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.
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
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any bigger, it does. The art market and art fairs have gone into overdrive. The most interesting one to me is Art Basel Miami and all the other satellite art fairs that are presented in Miami at the same time. The two most prominent spin offs are SCOPE and NADA (new art dealers association). Here in New York there are three main art fairs in February, the Gramercy International, SCOPE and DIVA (digital international video art). As an artist, I’ve participated in several art fairs here and in Europe. They are fun in an odd way. The fun part is that there is minimal curating. Contemporary galleries are invited if their artist are of a certain style or the gallery is so prestigious that having it participate ensures that other galleries will pay their fees for their booths. After all, an art fair is a cash business. It’s also a sort of simulation (ala Jean Baudrillard) of the art world, a snap shot of the current market.
Scope New York · February 22- 26, 2007 · Lincoln Center · New York, NY · 10AM-8PM Daily lincoln center Table Of Contents
1. Scope New York Overview 2. [PAM] The Perpetual Art Machine - Featured Project - [PAM]'s first birthday ! 3. [PAM] Viewers Choice Award. - Featured Screening 4. The Perpetual Body. - Featured Screening
