Phil Solomon to receive the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize

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Phil SolomonPhil Solomon (Remains to be seen 1989, Walking distance 1999) has been awarded with the 2007 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion prize by the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences for his work American Falls. This prize "celebrates a visionary creative work
in process, recognizing the power of original thought and expression in
possibly enriching the world around us"
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Solomon, professor of film studies at the University of Colorado (Boulder, USA) is currently working on American Falls, ("a Sistine Chapel for the American Dream”) a six-channel, surround-sound digital video installation which will be projected on the walls of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in early fall 2008.

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