Timeless - An Architectural exhibition exploring the four dimensional possibilities of architecture

Call for Entries - SUPERFRONT LA

Timeless - An Architectural exhibition exploring the four dimensional possibilities of architecture

Deadline April 30th, 2011

Curators
Martin Roy Mervel
Ralph Spencer Steenblik

Curitorial Team
Naomi Scully
Tiffany Shaw Collins
Chris Martin
Adriana McElwain
Christian Contreras

SUPERFRONT Program Director
Mitch Mcewen

Call for Entries
Architects and designers are invited to submit work to be shown in the exhibition ‘Timeless,’ located in SUPERFRONT’s gallery at the Pacific Design Center. The show will include projects of all types pertaining to the theme. The curatorial team welcomes entries from any spectres; both theoretical and real-time as well as varied in execution with any medium. They will select work for presentation in public fora, an on-line installation and an exhibition for summer 2011. A catalogue of the work will be published and a lecture series will follow the opening on May 26th, 2011. For more information about past SUPERFRONT exhibitions please see SUPERFRONT.ORG.

Theme: Timeless - An Architectural exhibition exploring the 4D possibilities of architecture
Film has influenced architecture since the dawn of the modern era. The creative process for entertainment as well as spaces for life and work share common ground. Film influences the profession of architecture through its speculative spaces which are removed from the constraints of reality. These instances serve as inspiration in the creation of the architecture past and future. Timeless looks at designers (including filmmakers, architects, media artists, set designers, etc...) dealing with the mode and processes of “blurring the threshold of both spatial and temporal constructions.” The Call for Entries addresses space in time and time in space and how to compose that relationship. The curatorial team seeks project and design approaches that address existing or experimental ways of working dealing with the timeless challenge of composing in time.

Eligibility
Entrants must submit work done independently; no work done as an employee of another company, where the entrant is not a principal or partner, is eligible for submission.If the individual(s) is/are the sole principal(s) of a company, the company name will be listed as well. Where only one partner of a firm is submitting work, he or she can enter as a single entrant. Educators may not include work done in their classroom/studio or for their teaching. Architecture and design students are also eligible to submit work. Collaborative work between unrelated entities or individuals is eligible if the partnership is equal [does this mean agreed upon or that they equally own the rights?] and any project with collaborators must include a signed document from the other collaborator(s) outlining the collaborative nature of the work.


Submission requirements
Please submit images of the work (no smaller than 640x480dpi) for the catalog with title, dimensions, year of completion, author(s), location, required media, etc..., and a written description of the work, not to exceed 250 words, which defines and considers the work under the rubric of the competition theme (significant weight is given to how an applicant’s work addresses the theme). We must also receive written consent to use the work in print on the web and to show the work in the exhibition.

Submit Entries to:
superfront.timeless@gmail.com no later than April 30th, 2011.

Selected Entries:
Please call 310.421.8042 to arrange a pickup or confirm delivery of your exhibited work. The work to be exhibited must be received no later than May 15th, 2011. Send CDs, models, slides, transparencies or other materials to:

SUPERFRONT
Attn: Timeless Curatorial team
255 S. Grand Ave #1005
Los Angeles, Ca 90012

Returning the Work
Please ensure that you arrange the shipping of the work. SUPERFRONT assumes no liability for the work. The curatorial team will take every precaution to return submissions in the condition they were received, but assume no responsibility for loss or damage.

Questions
For more information, email superfront.timeless@gmail.com or call 310.421.8042.

Selection
Please submit early to ensure a streamlined curatorial process. Authors of selected work will be notified shortly after submittal.

Key Sponsors: (SUPERFRONT is a nonprofit organization.)
Brooklyn Arts Council,
Brian & Suzanne Selmo,
Betty J Webb,
HDR Architecture, and
Architectural League of New York.