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Concept |
| Overall Benefits of an Online Jury Process:
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 | Internationally recognized members of the arts community, who might not
be able to travel to a jury site,
could be invited to take part in the jurying process from their
homes. |
| An online show jury can be as large or small as the show decides
it should be. Once online, the submitted work can be efficiently
viewed and judged by 20 jurors as easily as by 2 jurors.
 | A larger jury pool is inherently fairer, preventing any one
juror from knocking applicants out of the running. |
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| Jurors can be chosen to jury specific media, where their expertise
is most valuable. |
| The whole jurying process can take place on a password protected
web site, or easily and inexpensively run from a CD.
| Jury scores could be submitted by e-mail from a
form on the web site or CD. |
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| Jurors can spend the time needed to reflect on each artist's work,
revisit work as often as they need, and see it in context. |
| Descriptions provided by artists can be accessed anytime. |
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| Specific Benefits for Art Shows: |
| Lower costs for the jury process |
| Increase the expertise of the jurors, by choosing
from an unlimited pool of talent. |
| Reduce the dependence on a few skilled volunteers
who understand the jury process. |
| Eliminate the need for a jury room, rented slide
projectors, sorting thousands of slides. |
| Improve year to year consistancy of results. |
| Control the importance of various elements of the
juries evaluation, even after the scores are in. |
| Have the key elements of a web site already scanned
and ready to go online. |
| Great Public Relations resource
| Contact other media with the top scoring work
within hours of the close of the jury. |
| Impress the public with the caliber of the
jurors who selected the show. |
| Create a public preview of the talent chosen
for the show. |
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| Specific Benefits for Artists and Crafts people: |
| Feedback from the jurors would be a tangible value to all artists,
especially those rejected.
| Scores, comments, and relative ranking can be automatically
send back to each artist. |
| Top scoring work can be seen by all artists, giving a clear
idea of what the show is looking for. |
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| One application could be filled out online, and be automatically submitted
to as many shows as participate in the online process. |
| Work submitted could be seen by other shows, and trigger
invitations to exhibit. |
| Work submitted could be seen by potential clients, and lead to
direct contact. |
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| Think about this: imagine a national
database of the artist's digital images. On the show application form,
which can then be filled out on a web site, you enter your personal ID number for the images you choose to submit
and the show automatically gets the images. |
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