Entre la piedra y la flor (”Between the stone and the flower”)
Curated by Lee Wells

Artist/curator Lee Wells, co-founder of Perpetualartmachine.com will organize two screening programs fusing contemporary short form video artworks that discuss politics and beauty.

Through the use of the Internet, new media and affordable means of production and distribution, international video artists now have the tools to break free from the confines and dissolve the boarders that once marginalized the artists and the art form. Globalization has produced a transcultural convergence that allows the artists to not only break from the classical conception of culture but also find a mutual intersection that mixes cultural forms and lifestyles by cutting through the various national and ethnic boundaries previously defined by 20th century institutional multicultural spectacles.

Screening 1 - A Peaceful Night
A program of video that reflects the social and political circumstances of 21st century globalism in relation to the expanding influence of international culture.

Screening 2 - In the Eye of the Beholder
A program of video analyzing the esthetics of the sublime and how technologies rapidly changing influence is redefining concepts of identity, and our relationships to the world around us.

Requirements
Duration - 5 minutes or less.
Format - NTSC Video, DVD or Quicktime . DV or .MOV Data files.
Created after January 1, 2001.
Please state which program you are submitting the works to.
Include a short artist statement and bio (no more than 100 words)
Deadline March 10, 2007

Mail submission to:
Lee Wells / IFAC
735 Manhattan Ave #5R
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Phone 917 723 2524

Lee Wells is an artist and exhibition organizer currently living and working New York. His artwork and curatorial projects primarily question systems of power and control and has been exhibited internationally, including the 51 st La Biennale Di Venezia, Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinatti and the Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto. Wells is co-founder of www.perpetualartmachine.com , Cinema-Scope director for Scope Art Fairs and a site editor for www.rhizome.org an affiliate the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Wells most recently co-curated a video program as part of We Are Your Future, a special project to the 2nd Moscow Biennial and was a participating artist in Emergency Room at PS1/MoMA