Announcement

Stream Media Art From Latin America, the Caribbean, and the African Diaspora on PAMMTV

Pérez Art Museum Miami’s new free streaming platform for video art fills gaps in moving image scholarship from the global majority.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

July 16, 2024 — 2 min read

Patssi Valdez, “Hot Pink” (1980–83) video, with sound, transferred from hand dyed black and white 8mm film, 5:45 minutes (© Patssi Valdez; image courtesy the artist)

Whether hosting a party or searching for something to watch on your commute, PAMMTV’s innovative video programming livens up any space. Anyone in the world can access museum-quality video art by visiting www.pamm.tv and creating an account.

Presenting 35 video works in five exhibitions throughout summer 2024, PAMMTV, the new streaming platform from Pérez Art Museum Miami, examines the evolution of media art from Miami, Mexico, Colombia, Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Chile, Jamaica, Brazil, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, St. Maarten, Guatemala, Cuba, and beyond.

biarritzzz, “Onde Está Mymye Mastroiagnne? (Where is Mymye Mastroiagnne?)” (2023), digital color video, with sound, 16:33 minutes (© biarritzzz; image courtesy the artist)

This summer, PAMMTV delves into a collection of shapeshifting video art co-curated with TONO, a new festival for video and performance art out of Mexico City. TONO x PAMMTV Selects explores how bodies transform across natural, supernatural, and virtual spaces. Participating artists biarritzzz, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Seba Calfuqueo, Leo Castañeda, Cristóbal Cea, Colectivo Ixqcrear, Edny Jean Joseph, (La)Horde, Carlos Motta, Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Agnes Questionmark, and Tania Ximena peer into the cell and the pixel, bursting discrete definitions of a body.

Lorna Mills, “Wnrwnrchickndnr” (2016), single-channel animated GIF collage, no sound, 1:44 minute. (© Lorna Mills; image courtesy the artist and TRANSFER)

PAMMTV continues to explore the interconnectedness of the virtual and the natural world with Sea Change, a survey of digital art that addresses accelerating changes across climate, culture, and time. Featuring a diverse array of artworks, from Alfredo Salazar-Caro's meditation on the Mexica pantheon to Lorna Mills’s animated GIF collages, Sea Change presents an international selection of time-based media artists alongside five new commissions from Miami and its regional neighbors. Featured artists include LaTurbo Avedon, Fabiola Larios, Cassie McQuater, Lorna Mills, Harvey Moon, Eva Papamargariti, Alfredo Salazar-Caro, Nicolas Sassoon and Rick Silva, and Rodell Warner.

The latest exhibition in the museum’s streaming gallery, Xican-a.o.x. Body on PAMMTV, highlights conceptual, experimental, and pioneering works from the late 1960s to the present that enlighten our understanding of Xicanx art and culture. Artists Liz Cohen, Frances Salomé España, Justin Favela, Patssi Valdez, and José Villalobos address ideas around performance, car culture, and body politics in unique, intergenerational ways.

Vashni Korin, “You Can’t Stop Spirit” (2021), color video, with sound, 16:13 minutes (© Vashni Korin; image courtesy the artist)

PAMMTV has also partnered with Third Horizon Film Festival to showcase a celebration of formally radical and politically aware cinema from the Caribbean and its ever-expanding diaspora. In Third Horizon Presents, artists Annabelle Aventurin, Lisa Danker Kritzer, Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Vashni Korin, and Esery Mondesir embrace the layered complexity of Caribbean identity while understanding representation is not merely an end in itself.

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Pérez Art Museum Miami’s digital initiatives are funded in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.