Rodney Dickson- Love at it's Best
Gasser & Grunert Gallery

148 Ninth Avenue, at the Northeastern corner with 19th Street.
Tuesday, January 8th – Saturday, February 9th 2008
Opening Reception January 8, 6.00PM - 8PM

Hi Thing:

If you are free this tuesday and are in New York we recommend stopping by Rodney's first solo exhibition with Gasser & Grunert Gallery in Chelsea. Love at it's Best a multi-media installation, is a culmination of many years work and research. Those of you may know his work through his performance installation The Queen Bee Snake Bar and his more recent Queen Bee War Remnants Museum that premiered as a featured special project at Art|Basel Miami Beach. His work is very strong and engages in an honest and informed social dialogue about War that you dont get to see everyday, especially in Chelsea.

This exhibition is sure to inspire others to become more socio-politically concerned and to make more art with meaning in these days of an overly commercialized artworld and big brothers clones knocking at our doors. Show is up through February 9th.

Love at It's Best is an analysis of warfare, sexual exploitation and genocide, which aims to shed light on the plight of the civilians whose lives have been tainted by these brutal realities.

TELECULTURE
November 13 - December 14, 2007

Video based artwork by Chris Borkowski, Bethany Fancher, Gerald Förster, Taras Hrabowsky, Jennifer Jacobs, Eric Payson, Second Front, Mark Tribe, and [dNASAb]
Curated by Lee Wells

To view the exhibition goto: www.pace.edu/digitalgallery

Here are a couple photos from Saturday nights Artists Meeting performance installation at the Art Under the Bridge Festival in Dumbo.

PAM is very happy to have been invited to Amsterdam to participate in this years Robodock Festival. Here is a short clip of [PAM] in action from last nights opening event.

More to come.

Robodock 2007 "Rhythm and Time / Ten years Transformation". This is the guide for the programming and serves as source of inspiration for the participating artists. This 10th year edition is celebrated with a festive pick from the highlights of the past and present, but also looking closely at the future, where everything is possible. Robodock will show how the festival has evolved over the past ten years. While it started out as a modest experimental festival, it is now transformed into a major event, with almost 12,000 visitors in 2006. In these ten years Robodock has evolved into an internationally renown festival at the fringes of the industrial era!

I thought I would forward this along from an email discussion that Max Herman of Genius 2000 posted to Rhizome today about Networkism in advance of The Genius 2000 Conference 2007: Gerard Groote and Devotio Moderna. http://www.geocities.com/genius-2000/

I don't necessarily agree with him but do very much like the idea of the discussion.

If we were to have no choice but to define this current art historical era in a single term, what would it be?

Image from - http://www.lucubus.com/

Maria Joao and I took a short trip to the MET today. Its always been one of my favorite places in New York City. For the most part just paintings and sculptures. I think the Dan Flavin piece was the only thing plugged in. We went primarily to see the Neo Rauch "PARA" show.

Die Fuge (The Fugue/The Gap), 2007

We welcome everyone to come and participate in the dialogue.

Open Artist Roundtable
"Video art in the age of the internet"
Thursday September 6, 2007, 8:00-9:30pm

Broadcasting LIVE on http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

The [PAM] founders will be hosting an open roundtable discussion on September 6th to analyze the current state and future of the medium of video art and the emergence of new artistic communities that question the authority and connoisseurship of traditional systems of 20th century art.