This weekend sixspace proudly presents the groundbreaking art project SENT, the first major exhibition of camera phone art in the United States. We invite you to celebrate the opening of this exhibition with a public reception on today, July 10 from 7-10 PM in the Brunette Room on the 4th floor of the Standard Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. The show continues through the next week, until July 17, open daily from 12-5pm.

SENT explores the impact of the new phonecam medium via invited fine art and professional photographers, non-artists such as actors, musicians, and directors (through print photographs) and the general public (through an additional component viewable online and on flat-screen monitors during the show). The images produced may seem less sophisticated when compared to standalone digital cameras capable of higher-resolution images -- but like instant cameras or snapshots from vintage or "toy" cameras, that lack of finesse lends a distinctive charm. Their combined ability to capture, view, and distribute what we see (through e-mail, online photo weblogs, or advanced mobile messaging) makes them revolutionary. Camera phones are changing the way we see the world, and our place within it. When everyone becomes photographer and publisher, how will art change? What will the difference between professional and amateur be? Can high art be low-res? Through SENT, we'll find out.

Artists showing work include: Cynthia Connolly, Mark Cuban, Clayton James Cubitt, Elizabeth Daniels, Jason DeFillippo, Warren Ellis, Eriberto Oriol, Glen E. Friedman, Steve Diet Goedde, Lana Kim, Randal Kleiser, Kathleen McGivney, Meeno, Andy Mueller, Megan Mullally, Estevan Oriol, Chad Robertson, Shawn Scallen, Penelope Spheeris, Manuel Wanskasmith, Ruth Waytz, Wil Wheaton, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. This exhibition is co-curated by Xeni Jardin, Sean Bonner, and Caryn Coleman and sponsored by Motorola and logjamming.com.

SENT: america's first phonecam exhibition is presented by sixspace in the Brunette Room on the 4th floor of the Standard Hotel, 550 S. Flower Street in downtown Los Angeles, California.

http://www.sentonline.com http://www.sixspace.com/