Open call for entries has been extended until March 15, 2009
Visit Tracing Lines Project for more details and contact information
Email Aimee Sones at aimeesones (at) gmail.com
“Through this project, we aim to collect images of the lines that intersect our daily paths, telephone poles and electrical power lines, radio towers and other parts of the electrical grid and infrastructure that supports our lives that can be a beautiful nuisance to our eyes. The project began in southern California and now includes images from around the world, tracing the lines that connect us to the landscape. This call has been expanded from digital images to include documentation of paintings, sculpture, fashion or any other objects that utilize these lines as a design motif.
Only digital submissions will be accepted, photographs taken using the iPhone and other mobile devices or other lower resolution images are invited as they are often linked to the geographic coordinates which will assist in tracing the lines across the globe.
There is no fee to submit, please email up to 7 images (I MB or less per image) to tracinglinesproject@gmail.com with your name and “submission” in the subject heading. Please include your contact information, proper photo credits and as much information as to where the photograph was taken as possible (i.e. intersecting roads, city, state and county). Please label all photographs with your first and last name, and location in the title of the piece (ie, john_jones_los_angeles_1). Please include a short bio, statement regarding your interest in these lines and imagery and 2 page CV. All work submitted will be considered for online exhibitions, future publications and traveling exhibitions.
In submitting work to the project, all artists understand that their work may be used to promote the project and included but not limited to small runs of image reproduction for exhibitions and to support the project.
*** to submit video work, please send us a link to your vimeo, youtube, blip or other web address posting for our review.
This project was initiated by Aimee Sones, who is now collaborating with Alexandra Copley, John Javins and Jessica Larva to collect, curate and continue the process of tracing lines.”
