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Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize: Times Square and After Party

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Extended highlights from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize event in Times Square in December 2009 and the awards presentation and after-party at New York's Jonathan Levine Gallery. Competition Judge Isabella Rossellini oversaw the action as the winning videos were screened on giant jumbotrons in the heart of New York City.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
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The Winners Channel: Metropolis Art Prize 2009
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02:41
Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize: Times Square and After...
Extended highlights from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize event in Times Square in December 2009 and the awards presentation and after-party at New York's Jonathan Levine Gallery. Competition Judge Isabella Rossellini oversaw the action as the winning videos were screened on giant jumbotrons in the heart of New York City.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
01:17
Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize: Times Square
Highlights from the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize event in Times Square on December 17 2009. Competition Judge Isabella Rossellini oversaw the action as the winning videos were screened on giant jumbotrons in the heart of New York City.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
05:31
PAM: The Magnitude of the Continental Divides
Winner of the Grand Prize in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

"The Magnitude of the Continental Divides" is an animation exploring the ways we define ourselves and our nations. It is a journey between many locations in various states of withdrawal and aggression. Borders become weaponized and damage is always dealt from afar. The individual is caught in the midst, unable to separate themselves, unable to define identity without place.

Artist: Christopher Coleman.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.

To find out more about the Metropolis Art Prize, visit .babelgum.com/metropolisartprize
02:22
Mask - M.A.P. WINNER
Winner of the Street Art Award in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Artist: 2501



The winning videos in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009 will be screened on the giant jumbotron monitors in Times Square, New York, on DECEMBER 17 2009. The event is open to the public, so if you're in the area, come along!

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
02:34
Subway Yearbook Photos - M.A.P. WINNER
Winner of the Audience Award in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

For our latest Improv Everywhere mission, we installed a photography studio on a random subway car. We claimed that the MTA had hired us to take photos of every single person who rides the subway and that we'd be producing a yearbook at the end of the year. Most people were happy to pose for us, and the resulting photos show just how diverse New York subway riders can be.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
02:29
Cardboard - M.A.P. RUNNER UP
Runner Up in the Grand Prize category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

An animated short about street art characters in the city.

Artist: Sjors Vervoort.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
04:31
PAM: Wonderland
Runner Up in the Grand Prize category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Space takes on multiple definitions. For me, I understand space as the sum of cultural and social forces that act on me. Through the space, my body feels all changes around me instantly and intimately. When I move from Korea to the United States, my body became a gauge that felt my displacement and recognized not only the conformity inflicted on me in the United States, but it also allowed me to deconstruct the rule from my hometown that I had taken for granted as normal. In my video piece, I attempt to convey the feeling of displacement and conformity by acting of walking. I perform walking forward and other people seem to be walking backward. However, I was walking backward in the real scene and I made it simply reversed. The space of being neither here following correct rule nor there following incorrect rule is precisely what I try to convey in this video. I finished NYC Time Square version and will make Portugal version next week. It will continue in several cities.

Artist: Hye Yeon Nam.

This video forms part of A Light at the End of the Tunnel, an epic video art trilogy about the human condition which includes seminal works by 30 international emerging artists, and was curated by Perpetual Art Machine (www.perpetualartmachine.com).

The show debuted at Scope Basel 2010 (June 15 - 19, Kaserne), while premiering simultaneously on Babelgum.

To find out more, visit babelgum.com/newvideoart.

To find out more about the Metropolis Art Prize, visit babelgum.com/metropolisartprize.
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Pixelator - M.A.P. RUNNER UP
Runner Up in the Street Art Award category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Pixelator is an unauthorized ongoing video art performance collaboration with the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, Clear Channel Communications, and its selected artists. Since 2003, the MTA has made available for exhibition purposes 80 LED screens located at subway entrances across New York City. Unfortunately, the high cost of exhibiting (an estimated $274,000 per month per screen) prevents most artists from having access to these facilities. While the MTA's effort to create more opportunities for video art exhibition in public spaces is to be commended, selected works remain wholly fixated on commercial goods and media conglomerate events, a short-sighted curatorial choice that regrettably ignores the full potential of these promising exhibition spaces. In an attempt to broaden the scope of MTA's video art series, Pixelator takes video pieces currently on display and diffuses them into a pleasant array of 45 blinking, color-changing squares. Since the project is an anonymous collaboration, the resulting video is almost entirely unplanned and unanticipated, with the original artists helping to create new works of art without any knowledge of their participation. (Translation: Pixelator turns those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art.)

Artist: Jason Eppink.

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
04:59
Suspended Garden of Babylon - M.A.P. RUNNER UP
Runner Up in the Street Art Award category of the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Urban intervation idealized by Felipe Morozini, directed by Jeorge Simas around Elevado Costa e Silva in São Paulo City, to make a little bit less rough. One dweller and 21 friends painting one of the most crowded avenue in the biggest city in South America. Info: Sound track: Hurtmold Song: MÚSICA POLÍTICA PARA MARADONA CANTAR Album: Mestro Label: Submarine Records http://www.hurtmold.com/ http://www.submarinerecords.net/

METROPOLIS ART PRIZE ENTRY 2009

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
04:23
Modeselektor - Deboutonner (Bonus Video) - M.A.P....
Awarded a Special Mention in the Metropolis Art Prize 2009.

Bruno Levy (of multimedia duo SweatShoppe) took thousands of photographs in Patan, Nepal over the course of a week using flashlights and long exposures. After getting the nod from Modeselektor and BPtich Control, he created a stop-motion narrative synched to Deboutonner. Links: http://modeselektor.com http://www.myspace.com/mdslktr http://www.brunolevy.com http://www.quizbowlproductions.com (c) 2009

To find out more, visit the Art Prize page
 

MEET THE JUDGES

Isabella Rossellini: Acclaimed actress and video artist.

Cedar Lewisohn: Curated the groundbreaking ‘Street Art’ (2008) exhibition at the Tate Modern.

Lee Wells: Curator-at-Large for the Scope Art Fair, Co-founding Director of the video art archive Perpetual Art Machine and artist.

Howard Halle: Editor-at-Large and chief art critic for Time Out New York.

  

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

 A big thank you to our friends at Time Out New York, PAM and Scope. 

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