> From: Jeff Thompson <[email protected]> > Reply-To: Jeff Thompson <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:31:46 -0400 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Artforum Ad Project - Your art in Artforum for $1.50 > > ARTFORUM AD PROJECT > Call for participation > > artforum.jeffreythompson.org > > > HOW IT WORKS > > The ARTFORUM AD PROJECT, a conceptual artwork by artist Jeff Thompson, allows > for 4,200 artists to have their work seen in Artforum magazine. > > Each participant, paying $1.50 USD and sending their image electronically, > will then have their piece, along with all the other participating artists, in > a full-page advertisement. Of course, due to the number of artists needed to > raise the money for this venture, the images themselves will be quite small… > about 3/16" x 3/16". Artists make a secure payment of $1.50 using PayPal and > send an image of their work. The image is shrunk to the 3/16". When $4,200 is > raised, the ad is sent to Artforum to be published. > > The final advertisement and all participating artists will be listed on the > project website after publication. > > > NO ONE IS MAKING MONEY ON THIS PROJECT > ..WELL, EXCEPT ARTFORUM > > The $1.50 artists are charged goes 100% to getting their image in Artforum. > > The price of a full-page ad is $4,200. PayPal takes $0.30 on each transaction, > plus a small percentage of the sale price and, depending on location, a > currency conversion fee. Therefore, the total price of the > image is $1.50. > > > READY TO SIGN UP? > > Visit the project website, artforum.jeffreythompson.org for details on how to > submit your image. > > > > > artforum.jeffreythompson.org > + > -> post: [email protected] > -> questions: [email protected] > -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz > -> give: http://rhizome.org/support > + > Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the > Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php
Comments
Sounds like a fun project.
Cheers,
Lee
> From: Jeff Thompson <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Jeff Thompson <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:31:46 -0400
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: Artforum Ad Project - Your art in Artforum for $1.50
>
> ARTFORUM AD PROJECT
> Call for participation
>
> artforum.jeffreythompson.org
>
>
> HOW IT WORKS
>
> The ARTFORUM AD PROJECT, a conceptual artwork by artist Jeff Thompson, allows
> for 4,200 artists to have their work seen in Artforum magazine.
>
> Each participant, paying $1.50 USD and sending their image electronically,
> will then have their piece, along with all the other participating artists, in
> a full-page advertisement. Of course, due to the number of artists needed to
> raise the money for this venture, the images themselves will be quite small…
> about 3/16" x 3/16". Artists make a secure payment of $1.50 using PayPal and
> send an image of their work. The image is shrunk to the 3/16". When $4,200 is
> raised, the ad is sent to Artforum to be published.
>
> The final advertisement and all participating artists will be listed on the
> project website after publication.
>
>
> NO ONE IS MAKING MONEY ON THIS PROJECT
> ..WELL, EXCEPT ARTFORUM
>
> The $1.50 artists are charged goes 100% to getting their image in Artforum.
>
> The price of a full-page ad is $4,200. PayPal takes $0.30 on each transaction,
> plus a small percentage of the sale price and, depending on location, a
> currency conversion fee. Therefore, the total price of the
> image is $1.50.
>
>
> READY TO SIGN UP?
>
> Visit the project website, artforum.jeffreythompson.org for details on how to
> submit your image.
>
>
>
>
> artforum.jeffreythompson.org
> +
> -> post: [email protected]
> -> questions: [email protected]
> -> subscribe/unsubscribe: http://rhizome.org/preferences/subscribe.rhiz
> -> give: http://rhizome.org/support
> +
> Subscribers to Rhizome are subject to the terms set out in the
> Membership Agreement available online at http://rhizome.org/info/29.php