<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" link="black" alink="#ff6600"><table width="620" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="middle"><table width="100%" height="70" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#000000" width="13"><img src="http://www.e-flux.com/img/px.gif" width="13"><br></td><td width="10"><img src="http://www.e-flux.com/img/px.gif" width="10"><br></td><td width="*"><font size="2" face="tahoma" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">www.samartprojects.com</a>, a project as required that they would like to carry out in a "developping" country, understood in a wide sense,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>uploading before the 30 september 2010</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to SAM Art Projects.<br><br><br>The full details of the Prize are available on the site :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.samartprojects.com" style="color: black; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">www.samartprojects.com</a>, in the column SAM Prize<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The Jury in charge of the final choice is composed by:<br><b>Anne-Pierre d'Albis</b>, Curator and Creator of the Parcours Saint-Germain in Paris<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Fabrice Hergott</b>, Director of the Musée d'Art moderne de la ville de Paris<br><b>Jean-Hubert Martin</b>, Conservateur général du patrimoine, exhibition curator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Hervé Mikaeloff</b>, Exhibition Curator and Artistic Consultant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sandra Mulliez</b>, Founder of SAM Art Projects<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Hans-Ulrich Obrist</b>, Co-Director of The Serpentine Gallery, London,exhibition curator<br><b>Marc Pottier</b>, Exhibition curator and artistic consultant<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Marc-Olivier Wahler</b>, Director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, exhibition curator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>This jury will meet and decide the prize-winner on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><u>16 December 2010</u>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>The official announcement will be held at 8 :00 pm at le Palais de Tokyo.<br><br><i>SAM Art Projects is a private initiative which aims to encourage all new art forms which stimulate contemporary visual art and to focus on cultural exchanges between Europe and developing countries, in a spirit of open-mindedness.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br><br><b>Contact SAM ART PROJECTS :<br>Delphine Perru<br><a href="mailto:delphine.perru@samartprojects.com" style="color: black; 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