Press / Play for an international conversation on art
Posted April 6, 2008 by bec_young in In the News
Press/Play is the first of six experimental broadcasts of 24 local, national and international artists exhibiting a five-minute presentation of what is currently happening within their local art community. The presentations will be projected to an audience of artists and art supporters live via Skype. Press/Play will take place May 10th at 6pm EST. The first event will be exhibited at the 555 Gallery in Detroit, and the Press/Play events will broadcast every other month for one year. Each will concentrate on individual themes within the arts. In September the broadcast will focus on "Art in social context and expressing political issues," and the November broadcast will be about D.I.Y.
The project coordinator, Kt Andresky, is still seeking artists to represent these cities: Pittsburgh, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Montréal, Rome for this first, and future, broadcasts.
The Press/Play broadcasts will be recorded by professional volunteers, and all of the documentation will be used to create 200 pressed records, 200 screen-printed newspapers, and a website. The website and newspaper will provide further detail of each artist representative and all topics brought to attention within the five minute presentation. Each artist involved must have access to the internet (from 6pm – 8pm est. on May 10th 2008 for the first broadcast), needs to have a Skype account, an internet videoconferencing system, which can be downloaded free from skype.com, and should be prepared to communicate to an audience in Detroit through Skype for five minutes discussing what is happening within the art community of their city.
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