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February 22, 2011. What's in a name? "Action for Freedom", the generic, boosterish title of Lee Wells' new exhibition of
paintings and recycled digital video, at first sounds like a grassroots community organization, a vigilante committee,
even a policy wonk's think tank. But those two fully loaded buzzwords, which might suggest engagement or advocacy in
another context, are defused here, rendered open-ended and non-specific. Like other bland amalgams which tend to
litter the political landscape - could Wells have titled his exhibition "New Republic" or "National Review"? - the
connotation is intentionally ambiguous. Only further examination allows us to understand that one magazine is firmly
located on the left of the political spectrum, the other just as forcefully on the right. But nothing in the names themselves
would signal this partisanship. It is a convention rooted in usage
paintings and recycled digital video, at first sounds like a grassroots community organization, a vigilante committee,
even a policy wonk's think tank. But those two fully loaded buzzwords, which might suggest engagement or advocacy in
another context, are defused here, rendered open-ended and non-specific. Like other bland amalgams which tend to
litter the political landscape - could Wells have titled his exhibition "New Republic" or "National Review"? - the
connotation is intentionally ambiguous. Only further examination allows us to understand that one magazine is firmly
located on the left of the political spectrum, the other just as forcefully on the right. But nothing in the names themselves
would signal this partisanship. It is a convention rooted in usage
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Lee Wells is an artist, independent curator and consultant currently living and working 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/Seoul International Airport, WRO07 XII
Media Biennial, PS1/MoMA, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and The State Hermitage Museum, in addition to
numerous art fairs, festivals and galleries. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, an alternative nomadic curitorial
program and a co-founder of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. His projects and exhibitions have been written about by
various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Kommersant, Art Newspaper,
The Washington Post, Art in America, Artchronika, and Art Net. Most recently, he was commissioned by the Guggenheim
Museum to write an essay on new video art and the Avant-garde as part of the YouTube Play Biennial of Creative Video.
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/Seoul International Airport, WRO07 XII
Media Biennial, PS1/MoMA, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, and The State Hermitage Museum, in addition to
numerous art fairs, festivals and galleries. He is a co-founder and director of IFAC-arts, an alternative nomadic curitorial
program and a co-founder of [PAM] the Perpetual Art Machine. His projects and exhibitions have been written about by
various national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, Kommersant, Art Newspaper,
The Washington Post, Art in America, Artchronika, and Art Net. Most recently, he was commissioned by the Guggenheim
Museum to write an essay on new video art and the Avant-garde as part of the YouTube Play Biennial of Creative Video.
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SELECTED PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2010 “Big Screen Project”, 40x16 ft Public LED screen, Eventi Plaza at 30th st and 6th Ave (New York, NY)
2009 “Bright Nights”, large scale projection, Manhattan Bridge Centennial, (Brooklyn, NY)
“Mind & Body” public video installation, iNTERTEXT Galery, (Leominster, UK)
“Tomorrow City Project”, video for 15 public robots, Songdo International City (Incheon, Korea)
“Piano Activities”, Public re-address of George Maciunas' 1962 performance, Bedford/5th St (Brooklyn, NY)
“Video Forest” , 96 panel HD immersive video corridor, main terminal, Kimpo Airport (Seoul, Korea)
2008 “PAM, Perpetual Art Machine”, video screening program, Product Festival (Varna, Bulgaria)
“Public Exhibition Space/AM”, 3000 posters in lower Manhattan on 911, CONFLUX (New York, NY)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video pavilion, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2007 “PAM”, architectural outdoor interactive video installation, Robodock (Amsterdam, Holland)
“Gumbo/AM”, 70 ft projection installation, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
“PAM”, 3000 sf Multimedia Pavilion, Coachella Music and Arts Festival (Indio, CA)
“PAM”, interactive video installation, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2006 “PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
“PAM”, projection installation, curated by Michael Rush, Art Video Lounge, Art Basel (Miami Beach, FL)
“PAM”, multi-channel interactive installation, Old Truman Brewery (London, UK)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Le Name Multimedia Festival (Lille, France)
1999 “ImageBomb” video projection installation, Avantgarde-Ariergarde Festival, (Insko, Poland)
1996-1999 “Various Public Murals”, Chicago Metropolitan Area, Chicago Public Art Group (Chicago, IL)
2010 “Big Screen Project”, 40x16 ft Public LED screen, Eventi Plaza at 30th st and 6th Ave (New York, NY)
2009 “Bright Nights”, large scale projection, Manhattan Bridge Centennial, (Brooklyn, NY)
“Mind & Body” public video installation, iNTERTEXT Galery, (Leominster, UK)
“Tomorrow City Project”, video for 15 public robots, Songdo International City (Incheon, Korea)
“Piano Activities”, Public re-address of George Maciunas' 1962 performance, Bedford/5th St (Brooklyn, NY)
“Video Forest” , 96 panel HD immersive video corridor, main terminal, Kimpo Airport (Seoul, Korea)
2008 “PAM, Perpetual Art Machine”, video screening program, Product Festival (Varna, Bulgaria)
“Public Exhibition Space/AM”, 3000 posters in lower Manhattan on 911, CONFLUX (New York, NY)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video pavilion, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2007 “PAM”, architectural outdoor interactive video installation, Robodock (Amsterdam, Holland)
“Gumbo/AM”, 70 ft projection installation, Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, Dumbo Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
“PAM”, 3000 sf Multimedia Pavilion, Coachella Music and Arts Festival (Indio, CA)
“PAM”, interactive video installation, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2006 “PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Roberto Clemente Park (Miami, FL)
“PAM”, projection installation, curated by Michael Rush, Art Video Lounge, Art Basel (Miami Beach, FL)
“PAM”, multi-channel interactive installation, Old Truman Brewery (London, UK)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
“PAM”, large scale interactive video installation, Le Name Multimedia Festival (Lille, France)
1999 “ImageBomb” video projection installation, Avantgarde-Ariergarde Festival, (Insko, Poland)
1996-1999 “Various Public Murals”, Chicago Metropolitan Area, Chicago Public Art Group (Chicago, IL)
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SELECTED SOLO & GROUP EXHIBITS
2011 "Action for Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells", solo exhibit, Rooster Gallery (New York, NY)
"HiArt! Changing the World Through Art”, Auction, Haunch of Venison, (New York, NY)
"New Videos" solo exhibit, Paida-Am Dobben 36 (Bremen, Germany)
"CON$PIRACY", Galeria NT (Lodz, Poland)
2010 “Happiness Workshop”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
"Transient Limits and Shifting Boundaries", Mediations Biennial, ConcentArt e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
"A Turn of the Card, A Spin of the Wheel, A Roll of the Dice" Bureau of Curitorial Affairs, Scope Miami (Miami, FL)
"HiArt! Changing the World Through Art”, Auction, Haunch of Venison, (New York, NY)
2009 “Cyland CyberFest” The State Hemitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU)
"Artists Meeting Art Machine" special project, Pulse Miami (Miami, FL)
“Metropolis“, solo exhibit, Atrium Gallery, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
“Anonymous“, Envoy Gallery (New York, NY)
“Artists Meeting YTTP, Weirder the Better”, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
2008 “In Transition“, National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
“In Transition“, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
“The Mirror Stage”, NEME/ Lanitis Foundation (Limassol, Cyprus)
“Video Synthesis”, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (New York, NY)
“DADADA“, galerija10m2 (Saravejo) / Hammam Cejvan Cehaja (Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
2007 “Emergency Room“, PS1/MoMA (New York, NY)
“We Are Your Future”, 2nd. Moscow Biennial (Moscow, RU)
“Video As Urban Condition”, Lentos Kunstmuseum / Museum of Modern Art (Linz, Austria)
“Video Art In the Age of the Internet“, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
“1800 Frames”, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
“WRO07”, XII International Media Art Biennale (Warsaw, Poland)
2011 "Action for Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells", solo exhibit, Rooster Gallery (New York, NY)
"HiArt! Changing the World Through Art”, Auction, Haunch of Venison, (New York, NY)
"New Videos" solo exhibit, Paida-Am Dobben 36 (Bremen, Germany)
"CON$PIRACY", Galeria NT (Lodz, Poland)
2010 “Happiness Workshop”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki, Greece
"Transient Limits and Shifting Boundaries", Mediations Biennial, ConcentArt e.V. (Berlin, Germany)
"A Turn of the Card, A Spin of the Wheel, A Roll of the Dice" Bureau of Curitorial Affairs, Scope Miami (Miami, FL)
"HiArt! Changing the World Through Art”, Auction, Haunch of Venison, (New York, NY)
2009 “Cyland CyberFest” The State Hemitage Museum (St. Petersburg, RU)
"Artists Meeting Art Machine" special project, Pulse Miami (Miami, FL)
“Metropolis“, solo exhibit, Atrium Gallery, Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
“Anonymous“, Envoy Gallery (New York, NY)
“Artists Meeting YTTP, Weirder the Better”, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
2008 “In Transition“, National Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia)
“In Transition“, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
“The Mirror Stage”, NEME/ Lanitis Foundation (Limassol, Cyprus)
“Video Synthesis”, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (New York, NY)
“DADADA“, galerija10m2 (Saravejo) / Hammam Cejvan Cehaja (Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina)
2007 “Emergency Room“, PS1/MoMA (New York, NY)
“We Are Your Future”, 2nd. Moscow Biennial (Moscow, RU)
“Video As Urban Condition”, Lentos Kunstmuseum / Museum of Modern Art (Linz, Austria)
“Video Art In the Age of the Internet“, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
“1800 Frames”, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
“WRO07”, XII International Media Art Biennale (Warsaw, Poland)
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1997 “The Dome Room”, solo exhibit, Chicago Arts Invitational (Chicago, IL)
“Performance Anxiety“, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL)
“Virtual Graffiti“, Heart Galerie (Paris, France)
1996, “US vs Them”, solo exhibit, IFAC (Chicago, IL)
Selected Collections: National Center For Contemporary Art, Moscow / National Center For Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg / HanaBank, Seoul,
Korea / Shinhan Bank, Seoul, Korea / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN / New York Public Library, New York, NY / The Joan Flasch Collection,
Chicago, IL / U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA / Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. / Artists Space, New York, NY / Ms. Maire
Kennedy, Chicago, IL / Ms. Nicole Dupont, Naples, FL. / Ms. Britney Spears, Los Angeles, CA / Ms. Alisa Prudnikova, Ekaterinburg, Russia / Mr.
Enrique Liberman, New York, NY. / Ms. Lillian Heidelberg, New York, NY.
Symposiums / Lectures / Workshops
2011, new media workshop, New Zero Gallery (Rangoon, Burma) *forthcoming
2009, visiting artist, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Open Video Conference, presentation, New York University, School of Law (New York, NY)
Walking a Fine Line – perspectives on Russian video art, lecture, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
The Russians are Here, panel discussion moderator, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2008, New media art lecture, Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography (Moscow, RU)
Visiting lecturer, Oct-Nov, Ural State University, Department of Cultural Studies (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux, presentation, NCCA/USU (Eburg, RU)
Supermodern, presentation, Creative Time, Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY)
visiting artist, Central Florida University (Orlando, FL)
2007, Teleculture, artist talk and panel discussion, Pace University (New York, NY)
1800 Frames/take3, artist talk, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
Video Art In the Age of the Internet, roundtable discussion, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
2006, ABMB Art Salon, roundtable discussion, Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach, FL)
Birth of a 21st Century Video Archive, presentation and discussion, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
Steve.museum Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
1998, visiting artist, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Fine Arts (Pittsburgh, PA)
Interstices, Caiia-Star Symposium, Port Eliot House (St.Germans, England)
Chicago Artist International, artist talk, Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)
1997, Arts at the Turn of the Century, presentation, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Awards
2008 Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia
2005 Independent Curator Award, Scope Art Fair, 2005-2007
1996 Donald Slowik Memorial Award for the Arts, 1996-1997
1996 Sally Dineen Award for the Arts.
Education
1990 Columbus College of Art and Design, foundation program (Columbus, OH)
1993 U.S. Army, 3-64 Armor Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Honorable Discharge (Schweinfurt, Germany)
1997 BFA - University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
1998 University of Wales, Assistant to Dr. Miroslaw Rogala, Ph.D (Newport, England / Chicago, IL)
Selected Bibliography
"Action for Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells" exhibition catalog, Rooster Gallery, March 2011
"Andy, Nam June, and Me at the Zoo", Guggenheim Museum Essay Commission, November 2010
"Verbatim History of HD Video" Interview, with Terry Flaxton, June 2010
"Featured Artist", Interview, The Art Trade, Spring 2010
”Isabella Rossellini to judge video contest”, by Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, Oct, 16, 2009
“Scoping Out the Scope Art Fair”, by Carol Lee, Paper Magazine, March 2009
"Drift/Дрейф", by Max Seddon, Artchronika, December 2008
“Art was a coward”, by Irina Kulik, Kommersant, November 14, 2008
“PREDICTATE, participate & perpetuate”, Interview by Colette Copeland, Afterimage Magazine, Nov 2008
“In Transition Russia 2008”, by Helene Black and Alisa Prudnikova, NCCA and NeMe, (cat.) October 2008
“Video Synthesis”, by Ryan Seslow, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (cat.) May 2008
“Edition #23: Perpetual Art Machine (PAM)”, Interview by Daniel Durning, WPS1 Art Radio, April 2008
“Art Invasion at Coachella”, by Vanessa Franko, The Press-Enterprise / PE.com, February 5, 2008
“You Cant Stay Here PAM!” Interview by Eliza Fernbach, Furtherfield.org, December 2007
“Issue 59: Time Based Art / Video Art”, by Paul Laster, ArtKrush, May 30-June 12, 2007
“Perpetual Art Machine”, by Mark McBride, American Library Association, April 2007
“Art Fairs Take Manhattan”, by Leigh Anne Miller, Art in America, April, 2007
“PAM 1st anniversary, VTV Interviews Lee Wells”, by Theodore Bouloukos, Vernissage TV, March 14, 2007
“Rush Interactive”, by Michael Rush, WPS1 Art Radio, Dec 9, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine: DIY show”, by Mark Clintberg, Art Newspaper, December 8, 2006
“Issue 155: high-bidding flavour”, by Kieran Wyatt, Flavorpill London, October 10-16, 2006
“The Source of Global Video Art”, by Jakov Kosanović, Slobodna Dalmacija, Sept. 30, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine, Lee Wells”, Interview by Leah Oates, NY Arts Magazine, Sept 2006
“Scope Hampered?”, by Ban Davis, ArtNet Magazine, July 19, 2006
“Issue 318: anachronistic flavor”, by Jake Lancaster, Flavorpill NYC, July 11-17, 2006
“The Spectacle of Today”, by Candice Madey, NY Arts Magazine, June 8, 2006
“Front Page”, by Constance Wyndham, Art in America, May 2006
“Weekend Update”, by Walter Robinson, ArtNet Magazine, February 2006
“Scene & Herd, Fair Game”, by Michael Wang, Art Forum, February 2006
“Lee Wells of PAM”, Interview by Heinrich Schmidt, Vernissage TV, February 2006
“L'Isola dei Poeti”, by Laura Larcan, La Repubblica, June 7, 2005
“Portraits Etched in Grief” by Libby Copeland, The Washington Post, March 23, 2005
“At Arlington, a New Gallery of the Departed”, by Neela Banerjee, New York Times, March 23, 2005
“CULTURE/Call to arts”, by Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Miami Herald, October 29, 2004
“War.Art”, by Tina La Porta, New York Arts Magazine, September 15, 2004
“Critics Pick, Machines of Power”, by Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader, August 28, 2004
“ImageBomb, Obiettivo Pax”, Giovanna Minnucci (cat.) March 19, 2004
“FLUXLIST and SILENCE”, by Alison, Hannah, and Jessica Higgins, (booklet), December 26, 1998
“What's a FORPNEP?”, by Victor Cassidy, ArtNet Magazine, September 16, 1997
“Shooting Gallery”, by Mark Swartz, The Chicago Reader, June 19, 1996
Selected Curitorial Projects, Installations and Screenings
2010
“Erased Walls, 2 channel group video installation, Mediations Biennial, ConsentArt, (Berlin, Germany)
“A Light at the End of the Tunnel”, video screening program, Kaserne Basel, Scope (Basel, Switzerland)
2009
“Metropolis Art Prize”, panelist, CNN, Fox and MTV Jumbotrons, Babelgum.com, Time Square (New York, NY)
"Zeitgeist", video curator / panelist, United Creators Award (New York, Istanbul, Frankfurt)
"Social Soup" projection screening program, Elizabeth Foundation (New York, NY)
"A-list Cannibal Cage-Match/AM", Youtube performance installation, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
"The Russians Are Here", video screening series with NCAA/Winzavod, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"A Stranger in a Strange Land", projection screening program, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"Power in Numbers", video screening program, Wyndham Garden Hotel (New York, NY)
2008
DRIFT, multi-media video exhibition, National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, RU)
DRIFT, multi-media exhibition, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art (Ekaterinburg, RU)
"Perpetual Art Machine", projection screening program, Product Contemporary (Varna, Bulgaria)
"Supermodern", public HD video installation, Lords Cricket Grounds, Scope (London, UK)
"Mad As Hell, Commercials For the End of TIme" online video exhibition, Youtube.com (Internet)
“Performance Anxiety“, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL)
“Virtual Graffiti“, Heart Galerie (Paris, France)
1996, “US vs Them”, solo exhibit, IFAC (Chicago, IL)
Selected Collections: National Center For Contemporary Art, Moscow / National Center For Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg / HanaBank, Seoul,
Korea / Shinhan Bank, Seoul, Korea / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN / New York Public Library, New York, NY / The Joan Flasch Collection,
Chicago, IL / U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, PA / Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. / Artists Space, New York, NY / Ms. Maire
Kennedy, Chicago, IL / Ms. Nicole Dupont, Naples, FL. / Ms. Britney Spears, Los Angeles, CA / Ms. Alisa Prudnikova, Ekaterinburg, Russia / Mr.
Enrique Liberman, New York, NY. / Ms. Lillian Heidelberg, New York, NY.
Symposiums / Lectures / Workshops
2011, new media workshop, New Zero Gallery (Rangoon, Burma) *forthcoming
2009, visiting artist, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia (Athens, GA)
Open Video Conference, presentation, New York University, School of Law (New York, NY)
Walking a Fine Line – perspectives on Russian video art, lecture, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
The Russians are Here, panel discussion moderator, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
2008, New media art lecture, Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography (Moscow, RU)
Visiting lecturer, Oct-Nov, Ural State University, Department of Cultural Studies (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux, presentation, NCCA/USU (Eburg, RU)
Supermodern, presentation, Creative Time, Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory (New York, NY)
visiting artist, Central Florida University (Orlando, FL)
2007, Teleculture, artist talk and panel discussion, Pace University (New York, NY)
1800 Frames/take3, artist talk, Jersey City Museum (Jersey City, NJ)
Video Art In the Age of the Internet, roundtable discussion, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)
2006, ABMB Art Salon, roundtable discussion, Miami Beach Convention Center (Miami Beach, FL)
Birth of a 21st Century Video Archive, presentation and discussion, Split Film Festival (Split, Croatia)
Steve.museum Symposium, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
1998, visiting artist, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Fine Arts (Pittsburgh, PA)
Interstices, Caiia-Star Symposium, Port Eliot House (St.Germans, England)
Chicago Artist International, artist talk, Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL)
1997, Arts at the Turn of the Century, presentation, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Awards
2008 Artist in Residence, National Center for Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg and Moscow, Russia
2005 Independent Curator Award, Scope Art Fair, 2005-2007
1996 Donald Slowik Memorial Award for the Arts, 1996-1997
1996 Sally Dineen Award for the Arts.
Education
1990 Columbus College of Art and Design, foundation program (Columbus, OH)
1993 U.S. Army, 3-64 Armor Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Honorable Discharge (Schweinfurt, Germany)
1997 BFA - University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, IL)
1998 University of Wales, Assistant to Dr. Miroslaw Rogala, Ph.D (Newport, England / Chicago, IL)
Selected Bibliography
"Action for Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells" exhibition catalog, Rooster Gallery, March 2011
"Andy, Nam June, and Me at the Zoo", Guggenheim Museum Essay Commission, November 2010
"Verbatim History of HD Video" Interview, with Terry Flaxton, June 2010
"Featured Artist", Interview, The Art Trade, Spring 2010
”Isabella Rossellini to judge video contest”, by Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, Oct, 16, 2009
“Scoping Out the Scope Art Fair”, by Carol Lee, Paper Magazine, March 2009
"Drift/Дрейф", by Max Seddon, Artchronika, December 2008
“Art was a coward”, by Irina Kulik, Kommersant, November 14, 2008
“PREDICTATE, participate & perpetuate”, Interview by Colette Copeland, Afterimage Magazine, Nov 2008
“In Transition Russia 2008”, by Helene Black and Alisa Prudnikova, NCCA and NeMe, (cat.) October 2008
“Video Synthesis”, by Ryan Seslow, QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York (cat.) May 2008
“Edition #23: Perpetual Art Machine (PAM)”, Interview by Daniel Durning, WPS1 Art Radio, April 2008
“Art Invasion at Coachella”, by Vanessa Franko, The Press-Enterprise / PE.com, February 5, 2008
“You Cant Stay Here PAM!” Interview by Eliza Fernbach, Furtherfield.org, December 2007
“Issue 59: Time Based Art / Video Art”, by Paul Laster, ArtKrush, May 30-June 12, 2007
“Perpetual Art Machine”, by Mark McBride, American Library Association, April 2007
“Art Fairs Take Manhattan”, by Leigh Anne Miller, Art in America, April, 2007
“PAM 1st anniversary, VTV Interviews Lee Wells”, by Theodore Bouloukos, Vernissage TV, March 14, 2007
“Rush Interactive”, by Michael Rush, WPS1 Art Radio, Dec 9, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine: DIY show”, by Mark Clintberg, Art Newspaper, December 8, 2006
“Issue 155: high-bidding flavour”, by Kieran Wyatt, Flavorpill London, October 10-16, 2006
“The Source of Global Video Art”, by Jakov Kosanović, Slobodna Dalmacija, Sept. 30, 2006
“Perpetual Art Machine, Lee Wells”, Interview by Leah Oates, NY Arts Magazine, Sept 2006
“Scope Hampered?”, by Ban Davis, ArtNet Magazine, July 19, 2006
“Issue 318: anachronistic flavor”, by Jake Lancaster, Flavorpill NYC, July 11-17, 2006
“The Spectacle of Today”, by Candice Madey, NY Arts Magazine, June 8, 2006
“Front Page”, by Constance Wyndham, Art in America, May 2006
“Weekend Update”, by Walter Robinson, ArtNet Magazine, February 2006
“Scene & Herd, Fair Game”, by Michael Wang, Art Forum, February 2006
“Lee Wells of PAM”, Interview by Heinrich Schmidt, Vernissage TV, February 2006
“L'Isola dei Poeti”, by Laura Larcan, La Repubblica, June 7, 2005
“Portraits Etched in Grief” by Libby Copeland, The Washington Post, March 23, 2005
“At Arlington, a New Gallery of the Departed”, by Neela Banerjee, New York Times, March 23, 2005
“CULTURE/Call to arts”, by Carlos Suarez de Jesus, Miami Herald, October 29, 2004
“War.Art”, by Tina La Porta, New York Arts Magazine, September 15, 2004
“Critics Pick, Machines of Power”, by Fred Camper, The Chicago Reader, August 28, 2004
“ImageBomb, Obiettivo Pax”, Giovanna Minnucci (cat.) March 19, 2004
“FLUXLIST and SILENCE”, by Alison, Hannah, and Jessica Higgins, (booklet), December 26, 1998
“What's a FORPNEP?”, by Victor Cassidy, ArtNet Magazine, September 16, 1997
“Shooting Gallery”, by Mark Swartz, The Chicago Reader, June 19, 1996
Selected Curitorial Projects, Installations and Screenings
2010
“Erased Walls, 2 channel group video installation, Mediations Biennial, ConsentArt, (Berlin, Germany)
“A Light at the End of the Tunnel”, video screening program, Kaserne Basel, Scope (Basel, Switzerland)
2009
“Metropolis Art Prize”, panelist, CNN, Fox and MTV Jumbotrons, Babelgum.com, Time Square (New York, NY)
"Zeitgeist", video curator / panelist, United Creators Award (New York, Istanbul, Frankfurt)
"Social Soup" projection screening program, Elizabeth Foundation (New York, NY)
"A-list Cannibal Cage-Match/AM", Youtube performance installation, Postmasters Gallery (New York, NY)
"The Russians Are Here", video screening series with NCAA/Winzavod, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"A Stranger in a Strange Land", projection screening program, Lincoln Center (New York, NY)
"Power in Numbers", video screening program, Wyndham Garden Hotel (New York, NY)
2008
DRIFT, multi-media video exhibition, National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, RU)
DRIFT, multi-media exhibition, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art (Ekaterinburg, RU)
"Perpetual Art Machine", projection screening program, Product Contemporary (Varna, Bulgaria)
"Supermodern", public HD video installation, Lords Cricket Grounds, Scope (London, UK)
"Mad As Hell, Commercials For the End of TIme" online video exhibition, Youtube.com (Internet)
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