A Close Look. Peoria Art Guild Director
Tyson Joye uses a magnifying loup to
examine one of the entries in the
1996 Digital Photography Exhibit.



The creative potential available through digital photography is now accessible on the World Wide Web (WWW). In 1994 and in 1995, Bradley University and the Peoria Art Guild combined to present a juried competition to search for creativity in digital photography. Any picture which originated in a "lens imaging device" and was then processed on a computer was eligible.
Getting Organized. Exhibit curator
and Bradley University Professor
Howard Goldbaum looks on as
Heather De Camp assembles the
exhibit entrants into a database file.

For those unable to see these works of art hanging on the walls of the Peoria Art Guild they are available on the World Wide Web. The site is at http://www.bradley.edu/exhibit/.

The 1994 and 1995 exhibits have been seen by a total of 323,114 people, as of February 8, 1996. Though there had been art exhibits posted to the WWW in the past, 1994 was the first time that a digital photography exhibit was available.

Bradley Professor Howard Goldbaum, curator of the digital photography exhibit, is a member of the Peoria Art Guild Board of Directors as well as a member of the Exhibits Committee. Goldbaum said, "I wanted the experience of seeing the gallery on the Web to be as close as possible to going to the gallery in person".

Goldbaum succeeded at his task. The web site, "Digital Photography '95" is rated in the top 5 percent of all Web sites and won three awards for being one of the best sites in Cyberspace.

"Digital Photography '95' is fully equipped with everything necessary to give the illusion of actually "being there". The site includes artist's profiles, complete with everything from their photographs and voices as well as an entry form for the next years' competition and a "guest book" to sign.

There is also a short movie of the exhibit, an old vaudeville song about Peoria, and of course, the digital photography entries that were selected to be in the exhibit, available in both low and high resolution versions.

Among the winners of the competition were Bradley student Ching-Fang Chiang, who won the second place award for her image, "Run Away Before Sunset."

The deadline for the 1996 exhibit was (postmark) February 1. Slide entries are being received daily and are being entered in computer files prior to next week's jurying. Accepted entrants will then be notified and asked to submit the digital image, text, and audio files required for the web presentation.

Digital Photography '96 will be held from April 26 through May 25, 1996 at the Peoria Art Guild. It will be "up" on the web at the same time and will remain available indefinitely. For questions about entry rules and deadlines for the 1997 show, contact the Peoria Art Guild at (309) 685-7522, or see the on-line entry form at the site, or send e-mail to: howard@bradley.bradley.edu.
Deadline Time. Joye and
De Camp have nearly 300
slides from entries from around
the world to sort though.




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