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.

For the Imageobject event we would like to encourage daguerreotypists and makers of daguerreotype equipment, to display equipment on the day of the symposium (Wednesday April the 3rd). Fuming boxes, Mercury pots, cameras, dark slides, buffing paddles, if you use it to make dags we would like it to generate discussion.

We will be having a series of talks in the Canter for Alternative Photography’s skylight studio (upstairs from the exhibition space) the day following the opening gala. Alongside new equipment for sale we would like to encourage people to display their equipment to aid in the forum of discussion and sharing of ideas.

If you’re not attending you can ship equipment for display (for sale or not) but you will have to cover the cost of shipping to and returning from, as the artists are doing with the artworks on display. We will be staffing the exhibit and symposium and will take good care of the equipment and ensure it gets back to you.

Our aim is to encourage and support the makers of daguerreian equipment so that it is easier for people to obtain and take up the art.

The dates for the ImageObject have shifted due to some unforeseen logistics. The official opening of the exhibit will be on Tuesday the 2nd of April from 6 to 9pm. It will be open to the public from 12 noon to 7pm till the 16th of April. After the opening the night before, on Wednedsay the 3rd, there will be a series of talks about modern daguerreotypy, more details to follow soon.

With submissions having closed on next years exhibit its pleasing to be passing on to the jurors submissions of 75 plates from 33 artists. Entries came from Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. The schedule now is that the artistʼs will be notified of successful selections by 5pm Friday 11th January, which leaves a maximum of 8 weeks to have artworks shipped to the Center for Alternative Photography for the exhibition installation. Many thanks to all who have submitted and stayed tuned for more details of the Exhibit and the symposium to be held at the opening.

Stop the wordpresses… A flurry of last day submissions with a call by 4 more for more time means that we will extend the deadline to next Monday the 10th of December at 5pm.

Between now and the December 2012 closing date for submissions to next years exhibit, we will be adding entries to the exhibit’s submission page. First up is the whole plate entries of Binh Danh.

Details of how to submit your daguerreotypes to the international juried exhibit in NYC next year are on the exhibitions new info website – www.ImageObject.com – in the submissions section.
Daguerreotypists should note the opportunity of the exhibited plates being available for sale (should they so desire) through the exhibit, which is on at the time of the AIPAD show in NYC. Submitters now have 5 months to submit their artworks for selection. First prize in the inaugural is worth $600 with $250 for second place and $150 for third. The exhibition will run from March 28-April 7th, 2013, for 11 days – the gallery space will be open 3 – 7 pm daily.

Updates on submissions and the exhibit will be blogged here on cdags.org. We are also planning a symposium for the event for practitioners, collectors and the general public at the Center for Alternative Photography at the time of the exhibit.