JON RAFMAN: UNRELIABLE NARRATORS

Jon Rafman (Montréal, CAN, www.jonrafman.com)
will introduce his work in person.

"In this series of narrative shorts, the real confronts the ideal, the ironic challenges the romantic as the line between celebration and critique is blurred. Each film explores the relationship between identity and memory, both historical and personal; yet memory is unreliable and so anonymous narrators have difficulty distinguishing memories of dreams from memories of reality." - J.R.

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News from the Madhatter
You the World and I
+ A SURPRISE FILM

Tuesday, December 20, 2011
8:30 pm
WHITE BOX
329 Broome Street (between Chrystie and Broome)

ACTION FOR FREEDOM: NEW WORKS BY LEE WELLS
Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art
190 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Reception: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 6 – 8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 17 to March 13

Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art announces “Action For Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells”, featuring new video action paintings from the “Soul Series".

Lee Wells (born 1971), offers a complex intermix of images which engage issues of war, sexuality, freedom and liberation. Deeply rooted in the history of painting and dialogue of the Avant-garde, “Action For Freedom”, presents portraits of humanity as an attempt to create order within the chaos, confusion and wonder of the early 21st century.

a program of collaborative video works plus radical re-edits of some of my works by fellow artists as well as my own re-edits of works by others

GATEWAY (2010) clipped from a short documentary on the annual taxidermists convention in Springfield, Illinois,
originally produced by Dominique Gradenwitz for German TV Sat 1, re-edited.

Guggenheim Museum publishes the essay "Andy, Nam June and Me at the Zoo" by PAM co-founder Lee Wells as part of the YouTube Play Biennial of Creative Video. The piece discusses the relationship between online video, the Avant-Garde and 21st century video art.

I happily encourage everyone to go to the Take Blog and leave a comment. CLICK HERE TO ADD TO THE CONVERSATION

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play/the...

“Some people would never be considered, were it not that some excellent adversaries had mentioned them. There is no greater vengeance than oblivion, as it buries such people in the dust of their nothingness.” —Baltazar Gracian, as quoted in “Open Creation and Its Enemies,”Internationale Situationniste #5 (December 1960)

"Transient Limits and Shifting Boundaries"

Mediations Biennial, as part of Erased Walls, at ConcentArt EV Berlin
2 Channel Installation Curated by Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells

PAM Artists include:
Heini Aho
, Katja Aglert
, Anonymous, Jason Archer
, George Barber
, Josephin Boettger
, Tomislav Brajnovic, Michal Brzezinski
, Rodney Dickson, Stephanie Dodes, 
Tony Hultqvist & Max Valentin, Manik, Bruno Muzzolini, 
Iris Piers
, Iva Rad
, Maria João Salema, 

Evelin Stermitz
, Tim White‐Sobieski
, and Sebastian Ziegler.

The impact of the former division of Central and Eastern Europe on the balance
of societies, in this video program, is reconsidered as a metaphor for
dichotomies, separations and alienations which can be found in palpable and
impalpable forms in our lives throughout the globe.

PAM is humbled and honored to announce that the Perpetual Art Machine community has been invited by the Guggenheim Museum to be an Affiliate to the upcoming,

YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video

We strongly encourage all artists to participate in this exciting and historic open event.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

July 31, 2010

YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video aims to discover and showcase the most exceptional talent working in the ever-expanding realm of online video. Developed by YouTube and the Guggenheim Museum in collaboration with HP, YouTube Play hopes to attract innovative, original, and surprising videos from around the world, regardless of genre, technique, background, or budget. This global online initiative is not a search for what’s “now,” but a search for what’s next.

Visit Perpetual Art Machine to learn more.
http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

Den Marino (Russia), The Illustration of Life, 2009


Scope Foundation and Perpetual Art Machine presents

Scope Foundation and Perpetual Art Machine presents the [PAM] 4th Annual Last Minute Open Call for New Video Art

A Light at the End of the Tunnel
curated by Lee Wells

DEADLINE FRIDAY MAY 14, 2010
video must be delivered to the below address by this date

www.perpetualartmachine.com

"The Avant Garde Doesn't Give Up" - Asger Jorn

Perpetual Art Machine be included as part of the 2009 St Petersburg International Cyber Art Festival, November 20-29, at the State Hermitage Museum in Russia. Artists include: Andrey Bartenev, DJ Spooky, ///harvestworks///, Sonic Self and more.

More info at:
http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

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