September Contest: Digital Installations
Last month’s contest had folks writing little stories inspired by a used postcard from my collection. We’re switching it up a bit this month; allowing you to express yourself any way you want. Is everyone here familiar with Installation Art? Good. We’re going to try something that may not be new, necessarily, but it’ll be new to me: Digital Installations.
If you go here, you’ll see art from the book, fronts and backs of postcards, and various other postcard-related images and text. There are a hundred images so far and I may add more over this coming week. These can be your starting points if you want. Make art. Make a collage or use an image or some text as the starting point for an illustration. Wrap a story or a poem around something from the collection that inspires you. A little comic. A short song. Just create something...
…and then install it somewhere. Install it on a message board or into your MySpace layout. Install it on Facebook or Craig’s List or Last.FM or Flickr or YouTube. Wherever it’s installed, send me the link – I’ll keep a running list of installations on this website and, at the end of the month, pick my three favorites. Then it’ll go to a vote again.
The only rule is that the installation needs to be postcard related (preferably used postcards). It doesn’t have to tie specifically to the book and it doesn’t need to include a link back to the site. It just needs to be guerrilla digital art – something that catches eyes, makes people wonder what the artist’s intentions are, and inspires them to create their own art.
If your installation has a chance at being labeled spam and taken down, grab a screenshot of it and send it with the link. Here’s a quick installation I made – I’ll make some more as the month goes on.
So get to it and have fun. Hopefully we’ll have some more fun with this one. The best installation will win the following signed copy:
If you go here, you’ll see art from the book, fronts and backs of postcards, and various other postcard-related images and text. There are a hundred images so far and I may add more over this coming week. These can be your starting points if you want. Make art. Make a collage or use an image or some text as the starting point for an illustration. Wrap a story or a poem around something from the collection that inspires you. A little comic. A short song. Just create something...
…and then install it somewhere. Install it on a message board or into your MySpace layout. Install it on Facebook or Craig’s List or Last.FM or Flickr or YouTube. Wherever it’s installed, send me the link – I’ll keep a running list of installations on this website and, at the end of the month, pick my three favorites. Then it’ll go to a vote again.
The only rule is that the installation needs to be postcard related (preferably used postcards). It doesn’t have to tie specifically to the book and it doesn’t need to include a link back to the site. It just needs to be guerrilla digital art – something that catches eyes, makes people wonder what the artist’s intentions are, and inspires them to create their own art.
If your installation has a chance at being labeled spam and taken down, grab a screenshot of it and send it with the link. Here’s a quick installation I made – I’ll make some more as the month goes on.
So get to it and have fun. Hopefully we’ll have some more fun with this one. The best installation will win the following signed copy: