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By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Judi Rotenberg Gallery feels a bit eerie and subversive these days. The windows are blacked-out, labeled only with the title of the current show: “The Nudes”. The gallery itself is as dark as a movie theatre, pulsing with the hum of video projectors. A strange sense of calm pervades the space, somewhere between the respectful peace of a major museum mixed with the solitary quiet of a 42nd Street peep-show. Within this darkened, altered space, Mary Ellen Strom presents four video installation works that re-create classic…
By ANNEKA LENSSEN Print this article The CyberArts flyers said that Geometries of Power, an online multi-user event, would run from 2-5 pm. This was a typo. The program only went live at 3 pm. The mistake was lucky; we got to see Thiel and Houshmand’s stunning Beyond Manzanar. The piece was a large screen projection of a virtual reality composed from the overlapping realities that really leave you shaken: the internment of Japanese-Americans in the deserts of California during WWII, and the clear and present danger of Iranian scapegoating, turned ethnic…
By ELLEN WETMORE Print this article The Decordova hosted the winners of the ARTCOM residency for Boston Cyberarts 2005: Jon Klima and Carrie Bodle. Klima’s Train is an HO [1] scale layout featuring two sets of locomotives and cars circling through a bizarre landscape of miniature movie sets. Among the films included, seemingly at random, are Bad Lieutenant, Risky Business, And God Created Woman. The railroad junctions can be controlled remotely via cell phone. Accessing the train phone signal means that one can also “eavesdrop” on a set of conversations between the…
By CHRISTIAN HOLLAND Print this article There was little interest in this show during its first few weeks up. One might guess that it was because it was billed simply as New Media Art from Finland. I am personally, as I believe most of my equals to be, just as likely to go to a show that’s called “New Media Art from Florida” as I am a show with art from Finland. “Why Finland?” we ask in the same way that we (Bostonians, residents of the United States) might ask why the…
By MATTHEW NASH Print this article Boston artist Jeff “Jeffu” Warmouth is a funny guy. His work incorporates elements of children’s tv (think “You Can’t Do That On Television”) with prop comedy, Jewish humor, kung fu and cooking. His pieces have popped up at Art Interactive for Participatory Democracy; and coming soon he will be co-curating a game show at Art Interactive with ICA Prize-winner Roland Smart. After long conversations over dinner after several First Fridays, it became clear that it was time for Big RED & Shiny to talk shop with…
By DINA DEITSCH Print this article The social collective is gaining steam once again in the art world. Mass MoCA gave the 1990s its Interventionists’ retrospective, Flux(us) groups are flourishing in Queens, and Boston has its staple collective scoping out every First Friday (1). Groups of artists are appearing everywhere and they all seem to be sick of the white cube (again), favoring the streets and their own alternative spaces, and – above all-the shared company of strangers. And yet at the same time this spring saw the “Artist” in its most…
By BIG RED Print this article The 2005 Boston CyberArts Festival features a long list of events and exhibitions throughout Boston. Below is a list, provided byBoston CyberArts Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology A new addition to the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Ideas in Motion is a conference and event series that showcases new and recent innovative work lying at the crossroads of dance, movement, and technology. Ideas in Motion features talks, seminars, film screenings, exhibitions, workshops, and performances by local, national, and international artists and experts, and takes…
By MEG ROTZEL Print this article MR: The Boston CyberArts Festival is moving in the direction of being quite comprehensive. You have everything from an exhibition in MFA, to dance performances, exhibitions in newly developed buildings to individual artists showing in galleries. When you started the CyberArts Festival, was that something you wanted to make sure would happen, or did it just happen? GF: In a way it just happened. When I started the Cyberarts, in 1997 and 1998, I applied for the Mass Cultural Council Grant for the first Cultural Economic…