Streaming Museum 2

Oct 1 2008

The streaming museum returns on October 3.¬† Visit in world in our Butler space: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Butler/245/15/72.¬† Below is the press release, enjoy…

International Urban Screens, Streaming Museum and TED Prize Joint Broadcasting Initiative Connects Public Locations In Cities Around the World

Global Viewers Will Connect On Friday October 3 to Sunday October 5, 2008

New York, NY. In a groundbreaking event, cities around the world will simultaneously link up to over 25 outdoor urban screens via the Internet from a main broadcast originating from Melbourne, Australia’s Federation Square as part of Urban Screens Melbourne 08 (USMO8), the first Urban Screen conference and multimedia exhibition to be held in the Asia Pacific region.

The international networking and joint broadcasting on worldwide urban screens has been developed by the USM08 multimedia program team in partnership with the New York-based Streaming Museum. This new hybrid Museum for the 21st Century, launched by Founder and Creative Director Nina Colosi in January 2008, presents real-time exhibitions in cyberspace and public space on seven continents. Streaming Museum’s exhibitions are produced in New York City in collaboration with international curators, artists and cultural institutions.

About the Program:

Over the weekend of Friday, October 3 to Sunday, October 5, USM08, Streaming Museum and the TED Prize, will create a symbolic global connection in a simultaneous broadcast of program content and visual connection.¬† Streaming Museum will open the first of a three part, six month exhibition, “Artists and Innovators for the Environment,” featuring international visionary creators Buckminster Fuller design scientist, James Nachtwey photojournalist, John Cage, Jacob ter Veldhuis, and Emanuel Pimenta composers, Agnes Denes and Anni Rapinoja environmental artists, Cedar Lake Dance, and others, as well as examples of innovative designs for environmental sustainability.

Streaming Museum exhibitions are viewed on demand in cyberspace at www.streamingmuseum.org and Ars Virtua in Second Life, and in public screen locations in the network. Schedule information is available on the Museum’s website.

At launch of USMO8, on October 3, 2008, renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey will reveal an important body of work to the world as part of his 2007 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Prize wish. Each year, the TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference, grants three extraordinary individuals one wish to change the world. Winners are given one hundred thousand dollars in seed money, and individuals within the TED community and the world at large participate in making the wish come true. Nachtwey has spent the last two years documenting an imperative story that needs the recognition of a global audience, and wished for help in breaking the story in a way that demonstrates the power of news photography in the digital age. On October 3, Nachtwey’s work will be simultaneously streamed online, disseminated through numerous media channels, and projected on monuments and public buildings throughout the world.

Partnering screen locations:

Africa: Ubuntu Center, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Asia: Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea and screens throughout Asia
Antarctica: British Antarctic base and Jubany Scientific base of Argentina
Australia: Federation Square, Melbourne, and screens in Sydney, Mildura, Geelong, Bendigo
Europe: BBC screens in Manchester and Liverpool, UK, and screens in Berlin, Germany; CASZuidas in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Yama screen at Marmara Pera Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey
North America: Victory Park, Dallas, Texas, USA; Yonge-Dundas Square,Toronto, Canada
South America: Centro Municipal de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay
Second Life: Ars Virtua New Media Center

Emerging Global Network

USM08 demonstrates how new urban multimedia infrastructures can build relationships with and between the citizens of a modern and vibrant city and increasingly between cities and citizens around the world.

USM08 is celebrating Federation Square as a modern multimedia precinct, taking its place among an emerging global network of urban screens venues. Together they are creating new opportunities for global community building, multiculturalism, and public education and engagement in the consideration of environmental, cultural and social sustainability.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third in a series of worldwide Urban Screen events, following Amsterdam 05 and Manchester 07. Melbourne 08 will showcase a wide range of proof-of-concept projects of new forms of urban screen networking and technologies to support public interaction in cultural development, exchange, discourse and creative education. Urban Screens Founder and President is Mirjam Struppek.

www.urbanscreen08.net
www.streamingmuseum.org
www.tedprize.org