An update from the IO-1 exhibition space (wi fi enabled) as I burn the midnight oil…

Symposium speaker schedule change
– Due to illness preventing him from flying, Marinus Ortelee will not be attending the opening and giving a talk at the symposium. this means that the afternoon schedule after Takashi Arai will be Alan Bekhuis at 2pm and Mike Robinson at 3pm, our day concluding around 4pm.

Installation
Since Monday I have been hard at work making the exhibition space daguerreotype viewing friendly and installing the artworks. Center for alternative Photography staff are most excited by the event and have been a great help and support to the event, a very big thanks to Eric, Jeffery, Christine, Erica and Jessye.

Catalogue
I have made a blurb.com book for the catalogue of the show. We will have 10 advance copies available for sale at the opening but they will be publicly for sale at blurb.com on tuesday afternoon.

Purchase daguerreotypes online
Also from tuesday afternoon for the two weeks the exhibit is up will be a online store on the ImageObject.com for those wishing to purchase the submitted daguerreotypes made available for sale during the show. I hope to offer again this feature during the year for limited times so that funds can be raised for next years event, through the 10% sales commission.

Pictured below are the catalogues, the gallery cards and business cards of your IO management team.

On Wednesday March 20th, Erasto Carranza will be giving a lecture on historical photographic processes which will include: heliography, physautotype, wet processes, salt paper and the daguerreotype.

Date/Time: March 20th, 7:30pm (CST).
Location:  Centro de las Artes Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico

A update of the site content of ImageObject.com has a full list of participating artists and those attending the opening and the symposium.

Don’t forget to RSVP by emailing admin@imageobject.com as seating is limited for the talks.

On wednesday the 3rd of April after the official opening of the exhibit the evening before, we will be having a day long series of talks about contemporary daguerreotype genre. Lyle Rexer, juror for the exhibit and author of the “Photography’s Antiquarian Avant Guard” will start of the day talking about the genre, followed by Jill Offenbeck, curator from the Archive of Modern Conflict talking about collecting daguerreotypes.
The projects of three contemporary daguerreotypists will be followed by Mike Robinson shedding some light on the “Colors of the Daguerreotype”.

The talks will be 45 minutes in length with 15 minute for questions and answers at the end of each talk. There will be an hour break for lunch between the morning and afternoon speakers.
The schedule;

10am Lyle Rexer – Writer
11am Jill Offenbeck – Curator, Archive of Modern Conflict
1pm Takashi Arai – Daguerreotypist, Japan
2pm Marinus Ortelee- Daguerreotypist, Netherlands
3pm Alan Bekhuis- Daguerreotypist, New Zealand
4pm Mike Robinson- Daguerreotypist, Canada

The symposium talks will be held in the north light gallery of the Center for Alternative Photography in NYC on 36 East 30th street. The nearest subway stop is the 28th st station – 4 and 6 lines.

There will be limited seating for the symposium so be sure to RSVP to admin@imageobject.com

Cdags.org is pleased to announce sponsorship support for the ImageObject Exhibition from the Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC). As a photographic collecting institution it has had a large presence in the market in recent years and makes a another perfect partner for this exhibition. AMC as well as supporting the exhibition generally, they are co-sponsoring the cash awards (1st 2nd and 3rd best in show) with the Center for Alternative Photography in NY. The Center is donating the use of the venue for the exhibit and accompanying symposium, also they are providing advertising, promotion, assistance in the final shipping returning art works.