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BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: MEGAPOLIS AUDIO FESTIVAL By Big Red Friday April 24th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival in the basement of the Cambridge Massasoit Elks Lodge. MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival Boston Typewriter Orchestra Images by James Manning and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
THE 2009 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL By Big Red Every two years, New Englanders are treated to an art spectacle that is uniquely Bostonian. The Cyberarts Festival is a showcase for a broad array of artistic hybrids that explore a range of technologies, ideas and conversations taking place among the creative minds of academic culture. Trying to keep track of every event, exhibition, and performance is daunting; trying to see everything is impossible. With this in mind, we at Big RED & Shiny want to make things a little easier for you. In…
BIG RED ON-THE-TOWN: STUDIO SOTO By Big Red Saturday April 18th and Sunday April 27th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED day on-the-town at Studio Soto for an installation by Yucef Merhi Studio Soto Images by James Manning and courtesy of Boston Cyberarts.
FASHION AS ART, PART 2 By Judy Kermis Blotnick In writing about fashion as a true art form there is the slight temptation to pull one’s shoulders up around one’s ears and wince “I dunno.” Yes, there is the idea that it is sculpture, an exploration of the body in space, that patternmaking is going from 3D to 2D, that draping is going from 2D to 3D, that sketching is…well, you get it. The jury is out but creatively well-dressed, head to toe in Prada and Lanvin, sporting Murakami bags. The first…
Observations on Cyberarts. The Boston Cyberarts Festival is upon us. This biennial festival began on Friday the 24th and is taking place in and around Boston over the course of 10 days. I have a confession to make. I have been living in Boston since before the festival started and have never attended any of the shows or events. Okay, I am a little embarrassed to admit this. I have perfectly good excuses. Really I do. Usually it came down to timing. So with this sordid admission behind me I will move…
GIMP @ THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART By Chelsey Philpot The prologue to the Friday, April 24th performance of “GIMP” at the ICA began outside on the museum’s gymnasium-sized wooden deck overlooking Boston Harbor. There the audience waited sipping wine, enjoying the warm weather, and looking curiously at a nineteen-foot high structure installed on the deck. The construction-site-like assembly consisted of four poles with a swatch of blood red fabric draped rope-like in the middle. As dusk fell and music began to play, the audience gathered closer to watch dancer Jennifer Bricker, a…
A LETTER By Matthew Nash One of the unsung heroes of Big RED & Shiny is James Manning. He is our most frequent contributor of on-the-town photos, somehow managing to attend nearly every exhibition, opening and art event that is accessible by MBTA. If I had to guess, I would say his diet consists entirely of carrot sticks, cheese cubes and cheap wine. This issue, Jim has teamed up with Rob Coshow in an effort to photograph every event of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. This issue features a number of their images, taken…
ARTFORCE! CAMBRIDGE @ CACG By Angela Lauren Speece “This isn’t your newspaper critic’s gallery show,” exclaims the ArtForce! Cambridge invitation– which unsurprisingly makes this exhibition especially compelling to review. Leave behind all of your presumptions about art, as this show will certainly challenge them; you might even find yourself noticing artwork in the most unexpected places. The gallery is a functioning laboratory that demonstrates and documents the inner mechanisms of the creative process. Unlike the majority of art exhibitions, where the final product is on display for public reception, here the majority…