SCOPE Miami 2010 FirstView Hours Tuesday | November 30 | 3pm-9pm General Admission Fair Hours Wednesday | December 1 | 11am-6pm Thursday-Saturday | December 2-4 | 11am-7pm Sunday | December 5 | 11am-6pm Location: Wynwood Arts District 3055 North Miami Avenue Miami, Florida 33127 www.scope-art.com Maya Hayuk We Junkanoo, 2010 15 X 80' Latex and spray paint on wall Nassau, The Bahamas SCOPE Miami 2010 announces program highlights for the upcoming show: A TURN OF THE CARD, A SPIN OF THE WHEEL, A ROLL OF THE DICE, a project presented by the Bureau of Curitorial Affairs, curated by Raul Zamudio, Booth G04, featuring a diverse collective of artworks by Gregory de la Haba, BTA, Eric Pye, dnasab, and Lee Wells, all included in the upcoming feature documentary directed by Michael Knowles, Gambling in Art. www.gamblinginart.com UP WITH MURAL, a project of The SCOPE Foundation, will step beyond aesthetic pleasure into a contemporary dialog of social justice. Spanning a 250ft wall in the center of the fair, 6 artists will install 3 mural statements, each with its own directive. UP WITH MURAL was conceived to bring politics and community involvement back into the dialog of contemporary art. UP WITH MURAL features Kayrock Screenprinting, Maya Hayuk and Eat Shit and Die. ARTISTS WANTED / 3rd Ward presents special projects: Artists Wanted and 3rd Ward are sister organizations based in New York City, dedicated to cultivating and illuminating artistic vision. For more information visit www.artistswanted.org and www.3rdward.com SOFTLab is a design studio based in New York City created by Jose Gonzalez and Michael Szivos. The studio has since been involved in the design and production of projects across mediums, from digitally fabricated large-scale sculpture to interactive design and large-scale digital video installations. Project website: www.softlabnyc.com Taylor Kuffner (Zemi17) and Ryan O'connor have collaborated on numerous projects for a decade. Their latest effort The Viking Mountain Funeral is an 8.3 surround sound installation embedded in a terrain sculptures featured at the entrance to SCOPE Miami. Kuffner and O'Connor's works are life sized monuments melting into their environment with a perverse beauty backed by a visceral sound of polyrhythmic pulsations. Project website: www.tumuli.org Aaron "Taylor" Kuffner is a Brooklyn based composer, sound and installation artist also known as the performing artist Zemi17. Ryan O’Connor is a Brooklyn based sculptor and founder of the Madagascar Institute. As a culmination and celebration of SCOPE Miami’s events and programming, Artists Wanted is presenting the Official SCOPE Miami 2010 Party, to be hosted on Thursday, December 2nd from 7pm-4am. Please visit www.scope-art.com for more information. SCOPE VIP cardholders will enjoy priority access. Subports Pop-Up Store: Subports is an open selling platform that allows users to sell on closed networks and virtually anywhere using text message. Coining the term "retail experiments", Subports engages their customers in experiences that blur the lines between conceptual art, retail and social scientific experimentation. For SCOPE Miami, Subports will experiment with the boundaries of a physical, rather than virtual, shop space. A 142 ft wall will be transformed into a fully functional pop up store, stocked with curated art, design and fashion objects by some of the most interesting and esoteric talents in contemporary art and design. Highlights of the pop-up store include NYC-based artist and designer Christian Joy, Neivz,, Katie Deedy of Brooklyn’s Grow House Grow, Mother Eleganza, Risto Bimbiloski, Helveta Vyotlag and Takeshi Miyakawa. For more information, please visit: www.subports.com Robert Boyd Video Screening and Lunch Reception Presented by Artist Pension Trust and Icon Brickel Friday, December 3rd, Noon-2pm Exclusive premier of The Man Who Fell To Earth: Tomorrow People Part II (2009), a three-channel video installation that explores the downside of being a world leader; to be followed by a reception in a private residence at Icon Brickell. For more information about Artist Pension Trust visit www.aptglobal.org, and for more information on Icon Brickell, visit www.iconbrickell.com. By Invitation Only. Artists Pension Trust will also be bringing three large-scale installations to SCOPE Miami from artists Karen Olivier, Alex Schweder La and Monika Bravo. SCOPE for Haiti Saturday, December 4th, 5pm-7pm Hosted by Michael Capponi and Anna Mixon SCOPE is pleased to announce a joint event with Haiti Art Expo. All SCOPE VIP cardholders are invited to join us in the SCOPE Pavilion for a special reception to celebrate Haiti Art Expo, which affords Haitian artists a unique opportunity to present their works to an international audience. All proceeds from Haiti Art Expo will be donated to charitable causes through United Way, supporting reconstruction efforts after the devastating Port-au-Prince earthquake in January—50% will go to Haitian artists to help them rebuild their homes, and the other 50% will go towards housing in Haiti for the Belvil community village in Petion-Ville. Our joint event with Haiti Expo continues SCOPE’s own tradition of advancing underrepresented contemporary art. We are extremely honored to be co-hosting SCOPE for Haiti with Haiti Art Expo, where guests will be escorted after the reception. For more information please visit www.scope-art.com We look forward to seeing you in Miami!.

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