Brian Cooke's imaging lab Visualeyes will open the doors of its West Street, Covent Garden, premises at 6.30pm on Friday September 22nd for the Down the Line '95 opening launch party. Inside, there will be an Iris inkjet printer printing out further images as they are received, while the walls will feature prints made from files submitted by e-mail between Monday 17th and Thursday 21st of September. The FTP and e-mail sites will be checked for further images regularly during the week of September 22nd to 29th and new images printed as they arrive. The final day for sending is the 28th.
Artists must send, with their RGB JPEG files, a text file confirmation of their copyright ownership together with their postal address, telephone number and/or fax number, and e-mail details. This will enable Visualeyes to follow up the exhibition with payments for sold prints - and any un-sold prints will be mailed to the artists entirely free of charge after the show!
Visualeyes' Covent Garden imaging lab, venue for the first Internet photo-digital exhibition - if your work is selected for printing, you can't lose.. you either sell it and get paid, or you receive a free Iris fine art inkjet print or other photographic quality output
Visualeyes, organizing the event in conjunction with Photon World Wide Web edition, will also have workstations running both an on-disk copy of the latest Photon edition and connections to WWW sites on-line. Mac Connect as a partner of British Telecom, U-Net Internet service provider, Computers Unlimited, Ilford and Gretag Imaging are helping provide additional ISDN, open lines, Macs and printers to ensure the event goes smoothly.
Photographers and image artists can create files suitable for fine-art print sales, send them by FTP or e-mail, 4Sight ISDN on (+44) (0)171 497 2348, or sneakerner if you really must, and if selected the prints will be shown during the one-week exhibition and sold on a 60/40 commission basis in favour of the artist, after the cost of the print has been subtracted. Unsold prints will not incurr any charges to the exhibitor. A selection of images received will be galleried in Photon's October edition, both on paper and the Web version. Full author credits, bylines and contact information will be included.
To send your images, please
make sure they are of adequate original size (approx 10Mb) for fine-art
printing, and use JPEG compression to reduce the size to no more than
1.5Mb. Create a SEA file compatible with Macintosh (zip, DD, Stuffit) and
include your textfile with details. Submit by FTP to:
ftp://ftp.u-net.com/junk
and give your file the extension 'vis' to identify it as for Visualeyes'
exhibition.
To notify Visualeyes that
you have sent your file to this directory, please send an e-mail message
giving the filename/s to any of the following:
If your e-mail facility
allows attachment of large files (many servers will not permit this) you
may bypass the FTP site and submit files directly to these e-mail addresses.
For further information, contact Chris Graham, who is responsible for press and publicity liaison. Photon and Visualeyes respect all copyrights of artists and undertake that work received will not be used in any other context than for this exhibition and associated publicity. If you intend to submit work and would like it be considered for a preview article in Photon, you may e-mail a suitable message and JPEG directly to David Kilpatrick prior to the submission period given above.