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29.04.03 Boston Cyberarts 2003.
On April 26 opened the 2003 edition of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, an awesome exhibition with a lot of events covering the whole city, involving private and public cultural institutions, universities and entertainment companies. Even if it often mixes technology and theory, putting side by side those who simply apply computer techniques to 'classical' artifacts and those whose works are mainly digital, this exhibition still manages to capture the interest of the city for a couple of weeks. Among the features are: the presentation of the Toy Symphony project by Tod Machover from MIT and a 24 hours of computer art videos in the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the presentation of Terpsichore's Haunt, a new work by the Scientific Computing and Visualization group and 'Luminous Garden', an installation by Beth Galston where light is diffused by embedding LEDs into organic materials. There will also be several digital figurative works, such as 'TechArt', at the Bancroft Gallery, or 'The New Renaissance', or the web art 'Madam I'm Adam', a set of installations by Isabella Stewart which are documented and removed shortly after, 'Art is @ everywhere', hosted on Boston Art Institute's site and A2DD2A (Analog to Digital Digital to Analog), exhibited at the Fort Point Arts Community Gallery. The list of artists participating to the project is quite long: Lia, Martin Wattenberg, Stanza, Joseph Smolinski, Anna Shapiro, Dextro and many others. Finally, there's a section dedicated to 'public art', with many exhibits: 'Pedestrian', an installation composed of street microprojections, next to the @ MIT hotel, 'Word On the Site', where sayings and proverbs are displayed with LEDs at the South Station, and 'Wounds', by Bruce Hanson, which projects images of wounds on the pedestrians' bodies.