Staring at the Cloud: Collage Between Analog and Digital

Open Call: for Virtual Exhibition and Opening Virtual Event
Juried by: Dino Rekanovic, Director of the Rotlicht Festival, Vienna
Deadline for Submission: Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 at Midnight PST
Notice of Acceptance: Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
Opening Reception (Virtual): Thursday, January 30th, 2025, 6-7pm online via Zoom
Exhibition Run Dates: January 30th, 2025 - March 30th, 2025 (Virtual)

About
Disruption in photographic arts started long before artificial intelligence upended the contemporary visual landscape. Artists such as Hannah Höch, John Heartfield and Man Ray used collage in their work during the first decades of the twentieth century as a way to negotiate their own vision and shock their viewers, reflecting the world, its conflicted realities, and political dynamics by assembling, montaging and refracting images.

Bringing those ideas to the twenty-first century, this open call invites submissions for works that consider the histories, present and future of photographic collages at this moment. Inspired by LACP’s home in Downtown LA, nestled between the Toy District and Little Tokyo, this call is interested both in the tactile playfulness of manipulating images, and the ways in which the gestures of cutting and pasting highlight power relations in civic spaces and private lives.

Submitted works can include original pieces that make use of a variety of techniques including hybrids of analog and digital. In addition, works generated with AI tools will also be considered for this call.

The selected works will be featured in a virtual exhibition in LACP’s website.