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Regina Valluzzi

9 Years Ago

Looking For Contest Jurors - Art Made Possible By The 21st Century

I am looking for jurors for this contest. I will pick people to get the best range of styles and geographies that I can in a group of 3-5 jurors (don't take it personally). It helps if you are conversant in some area of new technology or new materials (or re-engineered materials) for art. You get - fun, you contribute to the community, maybe make a few new contacts and friends from among the jury pool. You also get onto my radar for when I see relevant art solicitations etc. Post or message if interested.

Contest description follows. It's not relevant for everyone, but it should still be fun.
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Looking back over the past decade and a half a LOT has changed. When you look at your art, are you using any new techniques, materials, or approaches that simply did not exist in the 20th Century and earlier?

Some ground rules:
1. Please submit only high quality original work, all media welcome. Abstract, representational, algorithmic - any subject as long as the piece respects the rules about technologies and techniques
2. In the Contest Discussion briefly tell us what about the work was not possible in previous Centuries (trust me, this is rarely obvious. Educate us.)
3. On the last day of submissions, the moderator will DELETE entries that don't have an explanation of how 21st Century advances made this work possible - unless it is really obvious to the moderator (so just go to the Discussion and write a few sentences)
4. This contest is about Art that USES materials and technologies (even ideas - make your case) that became available after the year AD 2000. IT IS NOT a contest for pictures or paintings of new things.

Some examples:
An acrylic painter using some of the new advanced acrylic media in unusual ways - only possible since the paint companies added them
An oil/acrylic/or watercolor painter working with novel and new pigments and pigment technologies (these will not be obvious from your jpegs - use the discussion and tell us what you're doing!)
A painter or sculptor or mixed media artist working with smart materials or fiber optics or miniaturized motors or other new stuff
A photographer working with HDR or with cell phone cameras or spycams or webcams or other technologies that are post 2000 (but you have to make it ART)
A digital artist working with algorithms too complex to compute and render on the old Pentium PCs, or with new algorithms developed for CERN and applied to art or ...

Or maybe something else - you tell us in the Discussions

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Regina Valluzzi

9 Years Ago

Bump

 

Regina Valluzzi

9 Years Ago

bump

 

Roy Erickson

9 Years Ago

I don't like "juried" contests - it limits the work to being seen here on FAA - and to me - part of the reason for a contest is "exposure" - letting the public vote - spreads the images out beyond FAA - JMHO. rd

 

Regina Valluzzi

9 Years Ago

That's nice Roy.
Are you volunteering to be a juror?
No?
Thank you for gracing us with your opinion.

 

Regina Valluzzi

9 Years Ago

In terms of exposure, I can generate around 2000 blog subscribers, email subscribers, FB and Linked In subscribers for the winners' blog features. My contacts include some pretty darn good collectors of Contemporary Art. So, exposure. Potentially valuable and useful exposure, instead of the pat on the head disinterested kind. I've seen other people's art sold after sharing too.

 

Nicole Whittaker

9 Years Ago

do the jurors have to do all the rules? or just the entrants?

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

with an attitude like that i wouldn't want to be a judge at all...

not to mention if i were a judge i wouldn't be able to enter the contest due to favoritism and i wouldn't then get the views from those places. i use the contest itself as the advertising. the win doesn't ever sell.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

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