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You can judge the cultural cache of a city by how much good art you stumble upon in public spaces. For a long time, all we had in Miami were broken bowl/orange peel sculptures outside of municipal buildings and a couple Britto-splattered parking meters. And we don’t want to jinx it, but we think Miami may have graduated to the next rung on the culture ladder. This past summer, experimental filmmaker Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez brought her video installation Elusive Landscape into five public parks. And now, thanks to the Miami Art Museum, work by 305’s young crop of video artists will screen on the giant LED marquee outside the American Airline Arena (AKA the Media Mesh).
Instead of flashing through the mugs of the Heat’s three kings, tonight, the
three-story screen will show selections from MAM’s
compilation of local video artists. The same selection was screened last
weekend at the MAM-hosted party at the Louis in Gansevoort South. Artists include: Sam Borkson & Bert Rodriguez,
FriendsWithYou, Christy Gast, Jiae Hwang & Nicholas Raftis III, Lee
Materazzi, Raul J. Mendez, Magnus Sigudardson, Kyle Trowbridge, Tatiana
Vahan, Agustina Woodgate, and Juan Carlos Zaldivar.
The video art takeover of the Triple A happens tonight only from 8 p.m.
to midnight. But you’ll be able to catch the complete video compilation when
it loops at MAM (101 W. Flagler
Street, Miami) on October 16 and 17th from noon to 5 p.m. Let’s just hope they keep
pulling art off the museum walls and plopping it down on Miami’s needy
streets.
Here are the three of the artist at last weekend’s Louis screening. Want
to see the video art? Then show up to the American Airline Arena (601
Biscayne Blvd., Miami) tonight.
