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19/7/2001

Video Jam

PBICA, Lake Worth, FL

From July 14. Palm Beach Institute of Contempory Art celebrates the vibrancy of international video art with the exhibition Video Jam. The museum will overflow, literally, with video monitors and projectors in every corner. More than 50 artists from primarily the United States, but also Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Scotland, will be represented in this media extravaganza. The exhibition is curated by PBICA Director Michael Rush and Galen Joseph-Hunter of Electronic Arts Intermix in New York.


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Palm Beach Institute of Contempory Art celebrates the vibrancy of international video art with the exhibition VIDEO JAM July 14-August 19. The museum will overflow, literally, with video monitors and projectors in every corner. More than 50 artists from primarily the United States, but also Argentina, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Sweden and Scotland, will be represented in this media extravaganza. The exhibition is curated by PBICA Director Michael Rush and Galen Joseph-Hunter of Electronic Arts Intermix in New York.

Like all art, video is a vessel for personal expression, for critical argument and for engaging ideas. It is a recording practice that represents, selects and constructs a reality -- all according to the dictates of the transforming eye of the artist. It is photography that performs -- painting that moves.

"The legitimacy and authority of video as a coequal medium of artistic expression, along with painting and sculpture, is no longer open to debate at mainstream art and educational institutions," said PBICA Director and co-curator Michael Rush. "It is, in fact, rare to encounter a survey of contemporary art that does not feature a video component or a comprehensive studio art program that does not include video in its curriculum. Video, now fully integrated into the vocabularies of both the artist and the viewer, has broken free from the screening room and confidently entered the gallery."

The works included in VIDEO JAM represent the eclectic spectrum of content and form being addressed by video artists today. Works by John Pilson, Phyllis Baldino, Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns, for example, reflect the perceived velocity of contemporary life. Works by Seoungho Cho and Will Rogan reflect upon nature, making use of video as an expressive tool with which to create poetic images -- just as with the stroke of a paintbrush. Others, such as those by Les Leveque, Seth Price, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy appropriate images as part of an investigation of mass media, sometimes re-identifying familiar images to convey a social critique. All these artists recognize that they are participants in a larger common culture, and they have all determined to examine its character with a video camera.

The artists in VIDEO JAM represent the newest generation of artists for whom digital technology has opened another chapter in the history of art. Hand-held cameras and new editing software have radically simplified the process of making art with the moving image. What has not changed, however, is the centrality of the idea. Simply having tools does not mean that what one does with them will be interesting. Solid ideas remain crucial to the making of art worthy of the viewer¹s attention.

Though no theme has governed the choice of the video art in VIDEO JAM certain similarities with early video art, such as an emphasis on performance and lyrical beauty are in evidence. The work of pioneers Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman and Mary Lucier, to name but a few, find echoes in some of the work being made today.

The story of video art embraces all significant art forms of recent times: abstraction, conceptual art, minimal art, performance art, pop art, photography, and digital art. According to co-curator Galen Joseph-Hunter, video art "is photography that performs -- painting that moves."

"We wanted to have some fun with the ubiquitous nature of video technology," said Rush. "You really can¹t go anywhere anymore without being recorded by a camera or having a moving image distract you. For that reason, there is an intentional excess of work here."

Curated by Michael Rush and Galen Joseph-Hunter

On Thursday, July 26th, at 6:30 pm John Pilson will lecture on his body of video work. Pilson was one of four young artists awarded special prizes at this summer's Venice Biennale.


VIDEO JAM ARTIST LIST

Adam Ames
Adriana Arenas Ilian
Phyllis Baldino
Robert Beck
Skip Blumberg
Torsten Zenas Burns & Darrin Martin
Patty Chang
Seoungho Cho
Beth Coleman & Howard Goldcarnd
Nathan Corbin
Anthony Discenza
Cheryl Donegan
Sam Easterson
Omer Fast
Max Goldfarb
Ursula Hodel
Amy Jenkins
Justine Kurland
Les Leveque
Kristin Lucas
Maria Marshall
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Anne McGuire
Nurit Newman
Nic Nicosia
Alix Pearlstein
Leighton Pierce
John Pilson
William Pope. L
Seth Price
Jennifer Reeder
Ben Riesman
Will Rogan
Ira Schneider
Kiki Seror
Shelly Silver
Smith & Stewart
Grace Weir

Museum hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6 p.m., and the first and third Fridays from 12 p.m.- 8 p.m.

Images:
1. Shelly Silver, "1" 2001;
2. Robert Beck, "Nine Years Later (Panic)(Remix)" 1996/2001;
3. Phyllis Baldino, "16 minutes lost" 2000;
4. William Pope. L, "Budapest Crawl: The Black Sports Body In Europe" 2000;
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601 Lake Avenue in Lake Worth
Florida
T: 561-582-0006

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