Streaming Museum -
Real-time Exhibitions in Cyberspace and Public Space on Seven Continents; A source of free cultural content and public service messaging on the environment, education and health, accessed via Internet and in high visibility public locations :: January 29 through April 2008.

Streaming Museum will present an ongoing program of multi-media exhibitions in collaboration with international curators and cultural institutions. The exhibitions will be displayed simultaneously on large screens at the participating locations, where the website itself will also be on view on nearby monitors for access to a “Global Meetup” and program information. Streaming Museum is conceived as a source of free cultural content and public service messaging on the environment, education and health, accessed via Internet and in high visibility public locations.

The opening exhibition is a 38-minute video work, Good Morning Mr. Orwell, by pioneer video artist Nam June Paik. This entertaining transcontinental musical extravaganza was broadcast by satellite on January 1 of the Orwellian year 1984. It interweaves fine art and pop culture icons including Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Merce Cunningham, Salvador Dali, Philip Glass, John Cage, pop singers Sapho and The Thompson Twins, and many others. Paik’s ideas in the 1970s about the “information superhighway” and global connectivity forecast the Internet.

In addition to curated programming, visitors at each location are invited to a Global Meetup by uploading pictures via cell phone or email to www.StreamingMuseum.org/meetup using an address displayed at the location. The images can be viewed on monitors at Streaming Museum venues around the world according to local schedules, and on the website through February 29.

The venues on seven continents networked for the launch are: The Premises Gallery, Johannesburg Civic Theater, Johannesburg, South Africa; Argentine Scientific Base, Jubany, Antarctica; Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea; Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia; Birkbeck University of London, London, England; Piazza Duomo, Milan, Italy; Victory Park, Dallas, Texas, USA; Centro Municipal de Exposiciones Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay; Ars Virtua Gallery and New Media Center, Second Life.

The project has been initiated by Nina Colosi, a New York-based Curator and Founder/Creative Director of Streaming Museum. She also founded www.TheProjectRoom.org, an international arts and education program in 2003 at Chelsea Art Museum, New York City.