AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://lacda.com/exhibits/snaptogrid.html

forth annual
SNAP TO GRID:
the UN-Juried Show

Every Entry Shown!

Click here to register:
http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=139377

September 13-October 4
Opening Reception Thursday September 13, 7-9pm
(in conjunction with Downtown Art Walk)

Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried
Show: SNAP TO GRID. In our forth 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. The ultimate exhibit. The ultimate
resume builder. 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
3mb. 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. Multiple entries will be
grouped together in exhibition installation.
Affiliated artists may also be grouped together.

Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is
advised.

Prints are 8.5x11 inches on Heavyweight Matte
paper with Epson Archival pigment, allowing for
one inch border.

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.

Deadline for entries:
September 2, 2007