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Metropolis Art Prize 2009

Get turned on in Times Square
THE WORLD’S BIGGEST ART SHOW NEEDS YOU!

Babelgum Metropolis has partnered up with Time Out New York, Scope Art Fair and Perpetual Art Machine and is looking for the globe's best and edgiest artists to win US $20,000 and have their work shown on giant advertising screens in Times Square, the neon heart of New York City. Not only will you get the chance to share your artwork with millions in the world's contemporary art capital, you'll also enjoy the kudos of being a maverick art squatter among New York's most expensive advertising real estate!
Winners will be chosen by iconic art-house actress and video artist Isabella Rossellini, Cedar Lewisohn curator of the 2008 ‘Street Art’ exhibition at the Tate Modern in London, Lee Wells curator-at-large of Scope Art Fair and director of PAM, and Howard Halle, Art Editor of Time Out New York.

FOR MORE INFORMATION GO TO:
http://www.perpetualartmachine.com
or
http://www.babelgum.com


Bright Nights - Manhattan Bridge Video Commission

RANDOM NUMBER IN PUBLIC SPACES
BRIGHT NIGHTS

Participating artists: Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, Lee Wells
Curator: Christina Vassallo

An evening of projections on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in DUMBO, Brooklyn presented by Random Number through the NYCDOT Urban Art Program.


ONE NIGHT STAND : ANONYMOUS ART SHOW @ Envoy Gallery

ONE NIGHT STAND : ANONYMOUS ART SHOW

What would do if you could do anything you wanted and knew you could get away with it?


Walking a Fine Line - Russian Video Art @ Monkeytown Brooklyn

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Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation
National Center for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg branch in collaboration with International Fine Arts Consortium and Perpetual Art Machine (PAM)

Presents

Walking a Fine Line
Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art.

Curated by: Ksenia Fedorova and Alisa Prudnikova

January 9 (Friday), 7:30pm

Monkey Town:
58 N 3rd St. (btw. Kent & Wythe), Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211

The program showcases the recent Russian video art works that reflect complex and controversial attitude towards the phenomenon of the sublime in Russian culture and mentality. Artists confront mystification and sacralization, engagement and spiritual detachment with strategies ranging from epatage to derision, eccentricity, and radical activism. Whom to blame? What to do? The viewer is invited to ponder upon these and other perennial “Russian” questions and find his/her own “fine line” of authentic response.


The World is Yours (But Also Ours) - O Zhang @ CRG Gallery

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O ZHANG
The World is Yours (But Also Ours)

CRG GALLERY - NEW YORK

DECEMBER 12, 2008 - JANUARY 31, 2009
opening reception: Friday, Dec 12, 6-8pm

For her first solo exhibition in the United States, O Zhang transforms CRG's space with an installation that has at its center images from her latest photographic series: The World is Yours (But Also Ours).


The Future Was Then [PART 2] - Regurgitating Histories

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Perpetual Art Machine presents
The Future Was Then [PART2]
Regurgitating Histories

Please join us in the SCOPE BASEL VIP Lounge to celebrate Perpetual Art
Machine's first show in the elite fine art landscape of Basel
Switzerland and to commemorate the video art legend Nam June Paik. Paik
was credited over thirty years ago with coining the phrase “The future
is now”.  [PAM] asks what that means today in our rapidly changing
world by re-presenting an ambitious program of five specially curated
video projects originally organized for Scope New York 2008 by Jarrett
Gregory, Robert Adanto, Yiannis Colakides and Helene Black, Andrew
Erdos in addition to the newest incarnation of the [PAM] installation
and a specially curated section by [PAM] founders Chris Borkowsky,
Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells.

Special thanks to Scope Art Fairs, NeME.org, and IFAC.

SCOPE Basel - June 3-8 2008
Uferstrasse 80  CH-4057 Basel  Switzerland.

Above Image: Ondrej Brody and Kristofer Paetau, Art Forum Accident, 2005
For more info go to http://www.perpetualartmachine.com


Art Action: Wafaa Bilal's Artwork under attack at RPI

Forwarding along from our good friends at Lumpen.org in Chicago.

Many of you may already be aware of the situation but for those who do not please read, pass and forward.

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An Iraqi born artist, now US citizen, Wafaa Bilal's ( http://wafaabilal.com ) work was shut down at the West Hall Art Department Gallery and will now be reopened tomorrow (March 11), but conservative public pressure threatens to close it once again.


Tom Krens Steps Down from Guggenheim

Thought I would forward this late breaking news.
Cheers, Lee

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The New York Times - February 28, 2008
Guggenheim’s Provocative Director Steps Down
By CAROL VOGEL

After nearly 20 years, Thomas Krens, the provocative director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is stepping down, its board announced on Wednesday.


“THE FUTURE WAS THEN .......... SO NOW WHAT?” - [PAM] 3rd Annual Open Call for New Video


Perpetual Art Machine invites you and the community to participate in the [PAM] 3rd Annual Open Call for New Video Art - Scope New York at Lincoln Center.
Deadline for submissions: Friday February 29, 2008

for more information go to http://www.perpetualartmachine.com


Group Launches Virtual Campaign Space on Sixth Anniversary of Illegal Detentions at Guantánamo

Group Launches Virtual Campaign Space on Sixth Anniversary of Illegal Detentions at Guantánamo

CONTACT: media@aclu.org; (212) 549-2666

NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today announced a new site in Second Life (SL) as part of its Close Guantánamo campaign. January 11, 2008 marks the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The new virtual space includes "Gone GITMO," a program produced by Nonny de la Peña and Peggy Weil and built by SL architect Buhbuhcuh Fairchild. The program gives Second Life residents a glimpse into the inhumane conditions of indefinite detention at Camp X-Ray. While visiting the space, residents can also sign a petition and wear virtual orange clothing as a way to express opposition to torture and indefinite detention at the U.S.-run prison.


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