© Matt Haffner - ACP Public Art

ACP PROGRAMS - Public Art
Featuring temporary projects in various locations throughout the City of Atlanta, ACP's Public Art Project is significant in its ability to reach beyond the audience of traditional art venues and to expand the way audiences consider photography.

© Larson Shindelman

ACP 2012 - Public Art
Locations / Times TBD
Sept/Oct 2012

ACP 2012 Public Art: "Geolation: Atlanta", by Larson Shindelman - 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.

© Monica Cook

ACP 2011 - Public Art
Various Locations
Sept/Oct 2011

Public Art : Fri, Sep 30, 7pm-12am

Public Art : Oct. 8th

Public Art : Oct. 21st

Public Art : Oct. 29th

ACP 2011 Public Art: "Volley", by Monica Cook - The Public Art Project for ACP 2011 will be a sound activated, interactive animation (stop motion/claymation) by Monica Cook. Cook's first stop-motion animation video Deuce was selected by the Guggenheim Museum as one of 25 works featured in the "YouTube Play - A Biennial of Creative Video". The global online initiative was a joint venture of the Guggenheim and YouTube, in collaboration with HP, aiming "to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video." Cook's work was selected from more than 23,000 videos submitted.

Her work "Volley" commissioned by ACP and co-sponsored by Flux Projects, will explore human-animal interface: Interspecies communication; animals as totems and deities in early human cultures, etc.

Cook's animation will be activated by the sound of the audience's applause. In order for the animation to play, clapping must continue, once it ceases the visuals stop. The participation with the audience is key; they must give in order to receive, yet, if something appears slightly questionable to be applauding they must decide to continue to applause or yield, knowing they could be equally judged if their interest overrides their ideology.

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ACP 2010 - Public Art
1190 Huff Road, NW., Atlanta
Oct 2010

Reception: Sat, Oct 2, 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition: Sat, Oct 2 to Sat, Oct 30

ACP Public Art: "Before 1190 Huff Road" ACP has a rich history of temporary public art projects that reach out to audiences who may never go into traditional arts venues. Each year a different artist is commissioned to produce a project. Our featured artist for 2010 is Karen Brummund. Looking down the tracks of the Western & Atlantic Railway, industrial buildings testify to Atlanta's past glory as "Terminus." Inside these historic warehouses worked a community that fueled the forward thinking and booming economy of the early 20th century. Now obsolete, these buildings take on new identities.

Returning to their home off Marietta Street soon after the surrender of Atlanta in 1864, Sara Huff can't recall a single country home or church that once destroyed was restored. A few months after escaping Sherman's march down the tracks, young Sara describes their homestead as a "monument to solitude" in a "picture of desolation." Built on the foundation of an 1830s log cabin, this pre-civil war home survived Sherman's march, but did not survive the industrial enlightenment of the 1950s.

In this installation, a photograph of the Huff House is placed on a warehouse from the 1950s that stands on the earlier Huff family property. Over time, this historical photograph will deteriorate and fall off. As the two dimensional representation of the past intermingles with the three-dimensional building, the installation reveals imaginative, abstract, and fresh ways to see the story of this community. As we look forward to a prosperous and generous city, this temporary public artwork considers what is gained and lost through time.

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ACP 11 - Public Art
VARIOUS LOCATIONS
Oct 2009
ACP is pleased to announce that Atlanta-based photographer and artist Beth Lilly has been selected by a panel of jurors to create ACP's Public Art Project for ACP 11. Her project, "Gifted", will engage the public and transform Atlanta through the gift of 1,200 limited-edition, fine art photographs which will be distributed to the public for free during the month of October.

Beth Lilly has curated a collection of twelve photographs from participating local photographers and with oversight from the artists, created limited-edition prints (100 of each photograph, totaling 1200 prints). These artworks will be handed out free, as gifts to the public, throughout the Atlanta metro region during the ACP festival in October, in unexpected places, at unannounced times. The dates and locations for obtaining a free print will not be disclosed in advance (but you may want to keep an eye on twitter to find out when the Gifted team hits the street).

Selected from a competitive open call for proposals, Beth Lilly's project was most suited to ACP's public art mission, to infuse Atlanta with photography in an exciting, unpredictable way that directly impacts Atlantans within the flow of their daily lives. Lilly's project is also an attempt to find and cultivate new appreciators of photography and the photographic print, by providing a professionally-printed "starter print" for a potential collector. The exchange will promote local photographers while encouraging a rich dialogue about the act of gifting valuable art for free, as well as an oblique commentary on the current economy.

Photographers participating in this project include: Corinne Adams, David Walter Banks, William Boling, John Bohannon, Christian Bradley West, Diane Kirkland, Kathryn Kolb, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Pam Moxley, Laura Noel, Dorothy O' Connor , & Michael West.

To follow the progress and results of ACP 11's Public Art Project, please visit gifted.acpinfo.org.

Special Thanks to John Dean.

The ACP panel of public art jurors included Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum, Jeffrey Grove, independent curator Lisa Kurzner; current ACP Board President Louis Corrigan; Art Papers Board President, Peter Bahouth, and Executive Director of ACP, Amy Miller.

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ACP 10 - Public Art
AUBURN AND IRWIN ST. WATER TOWER
Oct 2008
The artist team of Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry have developed an important career around site-specific work using photographic media to highlight political and racial issues in America. They have been commissioned to create an original, temporary installation in Atlanta for ACP's tenth festival, October 2008.

The video-based art project will be notable for its radical transformation of a dormant space in the historic Martin Luther King district of Atlanta. The 1906 water tower was originally part of the South East Atlantic Cotton Compress Warehouses (now Studioplex lofts), and has been granted entry to the National Register of Historic Places.

Drawing upon the rich film, television and radio broadcast archives of the civil rights collection of WSB, housed at the University of Georgia, McCallum and Tarry hope to create a public art project that will resonate beyond the site, leading citizens from all over to interact with, and learn from this work of art and to experience, in an unprecedented way, an impassioned social protest movement as it unfolded in the Old Fourth Ward, in Atlanta, the US, and throughout the world.

This event is free and open to the public. Presented with the HDDC. Project organizer: Lisa Kurzner.

Supporters for this event include:
Joe Massey
Lucinda Bunnen
The Charles Loridans Foundation
Louis Corrigan
Perkins + Will
Fulton County Arts Council
Bert Russo
Terry Weiss
Mary Stanley
Jay Richardson
Judy Lampert
Barbara Meyer

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ACP 2007 - Public Art
"PAPER PLACEMATS (ATL)"
CURATOR, JASON FULFORD
Oct 2007
Where: Weekday lunch at participating venues through Oct. 31st, 2007.

Presented with J&L Books
Atlanta native Jason Fulford has selected images from 40 photographers to be included in Paper Placemats (ATL). These placemats will be used at participating restaurants during lunch in October. This concept engages audiences at random and imposes an unexpected experience with art. Simultaneously, the encounter is very intimate and allows the unforeseen patron to connect on a level that challenges the traditional methods of artistic interaction. Life's incongruities often are featured as focal point. Sadness can be found in humor. Rationality is created in the absurd.

Artists: Ethan Andrews, Roy Arden, Roger Ballen, Zander Blom, William Boling, Able Brown, Melissa Catanese, Reuben Cox, Paul Davis, Tim Davis, Jason Evans, Ted Fair, Harrell Fletcher, Lee Friedlander, Stephen Gill, Andrew Z. Glickman, Maury Gortemiller, James Hall, Kyoko Hamada, Cristobal Hara, Nicole Jean Hill, Margarete Jakschik, Dave Jordano, Ron Jude, Hee Jin Kang, Martin Kippenberger, David La Spina, Michael David Murphy, Ed Panar, Gus Powell, Greta Pratt, Shawn Records, Will Rogan, Sasha Rudensky, Michael Schmelling, Shimabuku, David Shrigley, Mike Slack, Camilo Jose Vergara, and Douglas Weathersby.

Participating restaurants include Apres Diem, Canton St. Cafe, Crescent Moon, Dynamic Dish, Flying Biscuit Cafe (Midtown & Candler Park), The Globe, Havana Sandwich Shop, Perk Place Coffee Shop, Ria's Bluebird, Thumbs Up Diner, Village Pizza, WASABi, Watershed, and West Egg Cafe. Here's a map, plus contact info and links to menus, when available.

© Matt Haffner

ACP 2006 - Public Art
"SERIAL CITY", MATT HAFFNER
CURATOR, JOEY ORR
Oct 2006
Atlanta-based photographer Matt Haffner re-engaged with his street practice for Atlanta Celebrates Photography's 2006 Public Art Program. Haffner's installation weaved a fabric of setting and aesthetic, through temporarily installed images, in the midst of Atlanta's urban landscape. Using a cinematic format, these images on building exteriors throughout the city, referenced the film noir and comic books that inspire them.

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ACP 2005 - Public Art
"URBAN REVERB", AMY LANDESBERG
Oct 2005
Where: 1480 Peachtree St., Atlanta

In its current idle state, the windows of Rhodes Center passively reflect what goes on around them, while they simultaneously advertise for the proposed future development of the site. Urban Reverb lends an active voice to the phenomenon of reflection. Images from across the street -- the ordinary scenes of the Texaco station, the bank, traffic lights and the sidewalk, pedestrians and cars -- are grafted to the storefront along Peachtree. Viewers in their cars will experience a doubletake driving by Rhodes Center when they notice photographic images posing as reflections.

Amy Landesberg is an Atlanta artist and architect. Her mixed media works overlap the boundaries between intimately scaled images and objects, public art, and architecture. Themes explored through architectural experimentation are transported to the art and vice-versa. Her work takes a critical approach to concepts of the feminine, with concerns around the notions of "weak" and "fair" within both fields. Landesberg's work has been widely exhibited over the past twenty years in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her work has been collected by museums and private collectors throughout the southeast.