Somebody likes me! Last week I received an E-mail letting me know that one of my Flickr photos (a sneaky cam shot of a Yoko Ono Telephone Piece taken on the sly at the Berkeley Museum of Art, seen above) was selected to be in the Breakthrough: An Amateur Photography Revolution show at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery by curator Chuck Mobley. The show is connected with the awesome JPG Magazine, and some of the images in the show will appear in JPG issue 10, as well. All I had to do to participate was sit back and send in a version of the image that met their specs. I didn’t even have to leave my desk. That’s my kind of artistic practice!
I’m really stoked to be selected for the show, since I’m a Flickr evangelist/whore/addict, and I guess it’s a sign that I’m not the world’s worst photographer. I make use of Flickr when looking for new artists, and it’s a great resource for finding and sharing images of all kinds of artwork, as well as just about anything else that can be photographed.
The show opens tomorrow night, in SF, so I won’t be there. I’m hoping someone puts up photos of it on Flickr, so I can see it. Then I can get busy planning my meta-Flickr show of curated photos from Flickr based exhibitions. Or I can sit at my monitor, looking at someone else’s photo of my photo, and take a photo of that and then upload it to Flickr. Just kidding. Seriously, though, I’ve been considering several Flickr oriented exhibition projects for the Center’s upcoming schedule, and I’d be willing to bet that in the next 6 - 18 months, there will be more than a few Flickr based projects showing up in galleries.
