Guidelines

Curators can choose between 1 to 8 artists for a show. The artists and curator will each receive a small stipend. Artists for solo shows must be selected by a curator. A curator can not include their own work in a show.

Schedule

Every two weeks, changing on a thursday. Send an email to Steve at visitsteve.com for schedule info.

• Curator – Sarah Cook, working with Jon Winet (for the election week!) October 23th
• Curator – Paddy Johnson (November 6th, 2008)
• Curator/Artist – Tucker Nichols (November 20, 2008)
• Curator – Ivan Tanzer (December 4th, 2008)
• Curator- Addie Wagenknecht (Dec 18th, 2008)
• Curator-Lisa Dent (Jan 15th, 2009)

How to Curate a Show

1. Intro: First, let’s define our terms and how this works. A show is made up of bodies of work.

A body of work is made up of 17 different sized individual images. The 17 dimensions match the common sizes of advertising banners on the internet. The image(s) you choose to make a body of work can be cropped from the same source image, or different images – it’s up to you.

A show is made up of 8 bodies of work, a total of 136 individual images. The plugin requires 8 different bodies of work. If you have fewer, you can duplicate some, though the duplicated ones will appear more frequently.

Add-Art replaces all the ads on a page with one body of work. It chooses this at random. Each page you navigate to, it decides which body of work to use.

2. Cropping images: Crop the images to the following dimensions at 72dpi

• 88×31
• 120×240
• 120×600
• 125×125
• 150×60
• 160×600
• 180×150
• 184×90
• 234×60
• 240×400
• 250×250
• 300×250
• 300×600
• 336×280
• 392×72
• 468×60
• 728×90

file formats for the images: .jpg so far.

If you’re a curator, you probably don’t want to do this all yourself because 1) it’s tedious to do 8 times, and 2) the artist will probably want to make decisions on how the image is cropped.

3. Name the body of work including the dimensions at the end. For example: name88×31.jpg, name120×240.jpg, name120×600.jpg, etc

4. Pack all the images up and send them to us. AND

5. Upload all the images to the Add-Art site using these instructions Add-Art site development. If you have trouble, get in touch.

6. Write a curatorial statement we can post about the show.

Interested curators without scheduled shows

• Joanna Raczkiewicz
• Joseph del Pesco
• Renny Pritikin
• Millie Burns
• Nancy Kamergorodsky
• Alice Arnold
• Kimberly Lloyd, Qompendium
• Dana Orland
• Ben Leduc-Mills
• [deletia] Co-editors Lynn Harris & Paul Stanley

Past Shows

• Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo – Curator – Joan Cummins (Brooklyn Museum)
• Favorite Works of the Mechanical Turks – curated by people on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
• Curator – Bennett Williamson (June 5, 2008)
• Curator – Sarah Cook (June 19, 2008)
• Curator – Charles Broskoski (July 3, 2008)
• Curator – Addie Wagenknecht (July 17, 2008)
• Curator – Sam Gould (July 31st 2008)
• Curator – Favorite Works of the Mechanical Turks 2 (August 14th 2008)
• Artist – Yael Kanarek (August 28th 2008)
• Curator – Ayah (September 11th, 2008)
• Curator – Christina Kral (September 25th, 2008)

Test shows:

• Conceptual Classics – Yves Klien, Picasso, Cindy Sherman, Chris Ware, Gordon Matta-Clark
• Color Fields – 8 different colors
• Americana – Eagles and American Flags, Hamburgers, Fat Guys on Motorcycles, Apple Pie, Golf, Baseball, and more
• Eagles and American Flags