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 Borkowski, 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

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Artists include the following international and local artists as well as members of the Video Art Collective [PAM]: Jonathan Aseron (Austin, TX) Artur Augustynowicz (Toronto, Canada) [PAM artist] Christopher Borkowski (New York, NY) [PAM artist] SunTek Chung (Richmond, VA) Bailie Duncan (Austin, TX) [PAM artist] Bidzina Kanchaveli (Berlin, Germany) Dietmar Krumery (Detroit, MI) [PAM artist] Robert Melton (Austin, TX) Lisa Marie Thalhammer (Washington, DC) Per Eriksson (Stockholm, Sweden) Joseph Winchester (Austin, TX) Lanneau White (Austin, TX) [PAM artist] Amelia Winger-Bearskin (Nashville, TN) [PAM artist] Meat Market Gallery is pleased to present TIME MACHINE, a selection of trans-media works from the online international video collective Perpetual Art Machine [PAM], curated by PAM 'Artist at Large' Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Winger-Bearskin's careful selection of video works, time-based objects and sound pieces transform the gallery space into a time machine ready to steal moments of your time and store them for future generations.  Access the future, see the recorded past and donate your time. Every moment that is consumed during the course of this show will be given to the international consortium for the preservation of time well spent. The front gallery features a video portal, a time capsule and other objects from past and future.  In the rear gallery, viewers will find a compaction of three years of performance art, archived through a residue of sound. An interactive performance at the exhibition's opening on June 6 will utilize the manufactured darkness of the gallery space to ease the audience into what can only be described as a contraction of time and space.  Spelunk around the gallery and find the hidden gems. Be prepared, these works will make time travelers of us all. Viewers beware - this is an out of control time machine.  Who knows where you might end up. Meat Market Gallery 1636 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20009

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