Google Grant for ACP

August 19th, 2008

ACP has Google Grant for ACPreceived a Google Grant, which allows us to create targeted ads for Google search returns. Pretty fantastic. Thanks, Google!

William Boling at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery

August 18th, 2008

William Boling at Hagedorn Foundation Gallery

Atlanta photographer William Boling will be showing a selection of his “You Ain’t Wrong” project, which recontextualizes online auction photography, at the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery. The opening is on August 28th. For background on this project, see Boling’s interview with Stephen Shore, or view the project itself.

Atlanta Photographer Kael Alford Heads to Harvard

August 14th, 2008

We were sad to hear this weekend that Kael Alford’s leaving Atlanta, but the good news is that she’s received a Nieman Foundation Fellowship at Harvard, due in part (no doubt) for her fantastic work. Excellent! Good luck, Kael!

The Future of Digital Photography

August 14th, 2008

Crowdsourcing and re-rendering the world’s digital snapshots seems like a big win for anyone who can program and launch an application stable enough to deliver images in this meaningful, interactive way. Seadragon touted a theoretical version a year ago, and now there’s a presentation of a similar app, debuted at Siggraph this year. Not Atlanta specific, but impressive nonetheless.

Seadragon/Photosynth @ TED

The 17th Annual Atlanta Fine and Collectible Book Fair

August 14th, 2008

August 29th-31st, there’ll be several fine-art first-edition photography booksellers at the Atlanta Fine and Collectible Book Fair. Thanks to Ed Smith Books for the tip.

ACP 10 Programs Calendar

August 12th, 2008

We’ve updated The ACP 10 Programs Calendar to reflect this year’s events. We’re still finalizing details (dates/times) for our Public Art installation at the Water Tower, and those will be added and automatically updated.

You can subscribe to this calendar as an .ics file if you run iCal on a Mac. If you have a Google account, you can click the add button on the lower right (below) to add this to your Google Calendars.

First event: Christopher Bucklow lecture at the High Museum on Sept. 11th.

ACP on Facebook

August 11th, 2008

We’ve ditched our facebook page for a Facebook Group which is better, basically. Join us!

ACP on Facebook

Mary Stanley Studio / Contemporary Fashion

August 11th, 2008

Mary Stanley Studio has an open call for artists to submit work for her “Fashion Statement” exhibition in Castleberry during ACP 10. More info on photoawesome, and in the PDF.

Santa Monica’s Glow, on Coolhunting.com

August 11th, 2008

If you’re curious about Le Flash in Castleberry (Oct. 24th), take a look at the Coolhunting video podcast, for a view of Santa Monica’s impressive inaugural “GLOW”, which took place earlier this summer.

One Minute / One Night

August 11th, 2008

Another call for entries for “Le Flash” Nuit Blanche in Castleberry on Friday, October 24th. This call is for One Minute Videos to be presented at Garage Projects.

“We invite submissions of one-minute videos for presentation at Garage
Projects during LE FLASH, a one-night art event in Castleberry Hill.
Selected videos will be on view for an evening when fantastical
installations and creative events will be seen throughout the
district. Street corners, galleries, shops, roof tops, vacant lots and
empty buildings will be sites for light, video, sound and other
unexpected environments, performance art, poetry readings, concerts,
music, video projections, a marching band, an iron pour and art
happenings of all sorts.”