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@lacda.
Formatted version and complete prospectus:
http://lacda.
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.
Online registration only.
Complete prospectus:
http://lacda.
For questions email us at lacda@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.
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