Join us on Wednesday, December 6 at 2pm to celebrate the opening of Perpetual Motion: A PAMMTV Exhibition Curated by Barbara London during Miami Art Week at Pérez Art Museum Miami. Participate as Makayla Bailey, Tara Long, and Barbara London provide live commentary over video art from this streaming-on-demand exhibition, exploring how technological change, mass media, and the universality of moving images impact the activity of contemporary video artists.
The conversation will be moderated by PAMMTV Program Manager, Lauren Monzón. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in American Sign Language (ASL), Haitian Creole, and Spanish. Additionally, all videos from Perpetual Motion are free to watch on PAMMTV.
Perpetual Motion 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.
About the Curator
Barbara London is an internationally acclaimed curator and writer with a practice that revolves around media, installation, and sound art produced internationally. Recent projects include the survey exhibition Dara Birnbaum, curated for the Prada Foundation, Milan (2023); Seeing Sound (Independent Curators International, 2020-26); the podcast series, “Barbara London Calling” 2020-2024; and Video Art: The First Fifty Years, published by Phaidon in 2020.
London joined the curatorial staff at The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1970s, where she founded the video exhibition and collection programs. While at MoMA, she organized numerous media exhibitions and one-person shows, and led the acquisition of works by such artists as Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Zhang Peili, and many others. Her thematic shows included Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Music Video: The Industry and Its Fringes, Looking at Music, and Video from Tokyo to Fukui and Kyoto. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogues and publications. She was the first to integrate the Internet as part of curatorial practice, with Stir-fry (1994), adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/; Internyet (1998); and dot.jp. (1999.) She has taught in the sound art department at Columbia University, and in the graduate art department at Yale, from 2014-2019.
About the Panelists
Makayla Bailey is the Co-Executive Director of Rhizome at the New Museum. Bailey has held curatorial positions at MoMA and The Studio Museum in Harlem, where she co-organized the institution’s first digital exhibition, titled “Hearts in Isolation.” Bailey’s work has been featured in Artforum, ArtNews, Frieze, Harper’s Bazaar, Hyperallergic, PIN-UP, Essence, and i-D Magazine. Her current research spans environment, ethical stewardship of emerging technologies, and the creation of an equitable historical accounting of born-digital art.
Tara Long is a Miami artist known for her work in performance, video, software development, AI, and installation. Her creative journey is deeply rooted in the exploration of self-identity, a response to early orphanhood trauma. Long employs various personas, deconstructs and reconstructs origin stories, and uses surrogates to magnify facets of her identity. Long recently introduced “F4EDRA,” a pink dolphin cyborg humanoid AI, developed with OpenAI software, representing a new chapter in her journey of self-discovery and reinvention. She has exhibited and performed internationally at MOMA PS1, New York; Artists Space, New York; International Noise Conference, Miami; ICA Miami, Miami; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Melange Gallery, Köln, Germany; III Points Music Festival, Miami; Primary Projects, Miami; Fair. at Brickell City Centre, Miami, and is currently a resident artist at the Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami.
