A quick reminder that the deadline for submitting your proposal for ACP Public Art 2013 is quickly approaching! Submit your incredible idea for lens-based public art today!

Each year, ACP commissions a temporary public art project that is a highlight of the ACP Festival. ACP’s Public Art program is significant in its ability to bring photographic or lens-based projects to audiences that might not ordinarily visit a traditional arts venue. These projects encourage viewers to consider photography in fresh new ways. Do you have a great idea for an exciting Public Art project? We’d love to see it!

Our Open Call for Proposals for the ACP 2013 Public Art Project is now accepting your creative ideas. We look forward to your proposals exploring the intersection of photography and public art in Atlanta for this year’s Festival!

Our 2013 Public Art Project has a $9,500 budget, and it’s free to apply. It is a requirement that your project involve lens-based or photographic media as an integral part of the piece (this includes images and/or video captured by a lens, or media in which light sensitivity is a primary element of the material, or reimagining the uses of photography, or possibilities of imagery made with light).

We encourage you to think widely and to explore this concept without restraint!

Take a look at ACP Public Art Projects from past years including work from Larson/Shindelman, Monica Cook, Karen Brummund, Beth Lilly, McCallum/Tarry, Jason Fulford, Matt Haffner, Amy Landesberg & Peter Bahouth.

You can download the PDF and learn more and submit your proposal via callforentry.org. The application deadline is January 21st. We look forward to seeing your ideas for ACP Public Art!

ArtInfo picked Monica Cook’s “Volley” in their year-in-review as one of the best works of 2012. “Volley” was commissioned by ACP for our Public Art Project in 2011 (and co-sponsored by FLUX). Glad to see it’s out in the world, delighting viewers! (Check out the 3-minute excerpt above, on Vimeo

Each year, ACP commissions a temporary public art project that is a highlight of the ACP Festival. ACP’s Public Art program is significant in its ability to bring photographic or lens-based projects to audiences that might not ordinarily visit a traditional arts venue. These projects encourage viewers to consider photography in fresh new ways. Do you have a great idea for an exciting Public Art project? We’d love to see it!

Our Open Call for Proposals for the ACP 2013 Public Art Project is now accepting your creative ideas. We look forward to your proposals exploring the intersection of photography and public art in Atlanta for this year’s Festival!

Our 2013 Public Art Project has a $9,500 budget, and it’s free to apply. It is a requirement that your project involve lens-based or photographic media as an integral part of the piece (this includes images and/or video captured by a lens, or media in which light sensitivity is a primary element of the material, or reimagining the uses of photography, or possibilities of imagery made with light).

We encourage you to think widely and to explore this concept without restraint!

Take a look at ACP Public Art Projects from past years including work from Larson/Shindelman, Monica Cook, Karen Brummund, Beth Lilly, McCallum/Tarry, Jason Fulford, Matt Haffner, Amy Landesberg & Peter Bahouth.

You can download the PDF and learn more and submit your proposal via callforentry.org. The application deadline is January 21st. We look forward to seeing your ideas for ACP Public Art!

Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman, whose Geolocation: Atlanta was the featured ACP 2012 Public Art project, have a print available from Collect:Give, which donates proceeds of the print sale to a particular charity, in this case The Southern Poverty Law Center.

Big thanks to ArtRelish for helping out with our video content for this year’s festival. Here’s an interview with Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman about their ACP 2012 Public Art Project, Geolocation: Atlanta. And below are two of the billboards currently displaying the project, on Peachtree and Northside, respectively.

“Geolocation: Atlanta” Marni Shindelman & Nate Larson from ArtRelish.com on Vimeo.

Two weeks ago, we were happy to host a special exhibition of the prints from Larson/Shindelman’s twitter/photography-hybrid public art project “Geolocation: Atlanta.

Larson/Shindelman’s project is currently visible on area billboards. Check out the google map for billboard locations, and here’s a mock-up of what the billboards look like.

“New chapter begins today!”

The slides from the public art project are currently in rotation with other advertisers on these digital billboards. At some locations, like the billboard on Northside, you can see them quite often — on the billboard overlooking 75/85 (facing south), the project comes-up less frequently.

75/85 billboard, south-facing on the west side of the road.

Which brings us to our challenge! We’d like to give you an ACP hat if you’re able to take photos that show the ACP Public Art project in action. (If you’re shooting with an iPhone, beware, the shutter doesn’t always behave well with the refresh rate of the billboards.)

If you get a good picture, please post them to twitter and let us know @acptweets, or send them over to info@acpinfo.org.

Thank you!!!

Installing exhibition prints of Larson/Shindelman’s ACP Public Art project today at Big House Gallery.

Excerpt from a Q&A on ArtsATL.com with Larson/Shindelman about Geolocation: Atlanta, their twitter-based public art / billboard installation project for ACP 2012.

ArtsATL: Where are the billboards located?

Shindelman: All up and down I-75, I-85 and I-20. The photos and tweets all happened within a mile of the billboards.

ArtsATL: How did you obtain the tweets?

Shindelman: It’s all in the public timeline of Twitter. These are people using GPS; their phones tag their exact locations.

Larson: Everything is located using a cell phone these days. The idea of place is deeply embedded in the culture of cell phones.

ArtsATL: What do you do when you arrive at the sites?

Shindelman: We look at it like an editorial project. Our parameters are to make a photo that somehow interacts with the text. We might photograph where the person is tweeting from or what they might’ve been looking at.

Larson: We start making decisions about how to make it an interesting picture. We could have the best tweet in the world, but if we can’t make a good picture then it usually gets edited out.

We’d love to see the first photos of their work on the digital billboards! If you see one, tweet us @acptweets or use hashtag #acp2012 on instagram!

Great to see this video appear today; Creative Loafing interviews Marni Shindelman and Nate Larson, collaborators on the 2012 ACP Public Art Project: Geolocation: Atlanta.

And here’s a google map of the project’s billboards!

Atlanta Celebrates Photography (ACPinfo.org) is pleased to announce the recipient of its annual Public Art Commission is Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman of Baltimore, MD, and Rochester, NY.

A collaborative partnership, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman have been photographically exploring the increasingly crowded terrain of the datascape as it relates to locations in real life. Their project, Geolocation: Atlanta, will use publicly available geotag coordinates in Twitter updates to mark locations for making original photographs. When their photographs are paired with anonymous tweets, Larson & Shindelman’s collaborative work becomes “a means for situating this virtual communication in the physical realm. Our photographs anchor and memorialize the ephemeral online data in the real world and probe the expectations of privacy surrounding social networks. We imagine ourselves as ethnographers of the Internet, exploring cities 140 characters at a time through the lives of others.”

Larson & Shindelman’s project for ACP will consist of both still photography and video, installed on billboards and video screens in Atlanta. The project will examine “the relationship to physical space and the ways in which it influences online presence” as seen in and through locations around the city.

Geolocation: Atlanta will make its public debut in October during the month-long festival Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Locations and times are TBA.

Larson & Shindelman: http://larson-shindelman.com

ACP has a rich history of bringing lens-based, temporary public art to Atlanta. Previous projects have been produced by Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar, Amy Landesberg, Peter Bahouth, Joey Orr and Matt Haffner, Jason Fulford, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry, Beth Lilly, Karen Brummund and Monica Cook.

Press Release Link: http://j.mp/ACP_PublicArt2012
PDF Download: ACP Announces 2012 Public Art Commission

The February 12th deadline for the Open Call for Proposals for ACP’s 2012 Public Art Project is rapidly approaching.

Each year, Atlanta Celebrates Photography commissions a temporary public art project as part of its annual, October photography festival. Our public art program has been featured in the Public Art Review and artists have gone on to show their past ACP projects in international galleries, art fairs, and publications. We are looking for your great idea to expand the way audiences consider, perceive and experience photography and lens-based or light-based media this October. The budget is $9000.

It’s FREE to apply and all applicants must apply through Call For Entry (free to register).