CALL FOR ENTRIES!
The Crappy Magic Experience returns soon to Nashville, and we invite you to contribute new items and videos for our guests to interact with and purchase.
Exhibition:
Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1, 2018
(December 1 coincides with the Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl)
The Silo Room @ Track One
1201 4th Ave South, Nashville, TN 37210
Deadlines for submissions:
Priority deadline for video submission: October 22
Final deadline for video submission: November 12
Items to be delivered at our mutual convenience - in person in Nashville, or via mail, by the date of the show. An item drop-off event will be announced for the week of November 12.
What is The Crappy Magic Experience?
The Crappy Magic Experience is an interactive art show and experimental video art/retail concept. Each piece we show in CMX consists of an ITEM that is paired with a VIDEO. Viewers select an ITEM and carry it to a computer kiosk, where they scan the ITEM to see its VIDEO. When an ITEM is sold, buyers also receive a copy of the corresponding VIDEO. Crappy Magic will work hard to make sales on your behalf in exchange for a commission on sales.
Please see the Experience page on this site for more information, including documentation of past exhibitions.
Instructions for submissions:
Each submission consists of one item, and one video which shows the item. You may make multiple submissions. There is no entry fee for submissions to this show.
ITEMS
The ITEM needs to be something durable that viewers can pick up and interact with. It should not be fragile or possess any sharp edges. If someone accidentally drops your item on the floor, we want that to be a survivable event for the item.
Most ITEMS are just found objects – though some contributors have made creative alterations to their objects. When professional artists participate in the Crappy Magic Experience, they usually submit ITEMS and VIDEOS that are, at some level, different or distinct from work they make for their personal shows.
David Hellams has a collection of potential items - if you are interested in browsing an image library and possibly acquiring an item for use in the show, please contact: david@crappymagic.com
VIDEOS
The VIDEO that you make with your ITEM is where you can really get creative. The whole idea of The Crappy Magic Experience is that we can sell an object as a work of art because the video makes it interesting.
Your video submission must meet these criteria:
Video submissions are made via Google Drive or Dropbox to david@crappymagic.com
Along with your video submission, please also email me with this information:
Notes on the submission process:
While inclusion in the show is not guaranteed, we want to be as inclusive as possible. You do not have to be a professional artist – or even identify an “artist” at all – to be part of The Crappy Magic Experience. If a submission doesn’t look like it’s going to work out, David will give you feedback on how we can get you into the show as long as you have made a video submission by the Priority deadline of October 22.
We will communicate with you via the email address you use to submit your video. You will need to confirm final pricing of all accepted submissions, as well as terms and conditions for participation, by email to have your work included in the show.
The Crappy Magic Experience returns soon to Nashville, and we invite you to contribute new items and videos for our guests to interact with and purchase.
Exhibition:
Friday, November 30 - Saturday, December 1, 2018
(December 1 coincides with the Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl)
The Silo Room @ Track One
1201 4th Ave South, Nashville, TN 37210
Deadlines for submissions:
Priority deadline for video submission: October 22
Final deadline for video submission: November 12
Items to be delivered at our mutual convenience - in person in Nashville, or via mail, by the date of the show. An item drop-off event will be announced for the week of November 12.
What is The Crappy Magic Experience?
The Crappy Magic Experience is an interactive art show and experimental video art/retail concept. Each piece we show in CMX consists of an ITEM that is paired with a VIDEO. Viewers select an ITEM and carry it to a computer kiosk, where they scan the ITEM to see its VIDEO. When an ITEM is sold, buyers also receive a copy of the corresponding VIDEO. Crappy Magic will work hard to make sales on your behalf in exchange for a commission on sales.
Please see the Experience page on this site for more information, including documentation of past exhibitions.
Instructions for submissions:
Each submission consists of one item, and one video which shows the item. You may make multiple submissions. There is no entry fee for submissions to this show.
ITEMS
The ITEM needs to be something durable that viewers can pick up and interact with. It should not be fragile or possess any sharp edges. If someone accidentally drops your item on the floor, we want that to be a survivable event for the item.
Most ITEMS are just found objects – though some contributors have made creative alterations to their objects. When professional artists participate in the Crappy Magic Experience, they usually submit ITEMS and VIDEOS that are, at some level, different or distinct from work they make for their personal shows.
David Hellams has a collection of potential items - if you are interested in browsing an image library and possibly acquiring an item for use in the show, please contact: david@crappymagic.com
VIDEOS
The VIDEO that you make with your ITEM is where you can really get creative. The whole idea of The Crappy Magic Experience is that we can sell an object as a work of art because the video makes it interesting.
Your video submission must meet these criteria:
- 1. Videos should be no more than 5 minutes long - recommended length is under 4 minutes.
- 2. The video must show the actual item that is associated with it. It can show the item just part of the time, but we have to see the item in the video at some point.
- 3. Please do not use video or audio content you do not have the rights to use. It’s preferred that you generate original content for your submission.
- 4. It’s totally cool to use a cell phone camera for your video! But please film in landscape (horizontal) format if you can. All submitted video files should be landscape (horizontal) format.
- 5. Please submit videos as MP4 or MOV files.
Video submissions are made via Google Drive or Dropbox to david@crappymagic.com
Along with your video submission, please also email me with this information:
- Title of your Item/video
- Artist name(s)
- Optional: Artist(s) website URL
- Optional: Artist(s) Instagram handle
Your proposed price (Crappy Magic will take a 40% commission on sales for this show - please price accordingly)
Optional: a brief description of, or statement about, your item/video – you can think of this as like an artist statement -
Optional: physical/material composition of your item – you can think of this as like a list of media in an artwork
Notes on the submission process:
While inclusion in the show is not guaranteed, we want to be as inclusive as possible. You do not have to be a professional artist – or even identify an “artist” at all – to be part of The Crappy Magic Experience. If a submission doesn’t look like it’s going to work out, David will give you feedback on how we can get you into the show as long as you have made a video submission by the Priority deadline of October 22.
We will communicate with you via the email address you use to submit your video. You will need to confirm final pricing of all accepted submissions, as well as terms and conditions for participation, by email to have your work included in the show.
Crappy Magic is an enterprise by artist David Hellams. It encompasses both Crappy Magic magazine, and the interactive exhibition series The Crappy Magic Experience. These projects work to imbue found objects with creative energy using various media: photography, self-publishing, video, installation, performance, and more.