Sweet. Paivi and I went through Artomatic site selection this year successfully! While I’ve participated in the past 2 AOM’s as well, for various reasons this is the first year that I’ve been able to pick my own space.  We really (Paivi in particular) wanted to be on the 7th floor with some of our friends, the main bar, but the process involved Artomatic only opening 2 floors at a time (this year, the floors are 1-9).

Our slot was 1:30pm Saturday and floors 2,3,8, and 9 had been opened. We decided to take advantage of the fact that spaces could be picked -after- your time slot, but not before and so we waited all day Saturday to see if floor 7 would be open. It never did open Saturday, so we had to come back this (Sunday) morning at 9am.  We ended up getting core walls on 7. Everyone was crazy helpful, nice, cheery, and definitely helped get this kicked off on an exciting gear.

The space I picked is just to the left of the elevators on the side opposite of the bar on the 7th floor. You’ll be able to tell what it is quickly and easily because I’ll be using a projector mounted on Sherill Gross and Stephanie Bonifant ‘s partition (thank you!!!!) to display art on the wall. It should be easily seen from the elevators.

Other cool kids up there include the wonderful: Caitlin Phillips from Rebound Designs, Sean Welker the Secretworm, and Justin Cameron

The wait Saturday wasn’t a waste of productivity, either! Paivi and I put in a lease application at The Onyx on First. It’s an apartment building just over a block from Artomatic and 2 blocks from the Nationals stadium in the Capital Waterfront district. If all goes well, we’ll be moved in before Artomatic even opens! Here come the after parties and extra volunteer hours! Woot.

More on my art later. It’s going to be moving, projected, dada-esque, sarcastic, and inspired by comments from Paivi Salonen, Barry Schmetter, Jesse Cohen, and others.

Everyone, if you’re in DC any time between May 29 and July 5, come on out and check it out! You’ll have a blast with the Art, the performances, the music, the people, da beer and wine.  Artomatic is just above the Navy Yard Green Line Metro station and if you’re coming to/from a Nats game by Metro, you can’t miss it.

One Response to “Artomatic 2009 Site Selection Done and a Move!”

1. More Photos: Artists Select Their Spots! « says:

   April 27, 2009 at 3:30 pm

   [...] 27 by kira I was sad to miss site selection weekend (traveling), but what with all the tweets, blog posts and additions to the Artomatic Flickr pool, it almost feels like I was there. Thanks for all the [...]