By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Attending exhibitions of video or time-based new media art, can be a tedious and belaboring experience as these types of works tend to be curated inconsistently and installed poorly. The exhibition spaces are darkened (forget about trying…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM Animated documentary film is not a new idea. Traditionally animation was used in documentaries and instructional videos as visual portrayals of abstract ideas, or as a representation of an artifact that no longer exists, such as demonstrating…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM A year ago, American Repertory Theater director, Robert Woodruff, approached Boston-based video artist Denise Marika about a possible collaboration on an unwritten project by Highway Ulysses playwright Rinde Eckert. Marika, an artist who usually creates her work…
By PHAEDRA SHANBAUM As the only Boston representatives of the newly opened Whitney Biennial “Day for Night”, I thought it appropriate to give local filmmakers Louise Bourque and Joe Gibbons some much-deserved attention. I asked new Big RED & Shiny…