Call for Entries

Scripts and Systems

May 25 – July 15, 2012

Do you follow maps, assembly instructions, recipes, dance steps, or tutorials? Do you ever plan, plot, devise, or scheme? 

Many of our daily and most menial tasks have been reduced to orderly algorithms - a discrete set of steps, rules, or calculations followed in specific order to accomplish a task. With improving technology, we are personally responsible for fewer of these steps.

We’ve invented algorithms to plan algorithms and systems to create systems: from assembly-line robots and automated, interplanetary rovers to the robotic vacuum cleaners in our homes and the GPS orchestrating our daily commute. We have embraced the “set-it-and-forget-it” approach in nearly every aspect of our lives, laying trust on systems more than ever. Rinse, lather, and repeat.

Scripts and Systems is an exhibition about these plans and plots. It is about letting go of control - even in our creative lives. It is about the relationship between people and our machines, about whom we give instruction to and whom we take it from. It is about all of the scripts we follow.

Themes including (but not limited to) the following may be integrated into the final exhibition: analog/digital interaction, hand craft versus manufacturing, automation, programming, mapping, artificial intelligence, human / computer interaction, robotics and organic/synthetic synergy and opposition.

Artists interested in submitting work for consideration are encouraged to creatively interpret the theme. Works in all media are eligible.

Eligibility and Media 

All artists, age 18 and older, are eligible to enter Scripts and Systems. All media and styles will be considered. No reproductions will be displayed in the exhibition.  All works must have been completed since 2006 and not previously shown in any LAL gallery.

Calendar

April 13, 2012 Final postmark deadline to receive entries

April 23, 2012 Email notification sent to artists

May 16, 2012 Deadline for delivery of artwork

May 24, 2012 LAL Donor Preview

May 25, 2012 4th Friday Opening Reception

May 25 – July 15, 2012 Exhibition dates

July 16 - 20, 2012 Pick-up or shipping of artwork

Curator/Juror

Charlie Campbell is a native Kentuckian and artist whose media includes paint, drawing, video, animation, and generative photography. His work focuses primarily on vision, technology and the relationship between analog and digital processes. He has worked as a graphic designer, programmer, videographer, technology journalist, teacher and gallery director. He is currently the art director for the University of Kentucky's College of Arts & Sciences and manages a small, art studio cooperative.