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http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2011/

Please pass on the link anywhere and everywhere - let's make this the biggest contest so far in Benoit Mandelbrot's memory.

interesting dispute. while i am not able to relate to most charges made here (as i don't know the background), i have the same questions as cruelanimal. are there / who are the sponsors? who is the jury? and so on... 

my enthusiasm is limited

As usual Terry's main complaint is that the contest does not get enough exposure - if he'd like to pay for adverts in say the New York Times that would be great but as it's restricted in terms of advertising to what the sponsors are prepared to stump up and what can be done *for free on a voluntary basis by anyone interested in publicising the contest* I think the publicity overall has been pretty good in the past and I'm hoping it will be even better this time.
Terry - if you know a *free* way of publicising the contest and exhibitions to reach those you feel should be reached who are not currently being reached then please pass on any suggestions....

1. It's clear enough for me and hopefully for all, but you know... there's always people who likes to interpret rules in their own way. I participated in two photography contests here in my city (2nd place two years ago and 1st in the last one! ), and there was a person that complained about my entry because the contest's subject was "the city" and there was "no city shown in the photo"... but it was a picture taken from a weird angle of a well-known metal sculputure made of pipes ("The Arch") located at the city's main access point!!!

2. Yeah, I know... I just found it funny to read that because I recalled my fractal, but I forgot I'm not the only "fractal pornographer" around here 

Hello all,

Dave Makin, as usual, distorts my point about the lack of publicity for recent BMFAC exhibitions. I never said I expected the contest organizers to do something like take out full page ads in major newspapers. It would be nice, though, if the BMFAC director could be bothered to actually update the contest web site with ongoing news about any current expos. How much would such little effort cost?

There were actually four BMFAC exhibitions for the 2009 competition -- two in Spain, one in Argentina, and the main showcase in India. There was, however, not one sentence or a single photograph on the main page about any of these events. Once the winners were announced, the BMFAC 2009 site went completely dormant, and, apparently, only the contest winners received any promotional information. In fact, I doubt that even most fractal artists who entered the contest knew about the existence of the three earlier exhibitions -- unless they read Orbit Trap.

In contrast, during the first BMFAC exhibition, when art work by the contest judges was hung beside that of the contest winners, the BMFAC web site had plenty of press copy and photos -- like a shot of BMFAC director Damien M. Jones hanging out with Benoit Mandelbrot under a print of Jones's non-juried entry. The point of my recent post was that BMFAC administrators seem to only care about publicity when they've managed to unethically slip their own work into one of these "contest" exhibitions -- but it seems they can't be bothered to keep our community informed if only the winning artists are being featured.

So, I'm not "whining" that there isn't enough publicity for BMFAC exhibitions. I'm just noting that having any publicity at all on the contest site would be a refreshing change.

If forum members have more interest in the BMFAC publicity issue, here are the relevant posts on OT:

The BMFAC Exhibition Begins: Who Knew?
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=1260

BMFAC: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=1556

The BMFAC 2010: An Audience of Winners
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=2177

BMFAC: Sorry, you're looking for something that isn't here
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=2189

presenting...The Information Hallway!
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=2562

BMFAC: "We Are All Winners Now"
http://orbittrap.ca/?p=2566

Thanks for your time. I always enjoy my visits to FF to follow the conversations and to study the art.

Best regards,

Terry

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Terry Wright
Orbit Trap
http://orbittrap.ca/

ARGENTINA? wow, I really missed that. It was on Buenos Aires? 2009? Even when I hadn't a very strong interest in fractals before last year, I knew about Benoit Mandelbrot and Mandelbrot set and I think I had enough interest to go to the exhibition or at least remember if I saw any publicity about it... I always read the "culture & art" section of the main newspaper here, it has a lot of info for exhibitions in the capital city and I'm only a few miles from them. Weird, I just can't remember any mention of it on any other media.

 

@ Kali ; could not resist to see what you tell the children about that image .

           Are you telling them it`s the bermuda triangle ?

@Terry I am just not going to validate your insane conspiracy theories with any direct response (beyond this)