Poetics app seeking more works for their display in the Kickstarter gallery

The first show to go up in the Kickstarter gallery, inside their new Greenpoint space, opened with their recent block party. It was called 5 Years of Art on Kickstarter. It featured work by artists whose work has been supported through the crowdfunding platform. One of those artists was the app as art creation by Seth Carnes that we wrote about in December: Poetics.

Greenpoint’s Carnes wants to give you a chance to get your creations into the Kickstarter show. See the art in its official opening tomorrow.

When we wrote about the Poetics app before, we said they were working on a feature that would allow you to pay a small fee to get your digital creation printed on an actual postcard and mailed directly to whomever you liked. That feature is live now and you can see lots of the creations in the Kickstarter show.

They have some of the postcards that artists and writers have made up on the wall, but they also have lots of them in racks for visitors to take.

Carnes is accepting submissions for postcards to go into those racks until June 10th.

Poetics lets you snap a photo and then drop words on the photo, where each word becomes its own object that you can move around like refrigerator magnets. Making these digital creations real speaks to Carnes’s artistic vision for the app, as he wrote to us in an email:

There’s this infinitely editable, digital work in-app, that then hits hard stop as a frozen frame postcard sitting there in your hand.  In artspeak, we talk about the path between immaterial and material states.  In the internet world, it’s bits vs atoms.

I like the play between the two.

There are many more artists in the art show. Here’s the statement about it from Kickstarter:

Our inaugural art show includes a survey of work by artists who have used Kickstarter for every thing from public artworks, experimental publications, exhibitions, iPhone apps, new institutions, monographs, documentary films and newsprint editions.

Featured artists include: Marina Abramovic Institute, Marshall Arisman, Jeremy Bailey, Amanda Browder, Seth Indigo Carnes, Heather Hart, Steve Lambert, Ligorano / Reese, Eugene Richards, Mary Ellen Mark, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mike Perry, Leon Reid IV, Richard Renaldi, Phil Stearns, Swoon, Howard Tangye, Spencer Tunick, Saya Woolfalk

The show will be up through June 30th.