apexart announces COMVIDEO winners
still from Andrea Chung, 'Come Back to Jamaica' |
COMVIDEO winner and top 9 finalists
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Info
The winner of apexart's COMVIDEO open call will receive a $2,000 cash prize. The top 5 finalists' videos will be shown on a public screen in Manhattan.
Contact
info@apexart.org
001.212.431.5270
001.646.827.2487
Address
http://www.apexart.org/comvideo/vote.php
apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
USA
The COMVIDEO winner is:
-- Andrea Chung (San Diego, CA): Come Back to Jamaica
The COMVIDEO top 9 finalists are:
-- Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez (Miami, FL): Is It True Blondes Have More FUN?
-- Antonella Grieco / Martina Allegra De Rosa (Milan, Italy): The red and the black
-- Susan Greenspan (Suffern, NY): Celebrate
-- Kelly Flanagan (Tempe, AZ): Caffeinated Misogyny
-- Ela W.Walters (Poznan, Poland): 1956 — Plates in the sky
-- Karina Fisher (Chicago, IL): Ask Your Doctor
-- Mary Younkin (Brooklyn, NY): Never Tell a Lie
-- Donald Daedalus (San Francisco, CA): Gender, Inc.
-- Deena DeNaro (UK): Reversing the Wave
apexart invited artists and creative others from around the world to cut, dub, reverse, add to, and otherwise manipulate at least one broadcast commercial to make a 60 second video submission to COMVIDEO.
On view in apexart's gallery space from November 10 - December 22, COMVIDEO featured 124 videos submitted from 19 countries. From November 10, 2010 - January 15, 2011, visitors to apexart.org were invited to view and vote on the videos; over 18,000 votes were cast to determine the favorite works in the show.
The creator of the top scoring video will win a $2,000 prize and the top 5 videos will be presented on a public screen in Manhattan.