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The Western Front Exhibitions Programme has a mandate to promote and exhibit local, national and international contemporary artists. It is committed to media related arts including photography, video, audio, digital arts and installation of a challenging and explorative nature.

The incorporation of new technologies and anti-object strategies into art making in the sixties and seventies resulted in a questioning of the museum and the art gallery as a container for work. Through the use of media previously reserved for mass cultural, military, or scientific production, new media art, especially video and performance challenged the high art cannon. One of Front Gallery's main objectives is to provide a venue for neophyte or alternative media practices. The Exhibitions Programme also encourages proposals for projects questioning the authority of the gallery and its power to legitimize and contain art. The work may exist physically or virtually outside the gallery space and/or be site-specific therefore introducing art to new contexts as well as more varied audiences. The work may also question the meaning of "the gallery" by reconfiguring the gallery's function.

The Western Front Exhibitions Programme accepts submissions on an ongoing basis.

Your submisson should include:

• no more than 20 slides
  
• no more than one VHS tape (has to be in NTSC format)
• no more than one audio tape
  
• a list of slides and other documentation/support material
  
• CV
  
• exhibition proposal
  
• stamped, self-addressed envelope
  

• no structural changes can be made to the gallery space
• the lighting system is made up of halogen lamps that are on a 3-channel track made of two interlocking "F" shapes, and a short length near the front of the gallery
• the gallery sometimes is able to access video monitors, an amplifier and a tape deck. It has two DVD players, four VHS decks as well as four small speakers