Perpetual Motion

Foundational media art curator Barbara London’s First streaming-on-demand exhibition explores technological change, mass media, and the universality of moving images in contemporary art.​

Perpetual Motion explores how the nonstop technological change permeating daily life impacts the dynamic activity of contemporary artists. In the continuously evolving domain where interdisciplinary crossovers occur within the fields of film, video, music, sound, and performance, innovative use of the latest audiovisual tools is the new normal. Moreover, the moving image is one of the most vital art forms, and has become ubiquitous on smartphones, viewed in compressed durations, in tandem with shortened attention spans. ​

The ten moving image works featured in this exhibition range between two and eleven minutes in length. Drawn from this ever evolving, inventive field of media art, each of the videos engages and inspires. In this moment of recalibration, new ideas about society and community have come to the fore. The selected works leave the viewer with as many questions as answers, which is what all art should do.

Participating artists include Kamari Carter, Richard Garet, Bang Geul Han, Cornelia Parker, Wong Ping, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Aki Sasamoto, Joey Skaggs, Federico Solmi, and Claudix Vanesix.

Perpetual Motion will be available for streaming on PAMMTV where viewers around the world are able to access cutting-edge vide art through their web browsers, mobile phones, tablets, or Apple TV.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website