Perpetual art machine

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[PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine was founded in New York in January 2006 by the artists Chris Borkowski, Aaron M. Miller, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells in collaboration with Alexis Hubshman, president of the Scope Art Fair. Through the use of the robust open source community portal software (Joomla) , streaming video technologies and custom software developed in MAX/MSP and Jitter. [PAM] has rapidly become a growing video art portal on the internet. Since its first installation in at the Scope New york art fair in March 2006 [PAM] has grown into a community of more than 600 artists from over 100 countries and consists of over 1000 video art works. [PAM] is a fusion of interactive art, video art, and sound art.

[edit] Overview

Perpetual Art Machine is a community for video artists, curators, writers, therorists, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts. Perpetual Art Machine is an on line gallery and database of video art. Perpetual Art Machine is a traveling video installation.

The website feeds interactive installation machines. Both the database and video content work together at exhibition venues displaying works simultaneously and individually. The works play off each other, informing each other by association or differenciation, highlighting through the display system their individual qualities.

To see how [PAm] works goto:

[edit] Notable Quotes

"If there is any movement or group of artists who have inherited the mantel of Nam June Paik it is this group, although of course they are doing their own thing." - Michael Rush, Art Basel, Art Salon

"PAM represents a new type of performance. The interactive performance, the technological performance." - Michael Rush, Art Basel, Art Salon

   Michael Rush - Director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Rush has authored several books, including “New Media in Art,” “New Media in Late 20th-Century Art” and “Video Art,” the first comprehensive survey of the history and current practice of video art worldwide.

"...I am really fascinated to hear about self-curating and giving the artists this opportunity." - John Hanhardt, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Art Salon

   John Hanhardt - Consulting Senior Curator of film and media at the Smithsonian Institute. Considered the father of video and film studies in the United States.

“...hugely impressive” - Constance Wyndham, Art in America

“…an amazing video apparatus” - Walter Robinson, ArtNet

“...an interactive multimedia spectacle” - Walter Robinson, Art Net

“Major media companies, are you paying attention?” - Walter Robinson, ArtNet

“...a title that could have applied to all of Manhattan during this four-day, six fair madness” - Adrian Dannatt, The Art Newspaper

“I confirmed my initial sense of having walked into some hybrid of a boardwalk carnival and a technology expo by moving from the paintball and gumball rooms of “the Jaundiced Eye” into the Cinema-scope Gallery, the fair’s new media corner, with exhibitions by Perpetual Art Machine, Rhizome.org, and the New Museum.” - Michael Wang, Art Forum

“PAM is exclusively for the promotion of works of art that carry a tone of “seriousness and investment” - Mark Clintberg, The Art Newspaper

“Nothing embodies the promise and vision of Expanded Cinema better than the many different applications that [PAM] keeps creating.” - G.H. Hovagimyan, post.thing.net

“Like Scope, PAM democratizes the once-closed curatorial process for the artist and viewer through open access, allowing video artist and visitors to freely interact...” - Alexis Hubshman, Scope Art Fairs “... there are some pretty nice things on there” - DORKBOT

“... Cinema-Scope included a program of excellent video work.” - William Hanley, ARTINFO

“Among this edition’s innovations...” - Margery Cote, ARTINFO

“Still the utopia PAM dreams of is a technoerotic heaven with spiritualist overtones.” - Christina McPhee, [-empyre-]

"To my mind, this is one of the more interesting and comprehensive web projects to come out in a while, in that it has a strong conception of net activity as well as being technically sophisticated. For those interested in participating, visit the site to upload your videos and become part of this project. " Carine Zaayman Arththrob.com

[edit] Selected Press

Rush, Michael, WPS1 Art Radio, Rush Interactive: Art Basel Special Pt. 1, with Aaron Miller, Raphaele Shirley, Chris Borkowski, and Adam Lerner. Dec 9, 2006 http://www.wps1.org/include/shows/basel_miami_2006.html

DORKBOT-SOFLA, Who is Pam?, June 9, 2006 http://www.dorkbot.net/dorkbotsofla/news/72AAA483-9408-4FCA-A7F7-97070077C444.html

Hovagimyan, G.H., NYFA Newsletter, May 24, 2006 | Vol. 15, No. 9 Rants & Raves, Summer 2006 http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=476&fid=6&sid=17

Wyndham, Constance, Art In America, Front Page, Satellite Shows, May 2006

Adrian Dannatt - Small fairs attract major collectors - review of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine The Art Newspaper - No.168, April 2006

Schmidt, Heinrich, Vernissage TV, Basel, Lee Wells on Cinemascope, Mar 27, 2006 http://vernissage.tv/blog/2006/03/27/lee-wells-cinema-scope-perpetual-art-machine-scope

Robinson, Walter, ArtNet, Weekend Update, Mar 20, 2006 http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/robinson/robinson3-20-06.asp

McBride, Mark, American Library Association, Perpetual Art Machine, January 2007 http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/candrlnews/internetreviews/200701/perpetualartmachine.htm

McPhee, Christina, [-empyre-], Body Politic and Technoutopias, March 8, 2006. https://mail.cofa.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2006-March/msg00097.html

Robinson, Walter, ArtNet News, Scope moves out of hotel, Jan 17, 2006 http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews1-17-06.asp

Zaayman , Carine, Artthorc.com, Online homes for art, May 2006 http://www.artthrob.co.za/06may/project.html


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