WHO: This year's CURATOR/ORGANIZER IS DAMON LOREN BAKER. Damon is the Associate Curator of Art, Design, and Technology at the Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He directs the Intermedia Gallery/Lab which brings together artists from around the world to explore the opportunities provided by advances in science and technology, collaborates with researchers in laboratories at the Siebel Center for Computer Science, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and the Beckman Institute, develops software for the creation of virtual reality art, and is part of the Cultural Informatics project of the Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies." The following artists have been selected for the 2008 exhibit: Jim Bizzocchi (Surrey BC CANADA) , Leigh Brodie (Austin TX USA), Sheldon Brown (Encinitas CA USA), Sean Capone (Brooklyn NY USA), Ina Conradi (Singapore, SINGAPORE), David Crawford (Gšteborg, Sweden), Adam Cruces (League City TX USA), Bryant Dameron (Richmond VA USA), Robert Ladislas Derr (Columbus OH USA), Daria Dorosh (NY NY USA), Brian Franklin (University Park PA USA), Billy Gomberg (Brooklyn NY USA), Lei Han (Asheville NC USA), Andrew Harrison (Hightstown NJ USA), Bjorn Erik Haugen (Oslo NORWAY), Lori Hepner (Pittsburgh PA USA), Wobbe Koning (West Orange New Jersey USA), Richard O'Sullivan (Pontyclun R.C.T. UNITED KINGDOM), Elise Roedenbeck (New York NY USA), Cynthia Beth Rubin (New Haven CT USA), Tim Skinner (Colchester Essex UNITED KINGDOM), Simone Stoll (Frankfurt GERMANY), Michael Szpakowski (Harlow Essex UNITED KINGDOM), Dirk Vis (Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS), Chirstinn Whyte (Cambridge Cambridgeshire UNITED KINGDOM), Jody Zellen (Santa Monica CA USA) WHAT: THIS YEAR'S THEME: WIDE OPEN. In honor of the wide open spaces of the prairie in which the Krannert Art Museum is located, this theme can be interpreted in many ways, not limited to: widescreen and multichannel video works, panoramic video, fast paced and rapidly changing imagery, etc. Preference will be given to works that embody this theme or subvert it in interesting ways. WHERE: The 2008 exhibit will be held November 4th, 2008 - January 4th, 2009 at the Collaborative Advanced Navigation Virtual Art Studio at the Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. OPENING CELEBRATION WILL BE DECEMBER 11, 2008 5:30 - 8:30 P.M. At the opening the UIUC Laptop Ensemble will perform live improvised soundtracks to the videos in the exhibit, as well as some pre-composed music. ABOUT PIXEL POPS!: PixelPops! is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits. The series is uniquely organic in that it changes with each year's new locale and the creativity each new curator brings to it. Year after year the online catalogue continues to grow and provides new resonances and global connections in artistic interpretation. PixelPops! was founded by and is set in motion each year (from afar) by Colleen Tully.