"Shut Up Already...I'll Look at Your Art!": How It Works

Gallerist Ed Winkleman and guests (persons to be recruited by Mr. Winkleman to join him, for different periods of time and varied group size) will spend a portion of his time in his gallery during #class reviewing digital images of work sent via the internet to #class by artists globally. Artists will be asked to submit a digital image of one piece of art to be reviewed by Mr. Winkleman and his guests.

The Rules (roughly):

Artists will submit one digital image to "Shut up already. I'll look at your art"

Mr. Winkleman and guests will view the image for no less than 10 sec.

Mr. Winkleman and guests will be monitored by a volunteer as they view the work to assure full compliance with the rules.

Mr. Winkleman, his guests and the Monitor will sign a certificate of viewing stating the image has been viewed

Mr. Winkleman and his guests will have no obligation to provide representation to any of the artists, make any comment about, or critique any of the images.

Once an image is viewed by Mr. Winkleman and his guests the artist cannot complain that their work is not being considered by a professional gallery for one year from the date of viewing, Mr. Winkleman and his guests will be absolved of any further obligation to take complaints by artists that their work is not being considered by a professional gallery seriously for one year from the date of viewing,

As Mr. Winkleman and his guests view the images, they wiil be available on the internet to be viewed.

#class is an exhibition in the form of a think tank organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. #class will feature over 50 events, discussions and performances presented in response to an open call for proposals on the topic of ambivalence about the commercial art market system.

for more info about #class and to see a schedule of event goto http://hashtagclass.blogspot.com/

for more about Winkleman Gallery visit their website @ http://winkleman.com/

"Shut up already. I'll look at your art"
in the spirit of Open Source and Copyleft is made up of anyone who participates, spreads the word or puts out good vibrations to the cause, and they are welcome to its authorship.

To participate and submit an image fill out the Submittal Form Here
or just spread the word to people you know worldwide

Submit an image to "Shut Up Already I'll Look at Your Art!"

Fill out Submittal Form Here

Choose one .jpg less than 1mb whose largest dimension should be 1000 pixels, thats 1000 pixels x 1000 pixels max

Fill out all the Form data, Make sure to enter a Title for the work submitted, it will be used for the certificate, and most important enter an e-mail, all email addresses will be used for the purposes of notifying you when your image is viewed and further instructions, and only used for "Shut Up Already.. I'll Look at your Art!" and your privacy respected.

Hit the submit button ONCE and wait for the file to upload. Be patient it may not look like anything is happening, but the image is uploading, and once it is complete you will see a message saying it has uploaded.

Mac users, make sure the file has a .jpg, .jpeg, extenstion as an example: myfile.jpeg

Also make sure there are no uncommon charaters, no ‘, “, the file name doesn’t matter much, but make it unique, the way files are saved if two people upload a file named untitled.jpg, the second file will overwrite the first, so far I have caught a couple untitled.jpg and renamed it with the “Work Title” entered. I suggest something like art_work_title-my_name.jpg

Fill out Submittal Form Here

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