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Work by Ai Weiwei to be featured at Art Miami 2011

MIAMI, FL.- Art Miami announces that influential and world-renowned artist Ai Weiwei will be among the artists showcased as part of the 2011 Persol Art Video and New Media Loungeentitled “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice.” Curated by Julia Draganovic, the Persol Art Video and New Media Lounge “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice” at Art Miami will present six videos by artists, who research the human condition and experiment with the variety of tools that video art provides. It reveals a glimpse beyond the ordinary anddiscovers the precariousness of the stability that those communities try tomaintain. “ZOOOM! Decoding Common Practice” is the fourth video programsponsored by Art Miami. It follows the fair’s well-received 2010 Art Video Lounge, also curated by Julia Draganovic. Ai Weiwei’s long video, Chang’an Boulevard, describes the main traffic concourse that crosses the Chinese capi