October 14th, 2011
Press Contact: Nina J Berger
press@bostoncyberarts.org, 617.543.1595
BOSTON CYBERARTS AT ATLANTIC WHARF PRESENTS
BEHOLD: SIght in New Media
An exhibition of art that sees
Curated by George Fifield and Heidi Kayser
Boston, Mass. - Boston Cyberarts inaugurates Atlantic Wharf's new dedicated art gallery with BEHOLD: Sight in New Media, an exhibition presenting four artists - Sheila Gallagher, Golan Levin, Davis Rokeby and Daniel Rozin - who either make art that looks at or reflects us, or who use new ways of seeing to examine the world afresh. On view at Atlantic Wharf, 290 Congress Street, Boston, from October 19 through December 4, the exhibition is free and open to the public.An Opening Reception for the show will take place on Friday, October 21, from 5-8 pm.
Sheila Gallagher's series of prints, Hand-Eye (2006) uses the Eye Tracking Lab at Boston College to record her own eye movements while she looks at images of women athletes. The resulting prints are a record of her own personal pattern of seeing.
Golan Levin makes art that looks at us. Eye Code (2007) captures our own eyes between two of our blinks into a grid of eyes. Double-Taker (Snout) (2008) presents video documentation of a marvelous eight-foot long mechanical creature that actually follows the movements of passersby with his cyclopean eye.
David Rokeby's San Marco Flow (2005) looks not at the present but the immediate past. In Venice's famed Piazza San Marco, we only see what has just moved, things that are not moving are invisible. Walking pigeons leave worm-like traces. Gathered people abstract themselves through their shifting motions. Tour groups flow across the image like a river.
Daniel Rozin'sMirror no. 10 - Sketch Mirror (2009) analyzes the image of the viewer, deriving information about colors, detail, contours and change, and attempts to create a sketch of the viewer. The sketches tend to emphasize traits of a person, creating somewhat of a caricature, enlarging pointy noses and chins and making big smiles even bigger.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Sheila Gallagher is a multi-media artist living in Boston whose work explores the nature of perception, belief and different modes of representation. Her work takes many forms including video, flower installations, smoke paintings and computer aided drawing. Widely exhibited in New England, Gallagher's work has been shown at such venues as The Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts and Wellesley College. Gallgher received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. She has taught at Wellesley College, the Art Institute of Boston, and is currently Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College. She is Co-Director of The Becker Archive at Boston College. Gallagher lives and works in Jamaica Plain.
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer and researcher interested in new modes of interactive expression. His work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, and has been recognized with grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller MAP Fund, the Langlois Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council England, and others. Levin has spent more than 20 years as an artist immersed in high-technology research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, Ars Electronica Futurelab, Interval Research Corporation, and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. At Carnegie Mellon University, Golan is currently Associate Professor of Electronic Art, with courtesy appointments in Design and Computer Science. Since 2008, Levin has also served as Director of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a "meta-laboratory" within Carnegie Mellon dedicated to atypical, interdisciplinary, and other experimental modes of arts research. Golan exhibits and lectures widely in Europe, the Americas and Asia.
Canadian artist David Rokeby has been creating interactive sound and video installations with computers since 1982. His early work Very Nervous System (1982-1991) is acknowledged as a pioneering work of interactive art, translating physical gestures into real-time interactive sound environments. Very Nervous System was presented at the Venice Biennale in 1986, and was awarded the First Petro-Canada Award for Media Arts in 1988 and Austria's Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction for Interactive Art in 1991. Rokeby's installations have been exhibited extensively in the Americas, Europe and Asia. He has been featured in retrospectives at Oakville Galleries (2004), FACT in Liverpool (2007), the CCA in Glasgow (2007) and the Art Gallery of Windsor (2008). He has been an invited speaker at events around the world, and has published two papers that are required reading in the new media arts faculties of many universities. In 2002, Rokeby was awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Interactive Art (for n-cha(n)t) and represented Canada at the Venice Biennale of Architecture with Seen (2002). In 2004 he represented Canada at the Sao Paulo Bienal in Brazil. In 2007 he completed major art commissions for the Ontario Science Centre and the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montreal. His 400-foot long, 72-foot high sculpture entitled long wave was one of the hits at the 2009 Luminato Festival in Toronto. David Rokeby is represented by Pari Nadimi Gallery.
Daniel Rozin is an artist, educator and developer, working in the area of interactive digital art. Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. Even though computers are often used in Rozin's work, they are seldom visible. As an educator, Rozin is Associate Art Professor at ITP, Tisch School Of The Arts, NYU where he teaches such classes as: "The World- Pixel by Pixel", "Project Development Studio" and "Toy Design Workshop." As developer, Rozin owns Smoothware Design, a software company that creates tools for the interactive art and multimedia authoring community. Born in Jerusalem and trained as an industrial designer Rozin lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited widely with solo exhibitions in the US and internationally and featured in publications such as The New York Times, Wired, ID, Spectrum and Leonardo. His work has earned him numerous awards including Prix Ars Electronica, ID Design Review and the Chrysler Design Award.
About Atlantic Wharf Atlantic Wharf is the new center of Boston's waterfront. World-class offices, waterfront retail and sophisticated urban lofts come together in Boston's only waterfront, mixed-use complex. Located at the vibrant intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Congress Street, Atlantic Wharf offers direct access from both I-90 and I-93, and into the Seaport/Convention Center area. South Station is one block away with direct access to public transit. About Boston Cyberarts Boston Cyberarts, launched by George Fifield in 1999 with seed funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is an umbrella for several ventures - the Boston Cyberarts Festival, Art Technology New England, the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, and now, Boston Cyberarts at Atlantic Wharf. The biennial Boston Cyberarts Festival is the first and largest collaboration of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual arts, dance, music, electronic literature, web art, and public art. The next festival will be held in Spring 2013. Cyberart encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used to expand artistic possibilities - that is, where the computer's unique capabilities are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic film, musical instruments, and other materials have always been used to express an artist's vision. Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council, ArtsBoston, IBM, the Boston Cultural Council and Avid. Boston Cyberarts is proud to be a partner with Boston Properties and Atlantic Wharf, and the Boston Children's Museum. Dig Boston is the media sponsor. Further information on Boston Cyberarts is available by visiting www.bostoncyberarts.org, calling 617.524.8495 or emailing info@bostoncyberarts.org. # # #
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