ARTOMATIC 2007
April 13–May 20, 2007
2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Va.
Metro stop: Crystal City
Free admission. Donations accepted

Artomatic, the Washington, D.C., area’s eclectic, engaging — and occasionally even eye-popping — arts extravaganza is back this spring and promises to be more of a draw than ever before.

Held regularly since 1999, Artomatic is the region’s one-of-a-kind multimedia art featuring more than 600 regional artists and performers. The free five-week event, to be held April 13–May 20, will feature nearly 90,000 square feet of paintings, sculptures, photography and other creative work.

Registration for visual artists is closed, but performers are still welcome to register.

Some useful links:

• Artist registration - Go ahead, we know this is what you're looking for!
• Participation FAQ - Some frequently asked questions about participating.
• Performance Booking - Artomatic is looking for films, music, dance, poetry and theater to exhibit. If you'd like to perform, register as a participating artist, and read this information on the stages at Artomatic.
• Registration guide - The complete guide to registration, performing, and exhibiting at Artomatic 2007.
• FAQs not answering your questions? You've tried registration and it's not working? Email registration@artomatic.org and we'll try to help you.

by Philip Kohn, Thomas Edwards, Brian Judy and Claudia Vess.
www.y2cents.com email: contact@y2cents.com

Be part of the art.
An animated talking head will ask you questions about current issues, for example; “Do you think smoking should be banned from the streets too?” The interviewer not only records your answer, but after you give permission, plays it back—of course, with a little twist. Recorded interviews can be seen on the kiosk screen. Whatever your answers, the effects are amusing. See smoke coming out of your ears as your answer about smoking is played back. Some of the questions are serious, some call for your acting ability, and some ask for your predictions about the future. The project is amusing and a harbinger of art to come.

Your 2 Cents builds on work the artists exhibited at Artomatic 2004 where they met. Philip Kohn, an imaging research scientist at NIH developed facial tracking software used in the playback that enables the computer to add effects to your image. The computer was built by Thomas Edwards a robotic artist, engineer and founder of DC Dorkbot. The interviewer is animated by computer game and fine artist Brian Judy. Development and content is contributed by conceptual/installation artist Claudia Vess.

The computer was built specifically for this project which is funded is part by a New Media grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts DC Commission for the Arts.

Frank Warren, a participant in Artomatic 2004, named by Forbes.com as one of 25 WebCelebs – which they claim is “a list of the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet.” At Artomatic, Frank provided postcards, asking for secrets which he then posted. Those postings later became the best-selling hardback Postsecrets. And he still passes out postcards. See? Artomatic participation really pays off.

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Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.