Scope Foundation and Perpetual Art Machine presents A Light at the End of the Tunnel an epic video art trilogy about the human condition, curated by Lee Wells with artwork by: Michael Paulus, Sirrin Mozaffari, Madame X, Den Marino, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Nathania Rubin, Chris Coleman, Bruno Muzzolini, John Criscitello, Miranda Raimondi and Samuel Pellman, Stella Rey, Richard O'Sullivan, Nightmare City, Brit Bunkley, Dana Sederowsky, Francis Coy, Bo Lee, Julieta Maria, Eva Davidova, Jonathan Monaghan, Shiva Lynn Burgos, dNASAb, Fabel Kommunication, Alvin Case, Gratuitous Art Productions, Karl Erickson, Hye Yeon Nam, Celeste Fichter, Yoshiko Kanai, and Pipi SCOPE BASEL 2010 Kaserne Basel - June 15-19   "The Avant Garde Doesn't Give Up" - Asger Jorn 'Increase your necessity so that you may increase your perception.' --13th century Persian Sufi mystic Rumi, quoted by Bill Viola¨ A Light at the End of the Tunnel is an epic video art trilogy about the human condition, including seminal works by 30 international emerging artists chosen based on an open call from over 200 submissions. The concept of life, death and rebirth has followed humanity through the ages as the self and the collective whole passes through time, creating a relative chain of events that could be called the history of universal human experience. Its through all of these varying histories, and a perpetual creative avant garde that continue to seek a move vivid understanding of the interconnectedness of life. Our great quest to solve the questions of our age could be exemplified by one of humankinds greatest achievements at CERN Labs, Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the worlds largest machine. As the scientists at CERN continue to probe the most fundamental questions of life and the origins of the universe, we seek artists that are asking similar big questions in their creative practice and use their creativity to reveal the world in new and unexpected ways. Why are we here? What does it all mean? How is it all relative to art in the 21st century?

Den Marino, The Illustration of Life, 2009

The Waking Hour "To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life." - James Joyce Michael Paulus, Sirrin Mozaffari, Madame X, Den Marino, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Nathania Rubin, Chris Coleman, Bruno Muzzolini

Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Soft Epic or; Savages of the Pacific West, 2008

The Big Sleep "You'll have time to rest when you're dead" - Salvador Dali John Criscitello, Miranda Raimondi and Samuel Pellman, Stella Rey, Richard O'Sullivan, Nightmare City, Brit Bunkley, Dana Sederowsky, Francis Coy, Bo Lee, Julieta Maria, Eva Davidova, Jonathan Monaghan

Shiva Lynn Burgos, A Ramble with Time, 20

The Dreamscape “Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.” - James Dean Shiva Lynn Burgos, dNASAb, Fabel Kommunication, Alvin Case, Gratuitous Art Productions, Karl Erickson, Hye Yeon Nam, Celeste Fichter, Yoshiko Kanai, Pipi Also included will be a special selection of videos organized by artist/curator Laurence Billiet of Babelgum.com. The entire video program will be premeiring online at Babelgum to coinside with the opening of Scope Basel 2010. For more information please see www.scope-art.com.

Kaserne Basel Klybeckstr. 1b CH - 4057 Basel June 15-19 2010 FirstView FirstView for all VIPs or 100 CHF donation at the door benefiting the SCOPE Foundation Tuesday | June 15 | 3 - 7pm PressView | Tuesday | June 15 | 3 - 7pm rsvp to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it About the Curator Lee Wells is an artist, independent curator and consultant currently living and working in New York. His artwork and projects primarily question systems of power and control and have been exhibited internationally for over 15 years, including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Kimpo International Airport, WRO07 XII Media Biennial, PS1/MoMA, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and Hermitage Museum in addition to numerous art fairs, festivals and galleries. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, an alternative curitorial program and nomadic gallery and since 2006, a co-founder of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine and has been a SCOPE Curator at Large since 2005. www.leewells.org About SCOPE Foundation SCOPE’S continued mission is to turn viewers into users. Since 2007, SCOPE International Art Fair is proud to announce the launch of the SCOPE Foundation, whose mandate is to help emerging contemporary artists, through grants, awards, and acquisitions. SCOPE is dedicated to not only supporting the international emerging artistic community, but local schools and not-for-profit arts institutions. www.scope-art.com About Babelgum.com A free, revolutionary Internet and Mobile TV platform supported by advertising, Babelgum combines the full-screen video quality of traditional television with the interactive capabilities of the Internet and offers professionally produced programming on-demand to a global audience. Founded in 2005, Babelgum's goal is to act as an international 'glue', bringing a huge range of professional and semi-professional content to a global audience – like a modern-day Tower of Babel. The bubble logo is a fun visual pun on the company name, but also reflects Babelgum's commitment to a green, global future. www.babelgum.com Special thanks to all of the great artists that submitted work. Thank you for being a part of PAM.

Verge Art Fair New York 2010, 4-7 March The Dylan Hotel, 52 East 41st Street Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) The Artist Meeting Art Machine(SM) is a hacked together custom fine art dispensing device inspired by self service kiosks, Japanese automats, slot machines, ATM's, juke boxes, shopping malls and carnival games. An anarchists automat of sorts, The Art Machine(SM) creates a fun and accessible means for the public to engage with original 21st century avant-garde artwork and acquire it at recession level pricing. Artist Meeting is able to do this through intentionally undervaluing its products, cutting out the middle-man and automating the process of valuation, choice and the art of the sale. The Art Machine(SM) creates a subtle critique on capitalism and the art world and changes the art buying experience for the viewer. It is an art market hack. The Art Machine(SM) will dispense an assortment of custom made objects and drawings via a $20 token operated system of mechanical and digital modules embedded in a 10 x 8 foot transparent plastic wall. The Art Machine(SM) process will randomly alternate between a drawing module and object module dispensing various AM art objects such as AM t-shirts and underwear, DIY intervention kits, AM 'Zines, photo books, digital prints, and other small artworks and ephemera the member artists have created for this project including over 300 feet of collaborative mixed media drawing. For more information goto: http://www.vergeartfair.com/events_NYC10.html

ARTISTS MEETING MARKET WATCH Saturday, March 6 - 1PM Organized by Lee Wells, IFAC Arts, with G.H. Hovagimyan and others TBA Artists Meeting members G.H. Hovagimyan and Lee Wells are joined by special guests for an open discussion on the effects of the market on artistic production, marketing and making a living in the 21st century "All an artist needs is a poet and a patron." - Charles Baudelaire. "We are not dead yet, so buy now" - Lee Wells Baudelaire supported his poetry habit by writing art criticism. There are two external parts to the mechanics of art: The first is the theoretical and/or linguistic analysis (the contextualizing) of an artwork and the second is the financial support for artworks by a patron. This second dynamic is especially interesting because the patron's demand always influences the artwork. It follows that artists must generate their own criticism and capitalize their own work if they are to advance beyond this established mechanic. One resolution to this situation is the need for artists to create their own segment of the market, in which they can control the critical discourse and re-assert the rigorous values of their own practices. One might begin this project by deconstructing various aspects of the art market and the artist's means of production, then proposing alternative ways to approach art making and the art market. For example, the art market is most comfortable with a brand name artist and a signature style. Working in collaborative artists groups can be a counteractive methodology more in tune with 21st Century networked culture. The analysis of the money transactions surrounding art is also a subject for expanded invention. A perennial subject among artists is how to get money to sustain their practice. Thus, de-emphasizing the art object and focusing on the entire creative process provides an alternative way to expand the idea of both the market and the contextualizing of an artwork. Under this set of guidelines, the issue becomes not what type of art an artist produces but rather how the production process itself facilitates the evolution of a creative project; how one solves the problems of making art and being an artist. For more information goto: http://www.vergeartfair.com/Verge_NYC_Conversations.html   ABOUT ARTISTS MEETING Artists Meeting is an international, semi-anonymous arts collective based in New York City. Begun in 2006, as a research project and experiment in collaboration and the creative process, Artists Meeting has participated numerous events including; Conflux, Pulse Miami, Dokfest, the Dumbo Arts Festival and Postmasters Gallery. Artists Meeting members have exhibited their work in many major museums around the world including; MoMA, The Whitney Museum, Jeu du Paume, SF MoMA, Musée D'Art Contemporain de Marseille, The Walker Art Center, Musée D'art, Contemporain de Lyon, PS1, The State Hermitage Museum and MCA Chicago. ABOUT VERGE Verge is an international platform for the most exciting and interesting in new and emerging art. Verge exists to establish boundaries of the extraordinary as a counter to the natural compulsion towards stagnation in the way art is evaluated and delivered to the public. Staying true to this necessary state for the advancement of art requires a sustained focus on the best new ideas and practices of those marginal or newly emerging to international art audiences. The satisfaction of this fixed requirement for a healthy and competitive artistic culture is at the core of Verge as an international exposition of the highest quality artistic production and the galleries, museums and audiences who sustain it. PROFESSIONAL PREVIEW Thursday, March 4, 2010, Noon to 6:00 pm PLEASE NOTE: Admission to the Professional Preview is given to press and VIP (both Verge, Armory Show and Volta cards are accepted) cardholders only. The Opening Night Preview is for those cardholders and for paid public admission. OPENING NIGHT PREVIEW RECEPTION Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6:00 to 10:00 pm FOR MORE INFORMATION GOTO: www.vergeartfair.com

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Color Variations, in collaboration with Maria Joao Salema 24 painted wood panels, 24 inch lcd screen, computer, video, strobe light. Site specific installation

system:system A failing economy has decided the recent fate of 21 Monitor Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Formerly a nun’s convent, the grand three-story house now stands uninhabited due to the declining membership of St. Cecilia parish and its sister school. Rather than let the building fall into disrepair the parish has found ways to breathe new life into it through a rotating schedule of film shoots, screenings, dance performances, and art exhibitions. Taking its cue from the friends-of-friends network that has allowed access to 21 Monitor Street, system:system is a three-day event that reflects on the nature of associations between parts of a whole. The title is a play on the term “complex systems,” which are characterized by their connections and tendencies toward unpredictable behavior. The organizing of this event evokes these qualities and embraces the small world phenomenon of strangers being linked through minimal degrees of separation to form a dynamic structure. The unoccupied nun’s living quarters will now showcase work that experiments with the building up and/or breaking down of systems: mathematical, scientific, social, economic, and otherwise. Much like the social and economic factors responsible for this event, the behavior between the separate elements—artistic interventions and performances—will result in an atmosphere of emergent interconnectedness. The act of creating artistic content in a temporary context will feature prominently, remaining true to the fluid way in which these works were executed. Curated by Adam Henry and Christina Vassallo (random number) Participating Artists Abby Manock, Adam Henry, Anya Kielar, Arthur Ou, Chris Dorland, Curver Thoroddsen, David Brooks, Derick Melander, [dNASAb], Emily Mae Smith, eTeam, Ethan Breckenridge, Francesca DiMattio, Gandalf Gavan, Garth Weiser, Ian Davis, Inna Babaeva, Jeff Konigsberg, Johannes VanDerBeek, Kai Vierstra, Lisha Bai, Maria João Salema & Lee Wells, Marius Watz, Matthew Monteith, Matthew Schenning, Melissa Brown, Meridith Pingree, Mike Hein, MiYoung Sohn, Nika Sarabi, Peter Kirn, Phil Vanderhyden, Saira McLaren, Skyler Brickley, SOFTlab, Studio Mode, Suzanne Song, Tom Brauer, Yeni Mao Information Opening reception: Friday, Oct 23, 7pm – 10pm with performances by Matamoros and New Idea Society / after party at The Richardson, 451 Graham Ave, BK Additional Performance: Saturday Oct 24, 8 pm / Bonnie Pipkin Presents “By Virtue Guarded and Manners Graced…A Game of Exquisite Corpse” Hours: Friday Oct 23, 7 pm – 10 pm Sat & Sun Oct 24 – 25, noon – 6 pm Sat & Sun Oct 31 – Nov 1, noon – 6 pm and by appointment by calling: 718.666.8906 Location: St. Cecilia’s Convent, 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn, NY Who is responsible? Making something out of nothing Super Square was born from a tanked economy and focuses on the creative use of available resources for presenting art exhibitions. A nomadic project, Super Square organizes events that emphasize the creation of site-responsive art in unoccupied spaces. Super Square is comprised of a core group of art professionals and maintains an openness to collaborative efforts. Who made it possible? Sponsored by The Richardson, the official after party venue. Support for system:system is generously provided by Brooklyn Brewery, the exclusive beer sponsor of the exhibition. Website provided by Arlo/Artists for Super Square. Special thanks to St. Cecilia RC Parish & Father Jim Krische, Jose Gonzalez, Claire Sexton, Lee Wells, Suzanne Song. Press Flavorwire: sneak peek Art Fag City: Open Through Nov 1 vertexlistblog: systemsystem core.form-ula: event Vice: preview of exquisite corpse performance

presents: Manhattan Bridge in Red Green and Blue

RANDOM NUMBER IN PUBLIC SPACES BRIGHT NIGHTS Participating artists: Burak Arikan, Motomichi Nakamura, Marius Watz, Lee Wells Curator: Christina Vassallo An evening of projections on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in DUMBO, Brooklyn presented by Random Number through the NYCDOT Urban Art Program. Bright Nights is a curated program of digital artwork that celebrates the projected image, draws attention to the iconic architecture of the Manhattan Bridge, and electrifies the arts friendly DUMBO neighborhood. The program will be projected onto the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, to coincide with the 100th birthday of the bridge and the 10th annual Walk21 conference. Four Brooklyn-based artists created new works that interpret the unique physical, spatial, and historical components of the bridge. The artists were chosen for their ability to energize a public space, in celebration of the major thoroughfare’s 100th birthday. Please join us in this exciting event! For more information CLICK HERE

Sponsored by Two Trees. Supported by NYC Department of Transportation as part of the Arterventions program track, Dumbo Improvement District & NYC Bridge Centennial Commission. Equipment provided by Rooftop Films.

{CTS} Creative Thriftshop in conjunction with the Williamsburg Gallery Association is proud to present 7 in 6: Space vs. Time. As part of Williamsburg Walks 2009, various experimental and time-based acts will take place on the block between North 4th and North 5th of Bedford Avenue in the heart of the neighborhood. The event will unite artists and the public for a uniquely collaborative and reflective moment in performance and interactive installation art. As a block party takeover 7 in 6 will initialize or re-invent seven improvisational events and happenings reminiscent of spectacular or simple acts of life meeting art from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. From self-conscious reflection to arbitrary action, artists such as Fanny Allié’s uniquely interactive note taking exemplify such efforts. Her project will represent the fleeting thoughts of the casual passerby or bystander, resulting in a collection of these momentary self-reminders. Also looking at the written word, reviving the text-based statements of acts conceptually initiated by Lawrence Weiner, bootlegger artist Eric Doeringer recreates these typographic statements upon the walls and sidewalks of Bedford Avenue. Language defines performance, as the vinyl lettering becomes a representation of the act through the absence of action. As a more physical work, in a re-staging of Yves Klein’s Anthropometries, Madeline Hatz localizes this performance that came to life in 1960, imprinting her own body upon a surface in the full drama of Yves Klein Blue paint. Stop by Filip Noterdaeme’s ongoing performance of ‘Admit One’ presented by the Homeless Museum of Art. Noterdaeme conceptualizes a museum without white walls or divisions from the public domain, framing the city’s homeless as the permanent collection. Visit the ticket booth for free admission, or take a moment to chat with the director regarding your eligibility for entrance. Adding to layers of appropriation, artist Lee Wells will re-address George Maciunas interpretation of Philip Corner’s Piano Activities. Wells’ adapts this gradual destruction of a piano that was originally performed at the First Fluxus festival in Wiesbaden, Germany. This act evolves over the course of the day, inviting onlookers to partake in the ruin of an instrument, reducing something of value to an arbitrary found object. What remains, are only fragments and remnants that represent something lost or erased in their discarded debris. On the contrary, Amanda Browder will bring the makings of Future Phenomena to public grounds, a fabric-sewn facade that will encase a Brooklyn building as an installation on display in the neighborhood later in the year. Browder’s project becomes a communal gesture, redefining the scale and use of discarded objects and materials as they transform into another abstract purpose. In a revival of Nigel Rolfe’s 1985 “Rope Piece: The rope that binds us makes us free”, artist Genevieve White also uses material as a central device. The artist will bind certain body parts with the intent of an isolation and reduction of the senses. Overall the block will unite these seven distinct projects that build or decay over time, evolving over six hours and occurring independently within this shared space. Alongside this day’s art events the Williamsburg Gallery Association is hosting a creative time kids corner with the sponsorship of artist team Streb & Spread and the Greenpoint YMCA. Not to be missed is a walking tour of the neighborhood’s most cutting-edge art galleries, led by art critic and art tour guide Merrily Kerr. A writer and trendspotter for magazines including Time Out New York and Flash Art, Merrily will take you to see the artwork and exhibitions that make Williamsbug a must-see for art lovers and the art-curious alike. The last tour is this Saturday, June 11 at 2pm. The tours leave from the WGA table on Bedford Avenue near North 5th Street and will last approximately 1.5 hours. Tickets are just $10 and can be purchased prior to the tour at the WGA table on Bedford Ave. ### www.creativethriftshop.com www.rawmag.org For additional information, a price list, hi-rez images, and/or an artist press kit, please contact Lisa Hedge at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or (718) 569.0903.

Freedom Club, the movie trailer from Lee Wells on Vimeo.

OTO Presents SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP by Artists Meeting A one night event @ Over The Opening (OTO) Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:00pm - 10:00pm 60 North 6th, 2nd floor Williamsburg Brooklyn SOAP BOX OPERA WORKSHOP is a project developed by the collective Artists Meeting. Honing in on the dramaturgy of theory, the group has adapted excerpts from a variety of scholarly and art-theory-based texts from different eras and genres to a “Soap Opera” filmic format whereby plots are reduced to one liners, drama is played out in an exaggerated manner and scenes rely on emotional turmoil and ambiguity to capture the distracted viewer. Project Curators: James Andrews, Raphaele Shirley, Olga Lysenko Excerpts of Arthur Rimbaud, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Andy Warhol directed by Raphaele Shirley Excerpts of Guy Debord and Ted Kaczynski directed by Lee Wells Featuring performances by Caraid O’Brien, Edita Zulic, Aaron Beall, Randolph Curtis Rand, George Spaeth, G.H. Hovagimyan, Lee Wells Special Thanks to: MTAA, Gia Forakis, Lanna Joffrey, G.H. Hovagimyan FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE

ONE NIGHT STAND : ANONYMOUS ART SHOW What would do if you could do anything you wanted and knew you could get away with it? 20 artists from New York, London, and Rome, working in a variety of media were posed this same question.  They were asked to make works in which they banished self-censorship and were encouraged to make art that provokes, annoys, and insights outrage. By wearing the mask of anonymity they could put any feelings of consequence aside.  The artists, in turn, made works that confronted racism, homophobia, unpatriotic acts, and the sexually taboo. Saturday April 11, 2009 at  Envoy Enterprises for this one night show. Gallery open between 12pm - 8pm Opening reception 6pm - 8pm with performance by Tough Slutting at 8 pm at  Home Sweet Home (directly bellow the gallery) After party and continued fun at HOME SWEET HOME until 4 am envoy enterprises 131 Chrystie Street, ground floor New York, NY 10002 212.226.4555 http://www.envoyenterprises.com http://envoy.typepad.com

Second Front - Russian Roulette Casino Royale with Cheese!, 2007

дрейф  / DRIFT Сверх-Новое время - Ничто не является тем - SUPERMODERN - Nothing is what it seems Curated by Lee Wells October 16 November 16, 2008 Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (as part of In Transition Russia 2008) November 10-23, 2008 National Centre For Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow November 28 - December 28, 2008 National Centre For Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow (as part of In Transition Russia 2008) Artists Include: AES+F Group (Moscow), Jeremy Blake (New York), Cao Fei (Beijing), Carlos Amorales (Mexico City), Chris Borkowski (New York), Stewart Home (London), Christina McPhee (Los Angeles), Mark Tribe (New York), OZhang O (Beijing / New York) Perry Bard (New York), [PAM] Perpetual Art Machine (Brooklyn), Second Front (International), Robert Adanto (Los Angeles) Organized by the artist and curator Lee Wells, DRIFT brings together a unique comparison of some of today’s most engaging top young contemporary video and Internet artists who all infuse their work with a strong socio-cultural critique. They focus on how communications and media technologies have opened a space for video and new media to speak openly to a spectacle of uncontrolled influences and the myriad of ideas that infiltrate our minds-eye in our ever-growing info-sphere. DRIFT, investigates video artists navigating the psychological liberation and isolation brought about through new global cultural and technological advancements in the 21st century. The thirteen works selected for Drift together tell a story that is both fact and fiction, real and virtual. Not so much a theme show but a meta-narrative reflecting humanity’s essential nature in a time of incredible change. The works define a new mythology, beyond nostalgia and postmodern speculation. A document of everyday life very different from Vertov’s vision, yet so similar in structure and influence. Almost a century later, these artists, a new global avant-garde, bring us fragments of a 21st century epic, all of them, searching for a deeper truth in the maelstrom of the western spectacle. To download a detailed PDF of the DRIFT program CLICK HERE For more detailed information on DRIFT and the artist involved please visit, http://www.ncca.ru or http://www.leewells.org. Contact: Alisa Prudnikova – This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Lee Wells – This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it / +1 917 723 2524

I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT MY VIDEO INSTALLATION "AND THEY TOOK TO THE STREETS" WILL BE FEATURED AS PART OF THIS EXCITING EXHIBITION OPENING OCTOBER 16, 2008 IN THE CITY OF EKATERINBURG IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008 - International Exhibition Presented by Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation, National Center for Contemporary Art (Ekaterinburg, Moscow) , NEME (Cyprus) , Ural State University and the Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art Curated by Helene Black (Cyprus), Sheila Pinkel (USA), Alisa Prudnikova (Russia), Ksenia Fedorova (Russia) Neme/NCCA invited guest curator Lee Wells (USA) October 16 – December 22, 2008 Ekaterinburg and Moscow,  Russia IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008 will present the work by more than 125 artists from 40 different countries in-cluding such established artists as Peter Lyssiotis, Cao Fei, Jeremy Blake, AES+F Group, Shaun Wilson, Rob Chiu and Chris Hewitt, Jeremy Hight, Sylvia de Swaan and others. The exhibition presents the variety of artistic interpretations of “transition” as social, political, philosophical and cul-tural phenomenon. In the epoch of ubiquitous movement, advanced communication and media technology the ques-tions of national, cultural, and religious identity are particularly urgent. What is challenged is the very possibility of one’s authentic being. “In Transition” suggests a feeling of being suspended in a world which is constantly trans-forming itself. As a both spatial and temporal phenomenon it implies a potential transit – a dream of the spaces of free-dom beyond multilayered hierarchies – socio-political, cultural, psychological. The project continues international exhibition and lecture program ‘In Transition Cyprus’ organized by NeMe in October 2006 in Limassol (for details see www.neme-imca.org). Being an ongoing mission the project will be updat-ing and expanding both geographically and in content. Thus, new perspectives on “transition” will be collected and presented in Berlin and Los Angeles in 2009 and 2010 consequently. For more information CLICK HERE