Perpetual art machine
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Perpetual Art Machine was founded in New York
in January 2006 by 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 open source
CMS
and DAM
software such as Joomla and Gallery2, streaming video technologies and custom software developed in Max/MSP and Jitter, as well as MySQL
, PAM has become a video art
portal on the internet. Since its first installation in at the Scope New York art fair in March 2006 PAM has grown via its web site into a free community of more than 900 artists from over 50 countries and consists of over 1000 video art works on-line and in its interactive video installation
. PAM has featured a number of notable video artists, including Lev Manovich
, Janet Biggs
, and John Criscitello
.
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
in January 2006 by artists Chris Borkowski, Aaron M. Miller, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells
Lee Wells
Lee Wells is an artist, independent curator, as well as a technology and art consultant currently living and working New York. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, and Co-Founder of Perpetual art machine, [PAM]...
in collaboration with Alexis Hubshman, president of the Scope art fair
Scope art fair
SCOPE Art Show is one of several global contemporary art fairs. The first fair featured 28 booths of galleries representing emerging artists. The art fairs are now held annually in New York, Miami, East Hampton, London, and Basel, each presenting between 60 and 100 exhibitors...
. Through the use of open source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
CMS
Content management system
A content management system is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based...
and DAM
Digital asset management
Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets...
software such as Joomla and Gallery2, streaming video technologies and custom software developed in Max/MSP and Jitter, as well as MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
, PAM has become a video art
Video art
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...
portal on the internet. Since its first installation in at the Scope New York art fair in March 2006 PAM has grown via its web site into a free community of more than 900 artists from over 50 countries and consists of over 1000 video art works on-line and in its interactive video installation
Video installation
Video installation is a contemporary art form that combines video technology with installation art, making use of all aspects of the surrounding environment to affect the audience. Tracing its origins to the birth of video art in the 1970s, it has increased in popularity as digital video production...
. PAM has featured a number of notable video artists, including Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is an author of new media books, professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, U.S. and European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches new media art and theory, software studies, and digital humanities...
, Janet Biggs
Janet Biggs
Janet Biggs is an American video artist, photographer and performance artist living in New York City.Biggs' video works often include images of individuals engaged in obsessive and extreme activities. She has worked with miners underground, champion wrestlers, speed-obsessed bikers, synchronized...
, and John Criscitello
John Criscitello
John Criscitello is a multimedia video artist currently residing in Seattle, Washington. Criscitello studied visual art at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York. He has exhibited his work internationally in both solo and group exhibitions...
.
Contributing members
- Rody Douzoglou
- Donna Graham
- Kath Gray
- Prescott Mckee
- Eric Payson
- Miroslaw RogalaMiroslaw RogalaMiroslaw Rogala is a Polish-American video artist and interactive artist, known for performances and installations that challenge man's relationship to nature and to his fellow man...