The Presence of Future

The Presence of Future

Division of Human Works is accepting submissions for a curated show dealing with ideas of future and how it has inundated into our society and environment. Feel free to submit completed works or submit a proposal for the creation of new work. Relevant off-site work may also be submitted for promotion via the event.

We are nearing the end of 2010, the year portrayed as a futuristic utopia in the classic animated sitcom, The Jetsons. We are five years away from 2015, the farthest year ahead Marty and Doc Brown traveled to in Back to the Future. The years of our future, anticipated for decades, are here. How similar are our present times to what was imagined? We do have some very fancy gadgets and nuclear physicists working with a Big Bang replicator, the Large Caldron Accelerator, at the Cern research center in Switzerland. Yet, we are certainly not traveling in personal hovercrafts and many of us are living in old decrepit buildings. What do you think Joseph Beuys would think about the current state of the Green Party?

Things are not quite what we had expected them to be. Yet then again, things are definitely in an extreme state of flux. Change is on a steep exponential rise. Some things are parallel with this acceleration and some things are being dragged along for the ride.

What are your interpretations of our current evolutionary or de- evolutionary status? What are your reactions to how far we’ve come, why do you think our present times have turned out as they have, and what may or may not change current trends.

*** ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 1/15/11.

We are accepting works of all types of media. You may submit up to 3 pieces. You may include up to 5 images (or other media samples) for each submission.

For those submitting proposals for new work, please include images of relavant past work.

Send all submissions via email to [email protected]

Please make a brief artist statement addressing how your work addresses the topic for this show.

Please include your artist CV and any installation requirements.

All submissions shall receive a reply by 1/25/11. The show will take place in February for two weeks. There will be an opening and closing reception along with viewings by appointment. Please acknowledge that we cannot accommodate all submissions

Artists are responsible for all installation and de-installation of artworks.

**Division of Human Works does not provide any financial assistance for artists or the creation of artworks.