UTOPIA! NEW PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
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ENTRY GUIDELINES
The New Photography Exhibition at the Millard
Sheets Gallery at the L.A.
County Fair will run quite differently this year.
Instead of having a select jury, this year’s exhibition
will be selected by the artists and audience that have made this
annual event so strong every year.
The organizer this year, Jeff Cain of the Shed
Research Institute, has arranged for a system that
allows entrants to digitally submit their images and also select
the best images for exhibition by online voting. Those images
with the most votes will go on to be physically included in the
exhibition, Fair
Exchange (curated by Irene Tsatsos) at the Millard
Sheets Gallery.
As this is an unusual way to handle a juried show, please be very
careful to read all the parameters. To participate in this exhibition
please visit the exhibition web site at:http://shedresearch.net/utopia.html
ENTRY TIMELINE:
SUBMITTING BEFORE VOTING BEGINS:
MAY 15- 28
Photographers may enter online at: http://www.shedresearch.net/utopia/enter.html
All submissions for the Utopia! exhibition will be made digitally.
The uploaded file may be these file formats: gif, jpeg, pjpeg,
png and must not exceed 2 MB. The image will automatically be
formatted for digital voting and exhibition.
There is no cost to submit work. Entrants may enter in only one
division (student or open) and submit up to three images per category.
If your photograph is selected for the top of each category, you
must submit a framed print of your photograph for exhibition.
If you have problems with your entry you may contact someone here.
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VOTING BEGINS (Submissions continue):
MAY 29
It is advisable to place your entry early as possible or before
the voting begins, as it will make sure that you will receive
as many votes as possible.
Voting for inclusion into the Utopia! Exhibition will be done
online by the artists and audience of the exhibition. You may
vote on any division or category that you choose, and you may
vote as much as you like. For each voting round the web site generates
a random pair of photographs and you chose which one you prefer.
Once that round is over you may immediately vote again on another
pair. If you are an active voter, your taste will be more reflected
overall. Entry to voting on all divisions and categories will
be accessible through the Utopia! home page:
http://shedresearch.net/utopia.html
SUBMITTING ONCE VOTING BEGINS:
Entrants may continue to submit images once voting has begun,
but the earlier you submit, the more time your images have to
accrue votes.
VOTING AnD Submissions END:
JULY 2
EXHIBITION NOTIFICATION:
JULY 7
You will be notified by e-mail if your entry was among the top
winners selected to be in the Utopia Exhibition by July 7.
EXHIBITED WORK DELIVERY DEADLINE:
AUGUST 11
Artists that are selected into the top of each category must deliver
a framed print of the submitted work to the Millard Sheets Gallery
for the exhibition by August 11.
The work will remain on display until the exhibition closes on
October 1st.
All submitted work will be insured for the exhibition. In order
to insure your delivered work, you must complete a loan form (provided
with your notification of inclusion) and submit it with your framed
print. If the loan forms are incomplete, submitted work is not
insured, and the Millard Sheets Gallery and the Shed Research
Institute are not responsible for loss or damage of the work.
Delivery/shipping costs and insurance are up to the artists.
Photographs must either be delivered or shipped to
Millard Sheets Gallery
1101 West McKinley Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
909-865-4562
millardsheetsgallery@fairplex.com
EXHIBITION DATES:
SEPTEMBER 8 - OCTOBER 1, 2006
WORK MUST BE PICKED UP:
OCTOBER 20
After the exhibition you
may either personally pick up your work or arrange to have it
shipped. If you want to have your work shipped back to you, you
must include postage and packaging with your submission. The Millard
Sheets Gallery is not responsible for work left at the gallery
beyond October 20, 2006.
We will send more detailed info on this process, i.e.,
specific dates for delivery and pick up when you are notified
of acceptance in the show.
DIVISIONS AND CATEGORIES
DIVISIONS:
OPEN: intended for 18 years or older.
STUDENT: All students, including college or adult school, enrolled
during the 2005-2006 school year.
CATEGORIES:
Creative processes are encouraged. All categories may include
digitally manipulated images, mixed media, alternative processes,
black and white printing, color or hand printing. Of course many
photographs may fall into one or more categories. Please feel
free to interpret these parameters.
REPRESENTATIONAL: Photographs of identifiable subjects including
people, objects, or animals.
NON-OBJECTIVE: Interpretive photography where the subject matter
is predominately unidentifiable or abstract.
LANDMARKS: Urban, industrial, or natural spaces.
STAGED: Formal or informal portraits, still life, fantasy compositions,
model shots, advertisements or deliberate setups.
RULES FOR ENTRY
1. DIGITAL SUBMISSIONS: Must be original photographic
work, completed in the last four years and must not have been
previously exhibited at the New Photography Exhibition at Millard
Sheets Gallery.
All submissions for the jurying process will be made digitally.
The uploaded file may be these file formats: gif, jpeg, pjpeg,
png and must not exceed 2 MB. The image will automatically be
formatted for digital voting and exhibition.
If your photograph is selected for the top of each category, you
must submit a framed print of your drawing for exhibition.
2. ENTRIES: Entrants may enter in only one division (student
or open) and submit up to three images per category. Multiple-piece
works must be submitted as a single image.
3. PHYSICAL SIZE: Total area of the print of one submission
(including multiple piece works) may not exceed 7,000 square inches
(approximately 84”x84”).
4. TITLES: For identification purposes, ALL work should
be titled. Numbering is allowed but not recommended.
5. AWARDS: The top winning photographs in each category
will be declared the Best New Utopian Photography and will be
exhibited at the Millard Sheets Gallery during 2006 L.A. County
Fair. Some top winners will be published in the Fair Exchange
exhibition catalog.
6. SERIES, COLLAGE, AND WORKS WITH SCULPTURAL ELEMENTS:
Are welcome, but may be viewed poorly through jurying because
works will be judged through single digital images. Please use
your best judgment.
7. DIGITALLY MANIPULATED IMAGES: Are welcome, but must
be photographically based.
8. RIGHTS: The photographer retains copyright over the
image. The L.A. County Fair, The Millard Sheets Gallery, and the
Shed Research Institute reserve the right to photograph and publish
any work in any media or format for educational or publicity purposes.
9. SALES: Photographs may be for sale or not for sale
(NFS). The Millard Sheets Gallery retains a 25% commission on
sold photographs to support the administration and exhibition
of these works. Photos will be sold as exhibited only. The gallery
staff cannot make recommendations on pricing. Sold photographs
will remain on the wall until the exhibition closes.
10. EXHIBITOR’S RIGHTS: The Millard Sheets Gallery
and the Shed Research Institute reserve the right to remove or
disqualify images, comments, and entrants from the competition
due to inappropriate community behavior: including harassment,
spamming, hacking, or other inappropriate behavior. The MSG and
SRI also reserve the right to amend the exhibition guidelines.
Any changes will be posted on the exhibition website at: http://shedresearch.net/utopia.html
OPTIONAL FINAL ROUND OF FEEDBACK:
NOMINATIONS
Updated July 7, 2006
*note: there is no veto process
Due to popular demand to have another selection process to balance
the voting, there will be one more round of voter feedback only
open to those who have submitted work.
A formal nomination means that there is a photograph that was
not included into the exhibition that in your opinion should have
been for whatever reason: exceptional quality, topical interest,
or voting anomalies. These works will be included in the exhibition
and labeled “Nominated entry: Although this work was ##th
in the online voting process, the entrants strongly supported
this photograph to be included in the exhibition.”
NOMINATION GUIDELINES
1) If you have submitted work, you may email a list of nominations
to the Millard Sheets Gallery: utopia_msg@sbcglobal.net.
2) The nominations subject line of the email should read ‘Utopia!
Nominations”
3) You must list each nomination like this:
Category/ Division
Title of work
Name of artist
if the Millard Sheets Gallery cannot understand your nomination,
it will not be counted. Please be clear.
4) Your list of nominations must be e-mailed from the e-mail address
used to submit work, or your feedback will not be counted.
5) You may not nominate the work that is registered with your
e-mail address.
6) You may nominate up to three images per category in the open
division and one image per category in the student division. Because
of the unusual results in the open staged category, you may nominate
up to five works, to help break the very large tie.
7) You may nominate in categories you did not enter in, but you
must have entered work to participate in this round of feedback.
How many works will nominated?
Because this round of feedback is optional, the exhibition organizer
will judge all the nomination feedback information to make formal
nominations. If results are inconclusive, there may be no change
in the exhibition. If results find only a two or three suggested
additions to the voting results only those will be made.
When can I start this process?
You may start when the exhibition results are announced and the
online results are posted on July 7.
How do I see all the work?
Both the voting webpage
and the entry webpage
bring you to the different lists of the divisions and categories.
You may see both the list automated (not the final) rankings list
and the list of works with the newest first.
The official list of the finalists is here.
When is the deadline?
Nomination feedback is due to utopia_msg@sbcglobal.net
by July 14.
When will I find out if I am nominated?
Nominated entrants will be notified, but not publicly announced,
by July 21. The full public announcements of nominations will
be made public at the opening of the Utopia! exhibition at the
Milliard Sheets Gallery on Sept. 8
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