Boston Public Library
eNarrative Conference and Electronic Literature Reading   |

Eastgate Systems is organizing an e-literature festival for May 10 at the Boston Pulbic Library in conjunction with the eNarrative Conference. Leading writers and teachers of hypertext literature from around the world present work both at the conference and at the public reading at the Raab Auditorium at the BPL in the Back Bay.

Boston University - Photographic Resource Center
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, will talk about her work and Mark Orton, software entrepreneur, will show 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.”

Wed, April 30, 7:30pm. Boston University, The Photonics Center, Rm 206, 8 St. Mary’s St, Boston. Free! For more info contact Miriam Goodman, 617.868.5215, mirgoodman@attbi.com, or Ingrid Trinkunis (PRC), 617.353.0700, itrinkun@bu.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

Boston University - Photonics Center
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 Saturday April 26 and Harvard University April 27. This Digital Public Art Conference, conceived in combination 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.

As an adjunct to the Conference, several temporary public digital public art projects will be sited around Boston and Cambridge during the two weeks of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Among the artists whose work will be featured are Bruce Hanson of Seattle, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher of Portland (OR) and San Francisco, and Paul Kaiser of New York. From Germany Berkan Karpet, will present his project “On a Ship to Mars.” One project by the Nature and Inquiry Group will loan out personal digital assistants equipted with a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver with at the Copley Society in Boston’s Back Bay. As people walk trough Boston’s inner city park system – a portion of the Commonwealth Mall, the Public Gardens, and the Boston Common, pictures, sounds, text, or combinations thereof will be played on the PDA. Participants will experience this large-scale matrix by walking through it as they actually walk through the parks. No direct interaction with the device will be required: access to information is attained by moving about in public space. Additionally, since GPS technology also tracks the exact time, short timed events will occur over the course of the Festival triggered by the exact time along with location of participants.

Copley Society of Art
Gallery Talk on Wireless Technology and the Visual Arts   |

Michael Oh, TechSuperpowers; Nita Sturiale, The Nature and Inquiry Artists Group

Sat, May 3 10am-12pm. Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St, Boston. Free! For more info: call 617.536.5049 or visit www.copleysociety.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Copley Society of Art < br>Talk on Digital Printmaking   |

Gary Barsomian- Dietrich, Floral Fine Art Jonathan Singer, Singer Editions Bill Smith, Boston Photo Imaging.

Sat April 26, 10am-12pm. Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St, Boston. Free! For more info call 617.536.5049 or visit www.copleysociety.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Copley Society of Art
Young Collector's Soiree   |

A free reception for young professionals

Th, May 1 6pm-9pm. Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury St, Boston. Free! For more info: call 617.536.5049 or visit www.copleysociety.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Art
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.

Tues, May 6, 6pm. Free! The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston’s South End. For more info contact the BCA, 617.426.8835, millsgallery@bcaonline.org , or visit www.bcaonline.org. Wheelchair accessible.

Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Art
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.

Fri, May 2, 6pm. Free! The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston’s South End. For more info contact the BCA, 617.426.8835, millsgallery@bcaonline.org , or visit www.bcaonline.org. Wheelchair accessible.

Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Art
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.

Sun, April 27, 5pm. Free! The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston’s South End. For more info contact the BCA, 617.426.8835, millsgallery@bcaonline.org , or visit www.bcaonline.org. Wheelchair accessible.

SHARE/Consulate of Switzerland
mixed realities: interconnections between digital and physical spaces   |

Panel Conference & Reception.
Coordinator: Christophe Guignard from fabric | ch
Moderator: George Fifield (Boston Cyberarts)

Wed April 30, 6-8pm (or by appointment). For RSVP and appointments please contact Marianne, 617.876.3076x16, Marianne@creativeswitzerland.com.

Visual Improvisation Symposium
Cyberarts, 911 Gallery, and Videospace   |

Visual Improvisation Symposium: A full day of presentations, panel discussion and performances. The afternoon program features presentations by Teresa Marrin Nakra, Immersion Music; Dennis Miller, Northeastern U; 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.
Following the presentations a panel including Dana Moser, Massart, chair; the presenters listed above; and Steina Vasulka, video pioneer and co-founder of The Kitchen will discuss topics such as Visual Music, visual instruments, visual improvisation, theory and performance.
The evening program features performances by Antony Flackett aka DJ Flack, laptop video; the BopAnts, freejazz and video improvisation; Steina Vasulka, Violin Power; Benton Bainbridge, sound and video improv. Finally, a sound and video collaboration with Jason Lescalleet, tapeloops; Benton Bainbridge and Walter Wright, video improvisation.

Sun May 4, 2-9pm. Hannum Hall, YWCA of Cambridge, 7 Temple St, Cambridge. Free! For more info contact Walter Wright, 617.879.7293, wwright@massart.edu, or Geraldine Garrido, 617.867.0051, gerule5@yahoo.fr. Wheelchair accessible.

Worcester Art Museum
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.

Thurs, May 8, 6:30pm. Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St, Worcester. Free! For more info call 508.799.4406x3007, email information@worcesterart.org, or visit www.worcesterart.org. Wheelchair accessible at Tuckerman St entrance.

Art Interactive
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:
The Copley Society, in the Back Bay
Cloud Place, in the Back Bay
Art Interactive, in Cambridge

During the Festival the AI gallery will present Origins, an exhibition of analog and digital interactive video tools including the Paik/Abe synthesizer. There will also be performances and demonstrations.

April 26-May 11, Sundays 12 - 5 PM. Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge (near Central Square) Free. For more info email info@artinteractive.org or visit www.artinteractive.org

Cloud Place
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.

Visit any of the three centers:
The Copley Society, in the Back Bay
Cloud Place, in the Back Bay
Art Interactive, in Cambridge

Cloud Place is the Youth Art and Technology headquarters that's just for kids! There will be exhibitions, demonstrations and performances about the many art and technology events and oganizations in the greater Boston area. Participating organizations include the Media Lab’s Toy Symphony, the Computer Clubhouse at the Museum of Science, the Codman Square Technology Center and many more.

April 26-May 11, Monday - Friday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM. Cloud Place at the Cloud Foundation, 647 Boylston Street, Boston in the Back Bay. Free. For more info call 617.262.2949, e-mail info@cloudfoundation.org, or visit www.cloudfoundation.org

Copley Society of Art
CyberArtCentral Headquarters   |

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:
The Copley Society, in the Back Bay
Cloud Place, in the Back Bay
Art Interactive, in Cambridge

While you’re at the Copley Society, check out Manifest, a bienniel juried exhibition open to New England artists, which this year features digital 2D and 3D work.

April 26-May 11, Tues-Sat 10:30-5:30. The Copley Society of Boston, 158 Newbury St, Boston, Free. For more info call 617.536.5049, e-mail info@copleysociety.org, or visit www.copleysociety.org

Arlington Center for the Arts
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.

April 14-June 6, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm. Opening reception Tues, April 15, 6-8pm. Arlington Center for the Arts, Gibbs Gallery, 41 Foster St, Arlington. Free! For more info call 781.648.6220 or visit www.acarts.org. Wheelchair accessible.

Art Interactive
Origins   |

Curated by Mary Ann Kearns.

April 26-July 6, Tues-Fri 2-6pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm. Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge. Free! For more info visit www.artinteractive.org or call 617.498.0100. Wheelchair accessible.

Art Interactive
Aspect Magazine Premier Issue Party   |

Opening reception Wed May 7, 7pm. Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge. Free! For more info visit www.aspectmag.com. Wheelchair accessible.

Artists Foundation
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.

April 26-May 31, Sat 12-5pm and by appointment. Public reception Sat May 3, 3-5pm. Artists Foundation Galleries and Video Room, 516 East Second St, South Boston. Free! For more info call 617.464.3561 or visit www.artistsfoundation.org. Not wheelchair accessible.

Bernard Toale Gallery
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.

April 2-May 10, Tues-Sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Opening reception Fri April 4, 5:30pm-7:30pm. Artist's talk Sun, April 6 12pm. Free! 450 Harrison Ave, Boston. For more info call 617.482.2477, email bjtoale@conversant.net or visit www.bernardtoalegallery.com.

Boston University - Photographic Resource Center
Gallery Talk by Robert Arnold: 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.
Exploring the very nature of the cinematic and the optical, Arnold began his interest in time-based media through photography. Often humorous, Arnold’s mesmerizing looped pieces playfully toy with viewers. The exhibition includes The Morphology of Desire (1999), a morphing of romance novel covers, Triptych (2000), a street scene study shot over 24 hours, and a new piece, Zeno’s Paradox (2003), a twist on the philosopher’s suggestion that motion and change are impossible. Sponsored by Calumet.

April 25-May 4, Tues-Fri 10-6pm, Thurs 10-8pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm. Opening reception Thurs April 24, 5:30-7:30pm. Gallery talk by Robert Arnold Thurs, May 1, 2pm. 832 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Free! For more info call 617.975.0600, email prc@bu.edu, or visit www.prcboston.org. Wheelchair Accessible.

Boston University - SCV Computer Graphics Lab
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.

Sat, April 26-Sun, May 11. Specific days and times will be posted on HiPArt's Web page. Boston University, Office of Information Technology, Computer Graphics Lab, 111 Cummington St, Room 203, Boston. Free! For more info call 617.353.7800 or visit scv.bu.edu/hipart/. Wheelchair accessible.

Boston University Art Gallery
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.

April 26-May 4, Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 1-5pm. Opening reception Sat, April 26, 6-8pm. Boston University Art Gallery, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Free! For more info visit www.transcodex.net or www.bu.edu, or call 617.353.3329 or email gallery@bu.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

Brush Art Gallery
Opening Reception: CoN:StrucT:UreS   |

Andrew Newmann's "moving pictures" co-opt communication technologies. Co-organized by 911 Gallery.

May 6-June 22, Tues-Sat 11-5pm, Sun 12-4pm. Opening reception Sat, May 10, 2-4pm. The Brush Art Gallery, 256 Market St, Lowell, in the National Historic Park. Free! For more info contact the gallery, 978.459.7819, or visit www.thebrush.org. Wheelchair accessible.

Christopher C. Brodigan Gallery, Groton School
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.

March 28-April 29, Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm and weekends by appointment. Artist's talk and reception Mon, April 7, 7:15pm. Free! The Christopher C. Brodigan Gallery Groton School at Farmer's Row, Rt. 111, Groton. For more info contact Beth Galston, 978.448.7637, or visit www.bethgalston.com or www.groton.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Copley Society of Art
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.

April 10-May 10, Tues-Sat 10:30am-5:30pm. Awards reception Thurs, April 10, 5:30-7:30pm. Free! Copley Society of Art,158 Newbury St, Boston. For more info call 617.536.5049, or visit www.copleysociety.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Danforth Museum of Art
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.

March 20-May 17, Wed-Sun 12-5pm. Gallery talk by the Artist, Sat, May 10, 1pm. $5 Adults/$4 Seniors and students/Free for children under 12. Danforth Museum of Art, 123 Union Ave, Framingham. For more info contact Ron Crusan, 508.620.0050, rcrusan@conversent.net or Laura McCarty, 508.620.0050, lauramccarty01@yahoo.com. Wheelchair accessible.

Davis Museum and Cultural Center
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.

Tue, March 18-Sun, June 8. Hours:Tue, Fri-Sat 11am-5pm, Wed-Thu 11am-8pm, Sun 1pm-5pm. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley. Free! For more info, contact Lynn Collins, 781.283.2064, lollins@wellesley.edu or Anne Collins Smith, 781.283.2175, asmith2@wellesley.edu, or visit www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu for an updated program listing. Wheelchair accessible. Special needs may be accommodated by contacting the Director of Disability Services, Jim Wice, 781.283.2434, jwice@wellesley.edu.

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
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.

March 8-May 25, Tues-Sun, 11am-5pm. Opening reception Fri, March 14, 6-8pm. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln. $6/$4 for senior citizens, students, and youth ages 6-12/Free for children age 5 and under, Lincoln residents, and Active Duty Military Personnel and their dependents. For more info call781.259.8355 or visit www.decordova.org. Wheelchair accessible.

Emerson College - Little Building
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.

Sun, April 27, 5pm. Free! Emerson College, Little Building, 80 Boylston St, Boston. For more info email Katrien_Jacobs@emerson.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

Emmanuel College - Lillian Immig Gallery
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.

April 16-May 15, Mon-Sat 11am-4pm and by appointment. Gallery talk Wed April 23, 3:30pm. Public reception Wed, April 23, 5:30-7:30pm. Lillian Immig Gallery, Emmanuel College, Cardinal Cushing Library, 400 The Fenway, Boston. Free! For more info call 617.735.9992 or visit www.emmanuel.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

Essex Art Center
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 “evidence” 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.

Fort Point Arts Community Gallery
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.

April 25-May 31, Mon-Fri 10am-3pm, Sat 12-5pm. Artists reception Fri, May 2, 6-9pm. Free! FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer Street M1, Boston. For more info contact Joanne Kaliontzis, 617.542.4122, A2DD2A@aol.com, or visit www.fortpointarts.org. Wheelchair Accessible.

Gallery NAGA
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 Artsits. 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.

May 2 – 24, Tues-Sat, 10am-5:30pm. Free! Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury St, Boston. For more info call 617.267.9060 or visit www.gallerynaga.com. Wheelchair accessible.

Goethe Institute Inter Nationes Boston
Artist's Talk and Reception: 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. Sponsored by Firma Schwarzer Munich.

April 26-27, Sat-Sun 1-5pm. April 28-29, Mon-Tues 10-8pm with artist present. Artist's talk with CD-Rom presentation and reception Mon April 28, 6pm. Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Boston, 170 Beacon St, Boston. Free! For more info call 617.262.6050 or email program@giboston.org or visit goethe.de/boston. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Howard Yezerski Gallery in the Project Room
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.

April 25 - May 27, Tues-Sat 10am-5:30pm. Opening reception Sat, April 26, 3:00pm - 5:00pm. Free! Howard Yezerski Gallery, 14 Newbury St, 3rd Floor, Boston. For more info call 617.262.0550. Wheelchair accessible.

Judi Rotenberg Gallery
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.

Illuminated Manuscript
A commissioned work for Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany, the work explores different texts on the topic of freedom, using the communicative possibilities of spatialized language in the electronic media. Projected typography is virtually printed onto the blank pages of the book, allowing the viewer to participate with the content.

Talmud Project
Produced at the MIT Media Lab, this work combines passages from the Torah and the Talmud, and enables viewers to manipulate blocks of texts into the walls, streets, and windows in an imaginary city of words.

This exhibit is presented by the New Center for Arts and Culture inaugural festival Words on Fire.

April 19-May 18, Mon 12-6pm, Tues 1-6pm. Opening reception Tues, April 22 5:30-8pm. Gallery talk with artist David Small Tues, April 22, 6:30pm. Free! Judi Rotenberg Gallery, 130 Newbury St, Boston. For more info call 617.437.1518 or 617.558.6588, or visit www.judirotenberg.com. Not wheelchair accessible.

Mass Audobon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
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.

May 10-11, 9am – 4:30pm. Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary South Wellfleet, Massachusetts. For more info, visit mzbel@wellfleetbay.org. Members free, $5/adults, $3 seniors and children. Nature Center and a portion of trails accessible.

Mass College of Art
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 artist’s personal vision.

April 29 - May 6, 1-5pm daily. Opening reception Tues April 29, 6-8pm. Free! Massachusetts College of Art, Patricia Doran Graduate Gallery, 600 Huntington Ave (behind Wentworth dorm), Boston. For more info contact Vivian Pratt,781.320.8208, vivianpratt@yahoo.com.Wheelchair accessible.

Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Art
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.

March 20-May 11, Wed-Thurs 12-5pm, Fri-Sat 12-10pm, Sun 12-5pm. Opening reception Thurs, March 20, 6-8pm. The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston, and online at www.ikatun.com/info@blah. Free! For more info contact the BCA, 617.426.8835, millsgallery@bcaonline.org , or visit www.bcaonline.org. Wheelchair accessible.

MIT List Visual Arts Center
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.

April 8 – July 6, Tue-Thu, Sat-Sun 12-6pm, Fri 12-8pm. Bakalar Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames St, Cambridge. For more info call 617.253.4680 or visit web.mit.edu/lvac. Wheelchair accessible.

MIT List Visual Arts Center
Salon d'Arte Digitalia   |

A 24-hour ongoing series of current cutting-edge Internet-based animation videos curated by Bottlecap Studios.

April 24 – (TBA) 24 hours daily. Free! MIT’s Whitaker Building No. 56, Cambridge. For more info call 617.253.4680 or visit web.mit.edu/lvac. Wheelchair accessible.

MIT List Visual Arts Center
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 today’s 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.

Sample listing:
Sturtevant; Dillinger running
Michael Blum; Three Philosphers
Tacita Dean; How to Find the Spiral Jetty
Matt Marello; The Pollock Project
Olesen, Henrik; Teaching about gender/What does this represent?
Owens, Clifford; Freshest Acconci Part 2
Danny Hobart; Screen Tests
Simon Leung; Calling
Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley; Fresh Acconci

May 8-July 6, Tues-Thurs, Sat-Sun 12-6PM, Fri 12-8pm. Bakalar Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames St, Cambridge. For more info call 617.253.4680 or visit web.mit.edu/lvac. Wheelchair accessible.

MIT Museum & Arts and Technology at Tech (ATat)
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.

April 26-May 11. Mon-Fri 9:30-5pm, Sat-Sun 1-5pm. Opening reception Sun, April 27, 1-5pm. Free! MIT Museum's Compton Gallery, Bldg 10 Rm 105, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. For more info: contact Beryl Rosenthal (MIT Museum), 617.452.2111, or Jack Backrack (ATat), 617.452.2852, or visit web.mit.edu/museum/. Wheelchair accessible.

Mobius
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: 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.

April 26-May 18, Wed–Sat 12-5pm. Opening reception Sun, April 27, 4-6pm. Gallery talk with Sven Birkets Sun, April 27, 5 pm. Free! MOBIUS, 354 Congress Street, Boston. For more info call 617.542.7416 or 617.558.6588, or visit www.mobius.org. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

New Art Center in Newton
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.

April 25-May 23. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. Opening reception Fri, May 2, 6-8pm. Free! New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton. For more info call 617.964.3424, email heidi@newartcenter.org, or visit www.newartcenter.org. Wheelchair accessible.

New England School of Photography
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.

April 29- May 12, Mon-Fri 9m-5pm. New England School of Photography, 537 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Free! Miriam Goodman, 617.868.5215, mirgoodman@attbi.com, or Ingrid Trinkunis (PRC), 617.353.0700, itrinkun@bu.edu.

Rhode Island College -Whipple Hall
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.
The inhabitants of the Savage-E virtual world will travel and interact with the virtual main character across the multiple monitor space. Viewers are invited to explore the virtual world populated by computer generated avatars, ie the Savage-E.

May 2, 6pm, and May 3, 6pm. Rhode Island College, Whipple Hall 104, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave, Providence. Free! For more info contact Philip Palombo, ppalombo@ric.edu, or the Art Department, 401.456.8054. Wheelchair Accessible.

SHARE/Consulate of Switzerland
Fabric / ch - electroscape 003 ::: knowledge architechtue   |

fabric | ch investigates this electronic architecture, by creating an interactive piece in which space is not defined by geometry but by knowledge and data.

May 1-9, Mon-Fri 2-5pm (or by appointment). For RSVP and appointments please contact Marianne, 617.876.3076x16, Marianne@creativeswitzerland.com.

South Shore Arts Center
TechArt   |

A national exhibition of artwork utilizing digital technology juried by Aaron Fry and Dorothy Simpson Krause.

April 18—May 25, Mon–Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. Opening reception April 25 6pm-8pm. 119 Ripley Road, Cohasset. Free! For more info call 781.383.ARTS, email info@ssac.org, or visit www.ssac.org.

STUDIO soto
Opening Reception: 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.

April 25-May 11, Fri 2-5pm, Sat 2-4pm, and by appointment. Opening reception Fri, May 2, 7-9pm. STUDIO soto, 63 Melcher St, Boston. Free! For more info contact Alison Canfield, 617.953.0726, studiosoto@xnrgia.com, or visit www.studiosoto.org. Not wheelchair accessible.

Worcester Art Museum
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.

American Composers Forum Boston & Boston Cyberarts
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 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 cyberjazz ensembles lead by guitarist Michael Bierylo (Birdsongs of the Mesazoic) and saxophonist Neil Leonard with special guest, guitarist Rick Iannacone (Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Ronald Shannon Jackson).

Sun, April 27, 8pm, and Sun, May 4, 8pm. Berklee College of Music, Fenway Recital Hall, 22 Fenway Rd, Boston. Free! For more info contact the ACFB, 617.338.4392, acfb@tbf.org, or visit www.composersforum.org/boston or www.soniccircuits.com. Wheelchair accessible.

Berklee College of Music
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.

Thurs May 1, 7:30pm. Berklee College of Music, David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston St, Boston. Free! For more info call The Berklee Concert Office Hotline, 617.747.8820, or email chris@passionrecords.com or visit www.berklee.edu/events. Wheelchair accessible.

Boston University - Tsai Performance Center
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.

Fri May 9, 8pm. Meet the composers/artists 7pm. Tsai Performance Center at Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Ave, Boston. Adults $20/$18 Seniors or WGBH members/$10 Students. For tickets and more info call Boston Musica Viva's concert line, 617.354.6910, or the Tsai box office, 617.353.8724. Wheelchair accessible.

Brandeis Electro Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS)
The BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon   |

The BEAMS Electronic Music Marathon is curated by Eric Chasalow. Premieres and classic pieces of electronic music from around the world, including music by Berio, Babbitt, Dashow, Davidovsky, Harvey, Lucier, Oliveros, Reich, Saariaho, Stockhausen, Subotnick and many others. Performances by the AUROS Group for New Music, Dinosaur Annex, the Cygnus Ensemble, the Lydian String Quartet, Odd Appetite, Stephen Vitiello and international guests.

May 3, 12pm to 12am. Free! Brandeis University, Slosberg Hall, 415 South St, Waltham. For more info email loubunk@yahoo.com . Wheelchair accessible.

Emerson College - The Vault
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.

Sun, April 27, 7pm. Free! Emerson College, The Vault, 216 Tremont St, Boston. For more info email Katrien_Jacobs@emerson.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

ICA/Vita Brevis & Boston Creative Music Alliance
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 Music” 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 other’s sonic expression.

Sun, May 4, 7pm. The Institute of Contemporary Art, ICA Theater, 955 Boylston St, Boston. Admission $12/$10 Boston Cyberarts Festival pass-holders, ICA members, students, seniors. For more info call 617.927.6620. Wheelchair accessible.

MIT Kresge
Toy Symphony Open House   |

The Boston Cyberarts Festival will present 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.

Sat, April 26,5:30-7pm Open House with hands-on demonstration of the Music Toys (Kresge Auditorium Lobby), Concert 7pm. MIT Kresge Auditorium, Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. Admission free. Ticket reservation required. Ticket information: www.bmop.org, or 617.363.0396. For more info, contact ariane@media.mit.edu, call 617.363.0396, or visit www.toysymphony.org. Wheelchair accessible

Phoenix Landing
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.

Tues, April 29 will feature performances by:
Cephelopod: human-beat-box and voice manipulation.
Audiopad: (featuring Local Fields) interactive sound/video performance.
Cozmopolis: live instrumental hiphop.
DJ Flack: interactive hiphop animation performance.

Tues, May 6 will feature performances by:
Soplerfo: live electronic music.
Sun and Air: (misterinterrupt/romanstange) sound/video performance.
Hrvatski: live laptop-audio explorations.
EOSS: live experimental electronic dance music.

Tues, April 29 and Tues, May 6, 10pm-1am. Free! You must be 21 years old to attend this event. The Phoenix Landing, 512 Mass Ave, Cambride. For more info visit www.toneburst.com/spectrum or email spectrum@toneburst.com.

Institute of Contemporary Art
the Museum you want   |

Internationally recognized artist Judith Barry, in collaboration with the digital media design studio C404, 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. Visit the Museum you want on www.icaboston.org. For more info contact 617.927.6605, branka@icaboston.org , or visit www.icaboston.org.

Institute of Contemporary Art and MIT Media Lab
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, 617.921.1455.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
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.

Gallery@Green Street
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.

Featuring Guest Presenters:
Douglas Weathersby: Cleaning Projects
Michael Mittelman: Premiere screening of new DVD magazine "Aspect"
Ravi Jain: Three Abreast Web Sitcom & "Transportation Pioneer" series
Jeff Smith: PSA video for TALF (Take an Artist to Lunch Foundation)
James Hull: Video History of Green Street Exhibitions
Erika Tompkins: The Living Room Project
Antony Flackett
Sabrina Zanella-Foresi
Punk Rock Aerobics and many more . . .

72 hours of non stop video, sound, DVD and film screenings from Midnight Tues, May 6 through Midnight Fri, May 9. "Greatest Hits" video screening Sat, May 10, 12-5pm. The Gallery @ Green Street, 141 Green Street (Inside the Green Street Subway Station, Orange Line to Forest Hills) Jamaica Plain. Admission $3 (Suggested Donation). For more info contact James Hull, 617.522.0000, jameshull@jameshull.com , or visit www.jameshull.com/2003.cyberarts.html. Wheelchair Accessible.

Cloud Place
The 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.

Sat and Sun, all day. Cloud Place. Free! For more info, contact John Galinato at 617.547.9705, email john@build-it-yourself.com , or visit www.build-it-yourself.com. For access for people with disabilities, please call in advance to make arrangements.

Tangentlab Collective
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.

Sun April 27, 10am-5pm. Katharine Gibbs School, 126 Newbury St, Boston. Free! For more information visit jackal.tangentlab.org. Wheelchair accessible.