Viewing and voting open for the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize

$30,000 international prize fund
Winning films to appear on monitors in New York’s Times Square on the 17th December Voting closes 6th December
www.babelgum.com/metropolisartprize

Over 450 individual entries from five continents are now presented for public viewing and voting on the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize website and on Babelgum’s mobile video applications.

Babelgum, the independent web and mobile video content platform, launched the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize to showcase the best new and emerging artists from around the world.

Launched in September 2009 the Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize sought videos, of no more than 5 minutes in length, representing the work of the best and edgiest artists working in any medium, from performance art, painting and photography to sculpture, installation and new media.

Artists are competing for three prizes worth a total of $30,000 and prize winners and runners-up will see their videos screened on New York’s famous Times Square monitors on the 17th December. The “Grand Prize” and the “Best Street Art Video Award” winners will be selected by an illustrious judging panel led by iconic art-house actress and video artist Isabella Rossellini and the online and mobile community will vote on the winner of the “Audience Award”.

Also on the judging panel will be Lee Wells, the Curator-at-Large for the SCOPE Art Fair (and Co-founding Director of the video art archive Perpetual Art Machine), Cedar Lewisohn, Curator of the Tate Modern gallery’s groundbreaking Street Art (2008) exhibition and Howard Halle, chief art critic for Time Out New York and former curator of Performance Art at The Kitchen.

The Babelgum Metropolis Art Prize is presented in association with SCOPE International Contemporary Art Show, Perpetual Art Machine and Time Out New York magazine. For full details on the prizes, judges’ bios and to view and vote on video entries visit www.babelgum.com/metropolisartprize.