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A2DD2A (Analog to Digital Digital to Analog)
How does your work cross the boundaries
or not) between analog and digital? Is some artwork purely Analog? Purely Digital? Most likely technology has some influence on all artwork. In this exhibit the FPAC Gallery aims to challenge the typical notion of how technology is used in or as art. Work in all media has been considered for this exhibit at the FPAC Gallery in conjunction with the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. location: Fort Point Arts Community Gallery |
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A Centennial Project
Joseph Kosuth is widely regarded as a pioneer of the "conceptual art" movement, which emerged in the 1960s as a sustained questioning of art-world orthodoxies, especially those supporting the authority of the art object over the idea of the artwork. Kosuth has continued his conceptual project through installations and photographic-based artworks for more than thirty years. Marking Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s centennial year, the Museum presents his textual neon work, created in response to the Museum’s collection and installed along the Museum's outer wall. location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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Altered Time, Altered Space
The Massachusetts College of Art presents a group exhibition of works that explore new ways to digitally manipulate time and space. Video is modified and integrated into sculpture, auditory experience is pushed beyond the norm and photography no longer relies on the darkroom. In these works, technology is used not only to expand the material boundaries of art but as a tool to create thought-provoking experiences relevant to each artis⁴s personal vision. location: Mass College of Art |
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Artifacts of the Presence Era
The ICA Media Department and the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge present a project entitled Artifacts of the Presence Era. During Diller + Scofidio in Boston, a camera installed in the gallery captured the myriad of images and sounds produced during the exhibition; these were saved and layered on top of each other using a new computer program. The layers of the project accumulate over time and information embedded in them serve as historical records. This Web based project continues to live on web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/ICA. Visit web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/ICA or contact Fernanda Viegas, 617.253.2450. location: Institute of Contemporary Art and MIT Media Lab |
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Art is everywhere
Art is not limited to galleries and museums. Art is everywhere. This is especially true in cyberspace where experiencing art is as easy as a key click and always accessible to anyone at any time. location: Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley |
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Artists as System Engineers
A gallery talk with curators and artists from info@blah: overload and organization. This talk is part of the exhibition info@blah: organization and overload. Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based collaborative, info@blah examines responses to information overload and is presented both in physical space and cyberspace at www.ikatun.com/info@blah. location: Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts |
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Aspect Magazine Premier Issue Party
Aspect Magazine is a biannual publication of new media art on
DVD. Each issue features video, installation, sound, and performance work by leaders in new media art, and every work is accompanied by an additional audio track of commentary by a contemporary curator. The premier party is a celebration of our first issue and an opportunity to meet the artists, curators, and staff that made this new enterprise possible.
location: Art Interactive |
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BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon
The twelve-hour BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon, organized by Eric Chasalow, presents premieres and classic pieces of electronic music from around the world. Featured composers include Berio, Babbitt, Dashow, Davidovsky, Harvey, Lucier, Oliveros, Reich, Saariaho, Stockhausen, Subotnick, and many others. Works are performed by the AUROS Group for New Music, Dinosaur Annex, the Cygnus Ensemble, the Lydian String Quartet, Odd Appetite, Stephen Vitiello, and international guests. Sponsored by Parson's Audio and Meyer. Yamaha Disklavier provided courtesy of Boston Organ & Piano and Yamaha Corp. of America. location: Brandeis Electro Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) |
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Berkan Karpat Nazim Hikmet: On a Ship to Mars
The Turkish-born artist Berkan Karpat works in Munich, Germany. His public installations are acclaimed in Europe for their dramatic mix of oriental mysticism, western philosophy and advanced technology. At the Festival he presents a documentation of a new work produced with the Deutsches Museum, a multimedia installation which combines digital technology, performance (dance by a Sufi Dervish), and sound (the conserved voice of the Turkish Futurist poet Nazim Hikmet) to induce synchronized REM dream-phases in volunteer sleepers. It asks thought-provoking questions about technology and its ability to manipulate our inner lives. On Saturday April 26 at 6:30 Karpat will connect six volunteer sleepers located at the Deutsches Museum in Munich with one sleeper in Boston for the first transatlantic dream synchronization. Visitors can observe it until midnight and meet with the artist. Sponsored by Firma Schwarzer Munich. location: Goethe Institute Inter Nationes Boston |
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Berkan Karpat Nazim Hikmet: On a Ship to Mars
The Turkish-born artist Berkan Karpat works in Munich, Germany. His public installations are acclaimed in Europe for their dramatic mix of oriental mysticism, western philosophy and advanced technology. At the Festival he presents a documentation of a new work produced with the Deutsches Museum, a multimedia installation which combines digital technology, performance (dance by a Sufi Dervish), and sound (the conserved voice of the Turkish Futurist poet Nazim Hikmet) to induce synchronized REM dream-phases in volunteer sleepers. It asks thought-provoking questions about technology and its ability to manipulate our inner lives. On Saturday April 26 at 6:30 Karpat will connect six volunteer sleepers located at the Deutsches Museum in Munich with one sleeper in Boston for the first transatlantic dream synchronization. Visitors can observe it until midnight and meet with the artist. Sponsored by Firma Schwarzer Munich. location: Goethe Institute Inter Nationes Boston |
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Berklee Contemporary Ensemble
Peter Cokkinias conducts the Berklee Contemporary Ensemble in performances of pieces by Ravel, LeVines, Persichetti and a world premiere by Chris Florio. The ensemble will be interacting with live triggered visual samples by IDV Media. location: Berklee College of Music |
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Bill Viola: Union
View this important contemporary art acquisition in an unconventional setting: amidst the stained glass and frescoes of the Museum's Medieval gallery. A pioneer in video art since the 1970s, Bill Viola frequently reflects on his deep engagement with art and spirituality in his work. "Union" (2000) takes inspiration from the heightened emotional realism of late Medieval and Renaissance art. In Union, two flat display screens hanging side by side like framed paintings depict a nude female and male struggling in unison to reach upward. Viola translates the single moment of traditional painting and sculpture into an action unfolding over time. Long-term installation opens April 26 Wed-Sun 11am-5pm, Thurs 11am-8pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St, Worcester. Admission $8/$6 seniors and college students with ID/free for Museum members and youth 17 and under. For more info visit www.worcesterart.org, call 508.799.4406 or email information@worcesterart.org. Wheelchair accessible at Tuckerman St entrance. location: Worcester Art Museum |
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Boston Musica Viva: Film, Videos and Live Music
Music is a powerful companion to the moving image. This multimedia concert features four composers whose music accompanied or inspired the work of four film and video artists Boston Musica Viva will perform live music to the following program: Tracer (world premiere) by Richard Cornell with video by Deborah Cornell; a collaborative work (world premiere) by Andy Vores and video artist Jessie Shefrin; The New Math(s) by Louis Andriessen with film by Hal Hartley; 14 Ways of Describing the Rain, by Hanns Eisler, to the film Regen, by Joris Ivens. location: Boston University - Tsai Performance Center |
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Build-It-Yourself Mechanical Garden Show
Build a garden critter from a box of junk. Steer your critter around the Mechanical Garden obstacle course. You must avoid a snarly snake, a cantankerous raccoon, a flying big black bird, some exotic mosquitoes and other assorted plant and animal villains. The reward ... a candy carrot for all those who can avoid being eaten. location: Cloud Place |
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Cahners ComputerPlace, Smart Maze, Virtual Fishtank TM, Light Sticks and Musical Stairs
Cahners ComputerPlace: Visitors to the Creativity area can draw, paint, and morph, as well as explore some of the relationships between math and art. Also see paintings composed by a computer program called AARON and painted by a robot. Harold Cohen, one of Britais leading abstract artists, built AARON in the 1960s.
location: Museum of Science, Boston |
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Circuit Bending 101: hacking electronics to make art
A hands-on eProjects Workshop presented in conjunction with the Berwick Research Institute. This eProjects workshop is part of the exhibition info@blah: organization and overload. Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based collaborative, info@blah examines responses to information overload and is presented both in physical space and cyberspace at www.ikatun.com/info@blah. location: Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts |
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Collision 5: The Next Dimension
What happens when art collides with technology? A hands-on, minds-on exhibit featuring many forms of technological art, including kinetic sculpture, computer graphics and games, interactive installations, digital audio and video, and robots. The technology of Collision 5 brings the art closer to viewers, stimulating them to touch, affect, and experience the works as serious and fun and meaningful. Artists include Jack Backrack, Henry Kaufman, Brian Knep, Dan Paluska, Amanda Parkes, Hayes Raffle, Fran Trainor and Aaron Edsinger. location: MIT Museum & Arts and Technology at Tech (ATat) |
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Collision 5, The Next Dimension: Opening Reception
What happens when art collides with technology? A hands-on, minds-on opening reception featuring many forms of technological art, including kinetic sculpture, computer graphics and games, interactive installations, digital audio and video, robots, and live music, video and dance performances. The technology of Collision 5 brings the art closer to viewers, stimulating them to touch, affect and experience the works as serious and fun and meaningful. Artists include Jack Bachrach, Nell Breyer, Aaron Edsinger, Henry Kaufman, Brian Knep, Dan Paluska, Amanda Parkes, Hayes Raffle, and Fran Trainor. location: MIT Museum & Arts and Technology at Tech (ATat) |
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Computer Clubhouse Digital Studio
See digital artwork created by our members and alumni, "Artists of the New Age," exploring and mastering powerful professional multimedia tools. The Clubhouse encourages young people to work as designers, inventors and creators on projects based upon their own interests, supported by adult mentors and other youth. The Clubhouse provides opportunities for everyone in our community to experiment with creativity. Along the way, many young people discover themselves to be artists when designing original music with digital sound effects, writing scripts, filming and editing, creating stop motion animation, and manipulating digital images with powerful art tools to create surprising effects. location: Museum of Science - Computer Clubhouse |
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Computer Clubhouse Digital Studio
See digital artwork created by our members and alumni, "Artists of the New Age," exploring and mastering powerful professional multimedia tools. The Clubhouse encourages young people to work as designers, inventors and creators on projects based upon their own interests, supported by adult mentors and other youth. The Clubhouse provides opportunities for everyone in our community to experiment with creativity. Along the way, many young people discover themselves to be artists when designing original music with digital sound effects, writing scripts, filming and editing, creating stop motion animation, and manipulating digital images with powerful art tools to create surprising effects.
location: Museum of Science, Boston |
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CoN:StrucT:UreS
Andrew Newmann's "moving pictures" co-opt communication technologies. Co-organized by 911 Gallery. location: Brush Art Gallery |
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CyberArtCentral Headquarters at Art Interactive
There will be three CyberArtCentral locations, staffed by volunteers, where festival-goers can find information, experience installations, purchase the CyberPass or 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival merchandise, and relax in the CyberSalon - an intimate gathering place with computers available to check e-mail, surf cutting-edge online art, find out about the latest cyberarts activities, or just talk to other festival-goers.
Visit any of the three centers: location: Art Interactive |
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CyberArtCentral Headquarters at Cloud Place
There will be three CyberArtCentral locations, staffed by volunteers, where festival-goers can find
information, experience installations, purchase the CyberPass or 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival
merchandise, and relax in the CyberSalon - an intimate gathering place with computers available to check
e-mail, surf cutting-edge online art, find out about the latest cyberarts activities, or just talk to other
festival-goers. location: Cloud Place |
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CyberArtCentral Headquarters at Copley Society
There will be three CyberArtCentral locations, staffed by volunteers, where festival-goers can find
information, experience installations, purchase the CyberPass or 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival
merchandise, and relax in the CyberSalon - an intimate gathering place with computers available to check
e-mail, surf cutting-edge online art, find out about the latest cyberarts activities, or just talk to other
festival-goers. location: Copley Society of Art |
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CyberArts Central for Kids
A celebration of cyberart made by young people at community art centers, technology centers and schools in Boston neighborhoods. Experience original music created for Toy Symphony, digital stories and youth-produced video, the Build-It-Yourself Mechanical Nature Garden, images and multimedia from the Computer Clubhouse Digital Studio, the Faces of Tomorrow self portraiture project, and more! Artists and media educators describe how the work was created and lead hands-on activities for kids and their families. location: Cloud Place |
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Cyber Lounge
To launch Green Street's New Video Rental Library, the gallery will become a living room with sofas and armchairs for giant video projections of regional artists' videos, DVDs, sound works and films selected from the Library submissions and guest presenters. Guest VJs will host screenings and video library tapes and DVDs will be available for private viewing in our viewing stations in the Gallery. Artists have signed up to screen their work or their favorite work by others for up to two hours at a time. location: Gallery@Green Street |
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Digital Art and Public Space: Expanding Definitions of Public Art
Boston Cyberarts and the Urban Arts Institute at Mass College of Art are organizing the first ever national conference on digital and interactive public art to be held at Boston University on Saturday April 26 and 27. This Digital Public Art Conference, conceived in collaboration with Boston University and Harvard University will focus attention on art and technology and the expanding meaning and definition of public space in the 21st Century. Its goal is to bring together important voices in the field, identify issues, pose questions, and provide opportunities for artists using technology to produce examples of digital public art. While the connection and rapid development of art using new technologies can now be said to be an active and identifiable field of exploration, the conference will examine digital art through the lens of public art and design. The implications for a new aesthetic as well as links to public policy, accessibility, copyright and other issues promise to change how we think about public art and how we go about producing it and incorporating it into our daily lives.
location: Boston University & Harvard |
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Digital Photographs from the Studio of Jonathan Singer
The Arlington Center for the Arts presents an exhibition featuring digital images from the studio of Jonathan Singer. Located in Boston, Singer Editions is a fine art digital printmaking studio specializing in the production of limited edition color and black and white prints. Images are created through the precisely controlled delivery of extremely tiny droplets of ink (as small as 15 microns in diameter) using specially modified Iris inkjet printers. location: Arlington Center for the Arts |
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Dorothy Simpson Krause: Body + Soul
This body of work began with a series of photographs taken of twin performance artists, Emily and Abigail Taylor. The images were combined with handwritten text from their dream journals and printed on plexiglass, distressed metal, mirrors, wood and old tin ceiling tiles and further worked with oils, copper leaf and other traditional artist materials. location: Danforth Museum of Art |
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Ellen Band and David Lee Myers
Musical performances by Ellen Band and David Lee Myers blend sonic environments and specialized electronic circuitry. Myers generates his signature† Feedback Musi using custom-built devices that† sing their own songs The resulting sounds represent the free circulation of electrons within, prompting one observer to describe them as arising† from the ether Band carefully builds swirling layers of sonorous, textural, tone/noise clusters by mixing and processing lengthy samples from her field recordings of real-world sounds. Though their individual working styles are very different, their combined effort yields lush sonic densities that pulse and morph while complementing and contrasting each othes sonic expression. location: ICA/Vita Brevis & Boston Creative Music Alliance |
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eNarrative Conference and Electronic Literature Reading
While under the rubric of narrative, this conference is hardly confined to it; eNarrative is a small gathering of active creators - software designers, new media artists, writers, critics and scholars - assembling to investigate new developments in the electronic arts and their applications to business and personal growth. It is not a long slate of lectures and sales presentations, but a dynamic discussion among a small group of dedicated and deeply engaged experts. eNarrative 2003 probes the frontiers of self-expression, scholarship, digital 'content' and communal connectivity, looking for new models with which culture can reinvent itself.
location: Boston Public Library |
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e-scapes: Rendering the Landscape
With the increase of communication our experience of place is being mediated more and more by technology. This exhibit of works by John Craig Freeman and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky explores the use of digital technology to render interpretations of real places charged with meaning and associations. location: STUDIO soto |
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Fabric / ch - electroscape 003 ::: knowledge architechture
Swiss House For Advanced Research and Education, Consulate of Switzerland
location: SHARE/Consulate of Switzerland |
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Freedom of Expression in a Digital Age: Reading, Writing and Cyberspace
This program will explore existing and potential threats to the cyber-liberties of citizens in democratic and authoritarian societies. We will learn about sophisticated technologies employed by the Chinese government to selectively censor information on the web; speculate on how the Germans might have used the internet to realize their goals for the Berlin book burning had the internet existed in 1933; and discuss the most pressing cyber-liberty issues in the United States today. Speakers are John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School; Andrew Tarsy, Anti-Defamation League; Marnie Warner, Intellectual Freedom Committee, Massachusetts Library Association and moderated by Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School. location: Boston Public Library |
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Gallery Talk on Wireless Technology and the Visual Arts
Michael Oh, TechSuperpowers; Nita Sturiale, The Nature and Inquiry Artists Group location: Copley Society of Art |
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Gibbs Welcomes CyberArts
Gibbs College is proud to host the Cyberarts Festival. Visitors to the School of Design can create Cyber Self Portraits and experiment with Hyperscore. Hyperscore is a colorful "sketchpad" that lets you draw and hear your musical ideas. The Toy Symphony, composed in Hyperscore, is making its US debut at the festival and is available for experimentation, play and learning at Gibbs College. There are also a Digital Storytelling, Interactive Toy Construction and Flash Animation Workshops. location: Gibbs College |
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Harriet Casdin-Silver: Holograms and Cyborgs
Gallery NAGA presents an exhibition by the doyenne of holography, Harriet Casdin-Silver. Casdin-Silver is showing a new, large scale, multiple-figure hologram; Bare Belly and Two Other Artists. This life size hologram of three Fort Point Area artists, Ri Anderson, Todd Gieg, and Lena Marchi, was exhibited last year at South Station and was sponsored by the Fort Point Cultural Coalition. An accompanying audio dome speaks of the challenges that will face artists in the Fort Point area at the completion of the Big Dig. Casdin-Silver worked collaboratively on this hologram with Kevin Brown and Daniel van Ackere. Casdin-Silver also presents small scale holographic work. location: Gallery NAGA |
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Hisham Bizri: Vertices
A multi layered screen projection video document for three monitors and a single screen capturing a day in the life of three cities, Beirut, Dublin, and Seoul, through the medium of digital cinema. It is a cultural/historical/personal symphony of cities that have very different architectures, religions, cultures, sounds, races, gestures, and costumes, but with shared experiences of a colonial past. With a hidden camera, simple scenes are captured from everyday life, following in the tradition of the so called documentaries or actualites of the Lumiere films. Each shot lasts approximately 50 seconds, the time a film reel lasted in early cinema because of technological limitations. location: Bernard Toale Gallery |
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Illuminated Manuscript and Talmud
Enter the world of cyberarts and hypertext with two interactive electronic book installations by David Small. The exhibit explores the nature of the book in the digital age and the viewer is encouraged to touch and manipulate the art. location: Judi Rotenberg Gallery |
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Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward an Understanding of Trans-generational Dialogue as a Gift Economy)
Features the work of over twenty international artists in all mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. These artists conspicuously make reference to other works of art in order to interrogate the often-problematic relationship of toda⁹s artists to the tradition from which they spring. These artists wish to better understand the true nature of art production, the writing of art-cultural histories, the formation and reformulations of canons, the imperative of creative acts, and the succession of art acts over time. location: MIT List Visual Arts Center |
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info@blah: overload and organization
Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based collaborative, info@blah is a visual art exhibition examining responses to information overload. We travel through a sea of raw data that jockeys for memory space. Sometimes we filter out the noise, but often the chaos permeates. Possibilities for coherent meaning and authentic gesture seem diminished or non-existent. Yet creative responses are possible. info@blah features artists that structure complexity through creating rules of organization. Far from rigid, the organizational systems showcase the range of responses possible: from creating a system that subverts the logic of amazon.com to inviting visitors to alter binary data by eating chocolate. location: Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts |
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In Our Voices, Through Our Eyes: The Art of Digital Storytelling
The Center for Reflective Community Practice at MIT and the Boston Digital Storytelling Collaborative present the voices, images, and stories of our youth and communities in an innovative exhibit showcasing multimedia narratives written, produced, and edited by new producers from across the state. Digital storytelling provides individuals and communities with the tools to define their own lives, mining and preserving stories that often go untold. Through this process, participants move from being consumers of media to producers. This exhibit includes a collection of finished stories, a glimpse into the process through two concurrent workshops, and a final screening of new stories produced during the festival.
location: Camfield Estates |
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Invisible Ideas
Walk through Boston's oldest park and encounter ideas in the air.† Invisible Idea links words, sounds, and images to locations on Commonwealth Avenue, the Public Garden, and the Common. Discover this landscape of ideas using GPS-enabled handheld computers available at the Copley Society of Art (CoSo).† Invisible Idea is presented by the Nature and Inquiry artists group: Donald Burgy, Margot Kelley, John Holland, Nita Sturiale, and Ron Wallace, in collaboration with Bill Perry, Macromedia Flash Development; Giuseppe Taibi, Flash/Database Integration; Matt Moore, Motion Graphics; Josh Caswell, Audio; Ben Yates, Website. Sponsored by HP and SmartWorlds. location: Nature and Inquiry artists group |
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John G. Hanhardt Lecture on Bill Viola
Senior curator of film and media arts at the Solomon R. Guggenheim, John G. Hanhardt speaks on Bill Viola's work and career to commemorate the installation of Viola's "Union" at the Worcester Art Museum. "Union" is the first work by the pioneering video artist to enter a public collection in New England. Hanhardt recently co-curated Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day at
the Guggenheim Museum. location: Worcester Art Museum |
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Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (2001) Memorial Project, Nha Trang, Vietnam: Towards the Complex - For the Courageous, the Curious, and the Cowards
This 13-minute DVD projection was originally commissioned for the 2001 Yokohama Triennial of Contemporary Art, Japan. His work addresses concerns with endangered cyclos, human-powered rickshaws. location: MIT List Visual Arts Center |
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Kelly Heaton: Dead Pelt
Dead Pelt (2000 - 2002) is the product / by-product of 400 electronic toys whom were dismembered for the creation of a single monolithic sculpture (The Pool, 2000 - 2001). The variety of toy is the 1999 Special Limited Edition Christmas Furby. Their skins, manufactured to look like miniature Santas, are used here to make a cloak for Missus Santa Claus. Same as grotesque quantities of product are created in the name of Christmas, Dead Pelt takes advantage of material excess to fashion an outfit for consumerism's greatest icon. location: Howard Yezerski Gallery in the Project Room |
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Landscape Mosaics
Sculptural interpretation of pattern, growth and seasonal coloration, using computer photography and digital manipulation of color, scale and layers to develop site-specific installations of the native salt marsh and sand plain landscapes within the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. Joseph Ingoldsby has developed a system of interpreting time, pattern, and structure in the landscape through computer simulation and ground truthing. These color palettes will be on display in spring, summer, and autumn of 2003, celebrating the change of seasons in landscape mosaics. location: Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary |
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Learning to look at new media art
A gallery walk-through and discussion of the exhibition info@blah: overload and organization, with Jessica Davis, Director of the Arts in Education Program at Harvard University. This event is part of the exhibition info@blah: organization and overload. Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based collaborative, info@blah examines responses to information overload and is presented both in physical space and cyberspace at www.ikatun.com/info@blah. location: Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts |
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Learning to Love You Better
Through their web site, www.learningtoloveyoumore.com, and associated non-web presentations, Miranda July and Herrel Fletcher encourage the general public to take on one of a series of assignments and report on their work. The artists have invited the Digital Art in Public Space conference participants and attendees to complete Assignment #9:† Fix plop art (big sculptures that dot related to the environment that they are located in) for the people Go to www.learningtoloveyoumore.com for instructions. location: Boston University & Harvard |
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Little New Media Exhibition
Emerson College presents an Interactive Group Show of Digital Media Art, in association with the City-in-Transition initiative and the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Little New Media Exhibition will be a site-specific show that challenges the aura of arcade architecture and includes a variety of works and experiments in interactive narrative and computer animation. Sponsored by Emerson College Institute for Liberal Arts, Emerson College Interdisciplinary Studies and Visual and Media Arts. location: Emerson College - Little Building |
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Luminous Garden
Beth Galston's installation, Luminous Garden, is a glowing environment created by colored LED's embedded in translucent forms cast from seedpods. Attached to thin stalks, the pods float and sway in air currents created by viewers as they move through. Masses of tangled electrical wires suggest plant root systems. The little lights could be thought of as a life force/energy system of the plants. Combining nature and technology, order and disorder, the artist creates new hybrid forms. Trained at MIT, Galston is known for her installations using light, space, and materials. Sponsored by a Mudge Fellowship at the Groton School. location: Christopher C. Brodigan Gallery, Groton School |
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MADAM I'M ADAM
Elaine Reichek is a conceptual artist who uses embroidery to explore aesthetics in art. In 2003, Reichek returns to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to prepare for an exhibition of embroideries created during a previous residency in the Museum in 2001. Unlike past exhibitions though, this will be the Museum's first virtual exhibition. Working in close collaboration with the conservators, curator and several students from Massachusetts College of Art in hours when the galleries are closed to the public, Reichek will install her works in certain sites briefly and temporarily. They will be documented and removed. During the Boston Cyberarts festival these images and the concepts they represent will appear online as a web art project of a Reichek show at the Gardner that never happened. The exhibition will occur online at www.gardnermuseum.org and as the featured artist project on the Boston Cyberarts HyperArtSpace Gallery. location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
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Manifest 2003: A Juried Exhibition of Visual Art in Digital Media
Manifest 2003: A Juried Exhibition of Visual Art in Digital Media is a showcase of digital photographs, prints, and video as well as interactive, site-specific and web-based projects by New England artists who use the computer as a vital tool in the creation of their art. The exhibition celebrates the artistic merits of these projects and as such draws connections between the history of art so commonly associated with the Copley Society and the future of art that the Cyberarts Festival seeks to encourage. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements: (617) 536-5049 location: Copley Society of Art |
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Manifest 2003: A Juried Exhibition of Visual Art in Digital Media
Manifest 2003: A Juried Exhibition of Visual Art in Digital Media is a showcase of digital photographs, prints, and video as well as interactive, site-specific and web-based projects by New England artists who use the computer as a vital tool in the creation of their art. The exhibition celebrates the artistic merits of these projects and as such draws connections between the history of art so commonly associated with the Copley Society and the future of art that the Cyberarts Festival seeks to encourage. location: Copley Society of Art |
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Miss Mobile
Slovenian director and performer Emil Hrvatin brings a Reality Telephone Game Show featuring mere talk and invisible performers, of which critic Darinka Nikoli wrote:† Emil Hrvatin's Miss Mobile is one of the most intelligent, boldest and most critically engaged contributions. His interactive performance, based on collaboration of the audience in the theatre and 'virtually' invisible people on the other end of the line, brought to the event via mobile telephones with an incredible amount of manipulation, is the 'bread and games' principle reaching its paroxysmal stage Miss Mobile has been performed in Gent, New York, Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Paris and Rijeka. Before Boston it will be performed in Rome and Zagreb, after Boston in Los Angeles, Riverside and Santa Ana. Sponsored by Emerson College Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College Visual and Media Arts, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Performance Area. location: Emerson College - The Vault |
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Mixed Realities: Interconnections Between Digital and Physical Spaces
Panel Conference & Reception. location: SHARE/Consulate of Switzerland |
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net.art: Problems and Promise
A panel discussion on net.art in conjunction with from info@blah: overload and organization. This panel discussion is part of the exhibition info@blah: organization and overload. Curated by iKatun, a Boston-based collaborative, info@blah examines responses to information overload and is presented both in physical space and cyberspace at www.ikatun.com/info@blah. location: Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts |
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/newmedia/
The /newmedia/ "Directory" is an expanding collection of work from Maine College of Art's New Media program. The Directory contains a SQL database of Art and Design projects that cover a range of digital media and conceptual approaches. Program participants regularly submit their class based projects and self initiated explorations. Visitors may search (sort? sift ) the archive by topic, media type, artist name, date, et cetera. As the directory grows it will serve as: gallery, record, research tool, archive, and creative playground. location: Maine College of Art |
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Origins
"Origins," curated by Mary Ann Kearns, explores interactive technologies in the arts, by providing a significant glimpse of the artists and visual instruments that paved the way for today's interactive art. Featuring installations by pioneering artists, "Origins" showcases electronic video art from the past and present.
location: Art Interactive |
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Pedestrian
Pedestria presents itself as a brightly-illuminated square on the sidewalk: passersby see miniature, moving, realistic human figures standing, stopping, meeting, sitting, running† even lying down. The movements of these small figures seem oddly coordinated, as if unfolding in a story or deriving from some unknown principles. Thematically the work draws on Elias Canetti's classic text Crowds and Power, in which groups and crowds are analyzed almost biologically, as having lives of their own. In the past, pedestrian movement has been impossible to organize aesthetically on a large scale; now, however, motion capture and new software technologies allow us to choreograph the disorganized, unregimented movement of hundreds of moving figures. Sponsored by Forest City. location: Hotel @ MIT |
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Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II
Computer-driven machines produce wild colorful light beams and surprising dynamic spectrum shifts in the large window at the entrance of the Museum. Robert Kieronski presents the results of original experiments in kinetic light art using new mechanical inventions and a "free-form" ribbon of transflector material. The Dichroic optical elements used in the artwork interplay with the sun during the day and with computer-controlled lighting at night. location: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park |
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Printmaking, Artist’s books, and the Digital Age
As a part of the jointly sponsored New England School of Photography and the BU Photographic Resource Center "Word and Image" series, Dorothy Simpson Krause, a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art, talks about her work and Mark Orton, software entrepreneur, shows virtual artist books, he has translated into Flash. Orton has been working with Krause on an electronic representation of her artist’s book, “Vengeance is Mine”, and with artist Pamela Worden to create an electronic representation of her book, “Letters to Andrew: The House Book.” location: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University |
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Raise Your Voice: An Evening of Youth-Produced Videos
Boston Cyberarts and SAY Media! (Somerville Access Youth Media!) present a screening featuring innovative young videographers of diverse backgrounds, ages, and opinions sharing their unique perspectives on the environment, the impact on family of arranged marriage, and the experience of leaving ons home country, among other topics. Participate in a post-screening discussion with program facilitators and members.
location: Cloud Place |
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Red Dice - Des Chiffres
Red Dice / Des Chiffrés by Bill Seaman is a media-assemblage that operates in a dynamic space of relation to Stéphane Mallarmé's† Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance / Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard Spoken text, video images and music function as an evocative set of musings bridging a diverse range of topics.
location: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park |
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Robert Arnold: New Media Works
The PRC introduces the compelling film/video work of Robert Arnold, an Associate Professor of Film at BU, in his first solo show. location: Photographic Resource Center at Boston University |
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Sacred Spaces
As a part of the jointly sponsored New England School of Photography and the BU Photographic Resource Center "Word and Image" series, Dorothy Simpson Krause, a painter, collage artist and printmaker who incorporates digital mixed media into her art, exhibits her work. location: New England School of Photography |
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Salon d'Arte Digitalia
A 24-hour ongoing series of current cutting-edge Internet-based animation videos curated by Bottlecap Studios. location: MIT List Visual Arts Center |
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Selected New Media and Interactive Artworks
Hotel@MIT will host selected new media and interactive artworks by New York and Boston artists working in new technologies.
location: Hotel @ MIT |
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Spectrum at the Phoenix Landing
The Spectrum Crew - DJ Flack (Antony Flackett), DJ C(Jake Trussell) and Verbnine (Gabriel Liberman) have put together two nights at the Phoenix Landing in Central square that feature the finest Local electronic music acts including; laptop maestros, analog knob tweekers, found sound loopers and voice manipulators. location: Phoenix Landing |
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Surveillance Camera Outdoor Walking Tour and Performance
This walking tour through parts of Cambridge bordering on Harvard University includes a general introduction to the surveillance society as well as a choice selection of the cameras that surveill public space. While the elements of each tour are developed in response to reconnaissance of specific locations, past SCV tours have included the performance of short plays† fo particular cameras, the labelling of cameras and other surveillance equipment, and the documentation and web publication of performances and surveillance devices. location: Surveillance Camera Players |
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Taking Liberties
Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at Essex Art Center presents Taking Liberties, work by Gayle Caruso, Elaine Crivelli and Judith Larsen. Gayle Caruso uses antique images of children with dolls found online, layered with printing and mixed media to explore the theme of lost childhood. Elaine Crivelli has been working in the digital format since 1995. She creates layered textural tableau images, using documentation of her past ten years of travel around the world as a starting point. Judith Larsen creates watercolor paintings that are scanned and manipulated to form new work that leaves only trace† evidenc of the original. May 2-June 27, Tues-Thurs 10am-8pm, Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm. Opening reception Fri, May 2, 5-7pm. Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery, Essex Art Center, 56 Island St, Lawrence. Free! For more info visit www.essexartcenter.com or contact Cathy McLaurin, 978.685.2343, cathy@essexartcenter.com. Wheelchair accessible. location: Essex Art Center |
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Talk on Digital Printmaking
Gary Barsomian- Dietrich, Floral Fine Art Jonathan Singer, Singer Editions Bill Smith, Boston Photo Imaging. location: Copley Society of Art |
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Tap
With† Tap Buckhouse and his project collaborator Holly Brubach present a PDA-based artwork that exists in the overlap between digital public space, physical public space, and the more personal network of person-to-person exchange. Once loaded onto a PDA running the Palm operating system, the user can work with a† dance to practice steps, to improvise new dances, or to choreograph new dances from a palette of sixteen steps. Whether improvised by the character or choreographed by the user, dances can be saved, re-worked, beamed directly from user to user, or posted and retrieved from the permanent dance archive on the† Ta⁰ website. Sponsored by Harvard University. location: Copley Society of Art |
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TechArt
A national exhibition of artwork utilizing digital technology juried by Aaron Fry and Dorothy Simpson Krause. location: South Shore Arts Center |
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Terpsichore's Haunt
"Terpsichore's Haunt" is a virtual environment where visitors explore the abstract forms, spaces, and rhythms that are created by dance. Wearing 3D glasses and holding a 3D navigation device, visitors move through dance zones and discover 3D animated forms and patterns which capture the essence of several ballroom dances such as rumba, waltz, tango, and cha-cha. Visitors experience "Terpsichore's Haunt" on Boston University's Deep Vision Display Wall, a 15'x8', high-resolution, tiled, rear-projected, passive stereo display system augmented with multi-channel directional sound. "Terpsichore's Haunt" was designed by Laura Giannitrapani and developed in collaboration with her coworkers in SCV at Boston University. location: Boston University - SCV Computer Graphics Lab |
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The Ballad of Wires and Hands
The New Art Center presents this exhibition which features interactive installations and kinetic sculptures, reflecting changes the past century have brought to the working methods of many contemporary artists. These artists are their own engineers, in the sense that technology is embedded technically and conceptually in their creative process. The Ballad of Wires and Hands is curated by Dana Moser and participating artists include Christy Georg, Arthur Ganson, Chris Fitch, Steve Hollinger, Anne Lilly, Jane Marsching, Michael Mittelman, Dan Roe, Gretchen Skogerson, Deb Todd Wheeler, and David Webber. location: New Art Center in Newton |
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The Book Reconsidered
Thirteen emerging and established artists explore books as subject matter by transforming, altering, or laying claim to it. These artists challenge the ideas imbedded in the notion of what a book is. Curator Deborah Davidson includes artists working with new technology, who challenge the ideas embedded in the notion of what defines a book. This exhibit is presented by the New Center for Arts and Culture inaugural festival Words on Fire. Sven Birkets is the author of My Blue Sky Trades and editor of Agni, the BU literary journal. location: Mobius |
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The Jackal Project
The Jackals' work consists of breathing life into supposedly dead things: lost technology, forgotten and abandoned objects, and all that some might dare call garbage. For Cyberarts the Jackals will create a laboratory where kids and adults can rip apart electronics and make art out of what they find inside. Younger kids shape colored electrical wire into wearables while older kids hack circuits to create their own blinky, chirpy critters. In addition, Jackals present the "$5 toy sculpture challenge" and will have on hand examples of more complex projects and instruction sheets explaining how you can do this at home. location: Tangentlab Collective |
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the Museum you want
Internationally recognized artist Judith Barry, in COLLABORATION, has created a new Web based artwork for the Institute of Contemporary Art that explores the question of what a museum can be in the digital realm. Users activate the project by responding to a series of questions whose answers are instantly processed and realized on the screen, creating a continually evolving view of users' opinions about a potential virtual museum. location: Institute of Contemporary Art |
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The New Renaissance Part II
The New Renaissance is an exhibition of digital based media/printmaking that is coinciding with the 2003 Making Histories: Revolution and Representation- an International Conference on Contemporary Printmaking and the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Part II features work by Linda Lesile Brown, Jane D. Marsching, and Megumi Naitoh. location: Emmanuel College - Lillian Immig Gallery |
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The Pig Wings Project by the Tissue Culture & Art Project
In 2001, the Tissue Culture & Art Project, a group of artists from Perth, Australia, were invited by Dr. Joseph Vacanti of the Tissue Engineering & Organ Fabrication Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School to be artists-in-residence. The artists embarked on a program to create wing-shaped sculpture using living pig tissue. This installation deals with serious ethical questions regarding a near future when objects that are partly alive and partly constructed exist and are transplanted into humans. The Project organizers are Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr and Guy Ben-Ary, in collaboration with Adam Zaretsky of MIT. location: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park |
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The Sonic Circuits X International Electronic Music Festival
Music by Berklee College of Music faculty, students and alumni. The April 27 concert features Mee Young Choi on cello and electonics; Hae Young Kim (Bubblyfish) performs on Nitendo Gameboy and laptop; Glenn Ianaro performs on custom laptop instruments; Malaysia Philharmonic Orchestra composer Poh-Gek Tay presents a new computer generated tape. The May 4 concert features Garrison Fewell; Michael Bierylo (Birdsongs of the Mezosoic) and Stephen MacLean playa duos for guitars and computer processing; Saxophonist/synthesist Neil Leonard performs with bassist Dave Clark and guitarist Rick Iannacone (Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ronald Shannon Jackson). location: American Composers Forum Boston & Boston Cyberarts |
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The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism
The Space Between concerns the way artists across the African Diaspora engage and bring into accord their multiple heritages and identities in an increasingly syncretic or mixed, global culture.
Paul Vanouse, one of the featured artists in the exhibition, questions the use of science to determine race and racial hierarchies. He uses information technology to create interactive cinema and biotech installations to address the impact of contemporary culture on aspects of race, gender, and class. Vanouse's multimedia installation The Relative Velocity Inscription Device merges contemporary DNA separation technologies with early 20th century research in human genetics, particularly Eugenics. This exhibition is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Davis Museum and Cultural Center Endowed Program Fund, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. location: Davis Museum and Cultural Center |
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Three Solo Shows at the Artists Foundation Galleries and Video Room
Three solo shows in which the artists use new media/computer imaging to create their work. In the Main Gallery an installation by Gustavo Soto Rosa. In the Office Gallery mixed media works by Gayle Caruso. In the Video Room a film by Lalla A. Essaydi. Also the Artists Foundation celebrates the relaunch of theprincessproject.com and princesssophia.com on May 3. location: Artists Foundation |
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Toy Symphony
The Boston Cyberarts Festival presents Toy Symphony in Boston in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the MIT Media Lab. Toy Symphony is an international music performance and education project led by composer and inventor Tod Machover at the MIT Media Lab. It strives primarily to introduce children to the creative music-making process in bold, new ways. Specially designed Music Toys enable children to immediately engage in sophisticated listening, performing and composing - activities normally accessible only after years of study. The participation of the award winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project led by Artistic Director Gil Rose and international Hyper-violin soloist Cora Lunny enables children to play alongside some of the world's most accomplished musicians, and to learn by doing. location: Boston Modern Orchestra Project |
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Transcodex
Transcodex is an online exhibition, presented onsite by the Boston University Art Gallery during the Festival. It is an innovative look at how the digital revolution of transcoding, which translates as the ability of numerically encoded data objects to infinitely change and migrate across media, manifests in contemporary net and software art. This magical capacity is arguably the most radical, and perhaps disconcerting, aspect of new media, and transcodex seeks, as the first focus of its kind, to lend the subject some thoughtful attention through responses that range from exploratory writings to perplexing works. Online at www.transcodex.net. location: Boston University Art Gallery |
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Version 1
Rhode Island College Graduate Media Studies Program presents a group exhibition featuring the selective digital works of MA candidates including, Among the Savage-E's, an interactive participatory movie. location: Rhode Island College -Whipple Hall |
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Visual Improvisation Symposium
A full day of presentations, panel discussion and performances. The afternoon program features presentations by Teresa Marrin Nakra of Immersion Music; Dennis Miller of Northeastern University; Carol Goss, founder of the Not Still Art Festival; and Benton Bainbridge, multimedia artist and member of the video performance groups Nneng and The Poool. location: Videospace, 911 Gallery and Boston Cyberarts |
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Works from the Cave
Words peel from the walls and fly around the reader. A gypsy guitarist and East African fishing boat are sculpted from ribbons of color. A poem, read aloud, becomes a journey that shifts from the galactic to the bacterial. This exhibition features artworks created within Brown University's virtual reality "Cave" - including "Screen" (by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Andrew McClain, Shawn Greenlee, and Joshua J. Carroll), "This is Just a Place" (an A. R. Ammons poem interpreted by Vesper Stockwell, Bryant Choung, Dmitri Lemmerman, Edwin Chang, and Shawn Greenlee), and "La Guitarrista Gitana" and "Sailing a Dhow in
Tanzania" by Daniel Keefe.
location: Brown University |
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WOTS=Word On The Site ILLUMINATED WORDS 42n22, 71w2
WOTS, or† Word On the Site is an experimental broadcast that displays your words of wisdom and wishlists on an LED display in a public space at South Station. Do you remember things your grandmother used to say that were so profound? Did you save a fortune cookie fortune recently because it was so perfect? Did you read a poem that you couldn't stop thinking about? If you had to write your epitaph today, what would it be? Share it with the world. Visit www.freewalkers.com to create your own WOTS. The content provided scrolls on a large scale LED electronic display at South Station. Sponsored by the MBTA. location: ISPACE Design Collaborative [Makowski & Kevill] |
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Wounds
Investigating visible and invisible wounds—physical, emotional, and cultural wounds—Bruce Hanson projects images of wounds onto the bodies of individuals moving through public spaces. Utilizing multiple video projectors and several sets of digitally created images, Hanson creates dynamic scenarios in which people confront the images of wounds on their own and others’ bodies. Hanson writes, “Each projector has images of different wounds: one might be gunshot wounds, one might be skinned knees and other childhood scrapes, and another might be boils or pustules that burst, or perhaps surgical incisions that expose a rat’s nest of root-like structures underneath.” location: Projectorguy |
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Young Collector's Soiree
A free reception for young professionals location: Copley Society of Art |