Participation Committee Meeting - Minutes
August 4th, 2008
Attending: Susanne, Vicky, Pam, Sara, Hector, Meike
Juried were the following:
Ken Nichols: Purified water with original hand-drawn label. Issue was referred to the board. No fee collected.
Rodger Willis: Digital photography. Approved (6:0)
Carol Fowler: Fused glass/diichroic glass jewelry. Approved (6:0)
Candace “Candy” Bott: Fabric tissue box covers, paper bead jewelry, plastic tubing jewelry, origami, mini oil paintings, knitted boas. Approved (6:0)
Pamela Seiber: Acyrlic paintings on wood and canvas. Approved (6:0)
Levi Metcalf: Digital photography. Approved (6:0) – needs to show finished product.
Bucky Montgomery: Illustrations (personalized “name” artwork), also prints. Approved (6:0)
Lorenzo Alvares: add-on. Painted buoys and coconuts. Approved (4:2)
Kristie Metcalf: add-on. Sewn cool neckwraps. Approved (5:1) – needs to show finished product.
Andy Parsons: add-on. Digital photography on T-shirts and prints. Approved (5:1 abstaining)
Ann Summer: add-on. Digital photography. No vote taken – needs to show product.
Discussion:
Photography: Word on the pier is that we are jurying too many photographers. We went through the list of over 1000 people that have been juried into Sunset Celebration and counted less than 15 photographers that are still around. Out of those 15 we only counted 4 that did photography exclusively and are on the pier on a regular basis.
Elaine del Pino: Elaine will be asked to bring her camera to the pier and take pictures and show us her use of the camera.
Digital rules: After much discussion and taking the recommendations of the digital workshop (06-30-08) into consideration, we voted on rules to help us jury digital art:
Digital media get categorized as to whether the sold item is a tangible product or a service (as for example pre-produced emails, websites, etc.). We do not allow digital services, the item sold must be a tangible product.
If any art is created on the computer and generated by a machine (that is guided by the computer) it can only be on communication media with the same restrictions as analog art. If this art is put on any usable object (coffee mug for example), there needs to be some sort of hand craft done on it. These are the same rules we already have for non-digital art.
In that aspect, we are going to have to deal with computer-cut and computer-created tangible items soon. The above rule states that the participant has to do additional handcrafted work on the item that is crucial to its overall perceived value.
In order to ensure that the digital art is the work of the participant, PC will be sure to check different stages of the work (just as the PC is doing with non-digital work) with special attention paid to images to ensure authenticity – looking for how the image has been developing, equivalent to artist’s sketches, different files with work in progress, etc.
On-site printing: There is no on-site printing allowed.
$120 in jury fees were collected.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:15 pm.