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Overview

Perpetual Art Machine is a community for video artists, curators, writers, therorist, educators, collectors, and enthusiasts.

Perpetual Art Machine is an on line gallery and database of video art.

Perpetual Art Machine is a traveling video installation.

The website feeds our installation machines. Both the database and video content work together at exhibition venues displaying works simultaneously and individually. The works play off each other, informing each other by association or differenciation, highlighting through the display system their individual qualities.

Please Read our Perpetual Art Machine Prospectus.pdf 577.89 Kb if you are interested to find out more or would like to bring the [PAM] installation to your venue.

The [PAM] Process:

1. Artists submit QuickTime movies to the PAM website, along with keywords that describe their movies.

2. The movies are organized according to their keywords and additional keywords given by the curators.

3. The keywords are put into a MySql database, so that a movie can be looked up based on any keyword associated with it.

4. When PAM is in auto-curate mode, it will group movies together based on similar keywords and associations.

5. Once PAM has collected a group of movies it displays them in a grid of up to 16 videos projected into the installation space.

6. When the current group of movies has finished playing, or if PAM decides to stop them, a new group of movies replaces the former group.

7. This new group of movies is based on associations between the keywords in the former and the new group.

8. At times, PAM may decide to highlight an individual movie (based it's relevance to the sequence of chosen keywords or another curatorial decision) by playing it in full-screen mode.

9. PAM's interactive user interface station allows users to circumvent the curatorial decision making processes through a duel touch screen display system.

10. When a user steps up into the interface station, PAM acknowledges their presence and the touch screens becomes active, allowing the user interact with [PAM].

11. The first user interface controls the keywords PAM will use to choose the movies, second user interface allows the user to choose which movies to play in full-screen mode. Once chosen, the video will play in its entirety and upon completion will be replaced by another video.

12. When the user steps away from the user interface station, [PAM] thanks them for taking part and the process returns to auto-curate mode after the last fullscreen selection has finished. 

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