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October 13, 2005
Art Beat in Amsterdam. Get Involved
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On November 5th, during the official Museum Night in Amsterdam, when all the 'regular' museums and galleries are trying to win the hearts of the public, Red Bull and a group of progressive cultural producers from the Post CS building will be throwing a guerrilla event called ART BEAT. ART BEAT celebrates the kind of arts & contemporary culture that is made by the 'young and the unstoppable' world wide, with or without the approval or recognition of the official art world.
ART BEAT would like to call on viewers of the Wooster Collective to be part of this statement. How? Street Artists world wide can send high res images of their work and Art Beat will beam it onto the landmark Post CS building with the help of Skudi Optix from Berlin. Skudi Optix specialises in 'Wild Beaming on Big Buildings' using incredibly powerful projectors and trucks with massive generators. Art Beat plans to run a 'slide show' of a size that Amsterdam has never seen before, on both sides of the Post CS building, during the whole museum night from 7 PM till 5 AM the next morning.
The Post CS building is a huge stand-alone former postal service head office next to Central Station, now temporarily used by mostly culturally pioneering parties. It houses the temporary Stedelijk Museum (SMCS) of modern art, as well as gallery W139 and Mediamatic, all official museum night partners. On the back side of the
building however ART BEAT occupies the 1000 m2 exhibition space BG (groundfloor) and 11, a bar, club, restaurant covering the whole 11th floor, and all the rest space in between like hallways, stairways, vides, elevators and even the parking lot.
Art Beat will be photographing and documenting the slide show and can send selected participants digital photos of their work as it is beamed on the building.
The artwork can be mailed to mo@bestcompanyamsterdam.com Work should be at least 300 dpi.
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