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1 1999 event 342 - 1001 REAL APES
Duplex Planet Stories told by David Greenberger & Music performed by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic After a successful string of performances throughout the US and Canada, 1001 Real Apes returns to the Boston area for a special three-week run at Somerville's Peabody House Theatre in April and May of 1999. The show has been chosen as a hot pick on MSN's Boston Sidewalk. There is also a review of the show in the Boston Phoenix .1001 Real Apes is a monologue & music performance by David Greenberger and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. "All Things Considered" commentator David Greenberger is the originator and publisher of The Duplex Planet, a magazine of interviews he conducted with elderly residents of The Duplex, a nursing home near Boston, and other locations in New York and Massachusetts. For this collaboration David Greenberger will present selected stories from The Duplex Planet, with music and sonic landscapes provided by Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. The stories are alternately funny, moving, and wise, and provide a unique vision into the various faces of aging. Fact merges with fiction as text merges with music, giving life to the stories as well as to the individuals whose lives they spring from. 1001 Real Apes performances have included The Fez (NYC), the Salvador Dali Museum (St. Petersburg, FL), Mobius (Boston), Real Art Ways (Hartford), the Portland (OR) Institute for Contemporary Art, the Bar Code (Toronto), the Jewish Museum (NYC), the Erie (NY) Museum of Art, and the Disney Institute (Orlando). A CD of 1001 Real Apes is currently nearing completion, with help from famed engineer/producer Bill Scheniman, chair of the Music Production & Engineering Dept at Berklee College of Music. Basic tracks were recorded at the legendary Longview Farm Studios in western Massachusetts. David Greenberger and The Duplex Planet have been profiled in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Spin, Wired, and other publications. He has appeared on "All Things Considered," "Weekend Edition," and "Late Night With Conan O'Brien." Besides the ongoing magazine, started in 1979, the work has been published in two book collections, several CDs, a comic book series adaptation, and has been the subject of two films. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic is a four-piece electric new music ensemble exploring and expanding the boundaries of contemporary music. The group has earned wide critical praise and international recognition for its innovative music, an unusual mix of classical, rock, minimalism, jazz, and free-form sound. Founded in 1980, Birdsongs has released material on the Rykodisc, Cuneiform, and Ace of Hearts labels. These recordings have been distributed and reviewed internationally, and the band has appeared live on both US and Canadian network radio broadcasts. "[The Duplex Planet and Birdsongs of the Mesozoic are] two of the most innovative things to come out of Boston in the last decade or so" Time Out New York "a Garrison Keillor show on acid" Mark Hinson, The Tallahassee Democrat "a virtual zoo of memory and emotion" Ama Reynolds, Florida Flambeau.

2 1999 event 343 - 5 Artists 5 iMacs 5 Flavors
The Work of Digital Atelier will be showcased at Toscanini's in Central Square, Cambridge. The work of Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka, and Karin Schminke will be displayed on 3 of the 5 iMacs, all donated by Integrated CADD Services for the exhibit. The other 2 remaining iMac's can be used by the public to create their own "artwork." Toscanini's will have an ice cream/Sherbet flavor to match the five iMacs (blueberry, lime, strawberry, grape and tangerine).

3 1999 event 344 - Aliases: Computer-generated photographic imagery by Linda Leslie Brown and Leslie Starobin
Linda Leslie Brown uses digitally altered self-portraits to make ironic comments on concepts of beauty. Leslie Starobin collages her still photo shots into statements that explore nationality and politics.

4 1999 event 345 - Alien Network / Alien State
Ingo Günther and Kryztszof Wodiczko, artists whose work addresses communication needs of immigrants and refugees, jointly present their works at the Goethe-Institut.

5 1999 event 346 - Amniote: E-Works '99 Annual Film Video Festival
The 1999 Eventworks Film/Video Festival finishes off the '99 E-Works year. The best of local, national and international experimental film/video artists a chance to get their work up on the big screen. This will also serve as a culmination of Videofront's 1999 All School Video Show, highlighting Mass Art's best. Produced by E-Works '99 and Videofront.

6 1999 event 347 - An Installation by James Kalambokis
This maze-like installation addresses our fears and wonderment as we face the technological advances engulfing us.

7 1999 event 348 - A Permutational Unfolding by Eve Andree Laramee
Fascinated by the fact that the Jacquard loom of the 1800's was in essence a proto-computer, Laramee situates present day digital technology within a centuries-old continuum, in which metaphors we associate with contemporary technologies are revealed to be longstanding. The installation takes form as a richly decorated period room, subtly subverted by the presence of elements alien to this comfortable milieu. Antique Jacaquard will be presented with Laramee's own design containing images of computer circuitry, weaver insects, 17th century automata, and images of Joseph-Marie Jacquard. Historical artifacts will be integrated with 20th century computer artifacts all of which suggest the interpenetration of various spheres of knowledge which do not rest comfortably "under one roof".

8 1999 event 349 - Art and Technology: Policy Pitfalls and Parameters
As technology becomes more prevalent in our lives and artists expand the boundaries of creative expression through ever-changing technological tools, what are the policy implications for the arts that we should be considering? This moderated public forum include Radcliffe graduate Marian Godfrey, Director of the Culture Program at the Pew Charitable Trusts, who provides a policy overview; and Jonathan Zittrain, Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, who will address legal issues, and others.

9 1999 event 350 - Artist talk by Eve Andree Laramee
Fascinated by the fact that the Jacquard loom of the 1800's was in essence a proto-computer, Laramee situates present day digital technology within a centeries-old continuum, in which metaphors we associate with contemporary technologies are revieled to be longstanding. The installation takes form as a richly decorated period room, subtly subverted by the presence of elements alien to this comfortable milieu. Antique Jacaquard will be presented with Laramee's own design containing images of computer circutry, weaver insects, 17th century automata, and images of Joseph-Marie Jacquard. Historical artifacts will be integrated with 20th century computer artifacts all of which suggest the interpenetration of various speres of knowledge which do not rest comfortably "under one roof".

10 1999 event 351 - BEEP Sounds
This evening of live music and electronic sound includes works by composers Robert Ceely, Nick Hopkins, and John Mallia. Performers include Nancy Dimock, Jennifer Slowik, and Bill Kirkley.

11 1999 event 352 - Binary - Bicoastal
The exhibition will include a video installation in a specially-created space by Larimer Richards and computer enhanced two-dimensional prints by West Coast artists Clay Debevois, Helen Golden and Judith Moncreiff, and East Coast artists Jon Goldman, Alan Tomey and Ruth West.

12 1999 event 353 - Breathing Room
Breathing Room is a series of window installations viewable from the street at the corner of South and Beach Streets. Installations include: Keywords, by Joan Shafran, a story about how we communicate in changing environments; Home At Last, by Laura Knott, a miniature installation of a dance video piece exploring the images and ideas of home and hominess; Selections From The Algebra Drawings, by Blyth Hazen, a digital sketchbook that has created a new way of thinking about the art making process; Installation #234 - Moving Figure, a window front installation created by Anne Loyer and Andy Cavatorta with viewer-triggered events; South Street, Boston, by Kathy Desmond, a large scale drawing combined with video and Conceptions of Beauty, by Keith Donaldson, a video montage of vintage nude photographs superimposed on the face of a young woman accompanied by the music of Lisa Housman.

13 1999 event 354 - Charlie in the House of Rue
Director Bob McGrath & Co. crank up Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp with the latest tools, toys, and trickery of post-modern theatre. Remember the humor, heartbreak, and pratfalls of the flat, flickering original? Now go way beyond the familiar as the beloved silent film character leaps right off the screen into the full-color multi-media world of our own turbulent decade.

14 1999 event 355 - Chris Florio, One Man Multimedia Show
Chris Florio presents a one man show of original music performed live on a digital guitar which triggers an orchestra of electronic instruments and a visual show of computer generated imagery and video.

15 1999 event 356 - Chromosome Forest
Investigate the form and science of the human body in a whole new way. Chromosome Forest, an interactive installation by Tiffany Holmes, is a unique multimedia representation of the body parts that are seen and those unseen. The experience creatively involves projectors, an interactive computer, scrims and paintings.

16 1999 event 357 - Closing Reception for Future Art: Student Cyber Art
A closing reception for Future Art, a juried exhibit consisting of all manner of digital artwork by students from Boston Area colleges, universities, and museum schools. Mary Ann Kearns and Carmin Karasic are among the guest jurors for this event.

17 1999 event 358 - COAXIAL
The Boston CyberArts Festival, together with VisionSpace, Inc, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Harvard Radcliff Office for the Arts, the MIT Council for the Arts, Brandeis University, the Phoenix Media Group, Parson's Audio and the Middle East presents: COAXIAL at the Middle East Is it the sound of crossed cables? No, it's a two-day festival of electronic music, blending innovative sounds from both student and professional, local and international musicians. Genre-bending aural excitement with complementary parallel performances downstairs at the Middle East. Produced by the Boston Cyberarts Festival Saturday Members of Boston's own Toneburst Collective (notorious for throwing inexpensive but no-holds-barred multimedia events in alternative spaces from Mass College of Art to the Children's Museum) team up with members of New York City's Soundlab (best known through the work of illbient avatars DJ Spooky, We, and Byzar) and a host of local electronic musicians for an evening of dub, hip-hop, jungle, dancehall, and experimental audiovisual exploration. Sunday Sleep in the next day, but once your body and your inner-ear hairs have recovered, be sure to leap out of bed in time to catch the second half of the show, which gathers performers from MIT's Media Lab, Harvard University's Electronic Music Studio, and the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio, as well as several internationally known computer composers . . . From Harvard: 6-7pm The Magic Number, improvisation with percussion, guitar, and sampled loops; Fleur de Vie Weinstock, processed mbira (thumb piano); Jace Clayton, sand in the sampler; Sasha Costanza-Chock, live coaxial remix (audio reassemblage of the entire program); others to be announced. From Brandeis: 7:30-9:30pm The World Wide Electronic Music Show, a performance Featuring electro-acoustic, acousmatic, and computer music from around the world. Curated by composer Eric Chasalow, professor of music at Brandeis University and director of the Brandeis Computer Music Studio. Featuring Alejandro Vion (Argentina), Elsa Justel (Argentina), Jean-Michel Rivet (France), Howard Fredrics (USA), and Eric Chasalow (USA), Javier Alvarez (Mexico), and Akemi Ishijima (Japan). From MIT: 10pm-1am Teresa Marrin, composer and performer of a unique brand of 'gestural' music; Peter Rice, graduate of the MIT Media Lab and independent artist and software programmer; W. Andrew Schloss, percussionist and "radio drum" performer; Alex Westner and Livesexact; The Golden Age with Benjamin Vigoda.

18 1999 event 359 - Computer Animation Show
The Museum presents half-hour screenings of this year's finest computer animation from the 1998 SIGGRAPH (special interest group on computer graphics) show, comparable to an "Academy Awards" presentation for the field of computer graphics. Highlights from leading computer graphics animators and experts from around the world include scientific simulations, special effects, stunning free-form imagery, a virtual reality ride and whimsical baby elephants and penguins.

19 1999 event 360 - Computer Clubhouse
The Computer Museum presents an exhibit of computer-based art works in a range of media and on the Web, created entirely by inner-city youth from the Museum's Computer Clubhouse. Winner of the 1997 Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation, the Computer Clubhouse Program has provided thousands of young people from under-served communities a chance to expand their horizons through the use of powerful computer tools in a community of peers and adult mentors who serve as role models.

20 1999 event 361 - Connoisseurship On-Line
The Museum School hosts a panel discussion focusing on how the internet is revolutionizing the art world, from how art is being created to how it is viewed, sold, collected, evaluated, and preserved. Panelists include Robert Atkins, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Barbara London and will be moderated by George Fifield, Director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

21 1999 event 362 - Crackpot Theorists & Terminal Technology Show
Artist and VideoSpace member Andrew Warren presents video work. Peeking at the awkward or absurd relationship between people and machines is the theme for the evening.

22 1999 event 363 - Current Trends in Computer Music
A concert of new works by, for and about the computer is sponsored by the Department of Music and the Multimedia Studies Program.

23 1999 event 364 - Cyber Art
Cyber Artist Matthew Clifford of Bermuda will be exhibiting 2D figurative art printed on watercolor paper. This colorful series brings new views of imagery that stimulates and dazzles the eye. Digital musical performance by Martin Case from full spectrum scoring.

24 1999 event 365 - Cyber Arts @ Green Street
An exhibit of Apple Computer's innovative designs from the SE through the G3 and iMac are investigated in YUM. Linda Leslie Brown presents recent work which includes digital and sculptural combinations.

25 1999 event 366 - Cyberish
Cyber, digital, high tech, computer-generated, and on the web: Where can we look for art that offers insight into how evolving technology can be used well? The gallery has invited three artists who make their media expressive: Harriet Casdin-Silver, John Powell, and Arthur Santagata.

26 1999 event 367 - CyberSalon
An intimate gathering place with five computer stations for CyberArts Festival-goers to talk, check e-mail, surf the latest in online art and find out the latest cyberarts activities. Sponsored by Apple Computer.

27 1999 event 368 - Digital Graffiti @ ONI
A show featuring mixed media by local artists. Digital and conventional methods will be presented for a unique collection of art for the new millennium! Artists Include: Stephen Canniff, Alex Chouls, Isabelle Garbani, Matt Gilpin, Aaron Skillman and Ben Smith. Reception features robotic and computer-controlled media.

28 1999 event 369 - Digital Variance: Group Show
Exhibition featuring work by Andrew Neumann, Margaret Wagner, Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari. Sponsored in part by Apple Computer.

29 1999 event 370 - Earth Echo: A Celebration of Earth, Digital Images by Fred Casselman
This library presents an exhibit of prints of digital images from Fred Casselman's popular Earth Echo website, http://www.earthecho.com. The images are created to renew our sense of harmony and peace with the Earth, the Cosmos and with ourselves. The work is characterized by vibrant colors and organic patterns, reflecting that which we see in nature and sense in our souls.

30 1999 event 371 - e-flections@attleboro
e-flections is a collaborative exhibit featuring Carmin Karasic, Robert Kieronski, Remo Campopiano, and Alberto Robelest.

31 1999 event 372 - Electronic Music Performance
Featuring Richard Cornell, Mesa di Voce; Roman Yakub, In the Middle of the Void (C.A.G.E.); Bill Beck, Speak of Some Hidden Soul; Braydon McCormick, Afternoons.

32 1999 event 373 - Excerpts from Bacchae by Despina Meimaroglou; Talk about your life through materials that have no memory by Alexandros Psychoulis
Despina Meimaroglou's large-scale digital images are based on Euripides' tragedy Bacchae and deal with the issue of "deadly ecstasy". Alexandros Psychoulis creates an installation entitled, Talk about your life through materials that have no memory: For the reintroduction of the purgatory ritual of violence, specifically for the Boston CyberArts Festival. This interactive installation challenges viewers to address what causes, motivates and perpetuates violence.

33 1999 event 374 - Faces of Tomorrow
"Faces of Tomorrow" features a large-scale digital installation of hundreds of continually changing, digitized self-portraits of young people, expressing their hopes and dreams, projected onto a giant computer screen, a lobby wall of The Computer Museum and on-line at www.cyberfaces.org.

34 1999 event 375 - Fan Club by a.k.a.
Fan Club is a piece-in-progress, still evolving, created in collaboration by eight members of a.k.a. They use the fan as object and image, playing with its obvious references: repetition, movement, cooling, blowing, drying, splaying out. The piece is structured so that several short performance segments are in progress simultaneously. Sound, video and text are incorporated into the performance as a means of giving it unity and building it into a layered multimedia piece.

35 1999 event 376 - First Light
First Light by Hugh O'Donnell is an illuminated digital artwork, one of a series of digital images entitled "Instrumental Variations on a theme in Dylan Thomas." The pixelation of the image reveals a fusion of color and impressionistic light.

36 1999 event 377 - Forbidden Planet (1956)
Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents meets Shakespeare's The Tempest in this classic sci-fi epic, featuring a pioneering electronic musical score by Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Directed by Fred Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, and the original Robby the Robot. With videotaped comments on the creation of the "Cybernetic" score by composer Bebe Barron. Sponsored by the Film Studies Program of Brandeis University.

37 1999 event 378 - From Stick to Chip: Films and Videos for the Tool Lover Species
This screening of films and videos courses through critiques of the tools of technology. Artist and Massachusetts College of Art faculty-member Jackie Goss curates this event.

38 1999 event 379 - Future Art: Student Cyber Art, A Juried Exhibit
A juried exhibit consisting of all manner of digital artwork by students from Boston Area colleges, universities, and museum schools. Mary Ann Kearns and Carmin Kerasic, are among the guest jurors for this event.

39 1999 event 380 - Gallery Talk by the artist, Tony Oursler
Get a chance to meet the artist and discuss the exhibit, "Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey, 1976-1999", with Tony Oursler.

40 1999 event 381 - Gallery Talk by the Curators
Get a chance to see how gallery installation, "Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey, 1976-1999", with Tony Oursler.

41 1999 event 382 - Gallery talk with Abbott, Marcshing, and Ganson: Popular Science
Gallery talk by Paul Abbott, Jane Marcshing, and Arthur Ganson, artists participating in "Popular Science." For Popular Science, the Gallery presents a group show of six East Coast artists who invent art objects and installations from recycled technology. The work in the show seeks to strike a balance between technology, contemporary concerns in art making, and personal expression. Artists include Sara Sun, Arthur Ganson, Janet Zweig, Jane Marcshing, Bruce Bemis, and Paul Abbott. Organized by curator Shelly Bancroft.

42 1999 event 383 - Gallery talk with Bemis and Sun: Popular Science
Gallery talk by Bruce Bemis and Sara Sun, artists participating in "Popular Science." For Popular Science, the Gallery presents a group show of six East Coast artists who invent art objects and installations from recycled technology. The work in the show seeks to strike a balance between technology, contemporary concerns in art making, and personal expression. Artists include Sara Sun, Arthur Ganson, Janet Zweig, Jane Marcshing, Bruce Bemis, and Paul Abbott. Organized by curator Shelly Bancroft.

43 1999 event 384 - Gallery Talk with J. Michael James
This exhibit will explore the existence of virtual sculpture through exhibition of the work of two artists, J. Michael James and Rod Bradfield. This virtual sculpture is 3-D computer animations and navigable spaces that are designed to be experienced over time. The installation will include animations running on a state-of-the-art, large format, flat panel, high definition monitor; large format prints, and two computer stations where visitors can interact with the three dimensional, computer rendered sculptures and spaces. Curated by Mary Ann Kearns and Maureen McManus.

44 1999 event 385 - Gateway to Spirited Ruins
An ImmersaDesk virtual-reality display, eight-channel sound system, and interactive kinetic sculptures bring the ruins of a mythical palace to life. virtual objects respond to your presence, familiar and unfamiliar creatures wonder about, and the palace itself is transformed as you move through its hallways, rooms, and gardens.

45 1999 event 386 - Geisha
That's right kids, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth will be featured in an experimental noise-stravaganza. Also featuring visiting artists Gentry DesLee and Joshua Fried. Produced by Jason Lloyd Talbot, Mass Art Radio.

46 1999 event 387 - Group Exhibition
The gallery displays works by Sachiko Beck, Jennifer Hicks, Blyth Hazen, Carmin Karasic, Naomi Ribner, Jocelyn Scheirer, and Adam Sherman. This exhibition is sponsored by Boston Photo Imaging, Professional Photo Lab.

47 1999 event 388 - Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.
Jam with the best of them! The Axe® a product launched by Harmonix Music Systems, Inc. uses artificial intelligence. It promises even the unskilled the ability to compose and play the towering music they hear in their heads in real time on a personal computer. Experience the joy of making music!

48 1999 event 389 - Hawaiian Turkey Fish and Red Stairs by Carlos Caicedo
Plan the work. Capture the image. Manipulate the image, Print. Become inspired with computer artist, Carlos Caicedo, who will demonstrate the process of creating art on a computer using the latest software tools.

49 1999 event 390 - heARTland
The works of Digital Atelier cyber-artists Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka, and Karin Schminke combine traditional and digital printmaking techniques. Demonstrating that the marriage between computers and art is a natural progression, the work of Digital Atelier is a testament to the profound effect applications of technology can have on the human experience. Presentations and educational displays will detail their creative processes.

50 1999 event 391 - Ingo Günther: Refugee Republic
In a multimedia installation based on the text "Refugee = Capital," Günther conceptualizes his Refugee Republic as a transnational and supraterritorial network in which refugees worldwide could represent themselves and use their collective experiences in the formation of a global model state. Refugee Republic suggests a transformation of the role of the world refugee population: from a social and economic burden to the socioeconomic and political/ideological avant-garde. Presented with the support from the Goethe-Insitut Boston.

51 1999 event 392 - Interpolation
This exhibition features new works by Margaret Wagner, showcasing the BAC's new laser etching printer the BAC has installed. All the works are drawings which have been digitally etched into several layers of Plexiglas. The work focuses on the relationship between the body and technology and utilizes personal photos, drawings and mark making.

52 1999 event 393 - Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey, 1976-1999
A survey exhibition featuring over 20 years of New york-based artist Tony Oursler's pioneering work in video projection, an inventive synthesis of sculpture, video, and performance art. technological wonder is fused with cultural commentary in Oursler's engaging and at times diturbing art.

53 1999 event 394 - Investigating the Renaissance
Kiosk and website which enables visitors to learn about the use of digital imaging in technical examinations and conservation at the art museums of Harvard University.

54 1999 event 395 - Jack Vee
3D graphic and video artist, Jack Vee, is featured in the LTC Gallery.

55 1999 event 396 - John Powell
The gallery presents an exhibit of installations and scultpure by lighting artist John Powell. Also, John Powell will light the storefronts of participating BADA Galleries on Newbury Street

56 1999 event 397 - John Powell Newbury Street Installation
Sponsored by the Boston Art Dealers Association, artist John Powell lights the store-fronts of participating CyberArts Galleries on Newbury Street.

57 1999 event 398 - John Powell Opening Reception
An opening reception for lighting artist John Powell's street installation and exhibit at Creiger-Dane Gallery. The gallery presents an exhibit of installations and scultpure, and Powell will light the storefronts of participating BADA Galleries on Newbury Street. Presented by the Boston Art Dealers Association.

58 1999 event 399 - Karl Sims: A Video Retrospective
These internationally-exhibited, award winning animations were generated by software designed by the artist and explore themes surrounding the creation and mutation of life. Organized by Curator for Media Arts George Fifield.

59 1999 event 400 - L'Amande et le Diamant
Dance Umbrella presents a performance by the Marie Chouinard Dance Company. This is an evocative and erotic work in which the movement of the dancers interacts with motion-sensitive lighting. Returning to Boston after ten years is Montreal's Compagnie Marie Chouinard performing their Boston premiere of L'Alamande et le Diamant (The Almond and the Diamond). Chouinard continues to push the boundaries with her erotically charged essay on Tantric sex. She creates a world where the dancer's movement trigger and control the environment. "...naughty, childish, sophisticated and brazen...A brilliant work of unparalleled imagination." Globe and Mail Canada

60 1999 event 401 - Laser Shows
Family Laser Shows: daily, 5:30pm, 12:30pm (Saturday and Sunday only) Evening Laser Shows: Laser Depeche Mode Sunday, at 8 PM Hear the unique electronic music of Depeche Mode while being dazzled with laser magic Laser WAAF Thursday - Saturday, at 8 PM Laser show set to the sounds of modern, classic and ྌs rock Laser Rush Sunday, at 9:15 PM Hear your favorite Rush songs set to an exciting laser show. Laser Beastie Boys Thursday - Saturday at 9:15 PM Laser show set to one of music's most distinctive bands. Space Odyssey Friday - Sunday 5:30 PM An "otherworldly"line up of tunes Laser Floyd's Wall Friday & Saturday at 10:30 PM Mixes crucial elements of the legendary album, "The Wall" to create a laser masterpiece.

61 1999 event 402 - Lecture by the artist, Tony Oursler
Listen to artist, Tony Ourlser discuss his exhibit, "Introjection: Tony Oursler Mid-Career Survey, 1976-1999".

62 1999 event 403 - Life Signs: Other World, Other Voices
Imagine hovering above the surface and having an aerial view of strange civilizations from the past and present. Using infrared technology and cordless headsets, Museum visitors are "transported" to where they can see and hear life on other planets as they view twenty beautifully framed art pieces with individualized and correlated sound by William Oakes. Engineered by Joseph Forest.

63 1999 event 404 - Luminage Prints by Kenneth A. Huff
Ken Huff's original objects have the curves, delicacy and rich surfaces of early 20th century decorative art, but they are of the 21st century, not the last. His luminescent creations are not made of glass or ceramic, but in fact light modeled on the computer with the craft of an artisan. The light of the pixels on the screen is translated by lasers to photographic film. His richly colored Luminage (TM) prints celebrate the sharp, lush detail made possible by a printer that uses high resolution RGB lasers to expose the photographic paper. Curated by Mary Ann Kearns of 911 Gallery and sponsored by EverColor Fine Art, Worcester, MA.

64 1999 event 405 - Makana and Wise-Eye Guys
Take it to a whole new world of entertainment with Makana and Wise-Eye Guys. Enjoy animation, audio, and interactive fun through story-games, non-linear music, and web performances. Bali Hai Interactive provides literary and artistic value, while incorporating cutting-edge technology.

65 1999 event 406 - Make Your Move Gallery Talk with Chris Dodge
Gallery talk with Chris Dodge as part of Make Your Move. Meet some of New England's most interesting and vital contemporary artists and learn about the art and technology of the 21st century in informal gallery presentations by the Make Your Move artists.

66 1999 event 407 - Make Your Move Gallery Talk with Jen Hall
Gallery talk with Jen Hall as part of Make Your Move. Meet some of New England's most interesting and vital contemporary artists and learn about the art and technology of the 21st century in informal gallery presentations by the Make Your Move artists.

67 1999 event 408 - Make Your Move Gallery Talk with Karl Sims
Gallery talk with Karl Sims as part of Make Your Move. Meet some of New England's most interesting and vital contemporary artists and learn about the art and technology of the 21st century in informal gallery presentations by the Make Your Move artists.

68 1999 event 409 - Make Your Move: Interactive Computer Art
Make Your Move features three cutting-edge computer-assisted interactive installations by internationally recognised Boston area artists Chris Dodge, Jen Hall and Karl Sims. Integral to these ambitious works are visitor participation in the creation of an aesthetic and phgilosophical expperience (without computer screen menus and keyboards!) and shared contect based on issues of creation, life death and personal responsibility. Organized by Associate Curator Nick Capasso.

69 1999 event 410 - MBTA Billboards by Boston Arts Academy
Discover digital technology as a creative tool with computer artist, Lisa Link and her 9th and 10th graders from Boston Arts Academy.

70 1999 event 411 - Mind into Matter: New Digital Sculpture
Mind Into Matter: New Digital Sculpture, curated and produced by Francine Koslow Miller and George Fifield in collaboration with The Computer Museum, presents digital sculpture by artists from around the world. Among the artists featured in this first international survey of digital sculpture are Tim Anderson, Jim Bredt, Dan Collins, Bill Jones, Michael LaForte, Christian Lavigne, Denise Marika, and Michael Rees. Sponsored in part by the LEF Foundation.

71 1999 event 412 - Mitch Rosenberg, Rina Alteron, and Jed Speare
Kinetic Video installation by Mitch Rosenberg, Technology influenced work by Rina Alteron, Harbor: Single channel screening of Elegy by Jed Speare

72 1999 event 413 - mobius.perfs
Mobius in conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival presents mobius.perfs, an evening of performances by Joanne Rice(Mobius Artists Group), Landon Rose (MAG) and Garth Paine; Larry Johnson (MAG) and Joel Hoo; Jed Speare (MAG), Nancy Adams (MAG), and Ean White (MAG alum). Performances include a sound collaboration from half-way around the world; sound triggered LASER beams; and multi-media performance and sound art. High Energy Games was developed by Joel Hoo originally as a team-work building system for corporate training. Here it has been expanded by Hoo and Larry Johnson to become an audience-participation performance. The Mobius space will be criss-crossed by LASER beams. Audience members walking through the space will break beams and trigger sounds associated with each beam. In the original form of High Energy Games, participants tried not to break beams and were penalized if they did. The Mobius audience will be able to try this version, as well as a newer, less goal-oriented version where they will be able to play the system as a musical instrument. Joanne Rice presents a new visual composition titled Patti Tun, the name of a real woman who has disappeared. Visually striking, the work takes on the subject matter of domestic violence. Using computer animation and spoken text, a male and female bring a short piece to life that commands its audience's attention. The Grand Design, a collaboration among Jed Speare, Ean White, and Nancy Adams, takes as its point of departure the tale of an immigrant ship by that name which ran aground off the Maine coast in the 18th century. The "dubious veracity" of the stories associated with the incident on which the work is based questions how history evolves. The notion of a 'grand design,' as both creation metaphor and cultural aspiration, is challenged and manipulated in this project as befits the ironic destiny of the ship. The piece will feature digitally transformed stills, sound, video and performance as well as movement activated, remote sensing to effect performance parameters. There will be large video projection, slide projection, and prop-activated performance. Ean White will construct and conduct all the sound, including work with Theremin and computer controlled "fish". They will present one complete section of a larger work in development. Landon Rose will work with Garth Paine, an artist in Australia, on a collaboration that operates from half-way around the world. On a computer at Mobius, Rose and other audience members will work with a controller on Paine's website, which in turn triggers midi (sound) information in Paine's computer. In real time, Paine streams back the sounds to Rose's computer where the sounds will be heard in the Mobius space.

73 1999 event 414 - Morphologie presented by Eventworks
Two evenings of multimedia art involve 2-D, 3-D, installation, and video media. All of the work is contributed by artists from within the Boston area. This show is produced in conjunction with Massachusetts College of Art's Eventworks Festival. Produced by Tara DeMarco, who is associated with the Studio for Interrelated Media and Sculpture departments. Boston Cyberarts Festival Events at Mobius are sponsored in part by Apple Computer.

74 1999 event 415 - Mortui Vivos Docent
In this light sculpture by Bill Bell, the names of 500 scientists pass as moving messages through a fixed message which translates as "The Dead Teach the Living".

75 1999 event 416 - Moving Target: an exhibition of the world's finest computer-generated animations
The world's finest computer-generated animations feature a broad, international selection of the field's most outstanding video productions: compelling stories, exceptional visions of science, dazzling feature film effects, amazing personal explorations, astounding ads, and surprising interactions. Works are produced from a variety of sources: special effects companies, academic and commercial research organizations, individual artists, and students.

76 1999 event 417 - Multiple Configurations: Presenting the Contemporary Portfolio
An interactive CD-ROM display of the art porfolio Saltoarte which enables the users to virtually handle the art. Using advanced technology such as multimedia environments and virtual real modeling spaces, visitors will again activate the art as many of their makers intended.

77 1999 event 418 - Music for the Millennium
Richard Boulanger was the first regionally-based composer to create a repertoire of works for interactive systems. Neil Leonard is one of a handful of composer/saxophonists to perform solo concerts using software of his own design. Hear their latest works in a rare New England performance.

78 1999 event 419 - Not Still Art Festival
Winning tapes from the annual Not Still Art Video Festival are screened.

79 1999 event 420 - On the Shoulders of Giants
In this light sculpture by Bill Bell, graphic images move rapidly through a computerized light panel. The images respond to certain phrases spoken into an unmarked microphone by the elevator in the main lobby. Try saying "Show me the time".

80 1999 event 421 - Onus Probandi
On May 8th, the Brandeis Experimental Music Club brings you a night of Electronic music to remember. Come down to check out tricky drum & bass, introspective ambient music and wild experimentation by members of the Brandeis community and beyond. Artists include Entropy Struct, Asmodeus Spectre, DJ Etna, Typeface, and CFOM. Refreshments, visuals and surprise performances guaranteed.

81 1999 event 422 - Permanent Installations
In the "Theater of Electricity" (when the lightning bolts are not firing), a sculpture known as the Lightstick by Bill Bell creates images of animals, dinosaurs, etc., when you scan it with rapid eye movement. Walk up. Walk down. Walk up, Walk down! The Musical Stairs in the Red Wing of the Museum of Science were transformed by sound artist Christopher Janney using photoelectric sensors, a computer, a sampling synthesizer, and a sound system - an experiment in participatory architecture!

82 1999 event 423 - Peter Oxenburgh New Work: Computer Generated
Peter Oxenburgh's funneling his ever so human process through the latest in computer technology, managing to emit images that utilize the anesthetizing character of computerization, to end up with a statement that has pathos, humor, and charm. Working now for four years with a computer, Peter is constantly pulling all the new buttons.

83 1999 event 424 - Popular Science
The Gallery presents a group show of six East Coast artists who invent art objects and installations from recycled technology. The work in the show seeks to strike a balance between technology, contemporary concerns in art making, and personal expression. Artists include Sara Sun, Arthur Ganson, Janet Zweig, Jane Marcshing, Bruce Bemis, and Paul Abbott. Organized by curator Shelly Bancroft.

84 1999 event 425 - Portal: Art On-line
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts hosts an exhibition of the most innovative artists, projects, venues, publications, and collections the internet has to offer. Seven computer workstations are available to the public to browse, giving the viewer instant access to the best of the net. Portal is sponsored in part by Apple Computer.

85 1999 event 426 - Procrustes Brain
Doug Kornfield and Ed Tekeian use a video camera and a computer to capture images of Museum visitors and morph them into the form of the standard boy and girl icon, no matter what pose they assume. Also showing are Who Are You?, an interactive computer installation, and 101, a shimmering mosaic installation.

86 1999 event 427 - Pulse
The ancient art of traditional bronze casting meets, mixes, and merges with the worlds of performance, video, and sound. Produced by Jenny Ciaffone and The Performance Art Committee.

87 1999 event 428 - Regina Frank
In conjunction with the Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Clifford-Smith Gallery presents interactive installations, digital drawings and other works by German artist Regina Frank. Regina Frank's work is virtual yet tangible, investigating the gaps between technological processing of data and ancient techniques of communication. Her transitions from text into texture and textiles have been widely exhibited in museums such as MOCA/Los Angeles, the Spiral Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo, and the New Museum in New York. This is Frank's first solo exhibition in Boston where she is a member of the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Concurrently, a 169-page monograph will be published. A book signing at the gallery will be announced.

88 1999 event 429 - Selections from Timeline
Stacy Pershall speaks of her work: "Timeline is an examination of what we know about memory scientifically and instinctively; intellectually and emotionally. Timeline is a place where art is informed by the language of science, and science by the language of art. Sink is a kinetic environment in which marbles are dropped repeatedly into a freestanding sink in the center of the room. This station was also inspired by a game, one my cousin and I used to play, in which we would call one another on the phone and make sounds using objects in our homes. The person on the other end had to guess the objects that created the sound. One sound of which my cousin was particularly fond was the noise marbles made when dropped into the bathroom sink. Of course, he always did that one, so I always guessed it, and came to regard it as a signal that the game was beginning. In the universe in which that memory has continued, the room is full of marbles, and they just keep dropping, one after another, into the same sink, and pouring out onto the floor."

89 1999 event 430 - Sight, Sound, Synapes
A collaborative installation exploring non-linear aspects of time and memory by sculptor Jacques Ablelman, poet Dana Dalton, composer John Mallia, and neuroscientist Kara Pratt. Dalton's poem "tempo chiaro ed oscuro" is a sound source for Mallia's five-channel electronic composition, and the installation as a whole, including sculptures, prints and projections, metaphorically represents the physical behavior of time and memory.

90 1999 event 431 - Static In Motion
Miller's work attempts to bring recognizable shapes and icons into the virtual world. he is particularly interested in creating highly colored images that display repeated patterns of movement, similar to the rhythmic patterns often found in musical compositions. Miller created his digital images using the POVray scene description language, a public-domain programming language available for nearly all modern computing platforms. Dennis H. Miller is onthe faculty of Northeastern university in Boston where he directs the Music Technology program. He is also the current Chair of the Multimedia Studies Steering Committee. Miller's musical and visual works have been presented throughout the United States and abroad and can be viewed at www.casdn.neu.edu/~dmiller.

91 1999 event 432 - The Birth of Electronic Music: Historic Pieces From The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Enjoy an evening of music by composer-pioneers from one of the first and most prominent studios for electronic music in the United States. Presented using the sound diffusion system in Slosberg Recital Hall at Brandeis University. This evening includes live program notes and video interviews with the composers from the Video Archive of Electro-Acoustic Musicians. Performances include: Soprano, Judith Bettina, pianist Geoffrey Burleson; Synchronisms #6 for piano and electronic sounds, Mario Davidovsky; Transformation of Ani, Alice Shields; Philomel, for soprano and tape, Milton Babbitt (sung by soprano, Judith Bettina); Piece for Tape Recorder, Vladimir Ussachevsky; Stereo electronic Music #I, Bulent Arel; Gargoyles, for violin and tape, Otto Luening; Kolyosa, Pril Smiley. Presented by Eric Chasalow.

92 1999 event 433 - The Digital Media
Light Sources Gallery celebrates the enormous influence the two worlds, art and technology, have always had on each other. Natalie Acoca- working as a graphic designer for Software Emancipation, her focus is on creating digital collages, but also bringing printed digital images into sculpture. More of her work is available at www.gis.net/~nacoca Craig Orsini- digital and conventional photographer for advertising and design agencies. Marty Paul- active member of boston's commercial photography community for twenty years, recently transitioned from traditional photography to digital illustration, showing assignments and personal work. David Petty- specializing in the Hi-Tec Industrial Market, using digital imaging as a tool in creating images that have realistic impact as well as surrealistic drama. He feels that digital art has rekindled his passion for creativity. Jaye Phillips-presently working in narrative and surreal imagery, landscape and life of the Southwest are sources of much of her work. Her background is in photography, but also works in Iris prints and other forms of non-silver printmaking. She has exhibited throughout the U.S., and is represented in such collections as the Harvard Theater Arts Collection. Steve Greenberg- a photo illustrator in digital format, whose goal is to create eye catching visuals that provide the viewer with a new perspective on common objects or ideas. Elaine Fisher- tenured Chancellor Professor in the photographic/Electronic Imaging option of the Design Department at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Elaine has taught photography at both graduate and undergraduate levels for the past 25 years. Brice Flynn- described as a "digital imagician", Bryce "revels in the creative freedom offered by the new digital toys". He is a land and underwater photographer, whose clients include: Analog Devices, Cahners Publishing, The Foxboro Company, GenRad, Hasbro, Houghton Mifflin, Ocean Spray and many more.

93 1999 event 434 - The fourth Annual Photographic Resource Center Members Exhibition
This is a juried exhibition of work by PCR members presented in conjunction with the Boston CyberArts Festival. Featured are single-person exhibitions by Robert Fontenot and Christy Park, as well as work presented in a group exibition by Linda L. Brown, Adriene B. Hughes, Charlie Lemay, Georgina Lewis, Joachim Knill, Dorothy S. Krause, Chehalis Hegner-Meloni, Matthew Nash, Lisa Stanley, Leslie Starobin, Anna Srickland, and Susan Zimmerman.

94 1999 event 435 - The Next Refugee
Can new communications technologies and notions of statehood transform the status of the world refugee population? The Cambridge Arts Council presents this panel discussion in conjunction with Gallery 57's Ingo Günther's installation, Refugee Republic.

95 1999 event 436 - The Virtual Beret Project
Broadcasting throughout the Boston area and Cape Cod, artist and VideoSpace member Sarah Smiley presents Virtual Beret. This project is one in which people submit "virtual artists" using the medium of video or animation. People are asked to invent an artist, describe the artwork of the artist, and describe a key element of the artist's existence: his or her beret. The project will air on cable access networks in Boston, Lowell, Cape Cod, Salem, Malden, Somerville, and Cambridge.

96 1999 event 437 - The Virtual Book - Hypertext Reading and Demonstration
An interactive installation in the library's new computer center showcases hypertext fiction and poetry by some of the medium's most prominent writers, including Robert Arellano, Robert Coover, Judy Malloy and Stephanie Strickland. In a special opening event, Coover and Arellano will lead the audience through multidimensional narrative strategies of electronic fiction.

97 1999 event 438 - Titian Kiosk
The Titian Kiosk brings high resolution, full screen video with interactivity to the computer screen to help museum visitors learn about a work of art through careful looking. The interactive program rewards viewers with a "nugget" of information that floats to the surface. Each "nugget" - twenty in all- is a blend of image, animation, and words, presenting multiple points of view about the painting. By revealing details less visible to the naked eye, the painting, in a sense, speaks for itself. The kiosk, commissioned by the Education Department at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, was produced by Botticelli Interactive of Boston, with motion graphics by Ark Studios, also of Boston. The kiosk was funded through the generosity of Independence Investment Associates and the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston, MA.

98 1999 event 439 - Toneburst Collective
Toneburst Collective presents another much anticipated event. Performances by local electronic musicians and experimental Djs are accompanied by video projections. In addition, there will be interactive visual music kiosks and video installations set up for people to experience as they explore the environment.

99 1999 event 440 - Two Student Installations
These installations are prize-winning creations developed within the scope of the "Art is Light " interdisciplinary project, established by The Photonics Center and The School For The Arts. "Time" is a sculpture by graduate sculptor Rob Smart, in which two columns of light interact with outside stimuli creating a kaleidoscope of changing color. "Book Of Hours", a sculpture by, Alice Orleman, is based on an illuminated manuscript from the 14th century which describes the creation of light and the spheres.

100 1999 event 441 - UMass Cyberarts Students@ Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell
This exhibition brings together for the first time the digital art students from the combined UMass system campuses and showcases the creative work being done at each campus. Works represented in this exhibition ranges from on-screen multimedia to digitally manipulated work presented in a sculptural form. Because of the breadth of the course offerings at the Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell campuses, the work is diverse and challenging.

101 1999 event 442 - Video Jam
A bit like "video jazz improvisation" this two-day performance features live video synthesis and electronic music, filling the space with an array of video monitors, projections and sound. Video Jam is curated by Erin Coughlan and Mary Ann Kearns and features a number of media artists including David Barton, Adrian Conte, MissBliss, Carol Goss, Boyd Nutting, and Walter Wright.

102 1999 event 443 - Virtual Light
Virtual Light is a group digital imaging show including the work of Denise Marika, Jackie Hayden, Jodi Zellen, Richard Rosenblum and Aida Laelian and Nancy Davidson.

103 1999 event 444 - Virtual Sculpture: An Exhibit of Immaterial 3D objects
This exhibit will explore the existence of virtual sculpture through exhibition of the work of two artists, J. Michael James and Rod Bradfield. This virtual sculpture is 3-D computer animations and navigable spaces that are designed to be experienced over time. The installation will include animations running on a state-of-the-art, large format, flat panel, high definition monitor; large format prints, and two computer stations where visitors can interact with the three dimensional, computer rendered sculptures and spaces. Curated by Mary Ann Kearns and Maureen McManus.

104 1999 event 445 - Virtual Talk with Artist Rod Bradfield
This exhibit will explore the existence of virtual sculpture through exhibition of the work of two artists, J. Michael James and Rod Bradfield. This virtual sculpture is 3-D computer animations and navigable spaces that are designed to be experienced over time. The installation will include animations running on a state-of-the-art, large format, flat panel, high definition monitor; large format prints, and two computer stations where visitors can interact with the three dimensional, computer rendered sculptures and spaces. Curated by Mary Ann Kearns and Maureen McManus.

105 1999 event 446 - Welcome to the Cyberarts Community
This forum includes six experts from the digital printmaking industry and contemporary art world, including artists, professors and gallery representatives. Discussion focuses on what the impressive new technologies can offer artists.

106 1999 event 447 - Why/Pop
Why do you think they call it Pop? Why/Pop is an installation project produced by Mark Pierson and Tony Cokes, founding members of the Multicultural Arts Group, X-PRZ. The project is created in collaboration with Boston based graphic artist Jeff Mellin and media artist Scott Pagano. The installation includes large scale digital based images, found sound, an LED(electronic sign) containing text reference to blues musician Muddy Waters, 60's style pattern design images, and a working turntable.

107 1999 event 448 - With an Educated Eye: Works by Wellesley College Studio Faculty
Works by Wellesley College Faculty including works by Naomi Ribner and Phyllis McGibbon using computer altered images.

108 1999 event 449 - Women in Technology and the Arts
Series of Colloquia, lectures and symposia. The first of an annual series of public forums on cultural policy. These are informal panel discussions of the questions that arise at the connection of art and technology. Audience members are invited to discuss public policy questions such as ownership and copyright, artists access to technology, and computer literacy in education. Tuesday, May 4 Deborah Cornell, printmaker Cornell is founder and director of the Experimental Etching Studio and head of printmaking at Boston University School for the Arts. Her current project, Linea Australis is an ambitious collaboration to be experienced in Boston University's Lab for Immersive Virtual Enviroments. http://www.bu.edu/sfa/faculty/visual/cornell_d.html Teresa Marrin, musician A classically trained musician, Marrin is at MIT's media lab where she is designing a electronic system that interacts with the wearer's physiology to links gesture and physical expression directly to electronic musical input devices. / http://www.media.mit.edu/~marrin/ Thursday, May 6 Carmin Karasic, internet artist A web artist and web activist, Karasic worked from many years in software and design. She knows just how to use the web as a powerful means of disseminating, and even broadcasting her ideas. http://www.xensei.com/users/carmin/ Carol Goss, video artist Fluent in video for over twenty years, Goss's current project Travel in Turkey, Thoughts on Time incorporates video, slides and color and b/w print film shot in Turkey. http://www.improvart.com/ Monday, May 10 Jen Hall, information artist In addition to being an information artist and cyber sculptor, Hall is an interface designer who would rather drive computers with her own brain patterns. Her latest interactive sculptures are now on view at the DeCordova Museum. http://www.dowhile.org/ Diane Willow, Willow is currently the Director of the Experimental Media Studio at the ChildrenÕs Museum in Boston. She is an installation artist, artist in residence, and organizer of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. http://www.bostonkids.org Tuesday, May 11 Felice Frankel, scientific photographer In residence at the Edgerton Center at MIT, Frankel is working on a National Foundation project and organizing a conference at MIT that will gather researchers from all fields to explore image and meaning. Dorothy Simpson Krause, contemporary printmaker Krause uses the latest large format printers in a process which transfers her humanist images from the original carrier to a wide variety of substrates. See her latest prints at the Danforth Museum. Http://www.dotkrause.com Olivia Parker, photographer Parker's photographs are in collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in NY, & the Museum of Fine arts Boston. With photographic and digital tools she manipulates her chosen objects to invest them with new properties and meaning. http://digitalimage.polaroid.com/studio/artists/parker/op-3.html Thursday, May 13 Harriet Casdin-Silver, holographer A pioneering holographer, Casdin's images have laid bare the human figure, including her own, for over 30 years. http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibits/artist4.html Denise Marika, video artist, sculptor Marika's exploration of the impact of technology on human intimacy and vulnerability can be seen in her current video installation at the Howard Yezerski Gallery.

109 1999 event 450 - Works on Paper, Digital Printmaking at Singer Additions
A show featuring IRIS prints by various digital artists.

110 2001 event 251 - Sonic Circuits VIII


111 2001 event 252 - The 3rd Dimension in Prints


112 2001 event 253 - Pressure


113 2001 event 254 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Mouse in the Studio


114 2001 event 255 - RTMark.com


115 2001 event 256 - PowErBooK/pOwErBoOGIe


116 2001 event 257 - WAAM: Digital Landscapes


117 2001 event 258 - Spotlight on Media Arts


118 2001 event 259 - Schema


119 2001 event 260 - Crossing Paths


120 2001 event 261 - Light as Art: Art at the Photonics Center


121 2001 event 262 - Musical Stairs


122 2001 event 263 - Mortui Vivos Docent


123 2001 event 264 - Ballet Mecanique


124 2001 event 265 - The Lite Show


125 2001 event 266 - Not Still Art Festival


126 2001 event 267 - Five Ideas


127 2001 event 268 - Periscope


128 2001 event 269 - U and I dOt cOm and Other Strange Sights


129 2001 event 270 - Codman Square Youth and Technology Center


130 2001 event 271 - Computer Clubhouse Digital Studio
Young people working as designers, inventors and creators on projects based on their own interests, supported by adult mentors and other youth.

131 2001 event 272 - Critical Breakdown


132 2001 event 273 - Faces of Tomorrow Online


133 2001 event 274 - CyberArts with IBA


134 2001 event 275 - Media and Technology: The Next Chapter


135 2001 event 276 - ZuMix Live Freestyle and CD Release


136 2001 event 277 - Flights of Fantasy Reception


137 2001 event 278 - The Future of Interactivity in Museums


138 2001 event 279 - Mutual Transformations: Technology in Arts Education


139 2001 event 280 - Website Launch


140 2001 event 281 - Approaching Chaos - Visions from the Quantum Frontier


141 2001 event 282 - CollageMachine / JumboScope


142 2001 event 283 - 2 Exhibitions at the Davis Museum


143 2001 event 284 - Cyberarts Exhibitions at the Museum of Science


144 2001 event 285 - Dorothy Simpson Krause: Sacred and Mundane


145 2001 event 286 - Four Exhibitions at the List Visual Arts Center
"The Long Road to Mazatlan" with Javier De Frutos; "The Long Count (I Shook Up the World)" by Paul Pfeiffer; Johan Grimonprez's " Inflight"; and "Race In Digital Space", featuring the work of some 30 artists.

146 2001 event 287 - The Artists Foundation


147 2001 event 288 - 8 Track


148 2001 event 289 - Tod Machover's Hyperstring Trilogy


149 2001 event 290 - The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Mouse in the Studio


150 2001 event 291 - d{s}eduction dialogue


151 2001 event 292 - Student Digital Art Exhibit


152 2001 event 293 - Digital Arts and Culture Conference 2001


153 2001 event 294 - CyberArtCentral


154 2001 event 295 - Augmented Realities


155 2001 event 296 - CyberForum


156 2001 event 297 - The Princess Project


157 2001 event 298 - Cyberarts@Madison Park


158 2001 event 299 - Chris Florio and Guests - Live and Online


159 2001 event 300 - Symphony of a City Symposium


160 2001 event 301 - Gallery on the Grid


161 2001 event 302 - The Eye's Mind: Art through the Lenticular Lens


162 2001 event 303 - Symphony of a City


163 2001 event 304 - The Boston T1 Party: Electronic Literature in Performance
Award-winning authors reading from their online projected work. At Boston Public Library.

164 2001 event 305 - The Future Genies of Mush Island Night
MassArt's Studio for Interrelated Media program, including "The Future Genies of Mush Island Night" and "Kid 606 w/Dogg and Pony & the Paul Flaherty Trio" at Mass College of Art.

165 2001 event 306 - iEAR@Mobius


166 2001 event 307 - Moving Target


167 2001 event 308 - Cyber Feast for Eyes and Ears
New digital music and artworks, featuring works by Dennis Miller, music by Eric Chasalow and Rhonda Rider, video mixing by Toshi Hoo, and more.

168 2001 event 309 - The Third Room


169 2001 event 310 - Dance of the Water Spiders


170 2001 event 311 - Dirty Pixels


171 2001 event 312 - The Eye's Mind: Art through the Lenticular Lens


172 2001 event 313 - Imaging New England


173 2001 event 314 - Computer Art


174 2001 event 315 - Media Midway


175 2001 event 316 - The Treasure of the Nibelungs


176 2001 event 317 - Honey Apparatus


177 2001 event 318 - b/t


178 2001 event 319 - Technics: Baubles or Ballast?
Works by Jennifer Hall, Blyth Hazen, Ray Howlette, Richard J. Linke, Rosamond Wolff Purcell, and others.

179 2001 event 320 - Virtual Shooter


180 2001 event 321 - Basket Case III


181 2001 event 322 - Solo Artists on the Edge: Immersion Music by Virtuosos


182 2001 event 323 - .ORG


183 2001 event 324 - Boston Neighborhood Networks Open House


184 2001 event 325 - Westminster Faces of Tomorrow


185 2001 event 326 - 'The Nibelungenlied'and German Nationalism: A Reception History


186 2001 event 327 - Signing and Protecting Digital Art - JSG Boggs


187 2001 event 328 - Two-Part Invention: Music from Chaos


188 2001 event 329 - Quadraphonia


189 2001 event 330 - Internal Drive


190 2001 event 331 - The Wall at WAM: Denise Marika


191 2001 event 332 - DJI ROBOT


192 2001 event 333 - Dorothy Simpson Krause: Sacred and Mundane


193 2001 event 334 - Boston Cyberarts Electronic Music Marathon


194 2001 event 335 - Digital Identity, Better Living through Bits


195 2001 event 336 - Digital Polyphony


196 2001 event 337 - The 3rd Dimension in Prints


197 2001 event 338 - Adam Sherman


198 2001 event 339 - Flights of Fantasy


199 2001 event 340 - Race in Digital Space


200 2001 event 341 - Orchestral Music at the Technological Frontier


201 2003 event 196 - Three Solo Shows at the Artists Foundation Galleries and Video Room


202 2003 event 197 - The Pig Wings Project by the Tissue Culture & Art Project


203 2003 event 198 - Talk on Digital Printmaking


204 2003 event 199 - Gallery Talk on Wireless Technology and the Visual Arts


205 2003 event 200 - Photonic Evolution in Deep Time II


206 2003 event 201 - TechArt


207 2003 event 202 - 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 http://listart.mit.edu/. Wheelchair accessible.

208 2003 event 203 - Little New Media Exhibition


209 2003 event 204 - Taking Liberties


210 2003 event 205 - Build-It-Yourself Mechanical Garden Show


211 2003 event 206 - Sacred Spaces


212 2003 event 207 - Fabric / ch - electroscape 003 ::: knowledge architechture
Swiss House For Advanced Research and Education, Consulate of Switzerland fabric | ch investigates this electronic architecture, by creating an interactive piece in which space is not defined by geometry but by knowledge and data. April 30-May 9, Mon-Fri 2-5pm (or by appointment). For RSVP and appointments please contact Marianne, 617.876.3076x16, email Marianne@creativeswitzerland.com.

213 2003 event 208 - Printmaking, Artist's books, and the Digital Age


214 2003 event 209 - 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, email Marianne@creativeswitzerland.com.

215 2003 event 210 - 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.

216 2003 event 211 - Spectrum at the Phoenix Landing


217 2003 event 212 - 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 http://listart.mit.edu/. Wheelchair accessible.

218 2003 event 214 - 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. The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University is sponsoring an on line show as part of Boston Cyberarts Festival. Co-curated by Carmin Karasic and Fred Levy- this show will have a wide range of art from both AIB students and professionals who use the computer as their preferred medium. April 26 - May 10, 2003. Location: www.art-is-everywhere.8m.net Opening Event at The Art Inst. of Boston @ Lesley 700 Beacon St. Boston MA, 02215

219 2003 event 215 - 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. Sponsored by the WB56 FamilyFirst Foundation, the Cloud Foundation, and the Katharine Gibbs School. April 26-May 11, Sat-Sun 10am-5pm, Mon-Fri by appointment. Opening reception Sat, April 26, 4-6pm. Location: Cloud Place, 647 Boylston St, Boston. Free! For more info visit bostoncyberarts.org and click on "Youth" or contact youthdirector@bostoncyberarts.org , 617.524.8495. For wheelchair access, call 617.524.8495 in advance to make arrangements

220 2003 event 216 - Visual Improvisation Symposium


221 2003 event 217 - Gibbs Welcomes CyberArts


222 2003 event 218 - 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. April 26 - May 11, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. Hotel @ MIT 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge.

223 2003 event 219 - Raise Your Voice!


224 2003 event 220 - In Our Voices, Through Our Eyes: The Art of Digital Storytelling


225 2003 event 221 - 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. April 30 - June 30, Mon-Thurs 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-9pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm. Free! Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston. For more info contact Marlon Orozco, morozco@mos.org, 617.589.0462 or visit www.computerclubhouse.org/. Wheelchair accessible.

226 2003 event 222 - 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 play of particular cameras, the labelling of cameras and other surveillance equipment, and the documentation and web publication of performances and surveillance devices. Sun April 27, 4pm, beginning at Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge. For more info call 617.524.8495, email info@bostoncyberarts.org, or visit bostoncyberarts.org/daps. Wheelchair accessible.

227 2003 event 223 - Learning to Love You Better


228 2003 event 224 - Wounds


229 2003 event 225 - 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 '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 'Tap' website. Sponsored by Harvard University. Fri, April 25, Boston Cyberarts Festival Opening Night Party, 6:30-9:00pm. Hotel @ MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge. Sat & Sun, April 26,27, May 3,4 10:30am-5:30pm. The Copley Society of Boston, 158 Newbury St, Boston, Free. For more info call 617.524.8495, email info@bostoncyberarts.org, or visit bostoncyberarts.org/daps. Wheelchair accessible.

230 2003 event 226 - 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 8, 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.

231 2003 event 227 - 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. This exhibit is presented by the New Center for Arts and Culture inaugural festival.

232 2003 event 228 - Digital Art and Public Space: Expanding Definitions of Public Art


233 2003 event 229 - 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. Wed, May 7th 7pm-9pm. Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge. Free! For more info visit www.aspectmag.com. Wheelchair accessible.

234 2003 event 230 - 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). Sun, April 27, 8pm, and Sun, May 4, 8pm. Free! Berklee College of Music, Fenway Recital Hall, 22 Fenway Road, Boston. For more info call 617.338.4392, email acfb@tbf.org, or visit www.soniccircuits.com. Wheelchair accessible.

235 2003 event 231 - Ellen Band and David Lee Myers


236 2003 event 232 - info@blah: overload and organization


237 2003 event 233 - Altered Time, Altered Space


238 2003 event 234 - Harriet Casdin-Silver: Holograms and Cyborgs


239 2003 event 235 - CyberArtCentral Headquarters


240 2003 event 236 - 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

241 2003 event 237 - 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 http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/ICA/. Visit http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/ICA/ or contact Fernanda Viegas, 617.253.2450.

242 2003 event 238 - The Ballad of Wires and Hands


243 2003 event 239 - Berklee Contemporary Ensemble


244 2003 event 240 - Artists as System Engineers


245 2003 event 241 - 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. Sun, April 6, 3pm. Admission $5. 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.

246 2003 event 242 - 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.

247 2003 event 243 - The New Renaissance Part II


248 2003 event 244 - Manifest 2003: A Juried Exhibition of Visual Art in Digital Media


249 2003 event 245 - 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.

250 2003 event 246 - 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.

251 2003 event 247 - Opening Reception: 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. 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.bu.edu, or call 617.353.3329 or email gallery@bu.edu. Wheelchair accessible.

252 2003 event 248 - 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 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.

253 2003 event 249 - 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.

254 2003 event 250 - Digital Photographs from the Studio of Jonathan Singer


255 2005 event 1 - Science of Causes
The Science of Causes, curated by Carmin Karasic and Fred Levy, hosts 3 local artists: A.R.T., Harvey Loves Harvey, and Andrew Neumann, showing installations designed for the Gallery at 700 Beacon St. Each artist will be taking over 1/3 of the gallery to install a unique work of art. The three installations in Science of Causes are all dynamic, self-referential and autonomous. They reflect our visual culture by ironically probing our ever-increasing dependency on technology. An interactive life sized video projection, "An interactive study of human response to mediated actions without consequence: Naughty or Nice" by Harvey Loves Harvey, exploits voyeurism and paradoxically requires that viewers remotely direct and observe the interaction of strangers. We can then objectively examine the reactions to our choices, because technology has evolved such that we may act without moral consequence. In "Weed" by A.R.T. the autonomous actions of a robot create a tedious interpretation of a garden weed. Repetitive self-referential movements 'grow' toothpicks into complex fractal flooring, paralleling technology's role in the quest for artificial life. "Wall Construction #2" by Andrew Neumann is large machine-like structure of sprawling network of motors, wires, and video screens depicting or referencing construction sites. April 18-May 8, Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm. Opening Wed, April 20. 5-7:30pm. Gallery conversations with multimedia artist Carmin Karasic, Fri. April 29, at 12:30 - 1:30pm, joined by Andrew Neumann, and at 3:30 - 4:30pm joined by HLH artist, Jason Dean. For more info email flevy@mail.lesley.edu

256 2005 event 3 - The Thoughtbody Environment by Bill Seaman
Bill Seaman / Otto Rössler, "The Thoughtbody Environment: Toward a Model for an Electrochemical Computer": an installation that explores the question: To what degree can we model the processes that are at operation in the body that give rise to sentience? The installation will include a series of large- scale digital prints / diagrams, a poetic text, a video work, a new music work and a didactic text. The work will also potentially include a distributed poetic text installed on the windows of the building. The scientist / collaborator Otto Rössler would visit during the time of the installation and give a related lecture during the show. Bill Seaman is a professor and Chair of the Digital Media Department at Rhode Island School of Design. More information about his work can be found at Billseaman.com. April 22- May 8, Mon- Sun 10am - 7pm. Opening Reception Fri, April 22, 6-9 pm. 500 Kendall St,Cambridge - Genzyme Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. For more information call 401.454.6139 or email Mihn Reza mreza@risd.edu. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

257 2005 event 4 - Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology
BostonCyberarts presents Ideas in Motion, a conference, performance and workshop series on dance, movement and technology. A new addition to the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Ideas in Motion is a series of events that showcases new and recent innovative work lying at the crossroads of dance, movement, and tech-nology. Ideas in Motion features talks, workshops, film screenings, and perform-ances by local, national, and international artists and experts. The centerpiece of Ideas in Motion is a two-day conference on April 23 and 24. The conference includes a keynote address by Prof. John Mitchell of Arizona State University and two afternoons of presentations, short performances, and Q&A by an exciting, diverse cast of artists and technologists including: Elaine Summers (USA) Justin Davila (Dance Heritage Coalition) (USA) Helen Pickett (on Forsythe) (USA) Mark Downie (USA) Nell Breyer (USA) Vita Berezina (USA) Fukurow Ishikawa (Japan) Maya Ciarocci (USA) Noah Riskin (USA) Jody Sperling(Time Lapse Dance) (USA) Kinodance Company (USA) Fico Balet (Slovenia) Marlon Barrios-Solano/Unstablelandscape (Venezuela/USA) Conference times and dates: April 23, 2-6pm, Simmons Hall at MIT, 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge Sun, April 24, 1-6pm, The Dance Theater at Boston University, 915 Commonwealth Ave with the entrance opposite 25 Buick St. Boston Admission: general $30/day or $50 for both days; students $24/day or $38 for both days. Ideas in Motion is funded by grants from LEF Foundation, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Boston Cultural Council, which is founded by Massachusetts Cultural Council and administrated by Mayor's Office of Art, Tourism, and Special Events. This conference is the core event of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information and tickets and registration visit Ideas in Motion or email info@bostoncyberarts.org

258 2005 event 5 - Floating Points 2: Networked Art in Public Spaces
The "Floating Points 2" lecture series focuses on artists using networking technologies (Internet, WiFi, GPS, etc.) who take their work out of the PC, and into the streets. In a panel discussion format, artists discuss the future of this new networked/public art: Elizabeth Goodman's work focuses on creative exploration at the intersections of new digital technologies, social life and urban spaces. http://www.confectious.net/ Teri Rueb's large-scale responsive spaces and location-aware installations explore issues of architecture and urbanism, landscape and the body, and sonic and acoustic space. http://www.terirueb.net/ Julian Bleecker has been involved in technology design for over 15 years, creating mobile, wireless, and networked-based applications across a diversity of project idioms. http://www.techkwondo.com/ Greyworld, a group of London-based artists founded by Andrew Shoben, create highly imaginative interactive urban art. http://www.junction.co.uk/PublicArtVE/greyworld.html Anne Galloway will serve as moderator. Wed, April 27, 7pm For more information email newradio@turbulence.org Organized by New Radio and Performing Arts (turbulence.org) and Emerson College. Funded by the LEF Foundation.

259 2005 event 6 - Train by John Klima
John Klima worked with telephony company Plum Voice Portals to perfect "Train", his interactive piece that allows viewers to use their cellular phones to control an HO scale model railroad and the virtual characters riding them. He did this work as part of the Boston Cyberarts' "Artist in Residence at Technology Companies of Massachusetts" (A.R.T.C.O.M.) Please visit http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/air for more information. April 9-May 1, Tues-Sun 11am-5pm. Museum School Gallery at the DeCordova Admission $9; $6 for students and seniors. Admission includes access to the 35-acre Sculpture Park and Museum galleries.

260 2005 event 8 - Works from the Cave II
The David Winton Bell Gallery and meme@brown present an exhibition of "Works from the Cave II" in Brown University's virtual reality Cave at the Center for Computation and Visualization. Powered by a high-performance parallel computer, the Cave is an eight-foot cube with high-resolution stereo graphics projected onto three walls and the floor to create immersive virtual reality. Featured works include the premier of "Torus: Work in Process" by John Cayley and Dmitri Lemmerman, and selections from the Cave Writing workshop lead by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Shawn Greenlee. April 30 and May 1, 7, and 8, Sat 11am-5pm. Reservations required. Press preview TBA. Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University, 180 George St, Providence, RI. For more info call 401-863-2932 Wheelchair accessible, note when making reservations.

261 2005 event 9 - Sound installation by Carrie Bodle
Carrie Bodle spent about three months working at IBM's CUE laboratories in Cambridge and became fascinated with the group's experiments with "wikis"-online Web pages that can be continuously updated at any time by any user with access to the Internet. She decided to create a system of sonic representations of activity on the wiki sites that would give Web visitors aural cues as to the evolution of the site in real time. Carrie worked with IBM CUE during her time in Boston Cyberarts' "Artist in Residence at Technology Companies of Massachusetts" (A.R.T.C.O.M.) Please visit http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/air for more information. April 9-May 1, Tues-Sun 11am-5pm. Museum School Gallery at the DeCordova. Admission $9; $6 for students and seniors. Admission includes access to the 35-acre Sculpture Park and Museum galleries.

262 2005 event 10 - Wadada Leo Smith and Ikue Mori duo
Trumpeter-composer Smith has not performed in Boston in a decade. He considers this duo with laptop musician Mori one of the most important of his long career. A composer whose scores utilize a unique visual vocabulary, Smith finds that Mori's ability to interpret his pieces among the highest of any musician he's ever worked with. They have performed several times at European new music festivals and in New York City. This is their first appearance in the U.S. outside of New York. Time and Date: Sat, April 30, 8pm Admission: $15 general/$12 students and seniors For more info call Branka Bogdanov, 617. 927.6605, email Branka@icaboston.org

263 2005 event 11 - Vivian Pratt: The Fragility of Life
The bf Annex Gallery presents the digital prints and video works of Vivian Pratt. For several years Pratt has been investigating her reactions to the realities of aging and the fragility of life. This body of work began with photographs of dying flowers that were layered and altered on the computer.The resulting work that will be exhibited at bf Annex combine the beauty of nature with the actuality of decay. In the videos, these images hover and embrace her body, creating a dance that alludes to the parallels between her life and that of nature. Her use of computer arts to express her perspective puts the work squarely in the present, as technology has evolve not only as a force that has the ability to improve our lives, but also to express it.Through May. Opening reception Fri, May 6, 5-7:30pm. For more information contact Greg Mencoff, 617.451.3344, mailbox@bfannex.com

264 2005 event 12 - Land/Mark: Locative Media and Photography
"Land/Mark: Locative Media and Photography" is a group exhibition that features artists who engage photography with location-based media, global technologies, and larger geographical systems. Using the parsed phrase "Land/Mark" as a starting point, this PRC exhibition curated by Leslie K. Brown highlights Boston-area artists Margot Kelley, Brooke Knight, Josh Winer, and the new media, global public art project Yellow Arrow (yellowarrow.net), but also points to various other exhibitions and events related to mapping all over the city. The artworks in "Land/Mark" are titled by their exact location, either by GPS (Global Positioning System) coordinates or another location-based code and comment upon the idea of landmarks and marking the land. Work in the PRC show includes Margot Kelley's investigation of the GPS game geocaching through color photographs and narrative; Brooke Knight's ground studies near landmarks and minute confluences; and Josh Winer's large format coordinate-titled images of land in flux. Also on display will be a live-feed slideshow from Yellow Arrow's database of arrows placed in the environment, which during the festival will feature only Boston-area submissions. Fri April 8-Thurs May 5, Tues-Fri 10-6 pm, Thurs 10-8pm, Sat and Sun 12-5pm, Opening reception, Thurs, April 7, 5:30-7:30pm; Gallery conversation, Thurs, April 21, 12pm. Directions: Public transportation, Green B Line, outbound, BU West stop Free every Thurs and the last weekend of the month. The PRC is always free to members, Institutional Plus member schools, children under 18, BU students, faculty, and staff, as well as all school groups with appointments. General admission: $3/ public, $2/students and seniors. For more info visit the PRC website and special online Land/Mark component via www.prcboston.org

265 2005 event 13 - Ideas in Motion: The Expansive Artist: a 3-day workshop/seminar based on Forsythe Improvisation Technique led by Helen Pickett
Boston Cyberarts presents: A 3-day workshop relying on mixed-disciplines in which all participants bring their chosen focus into the room and meld it with physical alphabets and movement modalities to produce an integration of brain and body. The work in these three days is grounded in physical improvisation which enables each person to access yet unknown creativity by visualizing and interpreting the body in space - a different version of space! This technique of spontaneous movement boosts other art forms into enhanced realms of thought and physicality that will affect opinion and free the imagination to flow. This work allows participants to discover and access the inspiration that the body has to offer. The whole room works synergistically because the participants create and speak the same physical language. Action slides easily into the space. It is a class that the students manifest themselves. This new language is easy to learn and later refer to because it is rooted in technique. It is a gratifying challenge that will help any person glide into the flow of energy that coordinates mind and body. This method will not only enhance your vision of space - ponder more dimensions! - but also will open your art to another level entirely. Wed, April 20 4-7pm Thu, April 21,10-1pm Fri, April 22, 1-4pm Admission for the 3-day workshop is $140, early bird special $125 before April 1. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion or email info@bostoncyberarts.org

266 2005 event 14 - Ideas in Motion: Max/MSP/Jitter workshop lead by Marlon Barrios-Solano
Boston Cyberarts presents a workshop geared to expose artists and performers to digital real-time processing and its application to the creation of performance and installation environments using the software Max/MSP/Jitter. The sessions are in the format of a hands-on workshop to get participants familiar with the Jitter object system (Video). Subjects such as QuickTime video playback, signal-processing for video, live camera tracking, audio-visual interaction and the use of game controllers as an alternative interface will be explored. Participants are expected to have basic experience with digital video processing and on the Macintosh in general. Sat, April 23, 9am-12pm Admision General: $50, early bird special $45 before April 1; Student $40, early-bird special $35 before April 1. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information, tickets and registration visit Ideas in Motion

267 2005 event 15 - Ideas in Motion: Isadora: Live Interactive (Live-I) Workshop
Boston Cyberarts presents: Troika Ranch Artistic Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello offer a three hour intensive workshop about integrating interactive media into live performance, including an introduction to Coniglio's real-time media manipulation tool Isadora®, which is being used by artists worldwide to create media intensive artworks. The workshop is appropriate to choreographers, directors, installation artists and VJs. Sun, April 24, 9am-12pm Admission: general $50, early bird $45 special before April 1; student $40, early bird $35 before April 1. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

268 2005 event 16 - Ideas in Motion: Choreographing Cinema I & II
Boston Cyberarts presents Choreographing Cinema I & II A series of films that investigates a diverse spectrum of relationships between dance and film. These films are neither documentaries, nor documentations. All of them are rather creating/choreographing a dance, a movement or a dance-like feeling. This "hybrid film dance" - whether created by a dancer within the space of a film frame, whether choreographed through the movement of the camera and composition of the mis-en-scene, or constructed through the means of editing and such film techniques as painting on film - mesmerizes; reveals the hidden between the frames; inspires audiences to relate to cinema yet in another way, rejuvenates the eye, and offers new ways for humans to see the world. Choreographing Cinema I features Boston premieres of shorts which communicate through strong dance ideas and in which performers create a dance that exists only within the film space. They include: Rosa (a collaboration of Peter Greenaway and Belgium choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker); Kazuo Ohno (a film by Daniel Schmid that features the legendary Japanese performer Kazuo Ohno); Clown (an animated short by Irina Evteeva with Russian mime Slava Polunin); Cost of Living (by Lloyd Newson and his company DV8 from the UK), and finally Dom Svobode (a phantasmagoric short of En-Knap from Slovenia). Part I will run 103 minutes. Choreographing Cinema II is a collection of shorts wherein filmmakers become choreographers. They choreograph dancers, people, objects, images, landscapes, light and painterly shapes. The film choreographers include Guy Maddin (Canada), D.A. Pennebaker (USA), Meredith Monk (USA), Stan Brakhage (USA), Konstantin Bronzit (Russia),and Artavazd Peleshian (Armenia* - tentatively). Part II will run 85 minutes. Curated by Alla Kovgan. With the support of Dance Films Association (New York) and Balagan Film Series (Boston), The Aichi Arts Center (Japan) and a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events. Choreographing Cinema I: Sat April 30 11am. Choreographing Cinema II: Sat April 30 1:30pm. Admission (per show): $9, $8 students/seniors/members/Cyberpass holders For more info and to purchase tickets call 617-369-3306. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more info visit Ideas in Motion.

269 2005 event 17 - Ideas in Motion: Choreographing Cinema I & II
Boston Cyberarts presents Choreographing Cinema I & II A series of films that investigates a diverse spectrum of relationships between dance and film. These films are neither documentaries, nor documentations. All of them are rather creating/choreographing a dance, a movement or a dance-like feeling. This "hybrid film dance" - whether created by a dancer within the space of a film frame, whether choreographed through the movement of the camera and composition of the mis-en-scene, or constructed through the means of editing and such film techniques as painting on film - mesmerizes; reveals the hidden between the frames; inspires audiences to relate to cinema yet in another way, rejuvenates the eye, and offers new ways for humans to see the world. Choreographing Cinema I features Boston premieres of shorts which communicate through strong dance ideas and in which performers create a dance that exists only within the film space. They include: Rosa (a collaboration of Peter Greenaway and Belgium choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker); Kazuo Ohno (a film by Daniel Schmid that features the legendary Japanese performer Kazuo Ohno); Clown (an animated short by Irina Evteeva with Russian mime Slava Polunin); Cost of Living (by Lloyd Newson and his company DV8 from the UK), and finally Dom Svobode (a phantasmagoric short of En-Knap from Slovenia). Part I will run 103 minutes. Choreographing Cinema II is a collection of shorts wherein filmmakers become choreographers. They choreograph dancers, people, objects, images, landscapes, light and painterly shapes. The film choreographers include Guy Maddin (Canada), D.A. Pennebaker (USA), Meredith Monk (USA), Stan Brakhage (USA), Konstantin Bronzit (Russia),and Artavazd Peleshian (Armenia* - tentatively). Part II will run 85 minutes. Curated by Alla Kovgan. With the support of Dance Films Association (New York) and Balagan Film Series (Boston), The Aichi Arts Center (Japan) and a grant from the Boston Cultural Council, which is funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and administrated by the Mayor's Office of Arts, Tourism, and Special Events. Choreographing Cinema I: Sat April 30 11am. Choreographing Cinema II: Sat April 30 1:30pm. Admission (per show): $9, $8 students/seniors/members/Cyberpass holders For info and to purchase tickets call 617-369-3306. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion.

270 2005 event 18 - Rest/Less; an Evening of Interactive Multimedia Dance Theater by LOSTWAX
Jamie Jewett's "Rest/Less" dramatizes a dance-world composed of life's fleeting fragments, shards of stories which literally make the maps we travel by. Set on an interactive grid of wind, music and poetry, five dancers discover and embrace this windswept landscape, their movement illuminating intimate stories, their small phrases adding up to a journey. Based on a text by Thalia Field, "Rest/Less" displays dance and technology at its most lyrical. And the audience can play on it too! Fri, May 6 and Sat, May 7, 8 pm reservations - 617.864.3191 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

271 2005 event 19 - Ideas in Motion: Wear & Tear by Mei-Be Whatever and 16 (R)evolutions by Troika Ranch
Boston Cyberarts presents: "Wear & Tear" investigates the body as machine. Repetitive motion is built up and broken down. The dancer is outfitted with multiple wireless video cameras and microphones. Each joint and flex point is emphasized through magnified sound and image. Intimate details of the choreography are broadcast in real time. Troika Ranch's "16(R)evolutions" combines dance, theater, and interactively generated video imagery to explore the polarities of being animal and being human; the former dictated solely by the need to survive and reproduce; the later being a state of confusion created when these basic instincts are blurred by intellect. Sat. April 23, 8pm Sun. April 24, 7pm Admission: general $20; student $16 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series.

272 2005 event 20 - Memory Streams
Features work by David Davison, Gary Duehr, Theresa Monaco, and Gustavo Soto-Rosa. The show focuses on artists who share a certain sensibility of how they combines digital photo processes and issues of memory. April 6-May 21, Mon-Sat 10-4pm. Gallery Talk Wed, April 20, 3:30pm; Reception Wed, April 20, 5-7:30pm. For directions: www.emmanuel.edu or Call 617.735.9992

273 2005 event 21 - Three solo shows by A.M. Lily, James Weinberg, and Jared Nielsen
Three solo shows: Exhibitions: "laden-light" Sculpture by A.M. Lilly (main gallery), "Chairs + Squares" New Paintings by James Weinberg (Office Gallery), and "Two Heads Are Better Than One"- work by Jared Nielsen (Video Room) April 16-May 21, Sat 12-5pm and by appointment. Reception Sat, April 30th 3-5pm.

274 2005 event 22 - New Media Art from Finland
Curated by Heather Kapplow For the last few years, Finland has been consistently producing extremely strong film/video and multimedia/interactive work. In 2004, Helsinki was chosen as the site for the 12th symposium of the International Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA). This project will connect a local audience with works being created within the Finnish artists' collective AV-Arkki, and put new works that utilize or focus on technology into the historical context of performance and conceptual art-experimentation in the US and Europe in the 1950's through the 1970's. About the Studio Soto Gallery Exhibit: Simo Rouhiainen's "Mir" Hanna Haaslahti's "White Square" Minna Långström's "Bubble" Each of the pieces included here uses art to explore the notion of interface-a notion that the Curator see as crucial at this point in history. We are seeing the world, and each other, through screens much of the time now, and need to be reminded occasionally that even if we are meeting across long distances, we can still find routes to one another that are more evocative of personhood than either the keyboard or the remote control. These works, while speaking directly to a Finnish tradition of experimentation with new technologies, also address more universally Western questions about how any person might reach beyond the prescribed virtualities. Towards ones that seem a closer fit-a more accurate expression of the self for engaging with an unknown other. As a user of each of these pieces, you are drawn much further into the experience of the artist-other than you would be if you were to interact with any of them using more traditional interfaces, including more traditional art-mediums. Ideally, you are left with a curiosity about how to develop an interface that more accurately reflects your own subtle coordinates in the world. At the very least, you might want to find out more about these particular artists and the environment that shaped their work. April 15-May 15, 6PM - 9PM Friday April 29 Saturday April 30, 12-5pm May 3-7 Tues and Thurs by appointment during the day (email bostonav_arkkishow2005@yahoo.com). Thurs & Fri, 6-9pm. Sat 12-5pm. May 9-May14 Mon, Tues 6-9PM, Thurs, Fri, 6:30-9PM Sat, 12-5PM A note on transportation to the gallery: Parking is difficult, please consider traveling by subway. Opening Reception: Fri, April 15, 7pm About the exhibit at the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts: Lauri Astala's "Small Spectacle About Lightness", a single channel video installation. April 8-June 5, Opening reception on Fri, April 8, 6 to 8pm. About the Video Program: This program borders on being an educational one about learning to watch experimental film/video works-something that is more or less a political act at this point. In order to reach not only beyond narrative and documentary, but beyond the American perspective, the program uses performance art as a route into experimental time-based work, and Finland as an example. Works being screened were created between 1978 and 2005, and include artists: Mervi Kytosalmi, Teemo Maki, Roi Vaara, Minna Souniemi, Maria Dunker, Mark Lampisuo, Hanna Maria Antilla, Juha van Ingen, and Pekka Sassi. Most have been screened throughout Europe, but never before in the United States. Parental discretion is advised. Screening #1: 1:30pm - Fri, April 22 Somerville Theatre in Davis Square Screening #2: 12pm - Sat, April 23 Coolidge Corner Theatre For info and ticket prices for the video programs visit the Independent Film Festival of Boston New Media Art from Finland is a collaborative presentation of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston, this project is a conjunction of two events: a gallery exhibition of interactive installation works at Studio Soto in the Fort Point Arts District, and a video program at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Sponsors of this project include AV-Arkki, the LEF Foundation, the FRAME Fund for Finnish Cultural Exchange, Do While Studio, Avanti Media, and Tech Superpowers, Inc. For more information about the artists in the gallery exhibit visit www.studiosoto.com For more information about the Independent Film Festival of Boston visit www.ifsboston.org For more information about the AV-Arkki media arts collective visit www.av-arkii.fi For more information about this project contact Heather Kapplow at bostonav_arkkishow2005@yahoo.com

275 2005 event 23 - Digital Atelier’s Reflective Visions
New works by innovative Digital Atelier artists Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke (http://www.digitalatelier.com/) on display at the Danforth Museum of Art. Their "Reflective Visions" exhibit has been largely created on flat-bed printers which allow them to print with white ink on dimensional surfaces up to 5" high. This experimentation continues in the tradition of their best-selling book Digital Art Studio: Techniques for combining inkjet printing with traditional art materials, published in 2004 by Watson-Guptill. The book, which contains an "Afterword: Looking Ahead" by Boston Cyberarts Founder and Director George Fifield, is available at the Museum Bookstore. April 14 - July 17, Wed-Sun, 12 - 5pm Opening Reception:May 26, 6 - 8pm Admission $5, Students and Seniors $4; Members and children under 12 are free. For more info call 508.620.0050 or 508.872.5542

276 2005 event 24 - CyberArtsCentral in Central Square
CyberArtsCentral is Boston Cyberarts Festival headquarters where visitors can grab information about all the 2005 Festival programs showcased at participating organizations from April 22 through May 8th. This year, CyberArtsCentral will be hosted by Art Interactive, one of the most popular exhibition spaces for contemporary art in the Boston area. Visitors to CyberArtsCentral will be able to play with a unique interactive guide designed by Integrated Media Environments to learn more about the myriad exhibitions, performances, lectures and other special events in the Festival line up. Memorabilia from past Festivals will also be displayed. Visitors will be able to surf www.bostoncyberarts.org for further Festival details on computers donated by Apple. In addition to hosting CyberArts Central, Art Interactive will be presenting one of the featured Festival exhibitions, "Shadow Play" by acclaimed San Francisco-based media artist Scott Snibbe. For more info contact info@artinteractive.org or info@bostoncyberarts.org

277 2005 event 25 - The Books with special guests Keith Fullerton Whitman and Greg Davis
Electronic music composer Nick Zammuto and multi-instrumentalist Paul de Jong collaborate as The Books. Based in New York City and North Adams, The Books brilliantly collage guitar, cello, mandolin, and banjo with field recordings, found sounds, and pop-culture samples. Although the ingredients are commonplace, the results are deeply affecting. Their concerts feature projected video and new, homemade instruments in a highly personal pixilated folk music experience. Fri, April 29, 8:00pm Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts Admission $15, $12 students/members To purchase tickets call 617-369-3306 or visit the MFA Remis Box Office secure online order form

278 2005 event 26 - Electronic Imaging Senior Show
A hands-on showcase of Electronic Imaging work by UMass seniors including interactive programs, two and three-dimensional imaging and animation, and the premiere of "The Time Machine", interactive projects in Virtual Reality created in our new VR suite. Sat May 7, 3-5pm. Imaging Labs, UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts, North Dartmouth. For more information contact Professor Scott Ahrens, sahrens@umassd.edu, 508.999.9292 or Professor Shawn Towne, stowne@umassd.edu, 508.910.6626. Wheelchair accessible.

279 2005 event 27 - Senior Photography Exhibition
A showcase of digital and traditional photography by seniors at UMass Dartmouth. The work includes digital and traditional photographic prints, installations and assemblage. April 10-April 27, Sun-Thur 11am-6pm. Main Gallery, UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts. For more info contact Jarrad Nunes, jnunes@umassd.edu, 508-999-8010. Wheelchair accessible.

280 2005 event 29 - Two-day workshop with Dorothy Simpson Krause
A two-day hands-on workshop with artist and author Dorothy Simpson Krause exploring techniques described in the recent book Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials (Watson-Guptil Press). This workshop leads participants through a variety of interdisciplinary techniques that combine digital inkjet printing with traditional materials to achieve new depths in expression, surface quality and permanence. The workshop includes a personal tour of the coinciding exhibition "Digital Atelier: Reflective Visions" at the New Bedford Museum. Digital Printmaking Institute, UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase St, New Bedford. For Workshop fees, please contact Professor Mark Millstein, 508.999.8551, mmillstein@umassd.edu Please Note: This workshop is now full. Please contact Professor Mark Millstein to be added to the waiting list.

281 2005 event 30 - Computer Clubhouse at the Museum of Science
In this exhibit you will see digital artwork created by many of our Clubhouse members and alumni. These "Artists of the New Age" explore and master powerful professional multimedia tools available to them in the Clubhouse. Clubhouse members manipulate digital images and create surprising effects providing an opportunity for everyone in our community to experiment with creativity. 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. Some members design original music, like Hip-Hop, with digital sound effects. Other members write scripts, film and edit all kinds of projects such as stop motion animation. Along the way young people explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in them-selves through the use of technology. April 22-May 8. Sat-Thu 9am-5pm, Fri 9am-9pm. For more info contact Marlon Orozco, morozco@mos.org or 617.589.0462.

282 2005 event 31 - COLLISIONseven, chance
COLLISIONseven, chance is an experimental exploration of art and technology. This show is the seventh event in the popular Collision Series and will display art from artists from MIT and beyond who use new technologies in their work. The Collision shows showcase envelope-pushing artwork in an interactive workshop/laboratory format. The artwork often involves never before tried technologies, concepts and installation approaches. The COLLISIONseven show explores chance in science, robotics, artificial intelligence, art, the human condition, modeling, games, religion, philosophy, approximation, true reality, etc. April 23-May 8, 10am-5pm, Opening Fri April 22, 6-9pm. Stata Center, Stata Balcony (up Vassar/Main St entrance stairs on 3rd floor) For more info contact Jackbackrack at jrb@csail.mit.edu or 617.452.2852.

283 2005 event 32 - Shadow Play by Scott Snibbe
Shadow Play features four interactive wall projections selected from Snibbe's Screen Series and from a new series of work that he is currently developing based on masterpieces of experimental film. When we engage with works of art, with other people, and with spaces private and public, the responses of our bodies can be revealing. Our stance, the position of our arms or tilt of our heads, our movement near and around an object or person, all vary depending on how comfortable or interested we are in a given setting. But how aware are we of our bodies, the corporeal relationship we bear to our environment and the marks of our presence that we leave behind? Scott Snibbe's installations probe this question by making our body's physical exchange with the systems he has created essential to the works' realization. When we interact with his artwork, though, we are more than just active participants in a technological field. We are co-creators with Snibbe of a language composed of gesture, breath, touch, shadow, light, space, and silhouette a language, Snibbe's works make manifest, of the human body. April 23-August 31, Thurs, Sat-Sun 12-6pm. Opening Fri, April 22, 6-9pm. For more info call Catherine D'Ignazio 617-498-0100; email catherine@artinteractive.org

284 2005 event 33 - Reciprocal Illumination by Bruce Bemis
Curated by Laura Donaldson In this large-scale solo exhibition, sculptor Bruce Bemis creates a site-specific installation in the Mills Gallery. Playing off the architecture of the gallery, Bemis installs multiple film and video projections to create an environment that immerses the viewer in an atmosphere of looping imagery, light and motion. Projected imagery mimics and reinforces awareness of the viewer's progression through the gallery, sparking a conversation between space and moving image, and adding to it an extension in time through memory. April 8-June 5, Wed-Thurs 12-5pm, Fri-Sat 12-10pm, Sun 12-5pm. Opening reception Fri, April 8, 6-8pm. Artist Talk Thurs, April 21, 6-8pm. For more info email millsgallery@bcaonline.org or call 617.426.8835.

285 2005 event 34 - Phenomena
This group show collects faculty and students from the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at Massachusetts College of Art. They create new "Phenomena" by reprocessing, reformulating, and reshaping technology and information into works of art. This gallery exhibits includes the work of: - Abraham Gómez Delgado - John Holland - Heidi Kayser - Jane Marsching - Denise Marika - Dana Moser - Jared Nielsen - Nita Sturiale The show opens with a live presentation by John Holland and Josh Coswell entitled "Voices of Earth: A Global Symphony," a musical simulation of acoustic phenomena, computer controlled, in real time for six hours during the exhibition opening. April 27-May 4, 10am-6pm, Opening Wed, April 27, 6pm-midnight. Artist talk, May 3rd, 6:30 pm at The Godine Family Gallery.The introduction will feature the work of Antony Flackett, with an interactive musical animation performance. The exhibition is organized by Lina Maria Giraldo, in conjunction with EventWorks, an annual student production performance art festival. EKTA - Sensory Awareness Installation by Ashanti. An interactive multimedia event that explores the relationship between art and science. This installation allows the user to interact with an EEG that analyzes and translates brain wave signals to mirror the biofeedback with light and sound. Sat. April 30. 12pm - 12am. North building. room 181, next to Godine Family Gallery.

286 2005 event 35 - Voices of Earth: A Global Symphony
In conjunction with the exhibition Phenomena John Holland and Josh Caswell A Musical Simulation of Acoustic Phenomena Computer-controlled in Real Time from Sunset to Sunset Programming: Josh Caswell Sound Design: John Holland Acoustic Phenomena There are four categories of acoustic phenomena that are generated within the various layers or spheres of earth. These sounds vibrate and propagate through the air (atmosphere), liquid (hydrosphere), solid (lithosphere), and organic substance (biosphere). Within each category of phenomena, there are a variety of sounds that vibrate within the range of human hearing. When these sounds enter the ear and brain, we experience the magnificence and wonder of speech and music. Of course, we think of sound as something we hear or listen to. Yet, there are many sounds that occur on earth that exist outside the range of human hearing. Many acoustic phenomena, such as high and low atmospheric pressure systems, tidal motions, earthquakes, etc. may be perceived if the frequencies and amplitudes of a sound are transposed to within the range of human audibility. Sounds on earth that are undetectable by human ears extend from tiny microacoustic waves produced by fluctuations of the trapped particles in a normal sound field in air, to macroacoustic wave disturbances, including seismic waves and global waves. These sounds may oscillate at frequencies ranging from millions of cycles per second to a single cycle within a period of days, months, or years. Sounds may travel at speeds ranging from several feet per second, to speeds approaching the speed of light. Frequency For the presentation of Voices of Earth, frequencies of about thirty different acoustic phenomena - excluding sampled sounds - were converted into audible hearing range. Sounds were scaled up, as needed, by the proportion of eleven octaves. Some adjustment was made for the few sounds that were outside the eleven-octave boundary. Many phenomena vibrate within a range of frequencies, similar to a musical instrument that can produce a variety of tones from low to high. For each of these sounds, a fundamental frequency was established, as well as a low to high range. Finally, the fundamentals were converted into musical tones. Amplitude Amplitudes of the various phenomena were translated into dynamic intensities, expressed in degrees of loud and soft. The greater the amplitude of the phenomena, the louder the tone, the lesser the amplitude, the softer the tone. Overall, the dynamic range of the phenomena vary from softest for the smallest vibrations, such as stress waves in crystals or acoustic cavitation (bubbles), to loudest for the larger rhythms. Ocean and land tides are represented by a dynamic crescendo (flood- 6 hr.) and decrescendo (ebb - 6 hr.) applied to harmonics of the earth's rotation. Duration Voice of the Earth plays for a duration of 23.7 hours, extending from sunset to sunset. Since the earth has been rotating for 4.6 billion years, one period of rotation, or day, represents a tiny fraction, or sample, of the earth's lifespan. Similarly, this period represents an infinitesimal sample of the earth's acoustic phenomena as they occur in time. Comparatively large-scale phenomena, such as the earth's rotation, tides, light-dark periods oscillate continuously throughout the life of the planet. These oscillations are represented by continuous sounds that persist in the music from beginning to end. Other phenomena vibrate in repeated segments of similar or varied durations, separated by periods of inactivity. These oscillations - referred to as pulses - which include, but are not limited to, ocean waves, brain waves, circadian rhythms, are represented in the music as sustained sounds, separated by varied durations of silence. These 'pulses' tend to occur periodically, but are not necessarily regular, within the course of a day. Finally, there are sounds dubbed cycles that occur for a finite duration, typically once only, on a particular region of the earth, within a 24 hr. period. These include phenomena such as high or low pressure fronts, atmospheric waves, seismic waves, cyclones, tidal waves. Timbre Each of the four categories of acoustic phenomena - air, liquid, solid, organic substance - has been assigned a unique quality of sound, or timbre. These four 'voices' serve the music much like different instrumental groups in a symphony orchestra. As a general rule, tones associated with air tend to sound light, transparent; liquid tones, buoyant, flowing; solid tones, dense, dark; organic tones, lively, animated. Timbres for individual sounds within a category were selected and modified according to aesthetic qualities that, in our musical judgement, best suited both the unique sound, and the category to which it belonged. Computer Program After gathering and categorizing acoustic phenomena, converting the frequencies to musical tones, and assigning appropriate dynamics and timbre, a computer program was created to coordinate the musical events in time. The goal of the computer program is to activate various algorithms, or self-contained mini programs, that simulate the flow of acoustic phenomena in nature The computer is programmed to organize continuous tones, pulses, and cycles within a period of a single rotation of the earth, from sunset to sunset. Some sounds are continuous over the course of a day, such as the Earth's spin, or a hurricane. In many cases, dynamic intensity of these sounds is varied, referencing changes in amplitude. To find the start-stop times for cycles, the program calculates the probability of occurrence of a particular cycle. Then it plays that sound for its given duration. The program divides the period of the earth's rotation by the cycle duration to find the maximum number of times a cycle might occur within a day. For example, a cyclone has an average duration of about 8 hours, with an initial probability of occurring on a given day. As the time of day increases, if a cyclone hasn't occurred, the program increments the chance of occurrence every hour. Pulses are programmed to repeatedly start and stop, with intermittent silences (periods of inactivity) separating the sounds. The program generates a phase offset number from 0% to 100% of the sound's duration, which gives the new start time for each pulse. The duration of the silence between each pulse is determined by generating an upper fraction (50% to 100%) of the total duration. A simulated Delta brain wave, for instance, lasting for an hour, will play again following an intermittent silence of 30 to 60 minutes. In addition to controlling start and stop times for the various phenomena tones, the computer program automatically incorporates recorded sampled sounds into the music. Sampled Sounds There are a variety of sampled sounds that are integrated into the music. These range from environmental noises, such as rain, wind, and thunder, to human speech sounds representing more than 25 different languages. The music also includes various animal, bird, and insect sounds that are representative of diverse regions and environments throughout the world. The computer program controls the selection of individual sounds, and their respective start times. Projections The names of the various phenomena are displayed on a video monitor located near the audience. Names of phenomena appear and disappear on the screen in real time as a visual analog to the sounds that are being played. Different groups of phenomena - air, liquid, solid, organic - appear in different colors. The name of each phenomenon is accompanied by numbers indicating its duration, and the time elapsed. In addition, a number of screen images of the various acoustic phenomena are projected on the wall. Many of the images are low-orbit satellite photographs. Website A dedicated website is currently under construction that will continuously generate Voices of Earth over the lifespan of the solar system. The simulation will include acoustic phenomena plus sampled environmental sounds, all under the supervision of a computer program. The program will run continuously online. Satellite Images: NASA's Visible Earth Wed, April 27, 6pm

287 2005 event 36 - Corporate Commands
EXPERIENCE the laboratory at Space 200. EXPLORE with The Institute for Infinitely Small Things. TRAVEL. FIND. CAPTURE. "Corporate Commands" in Greater Boston. TASTE microperformative interventions into public space. UNRAVEL notions of corporate ownership and social control. EXPAND commands @ www.corporatecommands.com. SEIZE schedule @ www.infinitelysmallthings.net. MAKE. BE. as iKatun. Opening Reception: Fri, April 29, 6-9pm Space 200 Market Place Center 200 State Street Boston, MA 02109 For more info email info@ikatun.com or call kanarinka 617.501.2441

288 2005 event 37 - Ideas in Motion: Crows Nest/Solitary Geography
Boston Cyberarts and the Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama present "Crows Nest/Solitary Geography", a recreation of a historical dance/film performance installation by Judson Dance Theatre's Elaine Summers. Orchestrated by Alissa Cardone and Alla Kovgan, members of an intermedia performance collaborative Kinodance Company, the sculptural installation features a shifting line-up of local dancers performing Summers' improvisatory dance score in tune with video/film projections. Original sound compositions by local musicians will accompany. Performers include Alissa Cardone, Ingrid Schatz, DeAnna Pellecchia, Debra Bluth, Olivier Besson and others. Sun, May 1, 5-9pm, Opening reception and remarks at 5pm. The 18 minute long performances will follow at 6pm. 6:30pm, 7pm, 8pm (the final performance will use 4 16mm film projectors as executed in the original version) Artist talk at 8:30pm with Ms. Summers (in person). This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

289 2005 event 38 - Work from the Digital Art Studio by Dorothy Simpson Krause, Bonny Lhotka & Karin Schminke
A major exhibition of work by Karin Schminke, Dorothy Simpson Krause and Bonnie Lhotka based on techniques described in their recent book Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials (Watson-Guptil Press). All three artists create unique work that fuses digitally processed images with conventional and found materials. The result is work in which computer generated and printed images are seamlessly integrated into compositions that are unexpected in depth, meaning, and presence. The exhibit will also contain explanatory elements from their text, as well as brief video presentations elucidating the experimental and complex processes. The three artists have each used the computer to generate images in their artwork for more than 20 years. • Dorothy Krause, a painter and collage artist, resides in Marshfield, Mass., and spent 27 years at the Massachusetts College of Art where she served as a professor, vice-president and graduate dean. She now uses the computer as her primary art-making tool, combining archetypal symbols and fragments of image and text in multiple layers united by simple materials such as wax, pigment and tar. • Karin Schminke, a resident of Seattle, Wash., taught art for more than 15 years at the University of Wisconsin, California State University and at the Art Institute of Southern California. Her work uses complex layered digital print techniques on traditional materials to reflect complex natural relationships through pattern and form. • Bonny Lhotka is an experimental artist who resides and works in Boulder, Colo. She combines photographs along with fragments of objects to illuminate connections between life and death, technology and the human spirit. Her work has been extensively commissioned and appears in many books and publications. Some of the works in the exhibition are highly dimensional, with found objects and materials rising from the surface to form imagery that travels well beyond the expectations of digital or traditional prints. Using a wide spectrum of substrates, from paper to fabric to metal, the three artists have clearly taken the lead in defining a new art form, as well as new ways to incorporate digital technology into their artwork. March 10-May 8. Wed-Sun 12-5pm, Thurs 12-7pm. Fri, April 22, 5:30pm. Artist talk by Dorothy Simpson Krause. This public talk is in conjunction with her workshop at Umass Dartmouth Digital Printmaking Institute that weekend. Admission $3/$2 for seniors and students/youths under 17 free with adult. For more info call 508.961.3072 or visit www.newbedfordartmuseum.org. Wheelchair accessible.

290 2005 event 40 - Detritus by Denise Marika
In the video installation "Detritus," a figure is crouched amidst the turbulence of demolition. Within the deteriorating urban landscape, the jaws of a crane grab at the body, stirring up clouds of dust and debris. The figure is occasionally obscured by haze, remaining unaware of the surrounding danger. Framed by a steel channel, the projected image extends downward into the floor, reflected in a mirror that runs its length. At the opposite end of the space piles of newspapers bearing the same images of destruction spill onto the floor, inviting viewers to participate by carrying the image away with them. "Detritus," the newspaper edition, is a sequence of images of repeated loss and destruction imbedded as news, unexplained. In collaboration with the Weekly Dig newspaper, the concept is based on the free dissemination of art and of news, blurring the distinction between the two and underscoring the power of free speech and expression. Using the emotional landscape of the body to explore person and place, "Detritus" gives expression to the vulnerability and compassion that empowers the human spirit. As a public intervention Detritus functions as a shared visual memory of loss in the hopes of peace. This peice runs in conjunction with Denise Markia's Detrius in the Weekly Dig: April 20, 2005 Denise Marika's website is http://www.denisemarika.com April 22-May 24, Tues-Sat 10am-5:30pm. Opening Reception:Fri. April 22, 6:30 - 8:30pm For more info contact Alexis Dunfee, alexis@howardyezerskigallery.com.

291 2005 event 42 - The Nudes by Mary Ellen Strom
During the last year, Mary Ellen Strom has been restaging a series of paintings that are female nudes. The paintings are staged with a live model and set and videotaped with high definition video camera. The models and sets produce movement. The video is in real time. The nudes are installed as a series of four single video projects onto the gallery walls. The projections are the size of the original paintings. The women who are models for this project are contemporary artists, so they become the subjects (not objects) of the work. The project explores the contested site of the female nude by literally embodying the territory that was formerly the location of male artistic desire and production. The process of creating this project has been collaborative with the women artists. The exploration reexamines the position of the female nude in art history, challenging both the subject and the spectator to reassess her position, identification and gaze. The project celebrates the desire created by the women's bodies and to recognize their strength, confident and self possession. The projections offer an entry point through the familiarity of the great master paintings. But it's not a painting. It's ephemeral, it's video art. It encourages the spectator to be conscious of her act of viewing while allowing herselves to experience pleasure, to examine her relationships to the subject and to think critically about her individual gaze. April 22-May 7, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm Artist talk with Mary Ellen Strom and Teri Rueb, Sat, April 23, 2:30-4pm For more info email info@rotenberggallery.com or call 617.437.1518.

292 2005 event 43 - Itinerant by Teri Rueb
"Itinerant" invites people to take a walk through Boston Common and surrounding neighborhoods to experience an interactive sound work that re-frames Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." A classic tale of conflict between techno-scientific hubris and the human spirit, "Frankenstein" is the story of an ambitious scientist and a wandering creature who roams the globe in search of a sense of identity through progeny. "Itinerant" engages a search for an elusive character who is doppleganger to both the doctor and the creature. Sounds, "played" by visitors as they move through the city, create a series of conflicting frames within which to reflect upon our highly mobile, technologically saturated society and issues of identity, place, and displacement. Medium functions metaphorically as mobile and locative media (including GPS) are used to deliver a sonic overlay in the spaces of the city. The sonic overlay is also presented in the form of an interactive map on the web - creating a formal re-framing and displacement of this site-specific work. Commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with funds from the Jerome Foundation and the LEF Foundation. April 22-May 7, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. Artist talk with Mary Ellen Strom and Teri Rueb, Sat, April 23, 2:30-4pm. For more info visit http://turbulence.org and contact Helen Thorington, newradio@turbulence.org, 617.522.3856. Equipment to hear work can be brought outside for wheelchair accessibility.

293 2005 event 45 - Sonic Circuits XII International Electronic Music Festival; From Freex to Geex
Music by Berklee College of Music faculty, students, alumni with special guest Vjs Clitch Crew. Composers performers include: Jorrit Dijkstra, Josh Decker, Jose Hinestrosa, Tim Leeman, Dave Linnenbank, Neil Leonard, Aiko Oi, Gadi Sassoon, Poh-Gek Tay, Andres Velasquez and Pierce Warnecke. Sat, April 23, 7:30pm For more info call 617.338.4392, email acfne@tbf.org or visit American Composers Forum Boston and Sonic Circuits

294 2005 event 46 - Ideas in Motion: The Body +
Dance portraits, animations, and multimedia performance works Boston Cyberarts & the MIT Museum present a selection of works by artists and engineers who have designed new technologies to see, record, and transform live movement. Surveying the recent history of dance and media, "The Body +" includes works employing film, handheld video cameras, 3D animation, and motion capture. Included in the exhibit are excerpted works from, Hans Beenhakker (choreographer, dancer Wuppertal Dans Theater, Filmmaker), Vita Berezina-Blackburn (digital artist, animator, collaborator Bebe Miller), Trisha Brown (choreographer), Marc Downie, Paul Kaiser & Kelly Eshkar (digital artists), Troika Ranch (mixed media performance /dance company), Stelarc, Cathy Weis (choreographer, videographer and performer) and others. April 12 - May 1, Tues - Fri 10am- 5pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm Admission $5, youth(age 5 - 18), students, and seniors $2, children under 5 and MIT ID holders (plus one guess) free. Free the third Sunday of each month. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

295 2005 event 47 - Ideas in Motion: Wear & Tear by Mei-Be Whatever and 16 (R)evolutions by Troika Ranch
Boston Cyberarts presents: "Wear & Tear" investigates the body as machine. Repetitive motion is built up and broken down. The dancer is outfitted with multiple wireless video cameras and microphones. Each joint and flex point is emphasized through magnified sound and image. Intimate details of the choreography are broadcast in real time. Troika Ranch's "16(R)evolutions" combines dance, theater, and interactively generated video imagery to explore the polarities of being animal and being human; the former dictated solely by the need to survive and reproduce; the later being a state of confusion created when these basic instincts are blurred by intellect. Sat, April 23, 8pm Sun, April 24, 7pm Admission: general $20; student $16 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

296 2005 event 48 - Ideas in Motion: Fico Balet workshop led by Goran Bogdanovski and Dejan Srhoj
This 3-day workshop will focus on the participants' physical limits, range and consciousness of his/her edges. Workshop will focus on confronting individual movement approaches and expression to the given theme. Special attention will be devoted to developing duets and group approaches to the given theme. Music will be an essential tool to hone improvisational work and final composition. Workshop will start with basic physical warm up. Mon-Wed April 25-27, 1-4pm Admission to the 3-day workshop is $140, early-bird special $120 before April 1. Goran and Dejan will demonstrate and discuss their work at the Ideas in Motion conference on Sun, April 24, 4pm, The Dance Theatre at Boston University, 915 Commonwealth Avenue (entrance opposite 25 Buick St, Boston) Fico Balet will be performing their newest work: "Confi-dance" (premiered 2004, Ljubljana) during a double bill with Kinodance Company's "Secret Streams" at Green Street Studios, Fri & Sat, April 29 & 30 at 8pm. Confi-dance is a dance about sharing secrets, a dance about the consolation and the comfort one finds in a dance. (tickets $15/$12 students) These events are part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more info, tickets and registration visit Ideas in Motion

297 2005 event 49 - Ideas in Motion: "Confi-dance" by Fico Balet and "Secret Streams" by Kinodance Company
Confi-dance is a dance about sharing secrets, a dance about the consolation and the comfort one finds in a dance. Secret Streams is an intermedia spectacle in which movement is the language of interaction between film projections, light, soundscape, a kinetic set, and dance. It is a conceptual as well as an emotional journey that unifies its elements into a hybrid being - an otherworldly entity inhabiting the stage. Secret Streams had its world premiere at the St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival in Russia, in November 2004, and was recently restaged with overwhelming reception for A.P.E. Performance Space in Northampton (March 2005). Secret Streams is an artistic collaboration. The choreography draws from both western contemporary dance and image-based movement traditions. Originally choreographed by Alissa Cardone and Harriett Jastremsky, Secret Streams was reworked by Cardone in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Ingrid Schatz. Film projections by filmmaker Alla Kovgan explore the choreographic possibilities of combining elements and techniques of dance filmmaking with live dance. The kinetic set by Dedalus Wainwright aspires to destroy the flatness and two dimensionality of the projection surfaces. The lighting design of Kathy Couch merges visual boundaries and unifies the space. The sound score of Seth Barger uses contrasting tones and textures to create extra dimensions for the dance, projections, and ultimately, for the viewers' imagination. "Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely performed, [Secret Streams] winds and intertwines in ways that are frequently imperceptible..." - Laurie McLeod (for more information: www.kinodance.org) Fri, April 29 8pm, Sat, April 30, 8pm. Admission $15 general, $12 Students. Tickets may be purchased online though a secure server at Ideas in Motion This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

298 2005 event 50 - Windows Collision One
Boston Art Windows Project (BAWP) is an effort to display artwork in the windows of commercial property in downtown Boston. It is a joint project of the Mayor Thomas M. Menino and the City of Boston, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), BAWP, and the Collision Collective. BAWP Windows Collision One is a curated show of envelope pushing new media artwork by Collision Collective artists shown behind commercial glass. Each window art piece involves provocative and novel use of technology including aspects of time, interactivity and performance. Artists include: jackbackrack, Rob Gonsalves, Steve Hollinger, Brian Knep, Jeff Lieberman, Kevin Mccormick, Andrew Neumann, Dan Roe, Sosolimited, and William Tremblay. Apr 1- May 31. Opening Date to be determined. For more info call 617-452-2852 or jrb@csail.mit.edu. Sponsors include Millenium Partners-Boston and the Druker Company.

299 2005 event 51 - Re:Writing—Writers, Computers, and Networks
Within the digital arts there are also letters: works by writers who explore the possibilities of texts controlled by computational processes, or who write in ways that take the network as a medium. Many net art and e-literature works include text, image, and sound. In both genres, there is a questioning of the definitions of artist/writer, audience/reader, and the art object. This reading celebrates these commonalities by presenting four writers reading from network-enabled work: John Cayley, Yael Kanarek, Nick Montfort, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. April 25, Mon 7pm. Brown University, Pembroke Campus, RI. Smith-Buonanno, Room 106. This event is made possible by the Department of Literary Arts, Brown University and the LEF Foundation.

300 2005 event 52 - Re:Writing—Writers, Computers, and Networks
A Lecture by John Cayley, Thalia Field, Nick Montfort, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. Within the digital arts there are also letters: works by writers who explore the possibilities of texts controlled by computational processes, or who write in ways that take the network as a medium. Many net art and e-literature works include text, image, and sound. In both genres, there is a questioning of the definitions of artist/writer, audience/reader, and the art object. This reading celebrates these commonalities by presenting four writers reading from network-enabled work: John Cayley, Thalia Field, Nick Montfort, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. April 26, Tues 7pm. Boston Public Library, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston. For more info contact Jo-Anne Green, jo@turbulence.org or call 617-522-3856. This event is made possible by the Department of Literary Arts, Brown University and the LEF Foundation.

301 2005 event 53 - Artist Talk by Robert Breer
Robert Breer, legendary artist and filmmaker using low-tech animation techniques shows examples of his work from the last 50 years. The screening is followed by a discussion with the artist led by Bill Arning. April 26, Tue 6:30pm Bartos Theatre, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. For more info contact Hiroko Kikuchi at hiroco@mit.edu or call 617.452.3586.

302 2005 event 54 - Lecture by Debra Singer
Debra Singer, named executive director and chief curator of the internationally renown performance and new media space "The Kitchen" in July 2004, discusses her vision for the future of the crucial organization. Singer was until recently a curator at the Whitney Museum and was one of the curators of the 2004 Whitney Biennial. April 29, Fri 6:30pm Bartos Theatre, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge For more info contact Hiroko Kikuchi 617.452.3586 or email hiroco@mit.edu

303 2005 event 55 - Geometries of Power: Online Multi-User Event between Boston and Munich
Tamiko Thiel presents her project "Geometries of Power," a multi-user online 3D world that uses the interactive characteristics of space, geometry and sound to question concepts of power and control. Shared event VRML technology enables participants to collaboratively create a 3D visual environment in real time. It was developed during a workshop at the Bauhaus-University in Weimar, Germany. Sun May 1, 2-5pm. For more info call 617.262.6050. Call ahead for wheelchair accessibility.

304 2005 event 56 - Beyond Manzanar and Other Projects by Tamiko Thiel
Virtual Reality as Political Art- Media Art Installation Tamiko Thiel is an American media artist of Japanese/German heritage living in Germany who explores social and cultural uses of virtual reality. In cooperation with the the Iranian-American writer Zara Houshmand she created the interactive 3D virtual reality environment Beyond Manzanar as a memorial to Japanese internment camps and the political scapegoating of ethnic populations in times of crisis. The exhibition includes a project for a virtual memorial to the history of the Berlin Wall. April 22-May 5, Mon-Thurs 10am-5pm, Fri 10am-4pm, Sat-Sun 12-4pm. Artist's Talk and Opening Reception Fri, May 22, 5-8pm. For more info call 617.262.6050. Call ahead for wheelchair access.

305 2005 event 57 - Virtual Memorials? Interactive Media and the Structures of Commemoration
A Roundtable Discussion Can interactive media and virtual reality technology contribute to or radically redefine the construction of public memorials? A discussion with artists and critics on the possibilities and limits of "virtual memorials." Moderator: George Fifield, Director, Boston Cyberarts Festival Speakers TBA April 28,Thur 6pm For more info call 617.262.6050 Limited wheelchair access (please call ahead)

306 2005 event 58 - On the Map
"On the Map" features traditional prints and video environments that explore real and virtual maps and places. It is produced by the new 119 Gallery in Lowell. The artists featured have mapped new creative terrains. They are composer and printmaker Richard and Deborah Cornell, new media artist John Craig Freeman and cartographer Steven R Holloway. Due to a construction delay this installation will open at the Evos Arts Institute. "On the Map" examines the substance of place. Freeman's documentary virtual reality consists of projected environments that lead the user from global satellite perspectives to scenes that unfold on the ground. His series "Imaging Place" uses panoramic photography and digital video in a non-linear, narrative fashion. Freeman's goal is to document sites of cultural significance that are undergoing substantial changes. The Cornells' immersive sojourn, "Linea Australis," is a collaboration with the Scientific Computing and Visualization group of the Office of Information Technology at Boston University. It's forms and sounds were inspired by an expedition off the coast of Western Australia. Holloway's hand-pulled, limited edition maps and prints, journals, notes and related satellite imagery are on view in the gallery. "One Pixel," a "performance map" by Holloway and Cyberarts public event, will take place in the Back Bay Fens in collaboration with the Boston Arts Academy, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, The Royal Jelly Collective and other organizations and volunteers. Deborah Cornell is Head of Printmaking at Boston University's College of Fine Arts. She works in traditional and digital prints, installation, and virtual reality. She has received support from the Bunting Institute, the Deya Archeological Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. She has exhibited internationally in France, Australia, Finland, UK, and Iceland. Her artwork is in the M.F.A. and collections in the U.S. and abroad. Richard Cornell is Associate Professor and Chair of the Theory and Composition Department at Boston University's School of Music. He teaches composition, theory, and electronic music. The New England Philharmonic, Boston Musica Viva, Collage, the Muir Quartet and other ensembles around the world have performed his compositions. Richard has presented his electronic music for theater and dance in Russia, New York, Santa Fe, Los Angeles, and Boston John Craig Freeman is a new media artist and educator. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at The Contemporary Art Center in Atlanta, the Nickle Arts Museum in Calgary, the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, the Photographers Gallery in London, and the Center for Experimental, and Perceptual Art in Buffalo. Freeman was a 1992 N.E.A. Fellow. From 1999 to 2002 he was an Associate Professor in the Art Department at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is currently an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston. Steven R Holloway is an artist and mapmaker who makes limited edition maps. He has won numerous awards for his designs and prints. A former professor, he has taught cartography, visual language, geography, thematic cartography and the "art of observation." His papers include "Who defines the map?," and "People and Place, Dasymetric Mapping Using ARC/INFO." Holloway founded toMake Press in 1998 where he produces original maps and limited edition prints, "performance maps," original artist books, and paintings. April 23-May 8, Sat-Sun 11am-5pm, weekdays TBA. Opening reception Sat, April 23, 2-5 pm. For more info visit www.119gallery.org or call 978.452.8138.

307 2005 event 59 - One Pixel Boston
One Pixel Boston is a special event taking place in the Back Bay Fens near the Rose Garden. A "Performance Map" by Steven R Holloway, One Pixel Boston demonstrates that the spirit of a living place cannot be appreciated without direct experience. Collaborators include The Boston Arts Academy, The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and the Royal Jelly Collective. The artist will be on hand at selected times during the event to give readings and make observations. This event is produced by 119 Gallery in conjunction with On the Map. Visit Steven R Holloway's Site for One Pixel Boston April 22-May 8. One Pixel Boston opens at local noon time (12:42) on April 22 and closes at local noon time on April 27. Visitors are invited to document One Pixel Boston from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. For a detailed schedule and coordinates visit www.119gallery.org

308 2005 event 60 - Other Nature
Other Nature is The RISD Digital Media Department, Graduate Thesis Exhibition. This show represents the culmination of two years of Graduate study in the Rhode Island School of Design Digital Media Department. The curriculum of this digital arts program explores cutting edge contemporary theory and practice. Expanding on a media art focus, the vision of the program is to provide a diverse environment for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exploration of digital media. The program includes a central curriculum and facilitates bridges to other existing departments at RISD, enabling individual inquiry, high level collaboration, and team-based media production. The program unfolds over a highly engaging two year course of study. The goal of the program is to provide a resonant environment for cutting edge artistic research and practice, focusing on the creative, expressive potentials of digital media. The program has an emergent focus hybridizing, redefining and re-articulating the digital arts as an ongoing pursuit. It fosters exploratory work which seeks to exhibit a high degree of innovative visual, sonic, and/or textual expression, conceptual clarity, and technological skill. The continuum between physical space and digital space is also examined and explored. The student draws from a number of potential study areas to define their own personal and/or team oriented practice. Current research areas defined for exploration in the the program include the following foci: interactive digital media; virtual environments; augmented reality; motion graphics; digital audio production; Internet oriented authorship; hybrid architectural/media environments; locative media; new forms of sensing and physical interface production; experimental media-related industrial design; ubiquitous computing as an expressive form; experimental games; wearable computing; new forms of literary media production; expressive digital tool building; installation art; digital media research; and the exploration of new forms of computer related expression. In each case the computer falls somewhere within the process of creative expression. Some individuals critique digital technology through a non-digital form. The final work may or may not appear to be digital in nature. April 22- May 8, Mon-Sun 10am-7pm. Opening Reception Fri, April 22, 6-9 pm. 675 West Kendall St in the Vertex Building; and 500 Kendall St. in the Genzyme Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. For more information call 401.454.6139 or email Mihn Reza at mreza@risd.edu Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

309 2005 event 61 - Knock-Knock
Graduate students Bettina Bloc, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Olivia Robinson, and Amy Scarfone of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York present Knock-Knock, an interactive installation. This collaborative project evokes contemporary communications networks using cardboard and copper wire. Knock-Knock is a network of suspended cardboard boxes, linked by contact microphones that will function both as pickups and drivers, transmitting sound across the box network through the cardboard filters. The contact microphones will be precisely tuned so that tapped messages can travel short distances along the network or cycle around the ring, depending on the strength of the tap. April 22- May 8, Mon- Sun 10am - 7pm. Opening Reception Fri, April 22 6-9 pm. 675 West Kendall St. in the Vertex Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. For more info email kittyhigh@earthlink.net Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

310 2005 event 62 - Bridge::Breach
An Introduction to the New Media Artwork of Graduate Students in Boston This show brings together cyberart-work done by graduate students at Emerson, MIT, Massachusetts College of Art and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, bridging the gaps that currently exist between these four, fine Boston resources for learning, thinking and making. The gallery is found on the ground floor of MassArt's "Artists' Residence." April 25 - May 10, Sun-Sat. 10am - 6pm Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 4, 5:30 - 7:30pm

311 2005 event 63 - TechArt II
A national exhibition of artwork incorporating digital technology as a major creative component, juried by Mary Flanagan. Work includes original digital photographs, prints, sculpture, assemblages, collages and other pieces created using components manipulated by or generated from the computer; video, animation, and internet-based works. April 15-May 29. Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 12-4pm. Opening reception Fri, April 15, 6-8pm. Bancroft Gallery

312 2005 event 64 - New Works from MEME@Brown
This exhibition consists of new interactive multimedia and music works by Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments, graduate students and alumni from Brown University. Works produced by these innovative artists include interactive installations, reactive environments, and musical performance with real-time systems and explore the intersection of music, video, and performance via new and interactive technologies. April 22-May 8, Mon-Sun 10am-7pm. Opening night concert, April 22, 7-9pm featuring MEME students and faculty. Performers include: Butch Rovan, Billy Gomberg, Jason Moore, Shawn Greenlee, Joe Grimm, Luke Fischbeck, and Wilson Brown. Closing night concert, May 7, 8-10pm featuring MEME students. Performers include: Billy Gomberg, Jason Moore, Shawn Greenlee, Joe Grimm, Luke Fischbeck, and Wilson Brown 675 West Kendall St in the Vertex Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

313 2005 event 65 - Ideas in Motion: Kinetic Awareness™(the ball work)
A 3-hr Workshop taught by Elaine Summers About Kinetic Awareness: "There are many applications and levels of Summers' Kinetic Awareness work. Most individuals, including those who eventually incorporate Kinetic Awareness into their own work, initially come to study because they have an injury or other problem with their bodies. Training and maintaining the body is the central concern of dancers and the reason why many major dancers in New York have ended up on Summers' floor. KA does not substitute one system of movement for another, but by learning how the body works-physically, physiologically and psychologically---students can reclaim their bodies as their own. Trisha Brown believes all dancers should study with Summers because of the sensitivity to the body Summers' training imparts and Summers' ability to analyze error in dance movement. "Ann-Sargent Wooster "Moving to Dance" THE DRAMA REVIEW DANCE/MOVEMENT ISSUE VOL 24 #4 DEC. 1980.P.66 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovation in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts Conference and event series. Sat, April 30, 2-5pm Admission $40/$35 for professional dancers/bodyworkers. Please register by April 20th, limit 15 students To register call 617.718.9333 or 718.986.3114 or email alissa@criticalmoves.com For direction www.casania.com

314 2005 event 66 - Beyond the Digital Print
Dorothy Simpson Krause, digital pioneer and co-author of Digital Art Studio: Techniques for Combining Inkjet Printing with Traditional Art Materials, shows her work and some of the processes she developed with Digital Atelier® artists and co-authors Bonny Lhotka and Karin Schminke. Participants will be able to make small digital transfers. Tues, May 3, 3pm For more info email Patricia Peterson at patricia.peterson@umb.edu

315 2005 event 67 - Graduate Thesis Show
Immersion 05 by Michael Sheridan This series of videosonic installations continues the artist's exploration of physical and emotional states that flow between order and disorder, balance and imbalance, give and take. Some works document actual tipping points between stability and instability while others are thematic abstractions. The latter place the viewer in an immediate and visceral experience of the opposite states of loss and gain, integration and disintegration. Proximity Lab by Evan Karatzas Proximity Lab is a participatory installation designed to explore the role of physical proximity in social interaction. The exhibit is an experimental interface platform designed to visualize relationships between users and mediated spaces. The system is self-referential, directing attention to the intersections of physical interaction and computational logic. April 27-May 7, Mon - Fri, 10am - 6pm, Sat. 11am-5pm Opening Reception Thur, April 28, 5-8pm

316 2005 event 68 - Digital Disclosure
A show about hidden meanings, intimate relationships and underlying significance. Through installation in digital media, the artists in Digital Disclosure present works which encourage exploration and invite participation. Liz Nofziger and Eric Freeman Missiles and Burgers Redux : A Collaborative Video Extravaganza Brian Knepp and Henry Kaufman The Eye is the Window : A Collaborative Video Installation dealing with the concept of soul in technology Henry Kaufman Into My Face : A Touch Screen Kiosk that lets viewers join in an extreme close-up exploration of the artists face (use Corey Smithson Box of Candy : An Animated Simulation of 3d space using pieces of digital paintings Michael Mittelman Cabinet: The most recent in Mittleman's Alternative Domestic Series, Cabinet takes a look at the role of indentity in the family within the context of mental illness Michael Everett Replace, Relight and Refill (Part 1) An installation of industrial light globes cold worked into sculptural objects and lighted with a series LED arrays, reflecting Everett's admiration of the unaffected character and design of industrial class products. April 23-May 8, Wed, Sat, Sun 12-6pm, Fri 2-7pm. Opening reception Sat, April 23, 6-10pm

317 2005 event 69 - Lecture by Jane D. Marsching and Thomas Swiss
The PRC's and New England School of Photography's Word and Image series presents a lecture by photographer and new media artist Jane D. Marsching and poet/artist Thomas Swiss. Wed, May 4, 7pm Boston University School of Communications, 640 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditorium 101

318 2005 event 70 - One Minute Video Festival
Featuring online video works that are one minute in length, from Montserrat students and alumni. Works include traditional and digital animation, documentaries, and video portraits that range from dark comedic cartoons to self-conscious documentaries. The top-ten submissions selected by the college are projected onto the windows of the college at 292 Cabot Street Fri, April 29, 7pm, rain date, Sat, April 30, 7pm For more info call Laura Costello 978.922.8222 x 1204 or email gallery@montserrat.edu

319 2005 event 71 - Requiem for the Twentieth Century by Nam June Paik
Requiem is Paik's only extant outdoor sculpture. It consists of a 1936 Chrysler Air Stream sedan which Paik painted silver and outfitted with four 13" TV monitors, three 9" TV monitors, and a video disc player, as well as an audio disc player. All the TV monitors play a 25 minute continuous video loop in sync of classical Paik images which span his entire career as the "founder" of video art. The video loop constitutes a compendium of Paik's work from the 1960's through 1997. While the video images play across the car windows, Mozart's "Requiem" plays softly from speakers within the car for a total audio-visual experience. The Chrysler sculpture was originally created as part of a temporary installation Paik completed in Germany for "Sculpture: Projects in Munster 1997" which included 32 antique cars from the 1920's through the 1950's. Requiem sums up the twentieth century as a period of transformative socio-cultural change from an industrial based society to an electronic information based society. The automobile and the television figure as both the most significant inventions of the century as well as the most prominent signifiers of Western consumerism. Ongoing installation, Tues-Sun 11am-5pm. Admission $9; $6 for students and seniors. Admission includes access to the 35-acre Sculpture Park and Museum galleries.

320 2005 event 72 - Virtual Views: "Jazz Interpretations" and "On the Street Where I Live"
In conjunction with the exhibition (HiPArt) at Boston University's SCV Computer Graphics Lab Wearing 3D glasses and holding a 3D navigation device, visitors explore 3D animated virtual spaces created by collaborating designers, painters, and musicians. Two virtual environments are shown on Boston University's Deep Vision Display Wall, a 15'x8', high-resolution, 12-tile, rear-projected, passive stereo display system. The experience is enhanced with 8-way directional sound. Jazz Interpretations In "Jazz Interpretations", visitors explore the 3D animated sights and sounds inspired by Jazz forms and works of painters such as Matisse, Pollock, and Picasso. On the Street Where I Live by Jennifer Schwartz an animated surrealistic virtual world inspired by paintings of Joan Miro and constructed in part with designs and colors from the artist's oil and mixed media paintings. Jennifer Schwartz is an independent installation artist living in New York. April 22 - May 4. Specific days and times will be posted on the HiPArt Web site. Opening: Thurs. April 28, 5:30 - 7:30pm at Boston University, Sherman Gallery, George Sherman Union 775 Commonwealth Avenue, 2nd floor Boston, MA 02215 For more info visit http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/ Also visit the sister event: Art projects from around the grid. Visitors explore 3D animated virtual spaces created by collaborating designers, painters, and musicians. Boston University SCV Computer Graphics Lab: (HIPART) April 22 -May 8. 111 Cummington St #203, Boston. for more information call 617.353.7800

321 2005 event 73 - (HiPArt), Art projects from around the grid
Art projects from around the grid allows visitors to explore 3D animated virtual spaces created by collaborating designers, painters, and musicians. The virtual environments are shown on Boston University's Deep Vision Display Wall, a 15'x8', high-resolution, 12-tile, rear-projected, passive stereo display system. The experience is enhanced with 8-way directional sound. HiPArt (High Performance Computing in the Arts) is an outreach program coordinated by the Scientific Computing and Visualization group at Boston University fostering a collaboration between software developers and artists and making high performance computing, networking, and graphics resources available to the art community. HiPArt's previous projects include The Stitched Wall Project, Gallery on the Grid, Spirited Ruins, and ArtWorld. In conjunction with the exhibition Virtual Views at Boston University's Sherman Gallery April 22 - May 8, Sat-Sun 1-4pm Opening: Thurs. April 28, 5:30 - 7:30pm. Boston University SCV Computer Graphics Lab: (HiPArt) 111 Cummington St #203 Boston, MA 02215 For more information call 617.353.7800 or visit the website scv.bu.edu/hipart. Also visit the HiPArt sister event at the Sherman Gallery: Virtual Views April 23 - May 1, Tues-Sun, 1-5pm Wearing 3D glasses and holding a 3D navigation device, visitors can explore 3D animated virtual spaces created by collaborating students, designers, painters, and musicians. Two virtual environments are shown. In "Jazz Interpretations", visitors explore the 3D animated sights and sounds inspired by Jazz forms and the works of painters such as Matisse and Picasso. "On the Street Where I Live" by Jennifer Schwartz: An animated surrealistic virtual world inspired by paintings of Joan Miro and constructed in part with designs and colors from the artist's oil and mixed media paintings. Jennifer Schwartz is an independent installation artist living in New York.

322 2005 event 74 - Particle Playground
Particle Playground is an installation with sound, images, and interactivity. Technological elements are integrated with ceramic pieces, and visitors have the opportunity to orchestrate original music and field recordings through interactive monkey bars. This project is an outgrowth of Organized Color Intoxication, which is an inspection of immigration and language on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The visuals focus on open spaces, which serve as the primary location of change in a neighborhood. For the installation, the open spaces center on the sounds and images of playgrounds. Please visit http://www.jonathanzalben.com for further information. April 19-May 2. Mon, Wed, Thur 10am-6pm, Tues 12-8pm, Fri 9-5, Sat 9am-2pm Next to the story circle in the "children's wing" For more info call 917.674.8812 or email jonathanzalben@gmail.com

323 2005 event 75 - History of the Future: The Imaginary 20th Century
A collaborative media exhibition with Jessica Irish and Norman Klein How was the future imagined before it took place? Working with special guest Norman Klein, students of Jessica Irish's Architectonics & Installation class design a sensory, experimental view of this forgotten vision. Contrasting two themes of The City vs. The X-Ray, we move between the exterior worlds of fantasy, urban escape and social change to the internal body, as mediated by technology, media and the unconscious. Collaborators: Caitlin Winner, Kate Tetreault, Danielle Lingg, Bing Li, YuNa Kim, Amanda Davidson, Ec Brown & Emily Arauz. April 21-May 9, Mon - Fri, 9am - 6pm, Sat and Sun, 12 - 4 pm. Opening reception Fri, April 22, 12-2pm. Handicap Access: Yes, call the Art Office for guidance: 781-283-2042 Sponsored by Wellesley College Art Department, Special Events and Educational Research Development For more info call Jessica Irish 781.283.3775

324 2005 event 77 - PixelNation 2: An exhibition of computer animation and new media
PixelNation 2 is an exhibition of computer animation and new media work by students at Emerson College. Produced under the direction of Professor and Artist John Craig Freeman, this fresh work represents the cutting edge of the next generation of new media artists. April 28-30, Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Opening Reception, Thurs April 28 6-8pm. For info contact Robert Fleming at 617.824.8329

325 2005 event 78 - Dead Pixel and Globe by Lior Neiger
During the month of May, Northeast Exposure Online(NEO) - the PRC's web-based initiative of emerging, regional artists - highlights of the work of Lior Neiger, featuring online two videos, "Dead Pixel" and "Globe". Revelent to mapping is "Globe" (2003), in which a split screen shows two globes spinning and then stoppping, much like a slot machine. Each time, new boundries about each other, alluding to political, geographical, historical and cultural connections. " Dead Pixel" (2004) references computer viruses, the HIV epidemic and the death of technology via the phenomenon of dead pixels in computer monitors. Visit Neiger's online exhibition begining May 1, at www.bu.edu/prc/neiger.htm

326 2005 event 79 - Detritus by Denise Marika
"Detritus", the newspaper edition, is a sequence of image repeated loss and destruction imbedded as news, unexplained. In collaboration with the Weekly Dig, this conceptual installation is based on the free dissemination of art and news blurring the distinction between the two and underscoring the power of free speech and expression. Using the emotional landscape of the body to explore person and place,"Detritus" gives expression to the vulnerability and compassion that empowers the human spirit. As a public intervention "Detritus" founctions as a shared visual memory of loss in the hopes of peace. Wed, April 20 edition of the Weekly Dig. This event is being presented in conjunction with "Detritus" at the Howard Yezerski Gallery.

327 2005 event 80 - Cyberaction: featuring the work of Feng Mengbo
The New England Institute of Art features Interactive Media Designer Feng Mengbo of Beijing, China. Step into "Q4U", Mengbo's interactive game based on Quake III Arena™ (Id Software, Inc. 1999). Q4U is shown with three computers and three projectors. It is an interactive, internet connected installation where the artist is the antagonist. In addition to Mengbo's Q4U, NEiA students and faculty offer several interactive experiences for the viewers exploration including: "Kod" - Interested in the expressive and communicative potential of the traditionally silent and purely computational material in digital code, NEiA faculty member Kate Nazemi isolates unique letter in code, analayzes their sounds of speech and discoveres "kod" - the language of code reconfigured as phonetic poetry. The user turns a device which controls the flow rate of poetry (both projected and heard). "You are Here" - Students and faculty of the Interactive Audio course (programming audio with Flash) under the direction of NEiA faculty member Michelle Yaiser, create a cyberworld of aural interactivity. The user has a unique experience every time s/he enters. Using "Making Things" input devices the user controls the sounds and images. "Whoo" - NEiA Faculty member Julia Griffey creates an interactive, animated physical exhibit about barn owls. The user learns about the owls by jumping, touching or stepping in different ways on an interactive mat. April 22-May 8, Mon-Thur 8:30am-8pm, Fri 8:30am-5pm, Sat 9am-3pm. Opening Reception: Tue, April 26, 6pm Opeing reception. Artist talk by Feng Mengbo on Q4U and his interactive media design career in the Plaza Room at 7pm. For more info call 617.582.4442

328 2005 event 81 - Anadromous Awakening: Landscape Mosaics by Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby, and Artists Talk with Smelt Video.
Artists Talk: Anadromous Awakening and Smelt Video by Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby Working with scientists and GIS specialists, the artist has created a 3D computer model of the harbor and tidal rivers, showing the factors that trigger the spawning response of herring, smelt, and shad. The public exhibition includes banners marking the passage of fish upstream are installed and large floating archetypal fish forms at the falls at Lower Millis. At night, images of schooling fish are projected on the water vapor from the falls of the Neponset River, giving a ghostly echo of the pre-colonial migration of the anadromous fish. The work documents the interface of the natural, cultural and industrial worlds and evokes the memory of the anadromous fish return to their natal streams to spawn. Centuries later, fish still return to the site unable to swim upstream. The exhibit can be viewed from the newly renovated 17th century Adams Street stone bridge, the site of the first industrial dam built across a wild river in the New World. Exhibition dates: April 23, April 30, and May 1 (or on the following day in the event of rain). Lectures: April 23, 5 pm, Artists Talk: Anadromous Awakening and Smelt Video. April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video May 7, 5pm, Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson- Marine Photography Exhibition Hours: 1- 8 pm Lectures are at 5 pm at the Milton Yacht Club, Wharf Street, off Adams Street, Milton, MA Public transportation: Ashmont - Mattapan trolley line. Milton Village stop. For more info call Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby 781.8376163 or email landscapemosaics@aol.com or visit www.neponset.org Admission: Free, Donations Requested Wheelchair Accessibility: Riverwalk is handicapped accessible at Milton Lower Mills.

329 2005 event 82 - Putto 4 over 4 by Michael Rees
Michael Rees is a new media sculptor. His sculptures are created in the computer using a variety of 3D CAD and animation software. From the animations, 3D 'snapshots' are then removed and used in to create the sculpture through rapid prototyping technologies. "Putto 4 over 4" is one of a series of sculptures that were created using multiple new technologies to both manufacture and to give meaning to the work. Both the sculpture and the animation from which it came will be on display. Ongoing installation, Tues-Sun 11am-5pm. Admission $9; $6 for students and seniors. Admission includes access to the 35-acre Sculpture Park and Museum galleries.

330 2005 event 83 - COLLISIONbox
In celebration of the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival, MIT Museum continues its display of innovative new mergings of art and technology with this exciting duo of interactive video-based displays. MuseumCollision features members of the MIT Collision Collective campus group at their best, including "Drift Grid" (by Brian Knep, on view through May 15) and "backUP" (by jackbackrack, on view May 17 - June 5). May 4 - June 5, Tues-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 12 - 5 pm No admission charge for this exhibition. Other MIT Museum galleries are $5 for adults, $2 for children (age 5 - 18), college students with ID, and seniors, and free for children under 5.

331 2005 event 84 - The Science of Causes Conversation with Carmin Karasic
Multimedia Artist and AIB faculty member, Carmin Karasic will talk about The Science of Causes, the show that she and fellow artist and AIB faculty member, Fred Levy curated. The Science of Causes features 3 cyberart installations by Harvey Loves Harvey, Andrew Neumann and A.R.T. This talk is intended to inspire an informal conversation about cyberart between experts and novices. There are 2 talks in the gallery on the same day, April 29: 12:30 - 1:30, Carmin Karasic and Andrew Neumann , and then at 3:30 - 4:30 Carmin Karasic and HLH artist Jason Dean.

332 2005 event 85 - Lecture: Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson- Marine Photography
May 7, 5pm, Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson-Marine Photography. Anadromous Awakening: Landscape Mosaics by Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby. Lectures: April 23, 5 pm, Artists Talk: Anadromous Awakening and Smelt Video. April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video May 7, 5pm, Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson- Marine Photography Lectures are at 5 pm at the Milton Yacht Club, Wharf Street, off Adams Street, Milton, MA Working with scientists and GIS specialists, the artist has created a 3D computer model of the harbor and tidal rivers, showing the factors that trigger the spawning response of herring, smelt, and shad. The public exhibition includes banners marking the passage of fish upstream are installed and large floating archetypal fish forms at the falls at Lower Millis. At night, images of schooling fish are projected on the water vapor from the falls of the Neponset River, giving a ghostly echo of the pre-colonial migration of the anadromous fish. The work documents the interface of the natural, cultural and industrial worlds and evokes the memory of the anadromous fish return to their natal streams to spawn. Centuries later, fish still return to the site unable to swim upstream. The exhibit can be viewed from the newly renovated 17th century Adams Street stone bridge, the site of the first industrial dam built across a wild river in the New World. Exhibition dates: April 23, April 30, and May 1 (or on the following day in the event of rain). Exhibition Hours: 1-8 pm Public transportation: Ashmont - Mattapan trolley line. Milton Village stop.

333 2005 event 86 - Anadromous Awakening: Landscape Mosaics by Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby, and lecture: The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video
April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video Working with scientists and GIS specialists, the artist has created a 3D computer model of the harbor and tidal rivers, showing the factors that trigger the spawning response of herring, smelt, and shad. The public exhibition includes banners marking the passage of fish upstream are installed and large floating archetypal fish forms at the falls at Lower Millis. At night, images of schooling fish are projected on the water vapor from the falls of the Neponset River, giving a ghostly echo of the pre-colonial migration of the anadromous fish. The work documents the interface of the natural, cultural and industrial worlds and evokes the memory of the anadromous fish return to their natal streams to spawn. Centuries later, fish still return to the site unable to swim upstream. The exhibit can be viewed from the newly renovated 17th century Adams Street stone bridge, the site of the first industrial dam built across a wild river in the New World. Exhibition dates: April 23, April 30, and May 1 (or on the following day in the event of rain). Lectures: April 23, 5 pm, Artists Talk: Anadromous Awakening and Smelt Video. April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video May 7, 5pm, Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson- Marine Photography Exhibition Hours: 1- 8 pm Lectures are at 5 pm at the Milton Yacht Club, Wharf Street, off Adams Street, Milton, MA Public transportation: Ashmont - Mattapan trolley line. Milton Village stop. For more info call Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby 781.8376163 or email landscapemosaics@aol.com or visit www.neponset.org Admission: Free, Donations Requested Wheelchair Accessibility: Riverwalk is handicapped accessible at Milton Lower Mills.

334 2005 event 87 - Anadromous Awakening: Landscape Mosaics by Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby
April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video. Working with scientists and GIS specialists, the artist has created a 3D computer model of the harbor and tidal rivers, showing the factors that trigger the spawning response of herring, smelt, and shad. The public exhibition includes banners marking the passage of fish upstream are installed and large floating archetypal fish forms at the falls at Lower Millis. At night, images of schooling fish are projected on the water vapor from the falls of the Neponset River, giving a ghostly echo of the pre-colonial migration of the anadromous fish. The work documents the interface of the natural, cultural and industrial worlds and evokes the memory of the anadromous fish return to their natal streams to spawn. Centuries later, fish still return to the site unable to swim upstream. The exhibit can be viewed from the newly renovated 17th century Adams Street stone bridge, the site of the first industrial dam built across a wild river in the New World. Exhibition dates: April 23, April 30, and May 1 (or on the following day in the event of rain). Lectures: April 23, 5 pm, Artists Talk: Anadromous Awakening and Smelt Video. April 30, 5 pm, The Spawning Response, Brad Chase, Division of Marine Fisheries and Herring Video May 7, 5pm, Anadromous Fish Photography, Robert Michelson- Marine Photography Exhibition Hours: 1- 8 pm Lectures are at 5 pm at the Milton Yacht Club, Wharf Street, off Adams Street, Milton, MA Public transportation: Ashmont - Mattapan trolley line. Milton Village stop. For more info call Joseph Emmanuel Ingoldsby 781.8376163 or email landscapemosaics@aol.com or visit www.neponset.org Admission: Free, Donations Requested Wheelchair Accessibility: Riverwalk is handicapped accessible at Milton Lower Mills.

335 2005 event 88 - Phenomena Artist Talk, featuring the work of Antony Flackett
Artist talk, May 3rd, 6:30 pm at The Godine Family Gallery.The introduction will feature the work of Antony Flackett, with an interactive musical animation performance. This artist talk is in conjunction with the exhibition Phenomena. This group show collects faculty and students from the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) at Massachusetts College of Art. They create new "Phenomena" by reprocessing, reformulating, and reshaping technology and information into works of art. This gallery exhibits includes the work of: - Abraham Gómez Delgado - John Holland - Heidi Kayser - Jane Marsching - Denise Marika - Dana Moser - Jared Nielsen - Nita Sturiale April 27-May 4, 10am-6pm, The exhibition is organized by Lina Maria Giraldo, in conjunction with EventWorks, an annual student production performance art festival. Opening Wed, April 27, 6pm-midnight. The show opens with a live presentation by John Holland and Josh Coswell entitled "Voices of Earth: A Global Symphony," a musical simulation of acoustic phenomena, computer controlled, in real time for six hours during the exhibition opening. Sat. April 30. 12pm - 12am. EKTA - Sensory Awareness Installation by Ashanti. An interactive multimedia event that explores the relationship between art and science. This installation allows the user to interact with an EEG that analyzes and translates brain wave signals to mirror the biofeedback with light and sound. North building. room 181, next to Godine Family Gallery.

336 2005 event 89 - "The Nudes" and "Itinerant" Artist talk with Mary Ellen Strom and Teri Rueb
Artist talk with Mary Ellen Strom and Teri Rueb, Sat, April 23, 2:30-4pm. Exhibition: April 22-May 7, Tue-Sat 10am-6pm. This talk is in conjunction with the exhibitions The Nudes by Mary Ellen Strom and Itinerant by Teri Rueb. Commissioned by New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. with funds from the Jerome Foundation and the LEF Foundation. For more info visit http://turbulence.org and contact Helen Thorington, newradio@turbulence.org, 617.522.3856. Equipment to hear work can be brought outside for wheelchair accessibility.

337 2005 event 90 - Ideas in Motion: Wear & Tear by Mei-Be Whatever and 16 (R)evolutions by Troika Ranch
Boston Cyberarts presents: "Wear & Tear" investigates the body as machine. Repetitive motion is built up and broken down. The dancer is outfitted with multiple wireless video cameras and microphones. Each joint and flex point is emphasized through magnified sound and image. Intimate details of the choreography are broadcast in real time. Troika Ranch's "16(R)evolutions" combines dance, theater, and interactively generated video imagery to explore the polarities of being animal and being human; the former dictated solely by the need to survive and reproduce; the later being a state of confusion created when these basic instincts are blurred by intellect. Sat. April 23, 8pm Sun. April 24, 7pm Admission: general $20; student $16 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series.

338 2005 event 91 - Ideas in Motion: "Confi-dance" by Fico Balet and "Secret Streams" by Kinodance Company
Confi-dance is a dance about sharing secrets, a dance about the consolation and the comfort one finds in a dance. Secret Streams is an intermedia spectacle in which movement is the language of interaction between film projections, light, soundscape, a kinetic set, and dance. It is a conceptual as well as an emotional journey that unifies its elements into a hybrid being - an otherworldly entity inhabiting the stage. Secret Streams had its world premiere at the St. Petersburg International Dance Film Festival in Russia, in November 2004, and was recently restaged with overwhelming reception for A.P.E. Performance Space in Northampton (March 2005). Secret Streams is an artistic collaboration. The choreography draws from both western contemporary dance and image-based movement traditions. Originally choreographed by Alissa Cardone and Harriett Jastremsky, Secret Streams was reworked by Cardone in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Ingrid Schatz. Film projections by filmmaker Alla Kovgan explore the choreographic possibilities of combining elements and techniques of dance filmmaking with live dance. The kinetic set by Dedalus Wainwright aspires to destroy the flatness and two dimensionality of the projection surfaces. The lighting design of Kathy Couch merges visual boundaries and unifies the space. The sound score of Seth Barger uses contrasting tones and textures to create extra dimensions for the dance, projections, and ultimately, for the viewers' imagination. (for more information: www.kinodance.org) "Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely performed, [Secret Streams] winds and intertwines in ways that are frequently imperceptible..." - Laurie McLeod Fri, April 29 8pm, Sat, April 30, 8pm. Admission $15 general, $12 Students. Tickets may be purchased online though a secure server at Ideas in Motion This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

339 2005 event 92 - Works from the Cave II
The David Winton Bell Gallery and meme@brown present an exhibition of "Works from the Cave II" in Brown University's virtual reality Cave at the Center for Computation and Visualization. Powered by a high-performance parallel computer, the Cave is an eight-foot cube with high-resolution stereo graphics projected onto three walls and the floor to create immersive virtual reality. Featured works include the premier of "Torus: Work in Process" by John Cayley and Dmitri Lemmerman, and selections from the Cave Writing workshop lead by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Shawn Greenlee. April 30 and May 1, 7, and 8, Sat 11am-5pm. Reservations required. Press preview TBA. Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University, 180 George St, Providence, RI. For more info call 401-863-2932 Wheelchair accessible, note when making reservations.

340 2005 event 93 - Rest/Less; an Evening of Interactive Multimedia Dance Theater by LOSTWAX
Jamie Jewett's "Rest/Less" dramatizes a dance-world composed of life's fleeting fragments, shards of stories which literally make the maps we travel by. Set on an interactive grid of wind, music and poetry, five dancers discover and embrace this windswept landscape, their movement illuminating intimate stories, their small phrases adding up to a journey. Based on a text by Thalia Field, "Rest/Less" displays dance and technology at its most lyrical. And the audience can play on it too! Fri, May 6 and Sat, May 7, 8 pm reservations - 617.864.3191 This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information visit Ideas in Motion

341 2005 event 94 - Digital Orpheus
Digital Orpheus is a multimedia laboratory installation of video, electro-acoustic sound and improvisation. A multimedia presentation created by Bebe Beard, Lou Cohen, Tim Feeney and friends. Using resources such as wax paper, computer code and marimba, artists Bebe Beard, Lou Cohen and Tim Feeney will evoke the myths and powers of Orpheus, the Greek god of Music. Sat, April 30 12pm-12am A varied program of performances, screenings and installation will run between noon and midnight. A detailed schedule of events will be posted at http://www.jolc.net/orpheus/ $8.00 suggested donation

342 2005 event 95 - Opening Night Party
Join artists, high-tech professionals, and other members of the cutting-edge cyberarts community as we kick off the fourth Boston Cyberarts Festival! You'll enjoy fabulous food in elegant surroundings, and get a sneak peek at some of the artists that will be featured in the Festival. Here's what the press had to say about our previous events: "Young and cool, middle-aged and hip, plugged-in, free-spirited, garbed in the many varieties of geek chic and la mode Bohemian, the demographic was the sort many conventional ... organizations would kill for." - Boston Globe "... one of the biggest art events in the city - and one of the most entertaining. Where else do people from such disparate backgrounds - think super-nerdy techies, flamboyant artists, and hip electronic musicians - mingle?" - Improper Bostonian "[Our] vote for the event that promises to have the most interesting cross-section of attendees: [the opening night party for the] Boston Cyberarts Festival. Black-garbed art types, large-brained techies, formerly affluent dotcommers, still-affluent art collectors - they'll all be there." - Boston Globe Exhibitions by: Dorothy Simpson Krause, John Craig Freeman, Carmin Karasic, Martin Wattenberg, Michael Oh, and Samuel Klein. Thur, April 21, 6-9pm Tickets are $75 and may be purchased through the Festival office.

343 2005 event 96 - Finnish Experimental Shorts
Curated by Heather Kapplow Made up of some of Finland's most cutting edge experimental film and video works, this retrospective reaches beyond narrative and documentary, beyond the American perspective, using performance art as a route into experimental time-based work. Works being screened were created between 1978 and 2005, and include artists: Mervi Kytosalmi, Teemo Maki, Roi Vaara, Minna Souniemi, Maria Dunker, Mark Lampisuo, Hanna Maria Antilla, Juha van Ingen, and Pekka Sassi. Most have been screened throughout Europe, but never before in the United States. Parental discretion is advised. PROGRAM: "Artist's Dilemma", Roi Vaara "Vartulo", Mervi Kytosalmi "2=2+1+3", Mervi Kytosalmi "Concept of Happiness", Teemo Maki "Monster", Minna Souniemi "We Wanted to be Bad", Mark Lampisuo "Surface", Hanna Maria Antilla "Air Guitar", Minna Souniemi "Star Wars", Minna Souniemi "Flirt", Liisa Lounila "Yoga", Maria Dunker, Vera Nevanlinna "Program", Maki-Jussila "Paini", Pink Twins "Fragrant Harbour", Juha van Ingen "Nichts", Pekka Sassi Fri, April 22, 1:30pm Admisson: general whole-day pass $80; student/senior whole-day pass $60 Opening Film Ticket $10; Friday night party $20 This screening is being presented in conjunction with "New Media Art from Finland" at Studio Soto. New Media Art from Finland is a collaborative presentation of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston, this project is a conjunction of two events: a gallery exhibition of interactive installation works at Studio Soto in the Fort Point Arts District, and a video program at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Sponsors of this project include AV-Arkki, the LEF Foundation and the FRAME Fund for Finnish Cultural Exchange.

344 2005 event 97 - Finnish Experimental Shorts
Curated by Heather Kapplow Made up of some of Finland's most cutting edge experimental film and video works, this retrospective reaches beyond narrative and documentary, beyond the American perspective, using performance art as a route into experimental time-based work. Works being screened were created between 1978 and 2005, and include artists: Mervi Kytosalmi, Teemo Maki, Roi Vaara, Minna Souniemi, Maria Dunker, Mark Lampisuo, Hanna Maria Antilla, Juha van Ingen, and Pekka Sassi. Most have been screened throughout Europe, but never before in the United States. Parental discretion is advised. PROGRAM: "Artist's Dilemma", Roi Vaara "Vartulo", Mervi Kytosalmi "2=2+1+3", Mervi Kytosalmi "Concept of Happiness", Teemo Maki "Monster", Minna Souniemi "We Wanted to be Bad", Mark Lampisuo "Surface", Hanna Maria Antilla "Air Guitar", Minna Souniemi "Star Wars", Minna Souniemi "Flirt", Liisa Lounila "Yoga", Maria Dunker, Vera Nevanlinna "Program", Maki-Jussila "Paini", Pink Twins "Fragrant Harbour", Juha van Ingen "Nichts", Pekka Sassi Sat, April 23, 12pm For admission information please call the Coolidge box office at 617.734.2500 This screening is being presented in conjunction with "New Media Art from Finland" at Studio Soto. New Media Art from Finland is a collaborative presentation of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston, this project is a conjunction of two events: a gallery exhibition of interactive installation works at Studio Soto in the Fort Point Arts District, and a video program at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Sponsors of this project include AV-Arkki, the LEF Foundation and the FRAME Fund for Finnish Cultural Exchange.

345 2005 event 98 - Ideas in Motion: Materializing the Ephemeral: A Lecture-Performance on the Art of Loie Fuller (1862-1928) Given by Jody Sperling
Early modern dancer Loie Fuller created a unique art form by crafting mesmerizing, multi-media spectacles out of fabric, motion, color and light. Given today's interest in technology and performance, it's fascinating to look at the ingenious ways Fuller harnessed and advanced stage technology from the 1890s through the 1920s. Using electric lighting, specially-engineered effects, and magic-lantern projections, Fuller enraptured fin de siècle Paris-she was a favorite subject of visual artists and became embodiment of the Art Nouveau spirit. In this presentation, Jody Sperling offers a slide-show of images of Fuller's dance and spells out some of the issues the work provoked in its use of technology. The presentation concludes with the performance of Sperling's original choreography, Dance of the Elements, a luminous tribute to Fuller's magic. Time Lapse Dance gives a postmodern twist to vintage dance genres, from the dazzling fin de siècle spectacles of modern-dance pioneer Loie Fuller, to circus and music hall entertainments. Founder and Artistic Director Jody Sperling is a dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar from New York City. She has gained international recognition for her re-interpretations of Fuller's art. She has performed at many local venues, in other US and Canadian cities, and in Yaroslavl, Russia. She has also as presented lectures and lecture-demonstrations on topics in dance history at colleges, universities, festivals, and conferences in the US, Canada, and Europe. The company's 2005 season will be held at the Harry de Jur Playhouse at the Henry Street Settlement on June 23-26. Sun, April 24, 2pm Admission to Jody Sperling's performance is included in the Ideas in Motion Conference cost. General $30/day or $50 for both days; students $24/day or $38 for both days. Admission to the Conference may be purchased through a secure server here. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series.

346 2005 event 99 - New Media Art From Finland: Small Spectacle About Lightness by Lauri Astala
Curated by Heather Kapplow "Small Spectacle About Lightness", a single channel video installation by Lauri Astala April 8-June 5, Opening reception Fri, April 8, 6-8pm. This show is being held in conjunction with two other events within the Boston Cyberarts Festival: New Media Art From Finland at Studio Soto and video screenings at the Independent Film Festival of Boston. New Media Art from Finland is a collaborative presentation of the Boston Cyberarts Festival and the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Sponsors of this project include AV-Arkki, the LEF Foundation, the FRAME Fund for Finnish Cultural Exchange, Do While Studio, Avanti Media, and Tech Superpowers, Inc.

347 2005 event 100 - Opening Night Concert for New Works from MEME@Brown
Opening night concert, April 22, 7-9pm featuring MEME students and faculty. Performers include: Butch Rovan, Billy Gomberg, Jason Moore, Shawn Greenlee, Joe Grimm, Luke Fischbeck, and Wilson Brown. This exhibition consists of new interactive multimedia and music works by Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments, graduate students and alumni from Brown University. Works produced by these innovative artists include interactive installations, reactive environments, and musical performance with real-time systems and explore the intersection of music, video, and performance via new and interactive technologies. April 22-May 8, Mon-Sun 10am-7pm. Closing night concert, May 7, 8-10pm featuring MEME students. Performers include: Billy Gomberg, Jason Moore, Shawn Greenlee, Joe Grimm, Luke Fischbeck, and Wilson Brown 675 West Kendall St in the Vertex Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square Vertex Building at Kendall Square675 West Kendall StCambridge, MA

348 2005 event 101 - Closing night concert for New Works from MEME@Brown
Closing night concert, May 7, 8-10pm featuring MEME students. Performers include: Billy Gomberg, Jason Moore, Shawn Greenlee, Joe Grimm, Luke Fischbeck, and Wilson Brown This exhibition consists of new interactive multimedia and music works by Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments, graduate students and alumni from Brown University. Works produced by these innovative artists include interactive installations, reactive environments, and musical performance with real-time systems and explore the intersection of music, video, and performance via new and interactive technologies. April 22-May 8, Mon-Sun 10am-7pm. 675 West Kendall St in the Vertex Building at Kendall Square. Just off of Third St. Near the Kendall T stop. Follow the signs once on site. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square is made possible through the generous support of major sponsors Lyme Properties, Avid Technology, M-Audio (a part of Avid), and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Boston Cyberarts at Kendall Square Vertex Building at Kendall Square 675 West Kendall St Cambridge, MA

349 2005 event 102 - Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology
Boston Cyberarts presents Ideas in Motion, a conference, performance and workshop series on dance, movement and technology. A new addition to the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Ideas in Motion is a series of events that showcases new and recent innovative work lying at the crossroads of dance, movement, and tech-nology. Ideas in Motion features talks, workshops, film screenings, and perform-ances by local, national, and international artists and experts. The centerpiece of Ideas in Motion is a two-day conference on April 23 and 24. The conference includes a keynote address by Prof. John Mitchell of Arizona State University and two afternoons of presentations, short performances, and Q&A by an exciting, diverse cast of artists and technologists including: Elaine Summers (USA) Justin Davila (Dance Heritage Coalition) (USA) Helen Pickett (on Forsythe) (USA) Mark Downie (USA) Nell Breyer (USA) Vita Berezina (USA) Fukurow Ishikawa (Japan) Maya Ciarocci (USA) Noah Riskin (USA) Jody Sperling(Time Lapse Dance) (USA) Kinodance Company (USA) Fico Balet (Slovenia) Marlon Barrios-Solano (Max/MSP/Jitter) (Venezuela/USA) Conference times and dates: April 23, 2-6pm, Simmons Hall at MIT, 229 Vassar Street, Cambridge Sun, April 24, 1-6pm, The Dance Theater at Boston University, 915 Commonwealth Ave with the entrance opposite 25 Buick St. Boston Admission: general $30/day or $50 for both days; students $24/day or $38 for both days. Ideas in Motion is funded by grants from LEF Foundation, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, and the Boston Cultural Council, which is founded by Massachusetts Cultural Council and administrated by Mayor's Office of Art, Tourism, and Special Events. This conference is the core event of Ideas in Motion: Innovations in Dance, Movement & Technology, a 2005 Boston Cyberarts conference and event series. For more information on this and other Ideas in Motion events, tickets and registration visit Ideas in Motion or email info@bostoncyberarts.org

350 2005 event 103 - Works from the Cave II
The David Winton Bell Gallery and meme@brown present an exhibition of "Works from the Cave II" in Brown University's virtual reality Cave at the Center for Computation and Visualization. Powered by a high-performance parallel computer, the Cave is an eight-foot cube with high-resolution stereo graphics projected onto three walls and the floor to create immersive virtual reality. Featured works include the premier of "Torus: Work in Process" by John Cayley and Dmitri Lemmerman, and selections from the Cave Writing workshop lead by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Shawn Greenlee. April 30 and May 1, 7, and 8, Sat 11am-5pm. Reservations required. Press preview TBA. Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University, 180 George St, Providence, RI. For more info call 401-863-2932 Wheelchair accessible, note when making reservations.

351 2005 event 104 - Works from the Cave II
The David Winton Bell Gallery and meme@brown present an exhibition of "Works from the Cave II" in Brown University's virtual reality Cave at the Center for Computation and Visualization. Powered by a high-performance parallel computer, the Cave is an eight-foot cube with high-resolution stereo graphics projected onto three walls and the floor to create immersive virtual reality. Featured works include the premier of "Torus: Work in Process" by John Cayley and Dmitri Lemmerman, and selections from the Cave Writing workshop lead by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Shawn Greenlee. April 30 and May 7, Sat 11am-5pm. Reservations required. Press preview TBA. Center for Computation and Visualization, Brown University, 180 George St, Providence, RI. For more info call 401-863-2932 Wheelchair accessible, note when making reservations.

352 2007 event 105 - 40 Years of Video Art: The Sixties and Seventies
The Goethe-Institut Boston presents “40 Years of Video Art in Germany”, a vast collection of outstanding video shorts from 1963-2003. The project, supported by the German Federal cultural Foundation, aims to save, maintain, and mediate the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one the most influential art forms of the twentieth century. Highlights from the collection will be selected by Roy Grundmann, Boston University, Michael Rush, Director Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Bennett Simpson, curator ICA, and Judith Barry, Artist and Writer. Each of these experts will choose one decade and present it at the Goethe-Institut, ending with a Panel Discussion of all participants at MIT. (day 1 of 3) May 1, 6:30pm The Sixties and Seventies Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon St, Boston Related events include: May 2, 6:30pm The Eighties and Nineties Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon St, Boston May 3, 6:30pm Panel Discussion moderated by Ute Meta Bauer, Director Visual Arts Program, MIT MIT, Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge

353 2007 event 106 - 40 Years of Video Art: The Eighties and Nineties
The Goethe-Institut Boston presents "40 Years of Video Art in Germany", a vast collection of outstanding video shorts from 1963-2003. The project, supported by the German Federal cultural Foundation, aims to save, maintain, and mediate the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one the most influential art forms of the twentieth century. Highlights from the collection will be selected by: Roy Grundmann, Film Studies Program Director, Boston University Michael Rush, Director Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Ute Meta Bauer, Director Visual Arts Program, MIT Judith Barry, Artist and Writer. Each of these experts will choose one decade and present it at the Goethe-Institut, ending with a Panel Discussion of all participants at MIT. May 1, 6:30pm: The Sixties and Seventies (Judith Barry and Roy Grundmann) Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon St, Boston May 2, 6:30pm The Eighties and Nineties (Michael Rush and Ute Meta Bauer) Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon Street, Boston May 3, 6:30pm Panel Discussion moderated by Ute Meta Bauer, Director Visual Arts Program, MIT, Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge Panel members: Roy Grundmann, Film Studies Program Director, Boston University Michael Rush, Director Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Judith Barry, Artist and Writer. John Hanhardt, Senior Curator for Film and Medis Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum Presented in cooperation with MIT.

354 2007 event 107 - 40 Years of Video Art: Panel Discussion moderated by Ute Meta Bauer
The Goethe-Institut Boston presents "40 Years of Video Art in Germany", a vast collection of outstanding video shorts from 1963-2003. The project, supported by the German Federal cultural Foundation, aims to save, maintain, and mediate the cultural heritage of Video Art, which has become one the most influential art forms of the twentieth century. Highlights from the collection will be selected by: Roy Grundmann, Film Studies Program Director, Boston University Michael Rush, Director Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Ute Meta Bauer, Director Visual Arts Program, MIT Judith Barry, Artist and Writer. Each of these experts will choose one decade and present it at the Goethe-Institut, ending with a Panel Discussion of all participants at MIT. May 1, 6:30pm: The Sixties and Seventies (Judith Barry and Roy Grundmann) Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon St, Boston May 2, 6:30pm The Eighties and Nineties (Michael Rush and Ute Meta Bauer) Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon Street, Boston May 3, 6:30pm Panel Discussion moderated by Ute Meta Bauer, Director Visual Arts Program, MIT, Broad Institute 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge Panel members: Roy Grundmann, Film Studies Program Director, Boston University Michael Rush, Director Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Judith Barry, Artist and Writer. John Hanhardt, Senior Curator for Film and Medis Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum Presented in cooperation with MIT.

355 2007 event 108 - Visual Music Marathon
The "Visual Music Marathon" is a daylong event which will include screenings of new and historic works that reflect the convergence of musical composition and moving images. The "Marathon," which will also feature live performances and performances mixing live and prerecorded elements, will be held in the Raytheon Amphitheater on Northeastern's Boston campus. For more information, visit: www.music.neu.edu/vmm. All of the new works presented in the Visual Marathon will become part of a Special Collection to be housed in the Snell Library at Northeastern. In addition, approximately thirty minutes of programming will be selected for national cablecast on the Harmony Channel's Mood Zones, available to subscribers of digital cable on the Comcast network. Sat, April 28 10am-10pm Call: 617-373-2671 or visit www.music.neu.edu/vmm

356 2007 event 109 - Puzzle Master
This multimedia opera, a retelling of the Daedalus and Icarus myth, is set on an imaginary Caribbean island. Five singers perform in counterpoint with layers of computer-manipulated 5.0 channel surround sound and multiple video projections. Music by Eric Chasalow, (www.ericchasalow.com); libretto by F.D. Reeve; video by Denise Marika, (www.denisemarika.com). Featuring performances by Jennifer Ashe, Donald Wilkinson, Pamela Dellal, Matthew Anderson, and Paul Guttry. Eric Hewitt conducts. Staging by Barbara Cassidy. Sat, May 5, 8pm Sun, May 6, 8pm Admission: $20 general admission; student/senior discounts available. The Puzzle Master is supported by the Poses Fund and the Theodore and Jane Norman Fund. Denise Marika's involvement has been funded in part by the LEF Foundation.

357 2007 event 110 - Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Pioneers & Premieres IV
Dinosaur Annex presents veteran ensemble member pianist Donald Berman (http://www.donaldbermanpiano.com) in a solo recital of contemporary classical works. The evening’s program includes works for piano and electric sounds by composer Eric Chasalow (www.ericchasalow.com) and the World Premiere of a commissioned work for piano and computer processor by composer Mark Wingate. April 29, 7:30pm Admission: $20. Student/Senior discounts available For more info call 617-482-3852

358 2007 event 111 - It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston
"It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston" is a networked performance jogging project by Boston-based artist kanarinka. How do you measure fear in a society obsessed with security and preparedness? Are we really more ready in the post-9/11 world? Or just more scared? And who benefits from fear? This project will measure fear in the number of breaths it takes to traverse our new geographies of insecurity. In Spring 2007, kanarinka will run the entire emergency evacuation route system of the City of Boston. While jogging, kanarinka amplifies and broadcasts her breath into the public spaces around her body. She tracks her body with GPS. She records each breath. She counts (154,000 is only an estimate). The project website logs the total breath count and includes numerous training runs, evacuation routes, statistics, maps, and podcast episodes available for download. Presented by iKatun Location: Various evacuation routes in Boston, MA. The project will be on view at the Boston Cyberarts Festival Gala on Fri, May 4, 6:30pm at the Hotel @ MIT

359 2007 event 112 - OurFloatingPoints 4: The Art of Living a Second Life
Wagner James Au (embedded journalist in Second Life), Pathfinder Linden (Community Manager for Linden Lab), John (Craig) Freeman, (artist in Second Life); Moderated by Eric Gordon (Assistant Professor of New Media, Emerson College) Called "the biggest digital art installation in the world" (Warren Ellis), Second Life is a highly imaginative, online, 3-D rendered environment populated with avatars (graphic representations of people). In Second Life you can teleport, fly, do not age, live in a house, go to clubs, take classes, make and view art, or just "hang out." Spanning more than 42,000 acres in real-world scale--larger than metropolitan Boston--Second Life is second home to over 2 million "residents," many of whom collaboratively create its content. It is a place where real business is conducted using virtual dollars that can then be traded in the real world. Join us during the Boston Cyberarts Festival for a discussion about the creative, social and economic implications of Second Life. Book signing to follow. Wed, April 25, 7pm Produced in partnership with Emerson College and Turbulence.org's "OurFloatingPoints 4: Participatory Media" series http://institute.emerson.edu/floatingpoints/2007/

360 2007 event 113 - Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard by Cathy Weis
Ideas in Motion and the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) present: Technology and the human body partner as choreographer Cathy Weis and her company present "Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard", a concoction of live movement, video, and sound. Using technology in simple yet ingenious ways, Weis takes physical movement into new realms, as dancers interact with projected images and sights and sounds are amplified to dramatic and comic effect. With its "dazzling video-dance images and belly-laugh humor" (The New York Times), "Electric Haiku: Calm as Custard" is a witty and inspiring conversation with an artist who encourages us to see dance anew. Performances Sat, April 28, 8 pm Sun, April 29, 2 pm Family Workshop Event * Sat, April 28, 11am-11:30am and 12-12:30pm *for kids and families Tickets: $30 reserved seating; $25 members, students, and seniors Ticket Purchase: Online at www.icaboston.org In person at the ICA box office in regular museum hours or one hour before the program By phone at 617.478.3103 Cathy Weis's performances are supported by the Kelly Packowski Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. Ideas in Motion is funded in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation.

361 2007 event 114 - Otherwise Uninvolved Individuals
This concert is the premiere performance of “Otherwise Uninvolved Individuals”, a collection of works by Boston-based experimental composer, Halsey Burgund. A rock drummer at his core, Burgund is influenced by both by modern classical composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage as well as experimental ‘popular’ musicians like David Byrne and Frank Zappa. He composes music using spoken human voices which he collects using a portable voice recording booth. He has collected over 600 voices with his “Bring Your Own Voice” booth, and the compositions performed at this event include many of them, triggered by an array of electronic controllers and samplers and projected throughout the theater in surround-sound. Burgund performs the electronic manipulations live as well as playing mallet percussion and piano. He is joined by his band, Aesthetic Evidence, which includes Peter Bailey on guitar, a string section and other traditional instruments. Sponsored by the LEF Foundation. Sun, May 6, 7pm Admission $5.

362 2007 event 115 - Denizen by Kinodance Company
World Premiere performance presented in association with Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit. Kinodance Company includes dancer/choreographer Ingrid Schatz and lighting designer Kathy Couch. Their latest creation, "Denizen", explores the act of hunting in the modern world and is inspired by the film Seasons (1979) by Artavazd Peleshian, an Armenian post-WWII Soviet avant-garde filmmaker. Captivated with Peleshian's filmic approach, and the images of Armenian people and rugged Armenian landscapes he portrayed, Kinodance molds movement, film images, light, sounds and materials into a dazzling, thought-provoking multi-media performance piece. Dance & performance by Ruth Bronwen, DeAnna Pellecchia, Alissa Cardone, Pape N'diaye and Ingrid Schatz. Wed, May 2, 7:30pm Thu, May 3, 8pm Admission $30, $20 students/seniors Boston Marquee is sponsored by Talbots

363 2007 event 116 - Brian Knep: Aging
The Judi Rotenberg Gallery presents Brian Knep: "Aging, Works in Progress from the Harvard Medical School Residency" The work on view is inspired by Knep's two-year residency at the Harvard Medical School. During this time, Knep has been inspired by scientists like Javier Apfeld, who focus their research on discovering evolutionary reasons for aging; the relationship between age and health; and the emotional and physical ramifications of this knowledge. Brian works primarily with digital media. The work he has developed at the Harvard Medical School is video documentation of the life-cycles of three different species: frogs Xenopus tropicalis, worms Caenorhabditis elegans and yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. These films form the basis of several video and interactive pieces about time and aging. This work asks us to connect our past with our future, on both a personal and universal scale. April 21- 29, Tues-Sat 10am-6pm Artist Talk and Reception with Brian Knep and Carmin Karasic Sat, April 21, 2pm The work featured in this exhibition has been generously funded by the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and the LEF Foundation's Contemporary Work Fund.

364 2007 event 117 - PixelNation 4
An exhibition of 3D computer animation, motion graphics and interactive media by Emerson College students

365 2007 event 118 - Memory of a Looking Glass: motion-triggered, video and sound installation
"Memory of a Looking Glass" by sound artist Andrea Pensado and visual artist Greg Kowalski combines sound, image and movement to create an interactive, immersive experience. Visitors explore a chamber of mysteries that reveals different discoveries to each individual. Inside the installation, they use their bodies to create a unique visual, sonic and kinesthetic experience. "Mirrors and dreams are similar things, it is like the image of man before himself." - Jose Saramago Andrea Pensado studied music at the University of La Plata in Argentina as well as at the Krakow Music Academy in Poland. In Poland she began using live electronics in her work and collaborating with film maker Greg Kowalski. In 1997 they created the Qfwfq Duo to merge their interests in mixed media and interactivity. Qfwfq Duo has performed in Buenos Aires at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art, at the International Experimental Festival and at many venues throughout New England. April 10- May 17, Tues - Sat 12-5pm; Sun 12-5pm Reception: Sat, April 21, 3-6 pm; Performance: 8 pm Workshops: Sat and Sun, April 14 & 15: 1 pm

366 2007 event 119 - A Mechanical Universe
"Mechanical Universe," is a collaborative, interactive installation, incorporating sound and kinetic elements, by the Italian artist Rudi Punzo and the American artist Mary Sherman. By appointment April 28 - May 12 Open to the Public May 5 & May 12, noon - 5pm

367 2007 event 120 - Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit
Ideas in Motion presents a broad spectrum of dance innovation. It is an opportunity to watch performances, screenings and presentations by local, national and international artists and engineers. It aims to provide an historical context and a broad contemporary overview of choreography and dance that pushes the frontiers of both physical and digital tools for artistic creation. Sat April 21, Conference, day one 2:30-5pm: Keynote, performances, presentations and demonstrationson "The Body's Limit" (multiple artists) 7:30pm: Evening performances and screening (multiple artists) Sun, April 22, Conference, day two 2:30-3:30pm: Matinee performance of Self Unfinished (1998) by Xavier Le Roy 4pm: Panel Discussion on Physical Intelligence featuring members of the MIT community For full description of artists, times and ticket info, visit http://bostoncyberarts.org/conf/iim2007/index.php Ideas In Motion is funded in part by a grant from LEF Foundation

368 2007 event 121 - Animated Gestures
Three recent interactive drawing installations by Camille Utterback, Untitled 5 (2004), Untitled 6 (2005), and Alluvial (2007), invite playful interaction using a mirroring device that allows visitors to recognize an abstract representation of their own movements within a projected picture plane. The algorithms required to successfully render the desired effects are anything but simple. Utterback's flawlessly designed interfaces do not allow the technology to overshadow the aesthetic quality and content of the work. By limiting the scope of each project to a finite range of exceedingly well-structured parameters, the artist ensures that her installations are easily accessible, revealing their complexities over time. Curated by Lisa Dorin, the Art Institute of Chicago. March 9 - May 13, Thurs - Sat, 12-6pm

369 2007 event 123 - Works from ASPECT Magazine
Collaboration with Aspect Magazine featuring artists from past issues of Aspect Magazine, the DVD magazine of new media. Artists include Jim Campbell, Jill Magid, Tony Cokes, and Christopher Miner. Hours: Wed, Thu 6-9pm, Sat, 2-5pm, or by appointment

370 2007 event 125 - Picture Show
"Picture Show" features artists who engage the idea of moving pictures in the 21st century via work that evokes early optical and cinematic devices. In purpose, practice, and philosophy, these contemporary conjurers remind us of practitioners of bygone eras and pursue the same goal: to incite wonder. Within a gallery space turned theater / cabinet of curiosity, you can interact with, peer into, and animate many of the artworks-constructions that exist somewhere between photography, new media, sculpture, and installation. Although often antique in appearance, each piece uses technology-high or low, revealed or concealed-to produce allusions and illusions to delight the eyes and the mind. Artists include Steve Hollinger, Olivia Robinson, Erica von Schilgen, Deb Todd Wheeler, and work on loan from le Musée Patamécanique by Hans Spinnermen. Tue, Wed, Fri: 10am-6pm Thu: 10am-8pm Sat-Sun: 12-5pm Admission: $3; call to inquire about discounts. call 617.975.0600, email prc@bu.edu, or visit www.prcboston.org

371 2007 event 126 - COLLISIONeleven
A new media exhibition at MIT Stata Center. "COLLISIONeleven" is an experimental art show where artists invent new technologies, new art forms, and even new forms of life. The future of art starts here. Featuring both MIT and regional artists, "COLLISIONeleven" is full of innovative and provocative artworks in a wide range of media. Collisions are a showcase of envelope-pushing artwork in an interactive workshop/laboratory format. The artwork often involves never before tried technologies, concepts and installation approaches. It is an opportunity for Collisioneers to experiment and show new ideas and techniques and to discuss their work with and gather feedback from the public. April 20-May 1, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm. Opening reception Sat, April 21, 6-9pm.

372 2007 event 127 - Big Bang! Abstract Painting for the 21st Century
This thematic group exhibition features works by artists whose imagery is informed by contemporary issues such as computer technology, cosmology, quantum physics, information theory, genetics, complexity theory, remote sensing, and other sets of current scientific visual languages. "Big Bang!" will include the work of fifteen painters active in the Northeast: Peter Barrett, Thaddeus Beal, Steven Bogart, Sean Foley, Reese Inman, Clint Jukkala, Julie Miller, Meg Brown Payson, Jon Petro, Cristi Rinklin, Terry Rose, Sarah Slavick, Laurel Sparks, Barbara Takenaga, and Sarah Walker. Mon-Thu 9:30am-7:30pm Fri-Sat 9:30am-5:30pm Sun 10:30am-5:30pm Admission $9; call to inquire about discounts

373 2007 event 128 - STEIM concert
A Concert of Improvised Electro-Acoustic Music featuring: Robert van Heumen Joel Ryan Butch Rovan Kevin Patton Fri, April 20, 8pm

374 2007 event 129 - Cameron Jamie retrospective
The exhibition presents works ranging from drawings to sculptural objects to films created over the past 20 years, including examples of investigation around the notion of portraiture, self-representation, and collective identity, many of which have never been shown together. Also featured is the artist's acclaimed film trilogy (BB, Spook House, and Kranky Klaus) along with selections from his photographic studies, ephemera, and archival material collected during the production of the films. Cameron Jamie, the first U.S. solo museum exhibition featuring the work of the artist, was originally organized by Philippe Vergne, deputy director and chief curator at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in close collaboration with the artist, Cameron Jamie. Opening Reception: Sat, May 5, 7-9pm Gallery Talk: Sat, May 5, 5pm with Philippe Vergne, Senior Curator of the Walker Art Center, curator for Cameron Jamie May 5-July 8 Tues-Thurs, Sat & Sun, 12-6pm Fri, 12-8pm Tues-Thurs, Sat & Sun, 12-6pm Fri, 12-8pm

375 2007 event 130 - CyberArtCentral
CyberArtCentral is Boston Cyberarts Festival headquarters where visitors can grab information, or search the online events calendar of the 2007 Festival and its exciting programs showcased at participating organizations from April 20 through May 6. This year, CyberArtsCentral is hosted by Art Interactive. Art Interactive will also feature and exhibit: "Animated Gestures", Three recent interactive drawing installations by Camille Utterback. Curated by Lisa Dorin, the Art Institute of Chicago. April 20-May 6, every day, 12-6pm

376 2007 event 132 - Xavier Le Roy: Product of Circumstances (1999)
French-born, Berlin-based dancer Xavier Leroy will perform his solo work "Product of Circumstances", 1999. Mon, April 23, 7pm Xavier Le Roy will also be performing "Self Unfinished" (1998), at Ideas in Motion, Sun, April 22, 2pm. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit, a 2007 Boston Cyberarts conference and performance series. http://bostoncyberarts.org/conf/iim2007/index.php Ideas In Motion is funded in part by a grant from LEF Foundation Xavier Le Roy's participation in the Boston Cyberarts Festival is funded in part by grants from the French Consulate, the MIT Council for the Arts, and the MIT Theater Department.

377 2007 event 135 - Drift Wall 2007
An interactive video installation by Boston-based artist, Brian Knep Description: In conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the University Gallery at UMass Lowell presents an interactive video installation by Boston-based artist, Brian Knep. Drift Wall 2007 is a site-specific video installation using customized software developed by the artist. A grid of square panels is projected onto the gallery wall. The organic shapes within each panel react to the motion and movement of the viewer. Although each panel begins identically, the images morph over time in reaction to viewers. Brian Knep combines art, architecture and science in work that has been shown nationally and internationally. His career has ranged from the film industry, to the exhibit design industry, and now to full-time art practice. In 2005 he became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School and in 2006 received a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation. Knep lives and works in the Boston area. Artist Talk, Wed, April 18, 3:15pm in O'Leary 222; Gallery Reception 4-6pm Tue-Fri 9am-4pm and Sat by appointment. Parking is available in the Riverview Lot off Broadway Street. Handicapped parking is available in the visitor lot located directly across the street from the McGauvran Student Union. The University Gallery is sponsored by the Fine Arts division of the College of Arts & Sciences and is coordinated by the Art Department.

378 2007 event 136 - Cyberarts Show
In conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Dugan Gallery at UMass Lowell presents a multimedia exhibition featuring BFA student work from the 3D animation and web design studios. Curated by Jim Jeffers, Assistant Professor of Web Design. April 9-May 3, Mon-Thurs, 9am-4pm Opening Reception Thurs, April 12, 2:30-3:30pm

379 2007 event 137 - AURA of the multiple. Sculpture by Vivian Pratt
Vivian Pratt displays traditional wood carvings against 3D rapid prototype reproductions, playing the traditional against the cyber-sculpture and creating an energy and tension not possible with a single sculpture. After years of creating computer based works, Pratt began to carve wood, responding to the imagery in found roots and driftwood. The results are fantasy creatures, part human, part animal with allusions to dragons and gods...and made with one of the oldest crafts, using no technology. But then she returned to technology. Using a 3D scanner made by Polhemus, Maya software and a 3D rapid prototype printer, the wood sculptures were scanned, modified and the reproductions were printed. She shows them both, facing each other, the images seeming to challenge and dance around each other, a metaphor for the struggle of the old against the new. Sponsored by Polhemus, makers of the FastSCAN 3D scanner. May 2-May 26, Wed-Sat 12-5pm, Opening reception Fri, May 4, 5:30-7:30pm.

380 2007 event 138 - Dorothy Simpson Krause: Book + Art
Combining traditional and digital media, this exhibition includes a broad selection of Krause' artist books and related mixed media work. Her art-making is an integrated mode of inquiry that links concept and media inan ongoing dialogue - a visible means of exploring meaning. The artist will be present at the opening reception. Opening reception: May 5, 2-4pm Wed-Sat 11am-4pm Admission $5; student/senior $4; members free

381 2007 event 139 - BEAMS Electronic Music Half-Marathon
BEAMS (Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio) presents a "half marathon" of 13 newly created works of electronic and electroacoustic sound and music. Works range from installations to live dj-ing, from classic electroacoustic compositions to live interactive performance oriented works. Come hear works by composers working in the Brandeis studio, special guest composers from the studio at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Made possible by a grant from the 2007 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts (Brandeis). Fri, April 27, 8pm

382 2007 event 140 - Moonwalk: Work-in-Progress
Clea T. Waite presents a work-in-progress, Moonwalk, an immersive, experimental film for projection on a planetarium cupola - a hemispherical film. Moonwalk is a lyrical history of humanity's relationship with the moon. The computer animated piece is composed of found footage, astronomical photographs, sound bites, poems, stories, and drawings using space as a montage element. In the film, the subjective moon coexists in space-time with the factual moon. Recent technological developments have made it possible, via working with synchronized high-definition video streams and 3D computer graphics technology, to project full-motion video undistorted onto a hemispherical screen. This new technology is used primarily in science museums. Moonwalk is conceived as an experimental, poetic film that addresses astronomical themes, but uses this exceptional format for its immersiveness, it’s expansive scope, and the visceral presence of the space to create an art film. Running time is approximately 15 minutes. Sat, May 5, 1-5pm Sun, May 6, 2-7pm The Radcliffe Gymansium, Radcliffe Yard, 18 Mason St. Cambridge. This exhibition is sponsored by The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Sky-Skan, Inc.

383 2007 event 141 - Xavier Le Roy: Self Unfinished (1998)
Ideas in Motion presents: "A chair, a desk, a soundtrack, that doesn't start. A dancer in a shirt uses strong sound effects to imitate a robot. Indeed an understandable, even conventional idea, that is until Xavier Le Roy' s (1963, France) play turns into a gripping mental space. Head over heels, the dancer' s body is transformed in real time into a series of hallucinogenic morphological aberrations, representing images of a body that reconfigures itself based to unwritten laws and a disquieting, inhuman rhythm. It undergoes long stases, makes infinite movements and begins to crawl abruptly. In addition to the torsion carried out in the "spectacle de danse" (dance performance), Xavier Le Roy taps into a new field where scientific and social data is transferred and imprinted in imaginary representations of the body." Francois Piron in the journal des arts of Connivence, 6th Biennale de Lyon Sun, April 22, 2pm for further info on this and related events, visit http://bostoncyberarts.org/conf/iim2007/index.php This event is part of Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit, a 2007 Boston Cyberarts conference and performance series. Ideas in Motion is funded in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation. Xavier Le Roy's participation in the Boston Cyberarts Festival is funded in part by grants from the French Consulate, the MIT Council for the Arts, and the MIT Theater Department.

384 2007 event 142 - Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments by Carmin Karasic, with Rolf van Gelder and Rob Coshow.
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. and the Judi Rotenberg Gallery present: "Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments" addresses historic bias in Boston's public monuments. Making use of GPS and mobile technologies, selected monuments are augmented by electronic or hyper-monuments that introduce alternate perspectives. When the user encounters an augmented monument and selects it on her cell phone screen, the cell phone plays a location-specific movie clip. For example, imagine you are near the Old South Church. You see on your cell phone that this is an augmented monument and click on its name. The cell phone shows you an easily identifiable photograph of the "Old South Church circa 2006". You press "play" and see the building morph through images that take you back in time. HHHM includes a website and audio downloads. Users can send text, image and audio content to the website from the monument location via their cell phones. "Handheld Histories as Hyper-Monuments" is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence.org web site. It was made possible with funding from the LEF Foundation. April 21-29, Tues-Sat 10am-6pm Artist talk and reception, Sat, April 21, 2pm

385 2007 event 143 - Night Visions
"Night Visions" delivers four evenings of diverse and dynamic video programs and media art to local audiences. The work represents an intersection of local and international artists producing politically charged, interactive formats, as well as a diverse collection of new images that run as night projections. The program, co-produced by Sam Smiley and Karen Frostig of Lesley University, includes new readings on the fusion of art and technology, representing the following organizations and artist collectives: Creative Arts and Learning at Lesley University Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University Women's Caucus for Art (WCA) and FemLink International Videos Cambridge Education Access Cable TV (CEA) and Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School Lumen Eclipse Reel Vision AstroDime Transit Authority Perky Pat Layouts Wed May 2 8pm Video Screening Art Institute of Boston at Lesley: video and animations For more info email mollerjenn@yahoo.com Thurs May 3 6-8pm Reception 8pm Video Screening Womens' Caucus for the Arts: FemLink screenings and discussions For more info email kfrostig@comcast.net Fri, May 4 6-8pm Reception Past/Present/Future Incarnations of Prospect Hall: A Series of Digital Stories: Co-produced by Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School (CRLS) - Media Production Program teens and Lesley University graduate students 8pm Screening Reel Vision: Shantel Hansen, Director of Community Relations, will present "Reel Vision" videos. "Reel Vision" is an out-of-school-time filmmaking project in which urban youth earn college credit and are empowered with technical and media literacy skills necessary to advocate for social change. Sat, May 5 12-8pm Media Installation 8pm Lumen Eclipse: The program will feature works that celebrate creative motion through animation, video, film, & motion graphics - all exemplifying the natural cohesion of art and technology in the motion arts sphere. For more information on Lumen Eclipse and the artists involved. For more info email gain@lumeneclipse.com 9pm Screening Independent Videos: Future and Imagined Transportation: The AstroDime Transit Authority presents "Will Pandabears Ride Free on the Handlebars of Bicycles in 2092?" A collection of video and animations related to future transportation systems, gender and transportation, feminism and transportation, and social aspects and construction of transportation systems, real and imagined. Contributions from artists, scientists, scholars, and technologists. This has been organized by artist Bebe Beard, curator Mary Ann Kearns, and think tank operator for ATA, wannabee astronaut Sam Smiley. For more info email ssmiley@lesley.edu Or visit www.virtualberet.net/ata/ 10:30pm-midnight Night Visions Festival concludes with: Perky Pat Layouts- a Space Opera. Perky Pat Layouts is a multimedia performance art piece, which combines elements of free improvisation, distributed composition, dance, performance art and live video manipulation. The story is about the origins of a game played by settlers on Philip K Dick's Mars used to fight off the desperate boredom of living on an uninviting planet. Exploring themes of human isolation, cybernetic intelligence and the fluidity of reality, Perky Pat Layouts traces the voyage of the first Martian settlers to their new home and the life they find there. Night Visions at Lesley University is sponsored in part by Lumen Eclipse

386 2007 event 144 - Technological Frontiers and the Limits of Nature: Networked Interventions
A panel discussion with Jane D. Marsching, Cary Peppermint and Brooke Singer, moderated by Shane Brennan. Technology both extends humanity into the natural environment and brings the "wilderness" indoors. "Arctic Listening Post" by Jane D. Marching seeks to create hybrid digitally based forms that interweave science, culture, representation, history, and wonder through works that look at our human impact on climate change in the Arctic. "A Series of Practical Performances in the Wilderness - Summer 2005", by Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir, attempts to bring wilderness into the global digital network through vlogs (video blogs) via Quicktime, DVD interactivity, and the database format with which it was conceptualized. Brooke Singer will discuss working with and documenting communities living in toxic sites across the US who are tackling remediation themselves because either the government has not responded or simply says, "all is well." May 3, 7pm Funded by the LEF Foundation.

387 2007 event 145 - Pulse Pool
Physically connecting participants in Boston and Oklahoma City, this interactive installation provides visitors of all ages with a unique way to explore a basic wonder of biology - their own pulse and the pulse of others. Join us for an unusual experience of the human Autonomic Nervous System. April 23-30, installation open during museum hours Sat-Thurs, 9am-5pm and Fri, 9am-9pm Free with exhibit hall admission "Pulse Pool" is a 2006 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from mediaThe Foundation. Additional funding was provided the Museum of Science, Boston, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rhizome.org, the University of Oklahoma Symbiotic Media Center and the OU School of Art.

388 2007 event 146 - Sound Show
An afternoon of multi-channel electronic sound in musical performance, acousmatic diffusion, and sound installation. Participants include NEC faculty, students and special guests: Eliot Gattegno, saxophone, Dana Jessen, bassoon, John Mallia, composer/electronics, Katarina Miljkovic, composer, Michael Straus, saxophone, Dan VanHassel, composer/electronics. Installations by Eli Kessler and Mary Sutton (see below). About the installations: Mary Sutton Stethoscope Stories Mary Sutton's "Stethoscope Stories" is an interactive mixed media installation in which the viewer must use a stethoscope to mine the surface of sculptured forms for sounds of human heartbeats overlaid with the stories their owners have to tell. These stories were derived from an origami children's game, often known as a fortuneteller, in which over 80 volunteers answered questions as their heartbeats and responses were recorded. Stethoscope Stories explores how intimacy is achieved in society, from the complexities of social ritual, to the simplicity of listening to a loved one's heartbeat. Eli Kessler Bowl: Interactive multi-channel sound installation All sounds in the installation are generated from a single Tibetan prayer bowl, which sits in the space surrounded by multidirectional loudspeaker arrays. Different elements of the bowl's natural resonance swell to the surface of the layered sonic tapestry as spectra transform and slide through the space. Visitors are invited to strike the bowl, causing the instrument's acoustic properties to interact with itself as the sounds that are already being diffused through the loudspeakers mingle with the attacked sound, allowing one to "look" deeper into its resonance. Sun, April 22 Concert 3pm Installations run from 1-7pm

389 2007 event 147 - Computer Clubhouse Animation Workshop
Clubhouse members and staff will lead an informal workshop where participants can create animations using stop motion equipment and Scratch a programming and animation software developed by MIT Media Lab. At the Clubhouse, kids focus on making things - using computers to create their own animations, robots, websites, music, video and more. The Computer Clubhouse™ was founded in 1993 by the Computer Museum in collaboration with the MIT Media Laboratory, and is located at the Museum of Science. Fri, May 4, 5-7pm

390 2007 event 149 - CyberWindow
Starting at 9pm, 6 days a week, throughout the Boston Cyberarts Festival watch the window of the SMFA Library facing the Fenway. For each of the 14 nights we will project works by students, faculty and staff. The selection is a representation of how digital technology is becoming fully integrated into the school's curriculum. Sean Johnson makes short videos of private performances using his body where he explores his sexual identity. Helen Cronin's piece is also about identity. She uses images of her own shadow juxtaposed with text to represent her struggle with her racially mixed heritage. In Encampment, Eugene Finney's animation mixes images of fireworks reminiscent of a Fourth of July celebration, and shooting stars which eventually transform into a war zone explosion. Karen Schiff's documentation of light patterns on the waters of Boston is visually poetic. Rebecca Bird Grigsby's images traveled through many media before it reached our CyberWindows: first as digital photographs, then as screen prints, and eventually into a sequence, the shifting across media becomes a metaphor for the distance between memory and real experience. Watch the window on May 2nd for your lucky clover, in Georgie Friedman's warm and humorous videos that will remind you of the day dreams of your childhood. Perhaps the purest digital work in this collection comes from Larry Johnson who is literally fishing through the internet for images and text as an homage to John Cage. Students, staff and faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts have seamlesly embraced digital technology to further their creative vocabulary. The works in this CyberArts exhibition include wide ranging formats from traditional animation, simple line drawings, painting and screen prints, to video, 3D animations and powerpoint movies. list of artists: fri, April 20 Sean Johnson sat, April 21 Emily Elisa McMillan mon, April 23 Jennifer Schmidt tue, April 24 Rebecca Bird Grigsby wed, April 25 Eugene Finney thu, April 26 Bob White fri, April 27 Helen Cronin sat, April 28 Katie Osadiacz mon, April 30 Larry Johnson tue, May 1 Matt Girard wed, May 2 Georgie Friedman thu, May 3 Joel Frenzer fri, May 4 Amber Davis-Tourlentes sat, May 5 Karen Schiff April 20 - May 5, Mon-Sat, 9pm until dawn

391 2007 event 151 - Double Psycho + (1)
Studio Soto presents a show by Andrew Neumann. "DoublePsycho" is a video projection using real-time switching technology to synthesize the original film, "Psycho," and it's remake by Gus Van Sant. By interlacing every few frames from both films, a "new remake" is realized. This work may be considered "a remake of a remake". It is not as much about narrative as it is about the iconic nature of "Marion Crane". Her face essentially defines this work; the fact that forty years later, Anne Heche replaces her almost identically within the frame gives this new version cause to reflect, as she now appears almost as her doppelganger. The second piece,"Untitled", is a wall installation that deals with the moving image as well as the moving frame. Tracking video screens in conjunction with panning images will allow the viewer to confront a new kind of viewing space. April 22-May 6, Thurs-Fri 5-9pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm, Opening reception Sun, April 22, 5-7pm. Call in advance for wheelchair access.

392 2007 event 152 - webAffairs
Studio Soto presents a reading and presentation by artist, screen name Show-n-tell, from her book webAffairs. The book is a documentary of an adult video web community. The artist tells her story of being a voyeur and eventually becoming part of this community through a series of images and actual chat text. Initially shy, she asks men to show her their rooms. She finds naked men by their computers in their office spaces, living rooms and bedrooms. She collects images of their naked bodies juxtaposed with their surrounding computer equipment. This artist's book is a documentation of Show-n-tell's navigation through erotic virtual space. The book will be available for purchasing during the event. This event includes adult content. Wed, April 25, 7pm suggested donation of $5 Call in advance for wheelchair access

393 2007 event 153 - CyberPool
In conjunction with the exhibition "DoublePsycho +(1)", Andrew Neumann is producing a concert, "CyberPool", which will bring together musicians from Boston and New York who integrate electronics with traditional instruments. The 'Pool" concept allows musicians to confront each other in a number of short duet, trio and quartet improvisations, culminating in a grand finale with the whole group. Musicians involved in "CyberPool" are, Curtis Bahn, Michael Bierylo, Jorrit Dykstra, Roger Miller, Stephan Moore, Andrew Neumann, Vic Rawlings See Studio Soto, Exhibition "DoublePsycho + (1)" for related event. Sun, April 29, 7pm Suggested donation of $5 Call in advance for wheelchair access.

394 2007 event 154 - _Reactive
A non-recursive sound/light/video installation by Pierce Warnecke and Max Abeles Interactive audio/video. Warped plexiglass. Refracting light. Photocell sensors. Surround sound. Tues-Fri, May 1 - May 4, 12-5pm Opening Reception: Tues, May 1, 6-8pm

395 2007 event 155 - TechArt III
A national show of art that utilizes digital technology as a major creative component in the production of the work. New York based artist Carl Fudge juried the national show and selected Gene Greger of Troy, NY as with first prizewinner. Among the participants in TechArt III from the Boston area are: Steve Gildea of Natick, Erica Adams of Mashpee, John Axon of Arlington, MA, Martha Jane Bradford of Brookline, Andrea Kemler of Newton, Charles Lanphear of North Easton, Joshua Pablo Rosenstock of Roslindale, Leigh Brodie and Andy Winther of Jamaica Plain. April 13-May 20 Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm and Sun, 12-4pm Opening Reception: April 13, 6-8 pm

396 2007 event 156 - Cyberarts at Beat research with superDraw and Morgan Packard
superDraw www.IntervalStudios.com takes live video manipulation to new territory by returning to basics...drawing. The visceral act of sliding a pen across a computer drawing pad suddenly opens up a world of animated possibilities. Audiences see the direct correlation between drawing and generating amazing visuals, in real-time to the live electronic music being generated by Morgan Packard. Morgan Packard www.MorganPackard.com has numerous albums under his belt. From bouncy dance floor music to abstract compositions commissioned by dance troupes, Morgan Packard is a very well respected electronic sound master craftsman. He often starts with natural sounds, and then manipulates them beyond recognition to create songs that are as natural and organic as they are electronic. Having performed together for many years, he and superDraw compliment to each other perfectly with sound and visuals. Residents DJ Flack and DJ C will also be spinning experimental party music from their laptops. Come check out some new forms of expression.Mon, April 30, 9pm-1am Admission 21 plus, Free

397 2007 event 157 - Freex To Geex II
The Music Synthesis Department of Berklee College of Music presents: Olivia Block with Students from Berklee College of Music Interactive music and video by Berklee College of Music students, faculty, and special guests including: a world premiere of a new electronic ensemble by Olivia Block; works for laptop and interactive video by Pierce Warnecke, Anthony Baldino, Jesse Hewitt; a new work for winds, electronics and video by Neil Leonard/Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons. Sun, April 29, 7:30pm

398 2007 event 158 - Analog Night at Beat Research with Pamelia Kurstin - The Greatest Living Theramin Player
Pamelia Kurstin's Theremin sounds range from a grumbling electro bass to a layered symphony. Sometimes she even drops Theremin riffs over hip-hop and jungle beats. Beat Research residents, DJ Flack and DJ C, leave their laptops home in favor of spinning good old fashion analog slabs of vinyl while abstract video art is projected from VHS tapes. Mon, April 23, 9pm-1am Admission 21 plus, Free

399 2007 event 159 - I.C.A.R.U.S.- Escape In Space- Take A Trip In A Homemade Ship. Wandering Minds Invited to Space Out!
Mass College of Art's SIM graduate students will construct a rocket ship designed to simulate the experience of space travel. "I.C.A.R.U.S." is a three-month-long project that questions our reliance on the Internet as a primary source of entertainment and information. A crew of artists, comprised of Mass College of Art graduate students, will explore our changing definition of play and escapism by constructing a rocket ship that offers a simulation of space travel. The crew will construct this imaginative vessel by using schematics, diagrams, and data gathered from Internet sources. They will build the structure out of discarded and accessible materials as they document the planning and construction of the rocket ship online at www.icarusconstruction.com. Beginning April 14th, the public can follow the construction of the rocket via live web cams installed in the gallery for the duration of the exhibit. Follow the ship's construction online at www.icarusconstruction.com, April 14-20 View the ship Fri, April 20 to Fri, April 27, 5-10pm Opening Reception Sat, April 21, with live performances.

400 2007 event 160 - A 10-day CyberArts Festival
The New England Institute of Art presents "A 10-day Cyberarts Festival" featuring interactive art in the Gallery on the Plaza as well as four days of Professional Flash workshops Interactive performances by NEIA students. Opening Night is Wed evening, April 25 in conjunction with the monthly meeting of Boston Flash Platform User Group. Keynote: Craig Swan, Interactive Imagineer. Reception to follow in the Gallery on the Plaza. Free! Thurs and Fri, April 26th and 27th Live Interactive Media Performances by NEIA students and faculty. Free! May 1st - May 4th - The New England Institute of Art will host Interactive Workshops taught by International Flash Experts. Highlights of the workshops include: Flash 9 features (including instruction if software is released), Experimental ActionScript 3.0, Interactive Flash Video, Building Red5 Applications, The New Rich Internet Applications, Flash Game Development. This event has an admissions cost. See below. Workshop presenters are international experts. They include Chris Allen, Red5 Developer and President and CEO of Infrared5; Seb Lee-Delisle, Technical Director for Plug-In Media; Joey Lott, Senior Software Architect for Schematic; Dominic Minns, Creative Director for Plug-In Media; Keith Peters, Senior Software Engineer at Brightcove; Sam Roach, Software Developer for Schematic. In the Gallery on the Plaza during the ten days: Water sculptures from the Mitsubishi Electronic Research Laboratory, Animatronics display, Digital Fine Art. Free! See www.artinstitutes.edu for speaker bios, complete schedules, venue and workshops cost information and more.

401 2007 event 161 - Lumen Eclipse Welcomes You to Cyberarts, 48hr continuous loop of Shake Off and Time Steps
Presented by Lumen Eclipse Lumen Eclipse, a public motion art gallery in Harvard Square, presents a month long, multifaceted program, bringing the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival into the heart of Harvard Square. Join us on April 20th from 7-9pm for Lumen Eclipse's informal kickoff gathering, complete with good eats and a selection of motion art. On April 21 and 22, Lumen Eclipse, in collaboration with Ideas in Motion, presents a 48hr continuous loop presentation of Shake Off and Time Steps. Hans Beenhakker of the Netherlands, former lead dancer with Wuppertal Tanztheater, created both works. On April 28 and 29, view a 48hr continuous loop preview of the Visual Music Marathon, courtesy of Dennis Miller and Northeastern University. Lumen Eclipse is also participating in Lesley University's Night Visions. For more information on this program, running May 3-6, please visit: www.lumeneclipse.com/nightvisions. April 1-30, Daily, dusk-2am, Opening Reception Fri, April 20, 7-9pm. This event is part of Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit, a 2007 Boston Cyberarts conference and performance series. Ideas in Motion is funded in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation.

402 2007 event 162 - Lumen Eclipse Welcomes You to Cyberarts, 48hr continuous loop preview of the Visual Music Marathon, courtesy of Dennis Miller and Northeastern University
Visual Music Marathon 48hr continuous loop Lumen Eclipse, a public motion art gallery in Harvard Square, presents a month long, multifaceted program, bringing the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival into the heart of Harvard Square. April 26-26 April 1-30, Daily, dusk-2am, Opening Reception Fri, April 20, 7-9pm.

403 2007 event 163 - Lumen Eclipse Welcomes You to Cyberarts
Lumen Eclipse, a public motion art gallery in Harvard Square, presents a month long, multifaceted program, bringing the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival into the heart of Harvard Square. April 1-30, Daily, dusk-2am, Opening Reception Fri, April 20, 7-9pm.

404 2007 event 164 - Orpheus & Eurydice
Photographic prints from video projections by Denise Marika Orpheus' world, our world, is torn by chaos, war and violence while the underworld Eurydice inhabits is structured, peaceful and allows her artistic freedom of expression. She chooses to stay, he seeks to bring her back, their struggle caught in this moment. April 6 - May 1, Tues-Sat 10am-5:30pm. Opening reception Sat, April 14, 3-5pm.

405 2007 event 166 - Practice, Process, Presentation
Digital video installation and single channel screening of student works, organized by Bebe Beard. Fri, April 27 5-7pm

406 2007 event 167 - Bigprotochoice
"Bigprotochoice" is an organic, volumetric, interactive light/sound sculpture. It produces an ever-changing interactive light/sound show embodying a decision-making organism responsive to acoustic input. "Protochoice" embodies the myriad of choices we make during a lifetime through light and sound, creating an elegant, thought provoking, and mesmerizing phenomenon. Visitors are encouraged to pull up a seat or a yoga mat to enjoy the sound and light show. April 20 - May 6 Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Opening Reception and Artist's Talk with Q&A: April 21, 2pm

407 2007 event 168 - Encounters and Sights of Time
In "Encounters", curator Femke Lutgerink (The Netherlands) brings together six artists from Iran, Belgium and the Netherlands - Nele Decock, Rob Hornstra, Stani Michiels, Anoek Steketee, Reza Abedini and Hans Wolbers - who explore the tension between the official (state-mandated) and alternative visual cultures in countries with former (or current) totalitarian or ideological regimes. Using photography, the internet, sound and graphic design, these artists share their fascination with the societies of Iran, Uzbekistan, and Russia, from either far away or around the corner, seen from within or as a stranger. In the Mills Project Space, Adriana Rios presents video work in her solo exhibition, "Sights of Time". Ms. Rios is a media artist interested in the dialogue between art, architecture and urban spaces. Originally from Colombia, and currently based in Boston, her videos are a reflection of her architectural background and cultural influences, past and present. For related events and talks please go to www.bcaonline.org April 6 - May 20, Wed, Thurs, Sun 12-5pm, Fri & Sat 12-10pm. Opening reception and dialogues with curator & artists, Fri, April 6, 6-9pm. Sat, May 19, 12-2pm, 'Meet me at the Table' brunch with a presentation of "In the first Place", a film program curated by Sara Reisman (NY) and Elena Sorokina (Paris) featuring works that comment on the re-emergence of natural hazards as well as on the risk management, and mismanagement, of recent political events, followed by a discussion with several guests and the audience. This event is co-presented by The Berwick Research Institute and Mary Sherman (Transcultural Exchange).

408 2007 event 169 - Inside and Outside the Magic Box
An exhibition of work by the Media Arts and Science students at Wellesley College. April 12-28 Mon-Fri 9am-8pm Sat-Sun 12-5pm

409 2007 event 171 - Transitions
Wearing 3D glasses and navigating with a hand-held device, visitors can explore two 3D animated virtual environments which reflect upon the dynamics of climate change. "Surge" by Deborah and Richard Cornell: Using collected ocean forms, cultural images, and science and literary texts, "Surge" is an exploration of the reciprocal influence of environmental change on human culture. "Interactions" by Boston University 3D Design and Animation students: Investigates the aspects of life, sustenance and cycles in climate change. The venue is Boston University's Deep Vision Display Wall which is a 15'x8', high-resolution, 12-tile, rear-projected, passive stereo display system. It includes 8-way directional sound. Sat and Sun, April 28 and 29, 12-4pm Mon and Tues, April 30 and May 1, 4-6pm

410 2007 event 172 - 2007 Cyberarts Gala
Join Boston Cyberarts Festival's artists and friends at the Hotel @ MIT for the official 2007 Cyberarts Gala! You'll meet some of the Festival's featured artists who are in the forefront of the art + technology world -- and enjoy great food and drinks too. This year for the first time we'll be announcing the winners of the IBM Innovation Award for Art and Performance, selected by a jury from all the events and exhibitions in this year's Festival. The winner will receive $5,000, and there will be two runner-up prizes of $500 each. Come help us celebrate the best of the best! What: 2007 Boston Cyberarts Gala and Awards Presentation When: Fri, May 4, 2007, 6:30pm Where: Hotel @ MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge Tickets: $75 per person RSVP: rsvp@bostoncyberarts.org Boston Cyberarts extends its grateful thanks to our friends at IBM and the Hotel @ MIT.

411 2007 event 173 - Innovative Electro-Instrumental Performance from STEIM and Beyond
Non-Event and Inventmusic present: Laetitia Sonami Joel Ryan with Inventmusic About the artists: Laetitia Sonami was born in France and settled in the United States in 1975 to pursue her interest in the emerging field of electronic music. Her work combines text, music and "found sound" from the world, in compositions which have been descibed as "performance novels". She is creating and utilizing some of the most sophisticated technologies in order to create an intimate, spontaneous art form which transcends technology. She currently lives in Oakland. Joel Ryan studied Physics and Music in California during the 60s and 70s. With the birth of personal computing, he began carve out a place for live digital signal processing in Electronic Music. At the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music he met David Behrman, the first composer with a micro in his luggage, and at Stanford University Andy Moorer, a mathematician with a knack for signal processing who was creating the basic tools of digital audio. These and many others in the emerging culture of Silicon Valley helped propel him into a new kind of electronic music, one that was live. "As much as technology is the raw material, the stage is still more essential." Since the mid-80s, he has been affiliated with STEIM in the Netherlands, writing music, software, and designing instruments as well as teaching at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. Based at MIT, Inventmusic is a collaborative group of musician-technologists who share a love of creating new musical instruments and experiences. Founded by Ben Vigoda and Dave Merrill at the MIT Media Lab in 2003, this collection of Boston-area musicians and inventors regularly meet to build, discuss, rehearse, and perform with their newly-created devices. InventMusic has worked with and learned from John Zorn and Tan Dun, and has performed at Boston ArtRages and SIGGRAPH 2006. Sat, April 21, Doors at 8:30, Show starts promptly at 9pm Admission: $10 Non-Event concerts are supported in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation.

412 2007 event 174 - Redefining the Prosthetically Enhanced Body
Speaker: Marquard Smith Moderator: Bill Arning Prosthetics is defined as replacements for missing or non-functioning body parts. The goals of prosthetics were once merely to provide base-level capabilities and invisibility, allowing the user to pass as able-bodied. However recent advances in technology have made the wearer of prosthetics nearly super-human and prosthetics are no longer something to hide. This panel discussion will explore the 'evolution' of this fascinating human-machine interface. Tue, April 24, 7pm Whitaker College of Health and Sciences, Room 111 View a map here: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=56&Buildings=go

413 2007 event 175 - LET'S TAKE A SEAT!
Ideas in Motion and SHARE present an interactive performance conference by Andrea Haenggi/AMDaT LET'S TAKE A SEAT! is all about the audience controlling the dancers' actions, and those actions, in turn, controlling the audience. In this exploratory new project, choreographer/visual artist Andrea Haenggi collaborates with her Dance Company AMDaT and media artist Peter Kirn. Sun, April 22, 11am Limited seating rsvp to takeaseat@bostoncyberarts.org Visit Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit for more information on this and related events. http://bostoncyberarts.org/conf/iim2007

414 2007 event 176 - Public Online Canvas
Join the collaboration! You can shape, add to, and alter a work of technological visual art via a special online canvas dedicated to the Cambridge Science Festival and hosted by Tract Magazine. Participate once or many times at www.hcs.harvard.edu/tract. April 21-26, 28-29

415 2007 event 177 - Architect of the Air
Christopher Janney's work represents a fusion of his two passions--music and architecture--and he has developed a unique form of environmental and participatory architecture, an immersive art form that relies on sound to transform space. Since 1989 he has been working on a concept of permanent interactive architectural sound and light installations which he calls "urban musical instruments". Come see and hear him discuss his work, his philosophy, and his latest undertakings. Mon, April 23, 7pm-9pm

416 2007 event 178 - State-of-the-Art Computer Animation
Selections from the recent SIGGRAPH 2006 Animation Festival chosen to demonstrate how computer graphics is used in various fields of science and technology. Examples of animation in meteorology, physics, chemistry and analysis of algorithms will be shown, as well as a few "fun" animations that demonstrate the state of the art in computer graphics. Sponsored by the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics (ACM SIGGRAPH) boston.siggraph.org Wed, April 25, 7-9pm

417 2007 event 179 - ZAP!
"ZAP!" is Christine Southworth's groundbreaking work for live musicians, singers, musical robots, and the Boston Museum of Science's 50-foot high Van der Graaf Generator. The 2005 premiere performance was hailed as "Truly Electrifying!" by the Boston Phoenix, and "as gently balladic (as it is) hard-driving and otherworldly" by the Boston Herald. Two years later, the show is returning with more robots, more singers, and more voltage! The performance will feature Ensemble Robot, Ramon Castillo, Andy Cavatorta, Chyle Crossley, Nathan Davis, Giles Hall, Ha Yang Kim, Blake Newman, Erik Nugent, Sachi Sato, Christine Southworth, Bill Tremblay, Eddie Whalen, and will be conducted by Evan Ziporyn. Fri, April 27, 7pm and 8:30pm Admission $10

418 2007 event 180 - Works from the Cave III
The David Winton Bell Gallery, and the Program in Literary Arts, Brown University, present the exhibition "Works from the Cave III" in Brown University's virtual reality "Cave," located in the Center for Computation and Visualization. Powered by a high-performance parallel computer cluster, the Cave is an eight-foot cube with high-resolution stereo graphics projected onto three walls and the floor to create immersive virtual reality. Brown's Cave has a unique connection with the literary arts. The "Cave Writing" workshops--initiated in the Brown Cave by novelist and hypertext expert Robert Coover in 2002--represent the first ongoing investigation of the literary potential of immersive virtual reality. The workshops take an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together participants with backgrounds in writing, music, visual art, performance, and computer science. Due to the time-based and interactive nature of the exhibition, advanced reservation are required for the viewings. Sat-Sun, April 28-29 and May 5-6, 11am-5pm

419 2007 event 181 - Bio-Art Self-Portraits
What happens when art students examine their own skin cells in biology class? Up close and personal art, that's what! See how a photography class at Walnut Hill School for the Arts transforms images of their own cells into collages that merge biology and identity. Mon-Fri, April 23-27, 8am-6pm

420 2007 event 182 - Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: International Residencies - Working with Science and/or Technology, Session A
Moderator: Anja Chávez, Curator of Contemporary Art/Curator of Exhibitions, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College CAMAC, Marnay-sur-Seine, France: A creative, multi-disciplinary center offering international residency programs for artists, scientists and technologists working with new media. Presenter: Jean-Yves Coffre, Director of CAMAC Bridge Guard, art/science residence center, Štúrovo, Slovakia: Supports artists, scientists and those from other professions who want to work on projects during a 3 to 6 month sojourn in the 'Bridge Guard' residence. Presenter: Karol Frühauf, Director of Bridge Guard John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyan, WI: Arts/Industry makes industrial technologies and facilities available to artists through long-term residencies, short-term workshops, tours, and other programming so that they may further their artistic explorations. Presenter: Beth Lipman, Arts/Industry Coordinator Sat, April 28, 4-6pm

421 2007 event 183 - Conference on International Opportunities in the Arts: International Residencies – Working with Science and/or Technology, Session B
Moderator: Anthony De Ritis, Northeastern University, Director of Digital Media and Multimedia Studies Program The Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montreal, Canada The Foundation's purpose is to further artistic and scientific knowledge by fostering the meeting of art and science in the field of technologies. Presenter: Catalina Briceno, Program Officer Le Laboratoire, France, new program to open fall of 2007 Presenter: Xaviere Masson, Manager of International Laboratoire Programs Location 1, New York Presenter: Natalie Angles, Director, International Residency Program Sun, April 29, 9-11am

422 2007 event 184 - Book launch for "The New American Dictionary (Interactive Security/Fear Edition)"
A book signing and discussion with the Institute of Infinitely Small Things The dictionary contains the most up-to-date and comprehensive set of fear and security terms for the 21st century, including newly coined terms (such as "islamofascist", "axis of evil" and "smart bomb") and recently revised terms (such as "torture", "enemy combatant" and "democracy"). The Institute will be present to sign books and discuss the project. Purchase the book at the party for 25% off the retail price. Thurs, April 26, 6:30pm-8:30pm

423 2007 event 186 - CyberArtCentral for Youths
Presenting artist talks with interactive artworks and performance each weekend of the Festival. Visual Art: Jonthan Bachrach: Bigprotochoice. An organic, volumetric, interactive light/sound sculpture Sat, April 21, 2-5pm Dance: Nell Breyer will give a demonstration / presentation of interactive technologies used in visualizing motion. Kinodance Company will show excerpts from Denizen, their latest intermedia performance collaboration premiering with Bank America Celebrity Series & Boston Cyberarts at BU's Tsai Center on May 2 & 3rd. In addition to a performance, Kinodance will talk in detail about Denizen, the background and context of the project (involving a 3 week residency and film shoot on locations in Armenia) and more broadly the process of creating multi-sensory intermedia performance works that span boundaries between dance, film, visual art, light and sound. Sat, April 28, 2-5pm Music: Neil Leonard: Electronic music Sat, May 5, 2-5pm

424 2007 event 187 - Powering Up: Boston’s Digital Game Industry
Conference on the Digital Game Industry and the Boston Creative Economy stay tuned for details and speakers Sat, Apr 21

425 2007 event 188 - Kaleidoskins
Kaleidoskins, automated v.1 by Barbara Rita Jenny "Kaleidoskins" is a public projection in the large store-front window of RiverRun Bookstore, an independent bookstore in Market Square, downtown Portsmouth, NH. This work, the automated version of an interactive web project at http://barbararitajenny.com/, is a collaboration between the artist and Lightfin Studios of Portsmouth. This flash-based project allows users to create moving, kaleidoscopic images from macroscopic photographs of human skin. The key to retaining the humanity in Posthumanism is in retaining our SKIN. It is via our largest organ that we literally and figuratively touch one another. Touch is crucial for recognition, understanding, connection and intimacy. Indeed, this ontological understanding, this knowing through our bodies-through our skin-is what makes us human. Remaining in our skin-whether filled with blood and muscle or silicon and titanium-is crucial. This project provides an opportunity for users to share in this Posthuman vision, to discover and revel in the beautiful possibilities of human skin through a virtual Kaleidoscopeskin. Sponsored by New Hampshire Charitable Foundation-Piscataqua Region Artist Advancement Grant, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Artist Opportunity Grant, and the National Endowment for the Arts. April 28-29, Fri-Sat, from dark until midnight. Free!

426 2007 event 189 - "Picture Show" at the Paradise with Zampano’s Playhouse
Photographic Resource Center presents: FILM: Picture Show at the Paradise with Zampano's Playhouse: An evening of vintage films and cinematic thrills to celebrate the closing of Picture Show. As a closing act for the PRC's "Picture Show" exhibition, this screening of vintage 16mm films offers an eclectic study of innovation in motion. Each film in this evening's roughly chronological romp through the 20th Century presents an innovation captured or imagined on film, or an innovation in film technology itself. The genius of the Fleischer Brothers is prominently displayed in several gems including Betty Boop in SNOW WHITE (1933). In anticipation of the Internet, the illicit short UNCLE SI AND THE SIRENS (1938) portrays a yokel's television as an imagined gateway to nude women romping in faraway lands. Later segments present the wonderful color technology that is KODACHROME as seen in one of Jam Handy's Chevrolet promotions, THE RAINBOW IS YOURS (1952). Enjoy several MARVEL COMICS cartoons from 1966, in which the company brought Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, and others to television. Tues, May 1, 7pm This is an 18 and over event. See "Picture Show" at the PRC for related events. For more info call 617.975.0600, or visit prcboston.org or thedise.com

427 2007 event 190 - Neil Leonard live at Cloud Place
Neil Leonard uses the computer to redefine jazz performance. In his latest solo work, Echoes and Footsteps, the computer modifies recordings of Roman cowbells and songs of Italian butchers to create an electronic soundscape invoking a blanket of smoke, the beating of propellers and a flock of deep drones. Rito features a melodic counterpoint between saxophone and computer where both live and virtual players ‘listen’ to each other and improvise responses in real-time. Leonard’s performance at Cloud Place will be followed by a question and answer session. Sat, May 5, 2pm Accessibility: Call ahead for assistance 617.262.2949

428 2007 event 191 - Emergent Consciousness
Participating Artists: Leonid Andreev, Scott Draves, Piotr Parda, Sean Stevens, Crispell Wagner, Ryan Wartena Sat, April 21 3pm-8pm :: Ashanti and Chris Korda facilitates sessions with "EKTA" 8pm-9:30pm :: Scott Draves a.k.a. Spot presents "Dreams in High Fidelity" 9:30pm-11pm :: Sean Stevens presents "Synaesthesia"

429 2007 event 192 - Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit
Ideas in Motion is building a bridge that joins Boston's technological and scientific resources with significant artistic research in dance and movement innovation occurring across the globe. It is an opportunity to watch performances, screenings and presentations by local, national and international artists and engineers. It aims to provide an historical context and a broad contemporary overview of choreography and dance that pushes the frontiers of both physical and digital tools for artistic creation. The event series aims to build Boston into a natural hub and think tank for progressive work addressing the challenges of technology and new media in art and culture today. Sun, April 22, Conference, day two 2:30-3:30pm: Matinee performance of Self Unfinished (1998) by Xavier Le Roy 4pm: Panel Discussion on Physical Intelligence featuring members of the MIT community Visit Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit for full description of artists, times and ticket info Ideas In Motion is funded in part by a grant from LEF Foundation

430 2007 event 193 - Nell Breyer and Kinodance Company at Cloud Place
Nell Breyer and Kinodance Company Nell Breyer will give a demonstration / presentation of interactive technologies used in visualizing motion. Samples of work will be shown as presented for public installation, dance performance and gallery exhibit, followed by a question and answer session. Kinodance Company will show excerpts from Denizen, their latest intermedia performance collaboration premiering with Bank America Celebrity Series & Boston Cyberarts at BU's Tsai Center on May 2 & 3rd. In addition to a performance, Kinodance will talk in detail about Denizen, the background and context of the project (involving a 3 week residency and film shoot on locations in Armenia) and more broadly the process of creating multi-sensory intermedia performance works that span boundaries between dance, film, visual art, light and sound. Choreographers Alissa Cardone & Ingrid Schatz filmmaker Alla Kovgan and visual artist Dedalus Wainwright will lead the discussion and a Q & A accompanied by Kinodancers Ruth Bronwen, Pape N'Diaye & DeAnna Pellecchia. (more info www.kinodance.org) Accessibility: Call ahead for assistance 617.262.2949 This event is part of CyberArtCentral for Youths at Cloud Place. Sat, April 28, 2-5pm

431 2007 event 194 - Panel Discussion on Creativity and Game Design @ Powering Up: Boston's Digital Game Industry
A panel discussion on Creativity and Game Design within "Powering Up: Boston's Digital Game Industry" a one day conference to promote a healthy environment for the growth and sustainability of Boston's Digital Game Industry. Conference, Sat, April 21, 8am-7pm Panel discussion on Creativity and Game Design, Sat, April 21, 3-4pm The conference is Free, but requires registration.

432 2007 event 195 - CyberArtCentral
CyberArtCentral is Boston Cyberarts Festival headquarters where visitors can grab information, or search the online events calendar of the 2007 Festival and its exciting programs showcased at participating organizations from April 20 through May 6. This year, CyberArtsCentral is hosted by Art Interactive. Art Interactive will also feature and exhibit: "Animated Gestures", Three recent interactive drawing installations by Camille Utterback. Curated by Lisa Dorin, the Art Institute of Chicago. April 20-May 6, every day, 12-6pm

433 2009 event 451 - Nourishment, Art That Feeds the Soul and Makes Strong Funny Bones
Food in its many forms is the focal point for two artists: Wetmore's work, revolutionized by pregnancy and motherhood, is a series of beautiful and messy experiences (video, photography, and a large digital wall drawing). Lactation is a common theme in her work, explored with humor, social impact, and fantastic aspects. Warmouth's work explores, with everyday objects found in his kitchen, the fragmentation of identity in the fast-food age using semiotics and deep fryer fat. This interactive video installation, through video and 3D images, investigates the viewer's relationship to language, advertising, culture, and the business of food. The artist will have images of breast feeding but nothing is sexual in nature. Main Gallery Hours | Mon-Sat 9am-6pm | Sun 12-5pm 617.585.6600 http://www.ellenwetmore.iwarp.com/ http://www.jeffu.tv/ Nourishment, Art That Feeds the Soul and Makes Strong Funny Bones April 16-May 4 Opening Reception | April 16 | 5-8pm Artist talk | Wed, April 29 | 1pm | Room 214 Art Institute of Boston @ Lesley University 700 Beacon St Boston, MA 02215 617.437.1226

434 2009 event 452 - Dancing with Mathematica | Part of the Cambridge Science Festival
The program is live performance of two pieces including movement, electronic sound and video. Dancing with Mathematica is a journey through complexity in movement, body projection and sound. Music and choreography are structured on four classes of complexity, proposed by Stephen Wolfram in A New Kind of Science. While music develops by evolution of cellular automata, from simple to universally complex, choreography reflects on the nature of choice, questions the concept of self as a solid, separate reality and looks at the body in relation to self, gender, transgender, and aging. Music, generated in Mathematica, by composer Katarina Miljkovic; choreography by Dawn Kramer; video projections by Stephen Buck; performance by Dawn Kramer and Brian McCook. Cracking, dance performance by Dawn Kramer Sponsored by Cambridge Science Festival Acknowledgments: Massachusetts College of Art and Design and The New England Conservatory of Music An artist demonstration, talk, and Q&A will be part of the one-hour program. Dancing with Mathematica Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm Donation requested: $10 adults, $5 students/seniors Broad Institute Auditorium 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142

435 2009 event 453 - Children of Arcadia by Mark Skwarek, Joseph Hocking
Children of Arcadia transforms the CAC Gallery into a large-scale, 17th-century Baroque-style painting that has come to life. With panoramic visuals and high-quality surround sound, gallery visitors use a game controller to explore a real-time virtual Arcadia that shifts between a representation of apocalyptic ruin and one of an idealized utopia. This ever-changing, augmented reality combines the physical world of downtown Manhattan (New York Stock Exchange, Federal Hall Memorial building, and Federal Reserve) with a virtual environment of lush rolling green hills. The work gathers and translates real-time information from the Internet related to the American economy as well as current events and societal issues related to Cambridge and translates this data into either a utopia or apocalypse. As the economy and our community go, so goes Arcadia. View images and a demo at http://childrenofarcadia.com/. Mark Skwarek - project, concept, design, modeling, animations Joseph Hocking - interactive 3D programming, augmented reality code Arthur Peters - data parsing code Damon Baker - tech assistance, support Exhibition Dates: April 24 - May 15 CAC Gallery Hours: Mon, Wed 8:30am - 8pm; Tue, Thu 8:30am - 5pm; Fri 8:30am - 12pm "First Mondays" reception: May 4, 6-8pmCAC Gallery 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 349-4380

436 2009 event 454 - Another Side of In
"Another Side of In" features the work of three acclaimed artists; Marjorie Minkin, Jamie Robertson, and the internationally recognized bass player of band "Phish", Mike Gordon. The installation consists of 5 36" x 30" Lexan wall sculptures. The custom designed embedded processing technology in each sculpture interacts with viewers in novel ways. Each piece can internally generate and alter sounds based on viewer proximity and communicate wirelessly to the other pieces. Information about viewer positions is also used to dynamically alter lighting, both on the individual pieces as well as in the entire space. The result is an experience that is interactive, non-repetitive, and driven by the participation of all the people in the space. Charles River Museum of Industry | 154 Moody St., Waltham, MA 02453 | 781.893.5410 | www.crmi.org | www.anothersideofin.com Opening Reception: Friday, April 24, 2009 | 6-9pm | Admission $20 Museum Hours | Open Thursday - Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Museum Admission | $5, $3 seniors and students, under age 6 free

437 2009 event 455 - Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video
Carlson/Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide spaces of reflection about this contemporary moment with elegance and humor this sharply executed performance and video are critical re-evaluations of cultural and historical narratives. Displayed as immersive projections or installations, Carlson/Strom's work simultaneously fuses video art's tendencies towards the visually spectacular and its legacy as a tool for social change. In that spirit, Carlson/Strom have turned and returned to the problematic nature and histories of the American landscape, using the strategies of collaborative performance and time-based art work, they examine the moving body within a range of "landscapes". Collaborative work of choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom. Jan 24 - May 17 $12 adults, $8 seniors/students, age 5 and under free. Support provided by the Lois and Richard England Family Foundation, the Robert E. Davoli and Eileen L. McDonagh Charitable Foundation, LEF New England, and the Harpo Foundation.

438 2009 event 456 - Wired for Sound 2009
The Longy School of Music is pleased to announce the Wired for Sound 2009 electroacoustic music festival. Wired for Sound is a festival celebrating new electro-acoustic music including concerts, workshops and performances. Sunday April 26th: 1 - 3 pm - Concert 1 Acousmatic Works 4 - 6 pm - Concert 2 Video Works 8 - 10 pm - Concert 3 Live Electroacoutic Music Monday April 27th: 8 - 10 pm - Concert 4 Live Electroacoustic Music

439 2009 event 457 - Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall
T+T (Tamiko Thiel & Teresa Reuter) 2008: The virtual reality artwork "Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall" investigates the impact of the Berlin Wall, which divided West and East Berlin during the Cold War from 1961 to 1989. A digital reconstruction of a segment of the dismantled Berlin Wall and its surrounding neighborhoods creates a place of remembrance that users can explore in order to experience and reflect on this historical time. The interactive 3D installation is set primarily in the mid-1980s, with some travel back to the 1960s or into the present time. Virtuelle Mauer / ReConstructing the Wall Opening Reception: Thursday, April 23, 2009 | 6-8pm | Artist Talk at reception April 24, 2009 - May 6, 2009 Gallery Hours: Mon-Thu 10am-8pm | Fri 7pm | Sat 5pm | Sun 12-5pm Free Goethe-Institut Boston 170 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02116 617.262.6050

440 2009 event 458 - CyberArts South 2009
Lily & Honglei Yang: Second Life Presence Cyberarts South 2009 is a rotating exhibition of work by students, faculty and alumni of the Digital Media discipline in the Design Department at UMass Dartmouth, just 50 minutes south of Boston. During the Boston Cyberarts Festival, events will take place in Design Gallery 154, a specialized space for digital media presentation on the first floor of UMD's College of Visual and Performing Arts. Theater-style projections of animation, time-based works, participatory virtual events, hands-on interactive design presentations, exhibitions of digital prints, sound art, and a continuous web presence with links for virtual access...www.des.umassd.edu/cyberarts. Sponsored by the Digital Media option of the Visual Design Department at UMass Dartmouth CyberArts South 2009 April 24 - May 10. Gallery open Mon-Fri 9am-5pm Free University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Visual & Performing Arts DESIGN GALLERY 154 Old Westport Road North Dartmouth, MA 02747 508.999.8551

441 2009 event 459 - Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture: Carlson/Strom
This year's Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture will feature Boston-based artists Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson from Carlson/Strom: New Performance Video, moderated by video art scholar and Rose Museum Director Michael Rush. The lecture will be preceded by a live performance by Ann Carlson and the cow featured in a video in the exhibition, Madame 710, and will be followed by a brief Q&A period. The museum will be open prior to the lecture so attendees may visit the exhibition. Guided tours of Carlson/Strom will depart from the 3rd floor lobby at 5:15 and 5:45 pm. There will be some nudity during the performance, but families are welcome. Paul J. Cronin Memorial Lecture: Carlson/Strom Wed May 6, 2009 | 6:30 pm Members: $10 / NonMembers: $12 / Students with valid ID: $8, requires a reservation DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park 51 Sandy Pond Rd., Lincoln, MA 01773 781.259.3632

442 2009 event 461 - Artist Talk: Anne Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom
Carlson/Strom employ tactics of spectacle and humor to provide spaces of reflection about this contemporary moment with elegance and humor this sharply executed performance and video are critical re-evaluations of cultural and historical narratives. Displayed as immersive projections or installations, Carlson/Strom's work simultaneously fuses video art's tendencies towards the visually spectacular and its legacy as a tool for social change. In that spirit, Carlson/Strom have turned and returned to the problematic nature and histories of the American landscape, using the strategies of collaborative performance and time-based art work, they examine the moving body within a range of "landscapes". Collaborative work of choreographer and performer Ann Carlson and video installation artist Mary Ellen Strom. Sat, Feb 28, 3 pm DeCordova Members: $10 / NonMembers: $12 / Students with valid ID: $8, requires a reservation Support provided by the Lois and Richard England Family Foundation, the Robert E. Davoli and Eileen L. McDonagh Charitable Foundation, LEF New England, and the Harpo Foundation.

443 2009 event 462 - CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? Gallery installation curated by the AstroDime Transit Authority
"Can You Hear Me Now," a new trans-Atlantic performance piece, Sat May 9 at 4pm, applies ATA's universally accessible technology to the latest instant networking gadgetry. Afterwards, ATA will premiere INtransit V.5, "Can You Hear Me Now," the latest installation our video journal, featuring work from artists, inventors, steampunks, and historians of Victorian telecommunications. Exhibition Dates: April 24 - May 23 Reception, trans-Atlantic performance and video screening: Sat May 9, 4 pm The AstroDime Transit Authority (ATA) builds prototypes for future and imagined communications technologies. This spring ATA will celebrate historical (and inevitable) successes and failures of communications technologies. "Can You Hear Me Now?" commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first trans-Atlantic cable and examines positive outcomes from failure. New and nearly-new ATA artifacts will criss-cross 119 Gallery. On view at 119 Gallery will be a snarl of ATA's own inventions-- Tin Can Telecommunications in Action!the new iCAN!Party Lines!Tin Can Phone Tower!Views from the nations largest Temporary Tin Can Phone Network!Animated videos in suitcases! Contact: Mary Ann Kearns, 978.452.8138, artgal@119gallery.org

444 2009 event 463 - Reliquary of labor: A Parallel Media Project by Gene Gort + Ken Steen; Solo Performance by Jeffrey Krieger
Featuring solo performance by electronic cellist Jeffrey Krieger; Hartford Symphony Orchestra Principal cellist , and specialist in the performance of new music performs a solo version of a collaborative composition with electronic cello and video. Other collaborators in the Reliquary of Labor project; Gene Gort and Ken Steen will also be guests. Audience Q and A will follow performance. Audience Q and A will follow performance. More info about Reliquary of Labor at http://www.reliquaryoflabor.net. Sponsored by Megalopolis Audio Art and and Documentary Festival http://megapolisfestival.org/ Gallery Hours During Exhibitions only: Wed-Thu 6-9pm Sat 2-5pm 617.676.5904 Reliquary of labor: A Parallel Media Project by Gene Gort + Ken Steen; Solo Performance by Jeffrey Krieger Tues April 28 | 7:30pm Suggested donation | $10 ($7 with Megapolis ticket) AXIOM Center for New & Experimental Media 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617.653.7774 484.557.6934

445 2009 event 464 - Multimedia Showcase
This program will include recent collaborative works and new work for video, electronic sound, instruments and dance by faculty members of the New England Conservatory of Music and the Massachusetts College of Art. There will also be an opening preview of student work an hour before the faculty showcase. Hosted by John Mallia, Director of the Electronic Music Studio at New England Conservatory. Multimedia Showcase Monday, May 4, 2009 | Free 8pm | Faculty Showcase7pm | Student Showcase New England Conservatory of Music | Brown Hall 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA 02115 617.699.9874

446 2009 event 470 - Willoughby & Baltic present at Microsoft Startup Labs: Artist Panel Discussion
Experience interactive art by making your own, learn how to create electronic musical instruments, and checkout the work from the Willoughby & Baltic community. ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION: Building electronic circuits and sounds for performance and installation. Sat April 25, 1:30-2:30pm Andrew Sempere, Mary Murray, Mackenzie Cowell, Jimmie Rodgers workshop performances: http://www.instructables.com/id/5_minute_DNA_Extraction_in_a_Shot_Glass/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Mapping_Microbes/ http://www.willoughbybaltic.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:jimmies-open-heart-kit-hits-makezine&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=121 http://flickr.com/photos/vitagrrl/2393742471/in/pool-695880@N20 http://www.mkdesigns.net/

447 2009 event 471 - A Hand Cobbled Music Making Machine
The two artists are collaborating on a piece that Punzo will use as an instrument for a musical performance. To describe their piece, Lindenmuth writes in his typically flamboyant style, "So I said to Stradivarius: "Strad, your violins ain't got no funk. That goes for your violas, cellos and double basses. Ain't none got any funk. All they're good for are sickly sweet romantic goo. But for blues and jazz and hillbilly and funk, for doowah and post mod classical, you got to have funk, funk, funk-tons of funk. Me and Rudi are gonna fix that. Come next April we're gonna collaborate on a musical sculpture that's gonna knock your socks off. I'm gonna design it. We're both gonna build it in my shop with South Bend milling machines, CNC mills and TIG welders. And, Rudi's gonna play it. Man, you won't ever have seen such funk." Rudi Punzo • Italy http://www.subsito.it/ Peter Lindenmuth • USA http://www.subsito.it/lindenmuth/index1.html April 3 - May 15 The Distillery Gallery is located in the central lobby, and is open from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday - Saturday, and by appointment. New shows are installed every 8 weeks. OPENING RECEPTION: May 1, 6-8pm 617.464.4086

448 2009 event 472 - Losing Ground: work by Dorothy Simpson Krause
The exhibition will include both large-format pieces and artist books which combine traditional art materials and digital processes. The wall-hung pieces are printed primarily on uv cured flatbed printers on substrates such as aluminum and polycarbonate. The books include covers pigment printed on copper and engraved with a laser into wood. An editioned artist book, also titled Losing Ground was produced on the HP Indigo press 5500 by Acme Bookbinders and Harcourt Bindery. A plea for awareness of our role as stewards of the environment, it is an example of how exceptional artists books can be made by combining traditional processes and print-on-demand technology... Exhibition Dates: April 24 - May 31 Opening April 24, 6-8pm 781.383.2787

449 2009 event 473 - Videogame research and development
How are video games made? Come to MIT and participate in the process of game development! Play games currently in development and learn about the innovative ideas behind them. Talk to the artists, designers, programmers, and managers that work together to produce an enjoyable, entertaining experience. Learn about the history of great digital games from Boston and Cambridge, and get a glimpse of a day in the life of a game research lab! Kids, families, teens, and adults are welcome! Video game research and development May 1 Fri 2pm-6pm Free Massachusetts Institute of Technology Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab 5 Cambridge Center 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 617.324.9129

450 2009 event 474 - SYNTAX
This group exhibition brings together work that addresses the concept of digital information and systems-their meaning and aesthetics-in their work. Syntax considers artists who address or create new forms of digital syntax via computer programs or some sort of digital processing or selection. The PRC participated in the very first Cyberarts Festival in 1999 by hosting a digitally-themed version of our annual juried exhibition; this year, the PRC pays homage to these beginnings by mediating on digital language itself. Artists include: Patricia Ambrogi (Rochester, NY) http://mediacafe.rit.edu/covergirls.html Benno Friedman (Sheffield, MA) http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue25§ion=column&article=GIULIANO_BENNO_628553 Meggan Gould (Brunswick, ME) http://www.meggangould.net/site_seeingIII.htm Brian Piana (Houston, TX) http://www.spillsomepaint.com/gallery/index.shtml Mark J. Stock (Newton Center, MA) http://markjstock.org/ Luke Strosnider (Rochester, NY) http://www.lensless.net/newlandscapes.html Matthew Swarts (Somerville, MA and NJ) http://www.decordova.org/decordova/exhibit/2006/annual06/swarts.html http://www.matthewswarts.com/ March 30 - May 6 Tues-Fri 10-6 pm, Thurs 8pm, Sat and Sun 12-5pm Opening reception Thu April 2, 5:30 - 7:30pm Admission: $3/ public, $2/students and seniors. Free every Thurs and the last weekend of the month. The PRC is always free to members, Institutional member schools, children under 18, BU students, faculty, and staff, as well as all school groups with appointments. 617.975.0600

451 2009 event 475 - Radio Lab Listening Party
Radio Lab creator Jad Abumrad shares behind-the-scenes stories and excerpts from the program called "the most innovative show on radio" by public radio's Ira Glass. Tonight's focus: stories and ideas about space and our endless fascination with looking up into that vast void. Listening to surprising sounds and look up at the simulated sky as you are transported to that fertile zone of speculative wonder that has made Radio Lab such a cult hit. Produced by WNYC and winner of the National Academies 2007 Communication Award for excellence in science communication, Radio lab is now heard on over 150 stations nationwide. Funding for this program provided by the Barbara and Malcolm L. Sherman Fund for Adult Programs. Additional support for Adult Programs provided by the David and Marion Ellis Endowment Fund. April 29, at 7pm $10 entrance fee

452 2009 event 476 - Aesthetic Evidence – elements | response
Aesthetic Evidence will create an audio-visual experience based on the theme of 'elements' and inspired by spoken human voice recordings. Members of the group have recorded responses to specific questions from a variety of participants over the past several months. These recordings along with traditional and electronic instruments and related video footage will act as the raw material for this partially composed, partially improvised performance. If you would like your voice to be a part of this performance, you can make a recording online now at http://www.halseyburgund.com/recon or volunteer at the performance itself. Friday | May 1, 2009 | 8pm Free

453 2009 event 477 - Processing Time
Participants will work individually or in pairs to write programs that display the time and are compelling aesthetically and in concept. The system that will be used is Processing, a sketchbook for creating digital projects that was developed at the MIT Media Lab and is used in hundreds of schools and by tens of thousands of artists and other programmers. Participants will have four hours to create original projects using their own laptops in a open studio space. The party will continue with public presentations of completed programs in the evening. The audience and the programmers who competed will vote on the entries, and awards will be given by the team that began and led the development of Processing, Casey Reas and Ben Fry. Participants will need to register in advance at http://burgess.mit.edu/pt/ -- the event is free for both participants and those who come to see the presentations. Sat May 2, 12:30 - 7:30pm

454 2009 event 479 - A Night of Experimental Digital Performance
A night of experimental digital performance featuring works by Brian Knoth (with Emily Beattie - movement artist) and Lyn Goeringer. The works will exhibit innovative uses of digital technology in an engaging performance context where new human interfaces allow for dynamic interactions between movement, sound, imagery and light. www.brianknoth.com www.emilybeattie.com www.lyngoeringer.com Fri, May 1, 10pm Sponsored by Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments (MEME@Brown) - Brown University Music Department

455 2009 event 480 - A performance by the Lothars - Megapolis Audio Festival
The Lothars began in 1996 as an experimental indie band based on the theremin, an early electronic musical instrument controlled without contact from the player. During the course of several albums, the Lothars have moved toward a more improvisational electroacoustic trance/drone sound. They often perform with two theremins, a hammered dulcimer, a flute and electronics. Russian inventor Professor Leon Theremin patented the device in 1928. The instrument's circuitry includes oscillators, controlled by the performer's distance from the pitch control antenna, allowing the creation of a difference tone in the audio frequency range amplified and sent to a loudspeaker. Not appropriate for families. Sponsored by WZBC 90.3 FM Newton-Boston April 24 Fri 7pm $10, $5 Cyberpass

456 2009 event 481 - Radio 4x4 :: a performance by free103point9 - Megapolis Audio Festival
Radio 4x4 is a collaborative radio transmission performance by free103point9. Four simultaneous audio performances are separately sent through FM transmitters tuned to different frequencies and are picked up by radios positioned throughout a performance space. The audience becomes an active collaborator, "mixing" the audio feeds by moving about the space. Conceived in 2003 more than twenty Radio 4x4s have taken place in the United States and abroad. The non-profit arts organization free103point9 is focused on exploring, establishing and cultivating the genre Transmission Arts, a participatory live/time-based art manifesting as radio art, video art, light sculpture, installation and performance. Not appropriate for families. Sponsored by WZBC 90.3 FM Newton-Boston Sat April 25 9pm $10; $5 Cyberpass

457 2009 event 482 - Evolving Darwin’s Gaze
Dynamic computer projections and graphics, this computational multimedia piece attempts to bring 'the ghost (creativity) out of the machine (the computer)' using Charles Darwin (his namesake techniques and portrait). It demonstrates the living Darwinian evolutionary process through portraits that strive to resemble Charles Darwin's most famous portrait over 1000s of populations. The portrait programs uses genetic programming techniques incorporating (in computer form) new theories of human creativity which allow them to explore as well as dogmatically resemble Darwin's famous gaze. The piece demonstrates in real time the process of evolution, creativity and art making. The Museum is best suited for ages 8 and up; special programs are offered for both middle and high school students, and for adults.The Museum is open daily 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and closed major holidays. Wed. Dec. 24th, the Museum will be closed at 2:00 p.m. General admission, $7.50 for adults; $3.00 for children. Sponsored by the Cambridge Science Festival http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html http://www.dipaola.org http://www.dipaola.org/darwin http://cambridgesciencefestival.org/Home.aspx Evolving Darwin's Gaze Apr 25th - May 3rd 10am-5pm General admission, $7.50 for adults; $3.00 for children.

458 2009 event 485 - Willoughby & Baltic present at Microsoft Startup Labs: Electronic Toy Workshop
Experience interactive art by making your own, learn how to create electronic musical instruments, and checkout the work from the Willoughby & Baltic community. WORKSHOP - Turning an Electronic Toy into an Instrument, Circuit Bending with Jimmie Rodgers. Sat April 25, 3 - 5pm Andrew Sempere, Mary Murray, Mackenzie Cowell, Jimmie Rodgers workshop performances: http://www.instructables.com/id/5_minute_DNA_Extraction_in_a_Shot_Glass/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Mapping_Microbes/ http://www.willoughbybaltic.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=62:jimmies-open-heart-kit-hits-makezine&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=121 http://flickr.com/photos/vitagrrl/2393742471/in/pool-695880@N20 http://www.mkdesigns.net/

459 2009 event 486 - Willoughby & Baltic present at Microsoft Startup Labs: The Maker Revolution
WORKSHOP | Make some art, see some art. Experience interactive art by making your own. Learn how to create electronic musical instruments, and checkout the work from the Willoughby & Baltic community. Featured art during the two-day event includes Andrew Sempere's Sod Off! - an installation of grass that grumbles in response to visitors steps, Doug Moore's electronic bottle organ, sound installations from artist Derek Hoffend, Mary Murray's interactive video, Falling Up, and a concert performance of Orgy of Noise by Bill T Miller. Sun April 26, 1 - 6pm For more information about Bill T Miller please follow: http://billtmiller.com/cyberarts/

460 2009 event 488 - Inherent Tendencies Toward Disorder: Daniel Phillips - Opening Reception
Works by Daniel Phillips Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat 10-6 Sun 1-5 Opening Reception: Thursday May 7, 6 - 8pm venue is not wheelchair accessible

461 2009 event 490 - Geyser | A Two-Channel Video Installation & Artist Talk by Georgie Friedman
Geyser | A Two-Channel Video Installation by Georgie Friedman Geyser HD video (two channels) 12:20 min cycle 2008 Waiting. Anticipation. Build up. Depletion. Surprise. On the left, we see the crusty base of a geyser. The water grows, quivers, rises, falls, until it suddenly surges and bursts filling the frame with whitish-blue water, only to start the process again. On the right, the second frame stays focused on the sky. Clouds shift and pass, then, without warning, water shoots up either in one big explosion or in a quick succession of smaller outbursts. In this two channel piece, the different views are intentionally not synchronized, and the full scene is never revealed. Time becomes fragmented and a new relationship between expectations, anticipation and reward are created. (Filmed in Geysir, Iceland, 2008 with partial funding from a Montague International Travel Grant) Opening Reception Artist's Talk | Geyser is a two-channel video piece fragmenting a large geyser, creating a new relationship between expectations, anticipation and reward. BC premiers this work by Georgie Friedman as a part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Artist's talk and reception on Saturday April 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Higgins Hall Room 300. Learn more about the artist at www.georgiefriedman.com Contact information: BC Arts Council arts@bc.edu 617-552-ARTS 617-552-4935 April 24-May 10, 2009 | 10 am-10 pm Sponsored by The Boston College, Academic Technology Innovation Grant, Office of the Provost

462 2009 event 492 - Boston Is Watching | Lecture and Interactive Presentation About Art in Second Life(tm)
Come join us at the Boston Public Library for an afternoon of presentations about art in Second Life. Keynote Presenters include: Dr. Lori Landay Lori Landay is L1Aura Loire in Second Life and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Berklee College of Music in the "actual world." She is working on a project called "Virtual Worlds," exploring experience and subjectivity in online immersive environments through research and creative work. She is the author of Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture and various articles on new media, silent film, and I Love Lucy, as well as a new media artist making "machinima," digital video created in Second Life. Jay Van Buren of Brooklyn is Watching GUEST ARTISTS WHO WILL PRESENT RL (listed by avatar name) Tuna Oddfellow Shava Suntzu Alizarin Goldflake Filthy Fluno Penumbra Carter Misprint Thursday Boston Is Watching! Learn about and explore the world of virtual art in Second Life(tm) as reviewed by art critics, art historians, curators, and artists. Presented to coordinate with the citywide exhibits of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the lecture and interactive session will discuss some of the brightest virtual art in the metaverse. Presenters include author and professor Dr. Lori Landay, Jay Van Buren of Brooklyn Is Watching as well as guest artist panelists. Ours is a mixed reality project called Brooklyn Is Watching. For participation in the Boston Cyberarts Festival we have added a new spin to the project called "Boston Is Watching." Some mature content may be reviewed. Parental guidance is suggested Co-sponsors | Popcha, Tekserve and Key Digital Saturday, April 25, 2009 | 1pm-4:30pm Boston Is Watching | Lecture and Interactive Presentation About Art in Second Life(tm) Boston Public Library-Copley Branch-Boston Room | Central Library in Copley Square 700 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116 | 617-536-5400 http://brooklyniswatching.com/2009/03/26/boston-cyberarts-festiva/

463 2009 event 493 - When Computers Create | The Art of AARON
New works by Harold Cohen's groundbreaking creative system AARON- a family-friendly exhibit exploring artificial creativity. Opening Reception: Thursday May 7, 4:30pmMain Lobby | Children's Hospital Boston | 300 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115 Sponsored by Art for Kool Kidz, the Art Program at Children's Hospital Boston

464 2009 event 495 - Live Video/Dead Video
The Dead Video / Live Video Festival will start with a screening of selected new video works from local and US artists, focusing on fusion of visuals with music and emerging editing techniques. The screening will be followed by performances that include video as one of their main components. Live Video: Psylab, DJ Flack, qfwfq duo, Man Made Square, Rachel Bishop, , Walter Wright with Apocalypso Trio20 Recorded Video finalists Allison Holt ---> Experiment 2 Andrea Wollensak ---> Weir Farm Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) ---> Simple Extraction Bloody Beetroots ---> WARP CacheFlowe/Movax ---> Scaffolding - Rebuild Dennis Miller ---> White Noise Dr. T (Emile Tobenfeld) ---> Orange in Silver Morning Eric Rasmussen ---> Infinite Range Bob Weisz/Ray Tintori---> Chairlift - Evident Utencil Play the Magic ---> Building Music Subluxation ---> Relocation of Significant Structural Damage Liz Thomas ---> Let Us Praise Famous Men: Abraham Lincoln Mary Hamill ---> RegardDisregard Meg Mitchell ---> Making Waves Nancy Herman ---> Scriabin Prelude Qian Li ---> Astonish Qian Li ---> Epilogue Richard Lainhart ---> One Year Sawako ---> Flirting 07121601 Shawn Faherty/Nine Inch Nails ---> Ghosts 8After party audio-visual surround performances by: Psylab and Zebbler Encanti Experience video installation art by Jen Rosselli Dead/Live Video Festival Saturday, May 2nd | 3pm - midnight Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art | $5 public admission, free for Mass Art Students To volunteer time/money/energy, email zebbler@glitchcrew.comor call 617.271.4709

465 2009 event 496 - Gleaming the Cube
An exhibition of Wellesley College students working in Digital Media. M-F 9am-5pm

466 2009 event 497 - Darwin, Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
April 26 2009| 2-3pmA presentation by artist Steve DiPaola, of the exhibition Evolving Darwin's Gaze. The Museum is best suited for ages 8 and up; special programs are offered for both middle and high school students, and for adults.The Museum is open daily 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. General admission, $7.50 for adults; $3.00 for children. Sponsored by the Cambridge Science Festival http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

467 2009 event 499 - Evolving Darwin's Gaze, Meet the Artist - Steve diPoala
This event scheduled from 1-3pm is a drop-in format - chat with visitors (a family audience) about the work. Chat with artist Steve diPaola about his work, Evolving Darwin's Gaze. Through dynamic computer projections and hanging graphics, this computational multimedia piece attempts to bring 'the ghost (creativity) out of the machine (the computer)' using the ghost or gaze of Charles Darwin (his namesake techniques and portrait). That is, it demonstrates the living Darwinian evolutionary process by evolving portraits that strive to resemble Charles Darwin's most famous portrait over 1000s of populations. Rather than just strive for resemblance, the portrait programs which use genetic programming techniques, also incorporate (in computer form) new theories of human creativity which allow them to explore as well as dogmatically resemble Darwin's famous gaze. The piece demonstrates in real time the process of evolution as much as the process of creativity and art making. The Museum is best suited for ages 8 and up; special programs are offered for both middle and high school students, and for adults.The Museum is open daily 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and closed major holidays. Wed. Dec. 24th, the Museum will be closed at 2:00 p.m. General admission Free today. Sponsored by the Cambridge Science Festival http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/calendar.html

468 2009 event 500 - Artist talk: Jeffu Warmouth & Ellen Wetmore
1 pm - Artist Talk regarding the exhibition "Nourishment, Art That Feeds the Should and Makes Strong Funny Bones" Wetmore's work has been revolutionized by pregnancy and motherhood, a series of beautiful and messy experiences. Ellen dissects the corporality of surreal body transformation through video, photography, and a large digital wall drawing. Lactation is a common theme in her work and Wetmore explores its humor, social impact, and fantastic aspects. Warmouth's work playfully explores the fragmentation of identity in the fast-food age using semiotics and deep fryer fat. His interactive video installations use humor to investigate the viewer's relationship to language, advertising, and culture. By using everyday objects found in his kitchen, Warmouth has been exploring new approaches to video and 3D images that question how we construct and identify with the business of food.http://www.lesley.edu/aib/events/events.html http://www.ellenwetmore.iwarp.com/ http://www.jeffu.tv/ Art Institute of Boston@ Lesley University, Rm 214 700 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02215 (617) 437-1226 Public Contact: Fred Levy flevy@aiboston.edu 617-585-6662

469 2009 event 501 - PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human
Curated by AXIOM Founding Director, Heidi Kayser, PARSE: Visualizing Data That Makes Us Human, which runs until May 10, 2009, includes the work of six artists -- Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas (Works from Fleshmap), Jason Salavon, (Kids With Santa and Newlyweds from the 100 Special Moments Series), collaborative work by Ben Fry & Eugene Kuo, Jen Hall (Rem5: Epileptiforms) -- who use data to create works that present new perspectives on the underlying information that makes us human; physically, mentally and socially. Often times overlooked and unbeknownst, patterns of data surround us daily. The artists in PARSE sort, separate and amalgamate this information, creating intricate visualizations in print, interactive, animated and sculptural media, of our brainwaves during REM sleep, our genetic code, our social ICONS, and even our carnal desires. Their representations capture anew both some of what's unique in each person, as well as what we all share. Gallery Hours: Wed, Thurs 6-9pm, Sat 2-5pm Reception: March 27, 6-9pm FREE

470 2009 event 503 - Ensemble Robot: New Music for Robots and Humans
Axiom's New Media Curious program is excited to host Ensemble Robot. Ensemble Robot presents brave new works for humans and robots! The large collaborative concert will feature The Heliphon, an 8-foot tall double-helix shaped robotic glockenspiel, and The Bot(i)Cello, a dramatic single-stringed instrument that sounds like a hundred electric guitars being beaten with sticks. Music is composed by engineers, robots dreamt & controlled by composers. Ensemble Robot was founded in 2003 by Christine Southworth and Leila Hasan, as an organization of artists, engineers, programmers, and musicians, working to: (1) design, construct, and program an orchestra of robotic musical instruments and dancers, (2) commission music compositions and dance choreography for this ensemble, and (3) design, organize, execute, and promote performances for robotic instruments in collaboration with human musicians and dancers. For more information please go to http://www.ensemblerobot.org Ensemble Robot: New Music for Robots and Humans AXIOM Center for New & Experimental Media 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-653-7774, 484-557-6934 ||| May 9, 2009 ||| 8pm ||| suggested donation $10

471 2009 event 504 - BEAMS| Half- Marathon of Electro-Acoustic Music
Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio (BEAMS) presents a half- marathon of electro-acoustic music featuring guest artist, Charles Dodge. This event will include a lecture by Charles Dodge on his music. The following concert will feature numerous works by Charles Dodge including performances of "Any resemblance is purely coincidental" by pianist Sarah Bob. The concert will also feature newly composed works by Brandeis Graduate Composers. Friday, April 24th | 8:00 p.m. BEAMS| Half- Marathon of Electro-Acoustic MusicBrandeis University | Slosberg Hall 415 South St., Waltham, MA 02453Contact Information: James Borchers | james391@brandeis.edu | 917.577.0287 Sponsors: Brandeis University office of the arts, Leonard Bernstein festival of the arts, Charles Dodge, guest artist for BEAMS Half-marathon

472 2009 event 505 - Artist Talk: Charles Dodge
Charles Dodge is best known for his many electro-acoustic works incorporating speech synthesis and for a series of works that combine computer music with live performance. Dodge Inaugurated the graduate study of computer music at Columbia University where he taught in the music department from 1970-1980. Subsequently, he founded the Center for Computer Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and taught at the City University Graduate Center. He has received a Woodrow Wilson Graduate Fellowship and two Guggenheim Fellowships as well as numerous commissions and awards for his compositions. In this Artist Talk Dodge will be presenting and discussing his music. Friday, April 24, 2009 | 4:00 p.mArtist Talk: Charles Dodge | (BEAMS) Brandeis Electro- Acoustic Music Studio, Brandeis Department of MusicBrandeis University | Slosberg Hall415 South St., Waltham, MA 02453Public Contact information: James Borchers | james391@brandeis.edu | 917.577.0287http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/music/beams/halfmarathon.html Sponsors: Brandeis University office of the arts, Leonard Bernstein festival of the arts, Charles Dodge, guest artist for BEAMS Half-marathon

473 2009 event 506 - Go Modelmental! (Two Locations: XZ)
The Brandeis Department of Fine Art presents Go Modelmental! an exhibition of student and faculty work exploring the increasingly complex interplay between the virtual and the actual through a blend of multimedia, digital, and traditional modeling techniques with an emphasis on 3D printing sculpture, installation, video and animation. Includes work by Brandeis Fine Arts Faculty Christopher Abrams, Markus Baenziger, Claudia Bucher, Tory Fair, Brandeis Post-Bac and PhD students, Shirly Bahar, Christian Gentry, Kevin Kenific, John Tronsor, and animation from the Brandeis Computer Science Department. (video installations, animations, and sculpture) Cosponsored by The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation and The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Made possible through generous support from The Poses Foundation. 3D printing by JARD Inc. of Arlington, MA. Go Modelmental X | features larger scale video installations, animation, sculpture and performances. April 24-May10, 2009 Opening: Friday, April 24th 6-9 PM (reservations required at this location, please contact 781.893.5410) Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation | 154 Moody St, Waltham, MA 02453 | www.crmi.org Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday | 10 AM - 5 PM Go Modelmental Z | features smaller scale 3D printed sculptures and smaller scale video pieces. Opening Sound Event by TRACHYPITHECUS April 24th-May 1st Opening: Friday, April 24th 6-9 PM Closing: Friday, May 1st 6 - 8 PM (coincides with CRMII's May 1 events) The Lincoln Building | 289 Moody St., Waltham, MA 02543 | (Gallery located next to Back Pages Books) Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday | 12 - 6PM

474 2009 event 508 - The Next Generation 2: Visual and Media Arts Students
An exhibition of digital media work by students from the greater boston area. May 1 - May 18, 2009 Opening reception | Friday, May 1, 2009 | 5pm-7:30pm Emerson College, Huret & Spector Gallery | 10 Boylston Place, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02116 | 617.824.8329 www.emerson.edu/huret

475 2009 event 509 - Cyberarts @ Beat Research with Zebbler Encanti Experience | the long running weekly dedicated to "Experimental Party Music"
Multimedia video and electronic music show with the ZebblerEncanti Experience Zebbler Encanti Experience is a newly formed union of two artists - Zebbler and Encanti. Zebbler is a visual artist, originally from Belarus, Europe, he is currently based in Boston, MA. This is where Zebbler and Encanti found each other. Both powerhouses in their own right it was only natural for them to combine their efforts into a psychedelicious audio visual union. Zebbler Encanti Experience perform their work in custom HD resolution, spanning live video projections across three screens and process the audio live in 4.1 surround. The duo often collaborates closely with the venue to create event and location related HD performances, which could range from conceptual/abstract musical reflections on the world to performances that would inspire a party environment. This project was witnessed by audiences of Firefly Festival (VT), Berkeley Art Museum (CA), Kodiak Club (AK), Laurence Hall of Science (CA) and many Boston underground events. Both nights also feature residents Wayne and Wax www.wayneandwax.com and DJ Flack www.djflack.com 21 plus, Free! (Sadly The E Room is up a flight of stairs and not wheelchair accessible) Monday, April 27th | 9pm - 1amFor more information please visit www.BeatResearch.com or call 617.491.5550

476 2009 event 510 - Cyberarts @ Beat Research with DJ RNDM | the long running weekly dedicated to "Experimental Party Music"
Audio/Visual scratching and mixing with DJ RNDM (performing a vinyl controlled video set) www.djrndm.com. DJ RNDM honed his skills as a party rocking DJ and mastered the art of blending and scratching in clubs and house parties all across the North East. Widely respected for his skills on the decks, he is known for taking seemingly incompatible music sources and morphing them into layered tracks that are surprisingly harmonious and most importantly fun to listen and dance to. RNDM's interests in multimedia and digital arts have allowed him to take his performances to a whole other level by incorporating video into his sets. Still using turntables, he uses special records to control video files with the music so that the audience can SEE the blends and scratches right on screen. What results for the viewer is a multi-sensory experience that is pure delight and for RNDM it's a way to push the art of DJing even further. Both nights also feature residents Wayne and Wax www.wayneandwax.com and DJ Flack www.djflack.com 21 plus, Free! (Sadly The E Room is up a flight of stairs and not wheelchair accessible) Monday, May 4th, 2009 | 9pm - 1am For more information please visit www.BeatResearch.com or call 617.491.5550

477 2009 event 512 - Lalie Schewadron "Life Forms Stories" | Digital Projection & Artist Talk
How can we allow diverse forms of art, technology and science to meet and interact? Join Lalie Schewadron for a presentation and discussion of her recent digital artwork 'Life Forms Stories': a series of digital narratives which suggest unexpected journeys of synthesized particles and primitive organisms. Visitors will be invited to question the nature of reality, fiction and chance, as well as to examine the potential beauty of the resulting emerging novel worlds. Digital Projection & Artist Talk | Thursday May 7,2009 | 3:00pm and 7:00pmChildren's Hospital Boston | Enders Auditorium (1st Floor, Ender's Building)300 Longwood Ave., Boston MA 02115

478 2009 event 514 - “The Lab” Christopher Abrams / Paul Allen Bernstein
"Christopher Abrams and Paul Allen Bernstein present, 'The Lab', a series of experimental, collaborative works that allude to grade-school science fairs and experiments to influence and explore the act of making. This multimedia effort incorporates traditional and unconventional methods to highlight unexpected features and consequences of the environment, interactivity, and the creative process. The artists will present works in a variety of visual and aural media, based on real and engineered phenomena. With an emphasis on speculation and curiosity, Abrams and Bernstein seek to provoke questions about fact and observation, and which, if any, of our perceptions can be trusted. 'The Lab' will comprise the cumulative results of mixing Abrams' crafted sculptural interventions with Bernstein's scripting approach to image and sound production." April 17 - May 22 Reception - April 23, 5:30 - 8:00 P.M.

479 2009 event 515 - LOOPS, an exhibition of open source software
Four artists, Brian Knep, Golan Levin, Casey Reas and Sosolimited will re-purpose the data and software from 2001's Loops Project into new digital forms. Loops, a digital portrait of Merce Cunningham by artists Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser has been released as open source data by the Cunningham Foundation and OpenEnded Group (the artists' organization) for this purpose. This project is funded by the LEF Foundation. Exhibition Dates: April 25 - May 10 Museum Hours: Open Daily 10am - 5pm ADMISSION Adults: $7.50 Youth under 18, students: $3 Seniors: $3 Children under 5: Free MIT ID: Free Sundays 10 a.m. - noon: Free Opening Reception April 24, 5:30pm – 7:30pm, free and open to the public.

480 2009 event 516 - Twittering Machine: Scarlet Electric @ Axiom -Ensemble Robot
Performance duo Scarlet Electric will be mobile blogging from various Cyberarts events, including Axiom's Ensemble Robot opening reception.About Ensemble Robot: Ensemble Robot presents brave new works for humans and robots! The large collaborative concert will feature The Heliphon, an 8-foot tall double-helix shaped robotic glockenspiel, and The Bot(i)Cello, a dramatic single-stringed instrument that sounds like a hundred electric guitars being beaten with sticks. See the Axiom event listing for more information Sat. May 9 @ 8pm

481 2009 event 517 - Twittering Machine: Scarlet Electric @ MIT Museum - Loops
Performance duo Scarlet Electric will be mobile blogging from various Cyberarts events, including The Loops Project at the MIT Museum. Tweets will be posted in real time on the Boston Cyberarts Blog and on the Boston Cyberarts Twittersite. About The Loops Project: Loops, a digital portrait of Merce Cunningham by artists Marc Downie, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser has been released as open source data by the Cunningham Foundation and OpenEnded Group (the artists' organization) for this purpose. See the Loops event listing for more information. Friday, April 24 @ LOOPS performance event.

482 2009 event 518 - Twittering Machine: Scarlet Electric @ Museum of Science - Radio Lab
Performance duo Scarlet Electric will be mobile blogging from various Cyberarts events, including The Museum of Science's Radio Lab Listening Party. Tweets will be posted in real time on the Boston Cyberarts Blog and on the Boston Cyberarts Twittersite.About Radio Lab: Radio Lab creator Jad Abumrad shares behind-the-scenes stories and excerpts from the program called "the most innovative show on radio" by public radio's Ira Glass. Tonight's focus: stories and ideas about space and our endless fascination with looking up into that vast void. See the Museum of Science event listing for more information.Wed April 29 @ 7pm

483 2009 event 519 - Twittering Machine: Scarlet Electric @ Singapore MIT GAMBIT - Videogame
Performance duo Scarlet Electric will be mobile blogging from various Cyberarts events, including Singapore-MIT GAMBIT's Videogame Research and Development Lab event. Tweets will be posted in real time on the Boston Cyberarts Blog and on the Boston Cyberarts Twittersite.About the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Lab event: How are video games made? Come to MIT and participate in the process of game development! Play games currently in development and learn about the innovative ideas behind them.See the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Lab event listing for more information.Fri. May 1, 2 - 6pm

484 2009 event 520 - Freex 2 Geex III
Beat de-constructions and circuit bent sound alterations by wizards of the Music Synthesis Department at Berklee College of Music. GASP: Gasp attempts to create a space for artistic exchange where artists will explore and propose new possibilities for contemporary practices, a site for collaboration between disciplines and fields in the contemporary cultural landscape. The Sonic Arts at GASP performance/installation series has featured: Phill Niblock, Pamela Z, Amnon Wolman, Ron Kuivila, io casino, Stephen Lehman, Jessica Feldman, Callithumpian Consort, Interensemble, Allan Chase/Bruno Raberg, Gary Chang, Richard Boulanger, Anthony Baldino, Pierce Warnecke, DREV, Mem1, Bruxism (Anne Rhodes/Carl Testa), Landon Rose, Jonathan Chen, Julia Campbell, Joe Sexton, the Jitter class @ Berklee (Joe Branciforte, Daniel Patterson, Zachary Kramer, Ben 'Encanti' Cantil, Carson Whitley, Alex Molina), Max Ables ... and many more. Freex 2 Geex III | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 8pm (Sponsored by the Music Synthesis Department at Berklee College of Music) @ GASP Gallery 362-4 Boylston St., Brookline, MA 02445 617.418.4308 $10 suggested donation, $6 with a student ID www.g-a-s-p.net Directions/Info: http://www397.pair.com/gasp1/ http://gaspsound.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/sonicartsatgasp

485 2009 event 521 - NIGHT VISIONS Opening Reception, Media Remix Installation
On Friday May 1, we will begin with a panel discussion exploding the boundaries of technology, art and education, and will conclude with a Media Remix installation, panel and screening:: The Night Visions program is developed in partnership with other local, regional and international organizations engaged in new media production. This year's two-day festival will be co-produced and co-curated by Karen Frostig, new media artist and Sam Smiley, video artist, both are Lesley University faculty. The program will represent new work from established as well as emerging artists, and from adult as well as teen artists and runs in conjunction with Boston's city-wide 2009 Cyberarts festival. This year we are especially pleased to announce a partnership with Cambridge Community Access Television (CCTV). This year we are especially pleased to announce a partnership with Cambridge Community Access Television (CCTV). Friday May 1, 2009, RECEPTION 6:00-6:30, Prospect Hall, 1803 Massachusetts Ave., Porter Square, Cambridge, MA 02138, Sam Smiley 617.331.5971

486 2009 event 522 - John Powell: Star Bright
Exhibition including interactive light sculpture by John Powell: Star Bright is a complex abstract image produced by a lens-less projector. It is powered by single colored LEDs (red, green and blue) and a slit aperture silhouette to "mix" the primary colors produced by the light source. The projector was developed for John Powell's ongoing project, illuminating the bridges crossing the Charles River, in collaboration with the Charles River Conservancy. The lighting devices provide full color white light as well as multi-color projections. Powell altered this device to create a large color field projection in homage to Vincent Van Gogh's painting Starry Night. John Powell: Star BrightOpening Reception: Saturday April 25, 2009 | 5-7pmApril 24, 2009- May 10,2009

487 2009 event 523 - NIGHT VISIONS presents Panel Discussion-- The Politics of Video Sampling: Slash and Remix Culture
During this evening of video remix instillations, outlawed YouTube posts, and moderated panel discussion, we'll explore why is it important (and safe!) to recycle pop-culture, mash-up the media landscape, and blur the line between passive audience and active creator. The installation will feature the work of local and national video remixers who use copyrighted material to critique power structures, deconstruct social myths and challenge notions of gender and identity through the re-cutting and re-framing of popular culture. A panel will discuss the politics, aesthetics and fair use issues involved in this type of culture creation. Artists include Aaron Valdez, AreFadedAway, Charmax, Elisa Kreisinger, Jonathan McIntosh, and Stacia Yeapanis. Panelists include: Carmin Karasic, Multimedia Artist, Boston CyberArts Assistant Director Kevin Driscoll, MIT's Free Culture project Renee Lloyd, Harvard's Berkman Center Remix Reception + Installation: 6:30 pm Panel Discussion: 7 pm Part of the NightVisions Program The Atrium at University Hall Lesley University, Porter Square 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge Red Line to Porter Square

488 2009 event 525 - Connections: Metropath(ologies)
Metropath(ologies) is a new installation about living in a world overflowing with information and non-stop communication. The sounds and visual imagery incorporate live and recorded data ranging from personal updates and private information, to global news reports. Visitors may choose to become part of the exhibit, their images captured by surveillance cameras, their names entered into databases, their voices recorded and played back by in the echoing soundtrack. From the Media Lab: Judith Donath, Alex Dragulescu, Yannick Assogba, and Aaron Zinman, 2008 Opening Reception: Thurs, February 26, Exhibition Dates: Feb 26-Sept 13

489 2009 event 526 - Daniel Phillips: Artist Talk
3pm | Artist Talk

490 2009 event 527 - NIGHT VISIONS presents Digital Expressions: Youth Media Culture
6pm | Panel and Screening of Work by Youth: Moderated by Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) The Night Visions program is developed in partnership with other local,regional and international organizations engaged in new media production. This year's two-day festival will be co-produced and co-curated by Karen Frostig, new media artist and Sam Smiley, video artist, both are Lesley University faculty. The program will represent new work from established as well as emerging artists, and from adult as well as teen artists and runs in conjunction with Boston's city-wide 2009 Cyberarts festival. A partnership with Cambridge Community Access Television (CCTV). Their exciting youth program will be featured on Thursday April 30, as well as a panel discussion on youth media culture. On Friday May 1, we will begin with a panel discussion exploding the boundaries of technology, art and education, and will conclude with a Media Remix installation, panel and screening.

491 2009 event 528 - NIGHT VISIONS presents Where Art and Technology collide: Examples from the Field
4pm | A panel discussion on New Media Art, Robotics, Engineering, And Education The Night Visions program is developed in partnership with other local,regional and international organizations engaged in new media production. This year's two-day festival will be co-produced and co-curated by Karen Frostig, new media artist and Sam Smiley, video artist, both are Lesley University faculty. The program will represent new work from established as well as emerging artists, and from adult as well as teen artists and runs in conjunction with Boston's city-wide 2009 Cyberarts festival. A partnership with Cambridge Community Access Television (CCTV). Their exciting youth program will be featured on Thursday April 30, as well as a panel discussion on youth media culture.

492 2009 event 529 - Yucef Merhi
Yucef MerhiReception | Sunday April 26, 4pm - 5pm 617.426.7686 Studio Soto at Thompson Design Group, 35 Channel Center St., (corner) Fort Point Boston Super Atari Poetry (2005) is a multiplayer game installation consisting of three Atari 2600 consoles, joysticks, self-manufactured artiridges, and TV moniters. Each cartridge contains a database of verses that were written by Merhi. Players can move forward and backward through the sentences or freeze/swap their shifting colors. The reading of the 3 verses printed on the screens produces an interactive and coherent poem that is always changing its meaning and chromatic structure. With Super Atari Poetry, participants can make about 1000 different poems. Super Atari Poetry is an invitation to feel and celebrate the linkage between the history of media and the history of art; the nexus between programming language and natural language, technology and literature, videogame and poetry. More information at : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=586585862#/note.php?note_id=55387075263 The Poetic Clock (2000-08) is a digital clock that transforms time into poetry. It is comprised by 4 rows of text, written in Spanish and programmed in ActionScript, projected on a wall using a computer-connected video beam. Every time an hour changes, a new sentence is printed on the first line. When a minute changes a sentence pops up on the second line. The change of seconds is represented by the change of sentences on the third line. Finally, the fourth line shows the hour as HH:MM:SS. The reading of the three verses produces an articulated and coherent poem; a poem that mutates each second, minute and hour; a poem that is continuously becoming another of itself, displaying through language the movement of time. As a result, the Poetic Clock genereates 86,400 different poems every day.

493 2009 event 532 - Computer Clubhouse Digital Studio
See digital artwork created by many of the Computer Clubhouse members and alumni. These "artists of the digital age" explore and master powerful, professional graphic tools available to them in the Clubhouse. The Clubhouse encourages young people to work as designers, inventors, and creators of projects based upon their own interests, supported by adult mentors and other youth. The exhibit will showcase digital art as well as video documentaries made by Clubhouse youth about their lives and issues that their communities face. Exhibition runs from Tuesday, May 5 - Saturday, May 9. 2009 (3pm - 6pm) There will be an informal reception on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 from 4-6pm. Generously Sponsored by: *The Intel Corporation, Adobe Systems, The LEGO Group, Corel Corporation, Autodesk, Inc., The National Science Foundation, Haworth Furniture, Inc., Harmony Line.*

494 2009 event 533 - The Reporter
The Reporter is a visualization of words found on Boston area Web sites including ones featuring WGBH-related programming such as "NOVA," "The World," National Public Radio and the BBC. Words used to describe a variety of topics are mixed up and broken apart. Letters from these words float freely in a typographic cloud and periodically re-form, randomly combining with other words to make original statements. The Reporter sometimes gets its facts wrong, but many of its statements are an accurate description of current events. Other statements can challenge our understanding of the news and its authenticity.

495 2009 event 534 - FEED: Everything must Eat and Excrete
Opening Reception: May 2, 2009 | 7-10pm This is an advanced viewing of three of the thirty projects to be exhibited at FEED in Fall 2009 at a larger venue. The evening will feature interactive projects with several Fort Point artists and performers working on related subjects. FEED: a collaborative installation / performance curated by Lisa Lunskaya Gordon and composed of individual works and performances by artists, technologists and scientists, networked to create a metaphorical closed system-- a living body. FEED seeks to examine societal hunger for constant information flow: receiving and responding to a live information. Each piece has an 'in port,' and an 'out port.' Biologically put; Everything must eat and excrete. Admission is Free, though your $5-$10 donations are gladly accepted. The show is suitable for all ages with adult supervision. For Wheelchair Access, please call 617-966-6264 in advance. Viewing is by appointment.

496 2009 event 542 - CyberArtsCentral | Continuum
This year's Cyberarts headquarters will be hosted by 1330 Boylston in the Fenway. Come over and help us celebrate our 10th anniversary! Grab information, or search the online events calendar of the 2009 Festival and its exciting programs showcased at participating organizations from April 24 through May 10, 2009. Featured Exhibition: Continuum | Early computer animations from the 1960's from the Anne & Michael Spalter collection of experimental digital films (originally produced by Bell Labs) and juried works by area digital art students.Digital and new media art work by Boston-area graduate and undergraduate students form new media art departments at Brandeis University, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Massachusetts College of Art & Design (MassArt), School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), and others. Also showcased is LocaModa's interactive, real-time, digital media screen. For more information, please visit | www.bostoncyberarts.org Dates: April 24 - May 10, 2009 Hours: Wed - Sat, noon - 7pm; Sun, noon - 6pm 1330 Boylston Street., Boston, MA 02215 CyberArtsCentral is generously hosted by Samuels and Associates and funded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council Adams Fund.

497 2009 event 543 - Memories of the Charles
May 3, 2009 | 8:30 pm - 11:00 pm (rain date: May 3) Memories of the Charles Waterfall Project The Water Fall Project is a one-night experimental public art/public memory initiative. This interactive art installation, on display May 1, 2009 from 8:30 PM through 11:00 PM, is a complex series of still and moving images projected onto the Moody Street waterfall and the adjacent millpond. These digital loops, edited by students in Professor Mark Auslander's "Museums and Public Memory class" and the graduate program in Cultural Production at Brandeis University. This program moves audiences through time and through different moments in the city's rich and complex history. The waterfall, whose energy drove the creation of the American industrial revolution in the early 19th century, becomes a "portal" into the city's past. Student-developed electro acoustical soundscapes, incorporating the class interviews with community members as well as the river's diverse soundscapes, will accompany the video projection. Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation 154 Moody Street, in Waltham, MA 02453 General Admission to the museum is $5.00 per adult, $3.00 per child student or senior, children under 6 and active US military are free. Museum Hours | Thursday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. For more information call 781 893 5410 or visit www.crmi.org This is a Free event on the Spring Calendar.

498 2009 event 544 - What’s in Your Suitcase?
Featuring guest artist - Wenhua Shi What's in Your Suitcase? Curated by Assistant Professor Ellen Wetmore in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival The digital storytelling of Wenhua Shi is an exercise in psychogeography-mapping into individual narratives to illustrate a landscape composed of more than just geographical and economic vectors. Digitally capturing the travel stories of various people he encounters in his daily routine, Shi allows gallery visitors to rendezvous with strangers at random, as if they were in a train station or airport. Wenhua Shi is an MFA candidate at the University of California, at Berkeley. His new works integrate new media, film and video. Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 | 3-5pmUMass Lowell | Dugan GalleryDugan Hall, Basement Level Art Studios 883 Broadway St, Lowell, MA 01854Hours: Mon - Fri 9 - 5 Contact: 978 934.3491, Michele_Gagnon@uml.eduwww.uml.edu/dep/art/gallery.htm

499 2009 event 545 - Traversing Sweet Illusions | Boston Cyberarts in Second Life
Boston Cyberarts' first Second Life exhibition! Featuring: "Artropolis", by Todd Tevlin: captivating island of artists who built their SL studios on top of ancient ruins. "I'm Not Here", by Lance Shields: enhances your experience in Second Life through color, light, motion, audio and avatar animation. "Hostile Space", by D.C Spensley: immersive monolith that literally drops reflexive objects on and around viewers. "Land of Illusions", by Lily & Honglei: series of networked-performances and multimedia installations set in Chinese architecture. "Traversal for Faneuil Hall", by John Fillwalk and Jesse Allison: live performance on May 6th that allows avatars to really ring the virtual Faneuil Hall bell tower in Boston and the physical Shafer bell tower in Indiana. "In the Sweet Bye & Bye", by Philip Jones: fusion of traditional and avant garde art in a rich immersive memoir. "Adventures of Filthy Fluno", by Jeffrey Lipsky: evolving collection of artworks inspired by the culture, people, and events in virtual worlds. Opening Reception Sunday April 26, 5 - 8 PM EST in Second Life: Includes live SL music performances, and participating artists will introduce their artwork and also be available to speak with people at the opening. Contact: Carmin Karasic, carminka@gmail.com, 617-418-3040 Sponsors: Jeffrey Lipsky Arts, and Artropolis Works from "Traversing Sweet Illusions" are also available for viewing in the non-virtual world. CounterpART Gallery in Lowell hosts the entire Festival Second Life exhibition from April 24-May 2, with a Cyber-flavor Mashup reception and artist talk on April 26. Lily & Honglei's Second Life artwork is on view at Design Gallery 154 at UMass Dartmouth.

500 2009 event 546 - Luminous Windows
Throughout the winter, from dusk until 2:00 a.m. the MIT Museum presents an exhibition of contemporary, 3-dimensional holographic artworks displayed in the windows viewable only from outside the Mark Epstein Innovation Gallery, on the street and sidewalks of Massachusetts Avenue. Featured will be works by six international artists whose varied imagery represents artistic and technical advancements in the field of display holography. A description of each artwork is available online at: http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/luminouswindows/ Contact Information: Jon Markowitz Bijur, jbijur@MIT.EDU, MIT Museum Interim Programs Manager | 617-253-9607

501 2009 event 547 - LOOPS: New Iterations - performance of dance and software
An evening of performance to kick off the opening of an exhibition inspired by Merce Cunningham's LOOPS and OpenEndedGroup's digital art work LOOPS performance featuring Jonah Bokaer - dance performance Marjorie Morgan - dance performance Marc Downie (OpenEnded Group) - Keynote talk Reservations via this website or at the door.Friday April 24, 8 pm $20 / $18 Students / BDA member $20 entry, Cyberpass discount to come.For more information email info@bostoncyberarts.org or call 617-524-8495

502 2009 event 550 - Humanⁿ - Digital Kaleidoscope
A new media installation by Carmin Karasic and Rolf van Gelder (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) The humann kaleidoscope installation allows the viewer to literally put a spin on visions of humanity. The viewer's movements spin and zoom the kaleidoscope. The kaleidoscopic has two image components: the background and the viewer. While someone is in the camera range, the kaleidoscope software samples his/her live video image and mixes it with the background image real-time. By mixing live video of the viewer with topical images near and far, the wide gap separating us from the impacts of our choices is eliminated. This artwork playfully samples and re-mixes us; no longer are we invisible players in world events. Funding: LMS200 sensor donated by SICK, Germany; KyndL, Lynnfield, MA donated a custom-built computer for the exhibition. Free with Exhibit Halls admission, wheelchair accessible During the two weeks of the Boston Cyberarts Festival (April 24 - May 10) from Mondays thru Thursdays you can get in for *FREE* from 3:30pm - 4:45pm (no cyberpass nor invite needed) Just go to the Cyberarts desk at the museum entrance and they will let you in for free. Installation open during Museum hours: Saturday - Thursday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Friday, 9:00 am - 9:00 pm

503 2009 event 551 - Artist Talk: Dorothy Krause and George Fifield
3PM Artist Talk for Dorothy Krause's exhibition "Losing Ground" http://www.ssac.org/wdnew/crrntcal.htm

504 2009 event 552 - Body Re-Public: Digitally Remixed Prints by Jennifer Hughes and Rachel De Urioste
An exhibition of prints and drawings by Jennifer Hughes and Rachel De Urioste focusing on the human body integrated with medical scans, diagrams, and engineering specifications. Their images play on the theme of body as organic versus machine in tandem with the theme of printmaking as traditional hand-pulled prints versus contemporary digital output. Contact information: Marshall Hughes, rccgallery@rcc.mass.edu, (617) 541-5380, Jennifer Hughes, info@jennifer-hughes.com, 617-733-3622 March 21 - April 30 Artist Reception: April 29, 5 - 7 pm Gallery Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm, other times by appointment

505 2009 event 554 - Navigating Cyberworlds | Creative Practice in Virtual Reality
Panel discussion with: Mark Skwarek (Children of Arcadia), Tamiko Thiel, HongLei, Jeff Lipsy (Filthyfluno), All participants are virtual reality artists from the festival & George Fifield will act as moderator. Monday, April 27, 2009 | 7pm-9pm http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/ Boston University SCV Computer Graphics Lap (HiPArt) 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, MA 02215 Contact: laura@bu.edu, (617)353-7800

506 2009 event 555 - Unnatural Disasters
Standing in front of a 15' x 8' Display Wall, wearing 3D glasses, and navigating with a game controller, visitors can explore "Unnatural Disasters", a 3D animated environment by Boston University College of Fine Arts students. "Unnatural Disasters" explores the themes of financial meltdown, interspecies conflict, and planetary exhaustion.Unnatural DisastersOffice of Information Technology, Computer Graphics Lab | http://scv.bu.edu/hipart/111 Cummington Street, Room 203 Boston, MA 02215 617.353.7800Gallery Viewing Hours: Sat Apr 25, 2-4 Mon Apr 27, 5-7 Wed Apr 29, 4-6 Sat May 2, 2-4 Wed May 6, 4-6 Sat May 9, 2-4This program is appropriate for children & families.

507 2009 event 557 - Game Design Focus Group for Teens | Exhibition and Interactive Presentation
Game Design Focus Group for Teens | Exhibition and Interactive PresentationWe grow up playing board, card and video games, but what makes a great game? On May 3rd, five talented teen game makers will present a few works in progress, demonstrating for the public the process behind game design. They will introduce audience members to new worlds and characters, and put a new spin on a few classic games. Play, learn, and discuss the works of these creative minds at Cloud Place's Game Night Focus Group.May 3, 2009 | 2:00 - 4:00pmCloud Place | 647 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 617.262.2949 | info@cloudfoundation.org | www.cloudfoundation.org

508 2009 event 558 - StoryBorders project launch | Exhibition and Interactive Presentation
StoryBorders project launch: www.storyborders.org | Exhibition and Interactive Presentation StoryBorders.org is an international, cross-media meeting place for young artists from around the world. We invite young people from every continent to join us in creating this experiment in virtual communication and artistic expression. StoryBorders houses short films, images, writing, sound clips and more, contributed by young people who want to show the world their neighborhoods, meeting places, landmarks, and playgrounds. Our goal is to create a multi-media online exhibition of works by young artists (ages 0 - 20), and to spark an international conversation among aspiring filmmakers, visual artists, musicians, sound designers, writers, and more! During the 2009 CyberArts Festival the Cloud Foundation will officially launch the StoryBorders project with an exhibition of teen films and photography submitted by Boston high school students. Works included in the exhibition explore the city of Boston from many perspectives, from the Haymarket to Copley Square. During the hours of the exhibition teen artists are invited to upload their own works to the StoryBorders online community. Members of the public are invited to view and comment on exceptional documentary works by teen artists both online and in person. For more information on the project, or to submit your work, please visit www.storyborders.org.Developed by the Cloud Foundation for the TransCultural Exchange's 2008 conference Here, There and Everywhere: Anticipating the Art of the Future. Opening reception: May 8, 2009 | 5:00 - 7:00pm Free and open to the public Cloud Place | 647 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 617.262.2949 | info@cloudfoundation.org | www.cloudfoundation.org

509 2009 event 559 - Artists' Talk with Chris Abrams and Paul Bernstein
Artists' Talk with Chris Abrams and Paul Bernstein | on their exhibition "The Lab"Wednesday, April 30, 2009 | 7pmFPAC (Fort Point Arts Community) Gallery300 Summer Street M1 Boston, MA 02210for more info. contact : gallery@fortpointarts.org

510 2009 event 560 - Cyber-Flavor-Mashup
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 5-8pm (Reception will include artist talks and discussions throughout the evening.) A mixed reality mashup of immersive, 3D and 2D artworks created and inspired by the virtual world of Second Life and beyond. Featured artists will show how they are utilizing virtual worlds to create new artforms and engage new. Participants at the gallery will have the opportunity to interact with both real and virtual art happenings and artworks for the festival. Live cybersound artists and musicians will be performing throughout the evening via the gallery's multimedia sound system. The island/art community of Artropolis, BCAF's inworld portal to the virtual exhibition, will also be on display thoughout the evening. For more information please contact: Jeffrey_lipsky@yahoo.com or visit www.counterpartgallery.com Sponsors: Jeffrey Lipsky Arts. Audiopark Productions. Artropolis See the 'Traversing Sweet Illusions' event.

511 2009 event 561 - Luminous Garden (Aerial)
BETH GALSTON Luminous Garden (Aerial) April 23 - May 24, 2009 First Friday Reception: May 1, 5 - 8 pm Gallery Hours | Wednesday-Sunday 12-6 In Luminous Garden (Aerial), a glowing walk-though environment, Beth Galston creates a magical world inspired by nature and its processes. Using a simple repertoire of materials - colored LEDs, cast resin acorn caps, and tangles of electrical wire - the installation creates a multi-layered three-dimensional drawing. Galston's ephemeral "garden" is populated by a profusion of spidery plant-like forms, which are reminiscent of nests or webs. Loosely tethered to the ground, they seem to hover in the air and suggest the possibility of movement. This garden is the sixth in the series of "Luminous Garden" environments. While the previous gardens were set in the ground and "planted," suggesting a cultivated place, this garden is a wilder community of organisms breaking loose from the ground and undergoing a metamorphosis. Galston's artwork is influenced by her scientist father, who researched the interaction of plants and light. This sculpture is dedicated to Galston's parents, who encouraged her creativity and both of whom died in recent months. The installation is part of the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival. (There is validated parking behind the gallery)

512 2009 event 562 - CRUNCH: Working Data
The event will be a collaborative showing of works from SIM (Studio for Interrelated Media) & MPA (Media Performing Arts) within the Graduate Program at MassArt: Robert Brant Christopher Carrol Beth Cohen Lenka Chludova Marc McNulty Dana Moser Kevin Thrasher Joey Tipton Olivia Vegh Fred Wolflink Reception | Saturday, May 2, 2009 | 7pm | Doran Gallery Public contact | Marc McNulty | 617-642-2573

513 2009 event 563 - The Brandeis Department of Fine Art presents Go Modelmental! - Closing
(coincides with CRMII's May 1 events) Go Modelmental! (Two Locations: XZ) The Brandeis Department of Fine Art presents Go Modelmental! an exhibition of student and faculty work exploring the increasingly complex interplay between the virtual and the actual through a blend of multimedia, digital, and traditional modeling techniques with an emphasis on 3D printing sculpture, installation, video and animation. Includes work by Brandeis Fine Arts Faculty Christopher Abrams, Markus Baenziger, Claudia Bucher, Tory Fair, Brandeis Post-Bac and PhD students, Shirly Bahar, Christian Gentry, Kevin Kenific, John Tronsor, and animation from the Brandeis Computer Science Department. (video installations, animations, and sculpture) Cosponsored by The Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation and The Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. Made possible through generous support from The Poses Foundation. 3D printing by JARD Inc. of Arlington, MA. Go Modelmental Z | features smaller scale 3D printed sculptures and smaller scale video pieces. Opening Sound Event by TRACHYPITHECUS April 24th-May 1st Closing: Friday, May 1st 6 - 8 PM (coincides with CRMII's May 1 events) The Lincoln Building | 289 Moody St., Waltham, MA 02543 | (Gallery located next to Back Pages Books) Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday | 12 - 6PM

514 2009 event 565 - CyberArts at NEiA| various workshops
The New England Institute of the Arts celebrates the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival with two weeks of special events & workshops. These include a collaborative performance between students in the Web Design and Interactive Media (WDIM) department's "Interactive Performance" class and the Metrowest Symphony Orchestra (MSO) in Hopkinton, Mass. This will be the second such collaboration between the MSO and the school after last year's Boston Marathon kick-off concert with music by the orchestra and live interactive visuals created by students from the Interactive performance class. In addition to this performance the WDIM department will offer a week of workshops, lectures and hands on sessions on a wide variety of topics related to art and technology. The speakers will include NEIA faculty and internationally acclaimed guest presenters. April 29-May1st || Various workshops with session times as follows: 12-2:30, 3-5 and 6-8 everyday from Wed, April 29-Fri, May 1 Sponsored by : The New England Institute of Art-Web Design and Interactive Media DepartmentFor pricing and more information please go to wdim.org/cyberarts or contact Fran Berger | 617.582.4442

515 2009 event 566 - Interactive Mixed Media Performance
New England Institute of Art Web Design & Interactive Media (WDIM) students will be performing with Club d'Elf and members of the Vidalna Tribal Dance Troupe in a mixed media performance on Friday April 24th at the new Somerville Arts in the Armory (www.artsatthearmory.com). The band will be led by bassist Mike Rivard, leader of Boston institution Club D'elf and will feature special guest DJ Rourke and a dancers led by Shakti Rowan. They will be collaborating with Visual Artists, programmers, animators and interactive designers from the Art Institute to create real time interaction between the performers and an arsenal of digital technology. The students are part of the Interactive Performance class which was created and is taught by faculty member and composer Chris Florio. Students of this class have collaborated previously with the Metrowest Symphony Orchestra and have given performances at the Puppet Showcase Theatre in Brookline. The performance will take place at | Arts in the Armory 191 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA Tickets are $7 (FREE with a student ID)

516 2009 event 567 - Gam3rS: The Play
Gam3rS: The Play | A one-man comedy about the secret lives of gamers | Thursday, April 30th | 6-8pm | Room 1001 at the Center Campus FREE EVENT | Featuring a Q & A session after the performance with actor/writer/gamer Brian Bielawkski about gaming culture. This hit comedy was praised by the critics in New York: "Brian Bielawski and Walter G. Meyer get so much right about the life of a gaming geek, here embodied in the character Steve (played believably by Bielawski), an MIT dropout who rules the universe of an online role-playing game and works a real life tech support job to support his virtual one, that the non-gaming members of the audience which find his behavior so bizarrely funny would probably be shocked to learn how accurate the portrayal actually is. What's fun about this show is that it packs more inside gamer/techie/webhead jokes into an hour than seems possible without leaving the 'outsider' part of the audience behind, and thus everyone gets to have a good time. Both gamers and non-gamers alike will enjoy its humor." -Gregory Wilson, curtainup.com

517 2009 event 568 - Flash on Tap:_Root
Flash on Tap:_Root | Sat., May 2, 2009 | 10:30-3:30pm | FreeBlur the lines between education and fun. Come spend the day learning about working in the video game industry, making Flash games, and playing games. This event is geared for ages 14-25.Featuring speakers Marc Flury from Harmonix and Scott MacMillan from MacGuffin Games. Marc Flury is currently Lead Programmer at Harmonix Music on the upcoming Beatles game. Previously, he was Lead UI Programmer on Rock Band 2 and Rock Band, UI Programmer on Guitar Hero and Karaoke Revolution Party. At Northeastern University's ArticuLab Marc worked on social software projects in artificial intelligence and human-computer-interaction. Marc will be presenting an introductory talk on programming for games and how to get a job game programming.Scott Macmillan has worked in the game industry since 2002, in Quality Assurance, Production, and now as the founder of his own indie studio, Macguffin Games He has seven titles to his credit, and is currently working on Macguffin Games' first game, Heritage. Scott will be talking about some of the ways aspiring developers can get into the games industry, the path he took to becoming an independent game developer, and the some of the interesting challenges and successes he has encountered developing his company's new game, Heritage. Come to this fascinating session and you'll also get a sneak preview of Heritage!

518 2009 event 569 - And This and That & That and This : Andrew Neumann
And This and That & That and This : Andrew NeumannOpening Reception | Saturday, May 2, 2009 | 4-7pmGallery 360 @ Northeastern UniversityFree & Open to the PublicPublic Transportation: (Green line) to Northeastern Stop on the E Line or Orange Line to Ruggles Station

519 2009 event 570 - ICONOGRAPHY of Climate Change: a digital silkscreen production workshop
Platform2: Art & Social Engagement with RoberDaVies presents | ICONOGRAPHY of Climate Change(a digital silkscreen production workshop) Sunday May 10, 1-5pm Studio 9:43 @ The Distillery, 516 East Second Street South Boston, MA Polar bears... Melting glaciers... Pine groves... Green arrows... Blue skies...Stranded penguins... Al Gore... Parched earth... Powerpoint... Sprouted seedlings... Reusable bags... What are the images that we associate with climate change? Where are the inspiring designs that might instigate change or revolution? This afternoon workshop will use digital media and silkscreen techniques to critically analyze, deconstruct and revision these lame icons of climate change in the media. We provide: Silkscreening demonstrations Tools for digital production and archiving Tunes & greens (to use and to eat) You bring: T-shirts, bags, patches, pants and other printable materials The end product: an online archive (Creative Commons licensed) an artists book edition We will have a wall of images for inspiration and collage. If you won't be in town for the event - send us your images! We'll add them to the wall. All images from the event will be uploaded to an online archive and made into an edition of artists books. Lets come up with a new visual language that will help to change the world! Space is limited, please RSVP: info@ikatun.orgIf sending images by email, please use JPG form

520 2009 event 571 - Traversal for Faneuil Hall and Shafer Tower
UPDATE! "Traversal for Faneuil Hall and Shafer Tower", John Fillwalk (aka Mencius Watts) and Jesse Allison (aka Taggert Alsop) 2009 Wednesday, May 6th, 4-10 p.m. EST (1pm - 7pm SLT) 2009 Bells will be playable on the quarter hours Physical location: Shafer Tower on McKinley Avenue, Muncie, IN Virtual location: To visit to the performance in Second Life - SLurl: http://tinyurl.com/IDIA-Cyberarts "Traversal for Faneuil Hall and Shafer Tower" is a live performance and hybrid reality installation that bridges the physical and virtual worlds. It will connect Faneuil Hall in Boston (virtualized in Second Life) with Shafer Bell Tower at Ball State University during the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Visitors to Second Life will be able to play the physical bell tower at BSU via an interactive online virtual instrument built by IDIA located in a 3D model of Faneuil Hall. Participants from all over the world can play the actual carillon bells on top of Shafer Tower at Ball State University by using their Second Life avatars. The ringing of the bells of Shafer Tower will be streamed and simulcast back into Second Life, so the virtual participants can see and hear their interactions and a station at Shafer Tower will also be installed which will connect physical participants to their virtual counterparts. IDIA's Director, John Fillwalk, Jesse Allison, staff and graduate students have collaboratively designed and built this interactive artwork. THE INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL INTERMEDIA ARTS is a collaborative research and design studio established as part of the Digital Exchange - a digital media initiative at Ball State University's Center for Media Design. See also: Traversing Sweet Illusions


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