Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is pleased to announce the launch of PAMMTV—a first-of-its-kind streaming service that delivers video art from our museum to the walls of your home. PAMMTV offers a free array of cutting-edge, international video art from the museum’s collection, alongside selections from film festivals, guest curators, and regional filmmakers. With a focus on boundary-pushing artists across South Florida, Latin America, the Caribbean, and African Diaspora, PAMMTV showcases the dynamic media ecosystem throughout the Global South. All videos on PAMMTV are free to access and only require an account to login; the streaming service is available on web browsers, mobile phones, and tablets, as well as Apple TV.

“Digital Engagement at PAMM means scaling the mission of the museum beyond the walls of the building. One way we are doing this is extending the museum’s galleries into virtual spaces,” said PAMM Director of Digital Engagement Jay Mollica. “With PAMMTV, we are granting unprecedented access to selections from our world class video art collection by fusing the familiar user experience of Netflix with the intimacy of a museum gallery.”

Viewers around the world will be able to access PAMMTV through their web browsers or mobile browsers, and Apple TV. The inaugural selections focus on video art from the museum’s permanent collection—including pieces by artists Wangechi Mutu, Youssef Nabil—as well as works from the region of South Florida, and films curated by Third Horizon showcasing cinema from the Caribbean and its Diaspora.

“In recent years, there have been substantial shifts in how people engage with art, underscoring the notion that art should be readily available and accessible beyond the confines of a museum’s physical space,” said PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans. “With the generous support from the Knight Foundation, we are able to extend the reach of PAMM’s ambitious programs to a global audience while growing the infrastructure for media arts across the Global South, expanding on the at-times forgotten original promise of more connectivity in a global world via the internet.”

In addition to artwork from the museum’s permanent collection, PAMMTV features works by South Florida artists including Keisha Rae Witherspoon, Faren Humes, Monica Sorelle, Cristine Brache, and Kevin Contento. The South Florida works selected for PAMMTV seek to illustrate the multifaceted character of the region. Selected works from Third Horizon span documentary and fiction shorts celebrating formally radical and politically-focused cinema from the Caribbean and its Diaspora. Spanning Cuba, Antigua, the Dominican Republic, and beyond, featured artists include Miryam Charles, Dalissa Montes de Oca, Everlane Moraes, Amir Aether Valen, and Shabier Kirchner.

The launch of PAMMTV comes on the heels of various digital initiatives including a renovation of the museum’s website and virtual reality gallery, generously supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Digital Engagement Initiatives Grant. Launched in May 2022, all website content—including the entirety of the museum’s collection—is available in both English and Spanish, alongside visual descriptions to improve accessibility for visually impaired users. PAMM’s New Realities gallery, launched last year during Miami Art Week, showcases rotating commissions in augmented reality, accessible wherever the PAMM logo exists. With interaction at the core, this virtual reality gallery catalyzes participation in art rather than merely viewing it.

Anyone can access PAMMTV streaming service on web browsers, mobile phones, and tablets, by visiting https://www.pamm.tv or searching for it on Apple TV.

About Knight Foundation

They are social investors who support a more effective democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community, research in areas of media and democracy, and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once published newspapers.

About PAMM

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), led by Director Franklin Sirmans, promotes artistic expression and the exchange of ideas, advancing public knowledge and appreciation of art, architecture, and design, and reflecting the diverse community of its pivotal geographic location at the crossroads of the Americas. The nearly 40-year-old South Florida institution, formerly known as Miami Art Museum (MAM), opened a new building, designed by world-renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron, on December 4, 2013 in Downtown Miami’s Maurice A. Ferré Park. The facility is a state-of-the-art model for sustainable museum design and progressive programming and features 200,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor program space with flexible galleries; shaded outdoor verandas; a waterfront restaurant and bar; a museum shop; and an education center with a library, media lab, and classroom spaces.

Photo Credit: Pérez Art Museum Miami

Date Posted: August 31, 2023