),

Guggenheim Gallery (Chapman University), California Museum of

Photography (U.C. Riverside), New Media Center Santa Ana, Found

Gallery, Start SOMA San Francisco, Center for Political Graphics

(L.A.), Niche.LA Video Art, Silver Lake Film Festival, Downtown Film

Festival–Los Angeles, photoLA, photoSF, and LACDA.

 

Gallery Information:

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of

all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging

and established artists. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and

competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints.