Aurora Picture Show and Houston Center for Photography band together to present HCP's third annual Summer Spin Party and the collaborative exhibition Txt Me L8r. Join us for music, drinks and interactive fun on Friday, August 24 from 8-11pm. Open bar. $6 entrance fee for Aurora and HCP members, students, and seniors / $8 non-members. Exhibition continues through August 26. For more details and gallery hours, visit www.hcponline.org.
Co-curated by Aurora and HCP, Txt Me L8r explores the potential for distributed creativity through the use of cell phone technology. Artists and the general public are invited to sign-up to receive text messages with specific photography assignments sent throughout the course of the exhibition. Participants will use their camera phones to complete the assignment and upload their results to a photosharing site which will be video projected as slideshows in HCP’s galleries. Combining crowdsourcing with networked communication, Txt Me L8r invites artists and the general public alike to adapt new technologies for spontaneous, geographically-dispersed collaboratio