Join artists of FeministFuturist - the artist collective currently on view in the gallery exhibition “CURRENCY” - for a virtual discussion about value, currency, monuments and exchange in art now and in the future.

FeministFuturist artists on the panel: Freedom Baird, Christina Balch, Marjorie Kaye, AK Liesenfeld, Carolyn Wirth, and hosted by Chris Klepper of Art & Technology New England (ATNE)

The event will be held on zoom - it is free and open to the public but advanced registration is required.

Register in advance for this meeting here.

You can also learn more about the exhibition “CURRENCY” by visiting the page on our website. This exhibition is created, curated and presented by the FeministFuturist art collective and encompasses both physical and virtual work.

Tuesday, March 30th at 5:30 PM 

Join exhibition curator Jameson Johnson with exhibiting artists Furen Dai, Ryan Kuo and Gabriel Sosa for a conversation around their group exhibition, Message Received. The conversation will utilize the works included within the exhibition as a framework for discussing the role of language in contemporary art and more broadly as a tool for activism, agency, appropriation, and action. 

This event will be held on Zoom. A link will be provided closer to the event. 

We will work with all members of our community to ensure accessibility needs are met for this event. Due to limited resources, we ask individuals to please reach out at least one week in advance with any accessibility requests.

You can access the eventbrite page here.

The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is pleased to present Fresh Media 2020, the annual Dynamic Media Institute’s student art exhibit. The Dynamic Media Institute (DMI,) at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, is a master’s program composed of a diverse group of educators, developers, designers, and artists. The work created by DMI students explores the role of dynamic media in both art and design. At the core to the program’s mission is the engagement with audiences through user testing: our guests’ feedback not only provide students with a better understanding of their master projects, but also help expand the field of interaction design as a whole.

Visitors to Fresh Media 2020 can expect a unique art and design gallery experience, where they participate in meaning-making through interaction. Using technologies as diverse as virtual and augmented reality, motion and sound sensors, soundscapes and others, our guests will participate in the expansion of the language of dynamic media. Fresh Media 2020 is an opportunity to experience, first-hand, what is new in digital art and design. We invite you to explore with us exciting new frontiers of user experience.

Featuring works by:

Mayuri Saxena

Cheng Qiu

Cori Barnett Mintzer

Crystal Bi Wegner

Kathyleen (Kat) Martin

Riley Hunter

Finnie Mao

Abraham Evensen Tena

WETWIRED in the MEATSPACE invites you to dip your toes into the slipstream of reality between screen and substance, between science and superstition—where the beautiful and bizarre are transformed from the digital imagination into fleshy manifestations. In this exhibit, artists conjure alternate realities in which beach trash and aliens are one and the same, microscopic worlds become inhabitable, dream monsters walk the earth, and meat is grown in outer space. Through experimental research methods, these artworks link our perceived environments to unseen social architectures and endeavor to “make sense of it all.”

Co-curated by Emily Bright, Kat Jarvinen, and Hannah Suzanna.

Included in the exhibit are works by:
Thomas Brett
Emily Bright
Zhanyi Chen
Ji Yoon Jen Chung
Nicola DiFusco
Zongxian Huang
Kat Jarvinen
Songan Kyung
Xinyu Li
Zihan Iris Li
Ollie Rosario
Elise Stephens
Meghan Surges
Hannah Suzanna
Joon June Yoon
Hyejun Youn

Digital + Media operates at the nexus of art, science, technology and critical theory. Offered at the graduate level only, the program emphasizes interdisciplinary, research-driven practices in which conceptual intention determines form and media. Through a rigorous curriculum, graduate students in D+M discover new methodologies, technologies and sites of cultural production.

High technology, or High Tech, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the most advanced technology available. The opposite of high tech is low tech. This refers to simple, often traditional or mechanical technology, using basic mechanics or natural phenomena like wind, water, gravity and the sun.

Through its historic festivals, installations, exhibits and events, Boston Cyberarts has a 20-year tradition of showcasing High Tech as artistic tools and applications. Our "tradition" is a focus on the "new" and how that is translated into the most provocative and compelling examples of Art and technology. With this exhibit of Nostalgia Tech artist and designer pieces, basic historical references are made to 19th Century and 20th Century creations using technology of the period to elicit delight, amusement, admiration and even astonishment.

Co-curated by Boston Cyberarts Board Member Mark Favermann, Assistant Director Keaton Fox and Executive Director/Founder George Fifield, Nostalgia Tech is a mix of historic and contemporary art and design pieces skillfully and aesthetically utilizing simple technologies. The works are in conversation with each other, and thus the exhibit showcases a collection of intriguing artistic devices that use technologies that are now part of our collective cultural memory and are now nostalgic.

Included in the exhibit are works by: 

Kevin Arrow

Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray

Marvin Glass

Chris Fitch

Antony Flackett

Nathan Miner

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher

Dan Younger

Janet Zwieg

Boston Cyberarts is proud to present The Illusion Layer, an exhibition that highlights artists using Artivive to bring their 2D artworks to life. Artivive is a relatively new augmented reality app, out of Austria, which is designed for traditional 2D artists and animators to augment animations or videos on top of their paintings, prints, and murals without learning complicated code or a new programming language. Artivive is intuitive to use. For both the artist and the viewer, you don't have to know much about the tech in order to get straight to the content. The interface is simple and basically non-technical, however the results can be surprising and sophisticated. 

The exhibition will include original prints and drawings, both 2D and sculptural as well as images of some of the murals in the greater Boston area that incorporate the app. There will even be an augmented couch. 

Boston Cyberarts has been interested in the use of augmented reality (AR) in art making from its inception. Beginning in 2001, when University of Washington HIT Lab researcher Bruce Campbell presented his AR research called BCFlora at the Boston Cyberarts Festival central headquarters, we have presented AR art in the gallery and outdoors in public space. Most recently, Boston Cyberarts commissioned six works of AR art by Nancy Baker Cahill, John Craig Freeman and Will Pappenheimer as part of The Auto Show, the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy's public art program up for the year. 

Artists include Growth Spurt, Rob 'Problak' Gibbs, Sofie Hodera, William Russell Pensyl, Martha Rettig, Julia Rue, Sneha Shrestha, Abraham Evensen Tena, Jody Zellen and more.  

Boston Cyberarts Gallery is proud to present Re:Constructing Evidence featuring the works of Jennifer Gradecki and Derek Curry, Meg Heckman, Dietmar Offenhuber, and Ang Li.

Re:Constructing Evidence explores the role of evidence and practices of evidence construction - both physical and digital - in public controversies and civic life.

The exhibition features four case studies focused on climate change, waste management, assumptions in data analytics, and the construction of breaking news narratives. Rooted in discourses of architecture, journalism, media art and environmental humanities, these projects investigate the constructed nature of evidence - construction not as an arbitrary process, but as a form of collective sensemaking.

Join us for the reception on October 12th from 6-8pm.
Free & open to the public, as always.

ELEMENTAL, presented by artist HiFadility, is a multimedia journal exploring nonverbal communication and emotional expression. Engaging mediums of film, music, and reflective free form writing, the project questions the various elements that compose the human body, both physically and metaphysically. Furthermore, the project deconstructs concepts of marginalized identities and the ways in which oppressed groups are understood regarding emotional capacity.

As the masses continue to upload themselves bit-by-bit into the weightless Internet ether, the significance of the body is questioned. Technology has become a toy and a tool, giving the average human the power to manipulate the real out of our corporeal forms.

But what happens when we question these technologies that we have come to rely upon for entertainment, business, and pleasure? When we examine how these devices are made, how they are used, how they change our perceptions, and how they are used against us?

In this exhibit, nine artists explore how modern bodies work together, against, and in spite of technology offering a multi-faceted portrait of the present state of the endlessly complex relationship between body and tech. Curated by Keaton Fox.

Featured Artists:
Lani Asuncion, Axes (Mark J. Stock + James Susinno), Joy Buolamwini, Carla Gannis, Danny Bryan Gonzalez, Endam Nihan, Cierra Michele Peters, Philth Haus and Molly Soda