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WATCH AND VOTE 
Metropolis Art Prize 2009 /Watch all the competition entries on the Art Prize Channel AUDIENCE VOTING BEGINS TODAY Audience Voting begins November 4 and ends December 6. Your votes will determine the winner of the Audience Award, the lucky recipient of which will get $5000 and have their work exhibited in Times Square, New York. WIN Winners of the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize will also land generous cash prizes. (Just don’t spend it all at once). WHERE? 
In case you happen to be a friendless hermit living under a log in a lightless forest deep in the heart of nowhere... With 26 million visitors a year Times Square is the centre of downtown New York and the heart of the entertainment district. The competition gives you a chance to shine alongside the world’s biggest Broadway shows in one of the busiest places on the planet. DROP BY AND SAY HI 
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HOW TO VOTE 
Just click on the 'thumbs up' icon beneath the video thumbnail. You can vote for as many videos as you like, but you can only vote once per day for any individual video. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ART SHOW NEEDS YOU! Babelgum Metropolis is looking for the globe’s best and edgiest artists for the world’s biggest art show (probably!). Winners will have their work shown on giant advertising screens this December in Times Square, the neon heart of New York City. Not only will you share your artwork with millions in the world’s contemporary art capital, you’ll also enjoy the kudos of being a maverick art squatter among New York’s most expensive advertising real estate! WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR We want to be inspired, challenged, excited, awed, moved, intrigued and weirded-out. Babelgum’s Metropolis channel explores and celebrates the city and the urban environment in all its gritty, strange and wonderful permutations. We’re looking for art that reflects this spirit. THE RULES The competition is open to artists anywhere in the world, working in any visual medium, but entries will be judged on the basis of a video submitted by the artist. Entries can be video art, or short films on the subject of the artist's work. The video must be owned or controlled by the artist. In the event that the artist featured in a winning video is not the filmmaker, the prize will be awarded to the artist. If the video is a collaboration between the artist and the filmmaker or between more than one artist, please refer to the FAQs. You must not include musical works and/or recordings in your submissions without written consent and clearance from the owners and contributors of the same. (Sorry!). The entry period was from September 1 to October 25 2009. Check the FAQs for more details. FAQS Click more to read the FAQs ... (more) |
MEET THE JUDGES 
Isabella Rossellini: Actress and video artist, Isabella Rossellini launched her career modeling for Vogue in NYC. She achieved cult status starring in David Lynch’s art house classic Blue Velvet. A passionate supporter of experimental art, she recently wrote and directed the Green Porno video series for the Sundance Channel. 
Cedar Lewisohn: Curated the groundbreaking ‘Street Art’ (2008) exhibition at the Tate Modern gallery in London featuring the work of BLU, Nunca and Os Gêmeos. An artist and writer, he is the author of Street Art: the Graffiti Revolution. 
Lee Wells: Curator-at-Large for the Scope Art Fair, Co-founding Director of the video art archive Perpetual Art Machine and artist. Wells most recently organized the video exhibition 'DRIFT' (2008) for the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. 
Howard Halle: Editor-at-Large and chief art critic for Time Out New York; he's also edited the magazine's art section since 1995. Previously, he'd been Curator of Performance Art for The Kitchen center in New York City, and Associate Art Editor for Grand Street, an art and literary quarterly. IN ASSOCIATION WITH 
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