On view: August 27 - October 12, 2008 Hours:  Mon - Fri, 10am-5pm Sat & Sun, 1pm-5pm Wake Forest Univesity, Winston-Salem, NC Charllote and Phillip Hanes Art Gallery Perpetual Art Machine [PAM] is a living archive of 21st century international video art, featuring thousands of videos created by a global community of video artists that culminates in an immersive interactive video experience. The artist run project was launched in early 2006 by four NY based artists as a means to democratize the curatorial process by inviting both the artists and the viewer/user to participate through live interactive installations and online through [PAM] ’s free community video portal. As a traveling video installation it has been exhibited internationally including the The Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Inido CA, The Robodock Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7 different Scope Art Fairs around the globe, ART|BASEL Miami Beach, The XII International Media Art Biennale, Wrosaw, Poland, and the Chelsea Art Museum, NYC. The installation in the Hanes Art Gallery will include two touch screens controlled by two computers. One screen will allow the viewer to choose from hundreds of keywords such as environment, sadness, experimental, love, etc. Once a word is selected it will bring up to 16 video thumbnails of the related artist videos on the 2nd screen. By touching one of these thumbnails the selected video is then projected full screen on the gallery wall. For more details please visit the Hanes Art Gallery home page Wake Forest Press Release

Additional: Visiting Artist Event Tied to this exhibition will be a visiting artist video screening and talk by Mark Callahan on Thursday, October 2nd in Room 102 between 12 and 1:15pm. Mark Callahan is the Artistic Director of Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), an interdisciplinary initiative for advanced research in the arts at University of Georgia in Athens, and an Instructor in the Digital Media area of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. He is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. Callahan's work has evolved from a traditional printmaking background to experimental multimedia projects. He was commissioned to create a site-specific work for Video Culture: Three Decades of Video Art, a collaboration that joined the forces of eleven institutions in the metro Detroit area to examine video art and its impact on contemporary culture. His work has also been used in concert by R.E.M. as a large-scale video projection .

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