The window show: in the future everything will be perfect
In the Future Everything Will be Perfect by Anne Spalter
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, January 16, 2021 - Sunday, February 21, 2021
“In the Future Everything Will be Perfect” (detail) by Anne Spalter
While the physical Boston Cyberarts Gallery interior remains closed due to COVID-19, we are organizing a series of art events and exhibitions to be seen from outside the gallery. "The Window Show" is an ever changing art exhibition in the Boston Cyberarts Gallery windows. Please visit here for special events and updates.
Boston Cyberarts is proud to present In the Future Everything Will be Perfect by Anne Spalter on view in the windows of Boston Cyberarts Gallery 24-hours a day, 7-days a week. In the Future Everything Will be Perfect includes a series of interactive work (that can be accessed through Cyberarts’ windows) featuring rotating abstract crystal balls in a sea of kaleidoscopic color.
When viewers approach the screens, the previously empty crystal balls fill with hopeful animated imagery hinting at better times ahead. Experience tropical settings with palm trees waving in the wind, astronauts floating in space, confetti cannons firing, flocks of birds flying over puffy white clouds, diamonds raining down, energy flashes, butterflies, and more.
In addition, smaller screens will display a selection of Spalter’s blockchain-based works. QR codes presented with the videos will link to the works online.
Anne Spalter’s Bio:
Digital mixed-media artist Anne Spalter is an academic pioneer who founded the original digital fine arts programs at Brown University and The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the 1990s and authored the internationally taught textbook, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley, 1999).
Her artistic process combines a consistent set of personal symbols with a hybrid arsenal of traditional mark-making methods and innovative digital tools. A new body of work, further developed at a Winter 2019 residency at MASS MoCA, combines artificial intelligence algorithms with oil paint and pastels.
Spalter is also noted for her large-scale public projects. MTA Arts commissioned Spalter to create a 52-screen digital art installation, New York Dreaming, which remained on view in one of its most crowded commuter hubs (Fulton Center) for just under a year. Spalter’s 2019 large-scale projects included a 47,000 square foot LED video work on the Hong Kong harbor.
Spalter’s work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK); the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY); the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI); and others. Alongside her studio practice, Spalter continues to lecture on digital art practice and theory.
PRESS
"Visual Arts Review: Two Public Art Projects in Boston - Provocative Visual Expressions of the 21st Century", by Mark Favermann, The Arts Fuse, January 26, 2021
“What’s Happening in the Art World", by Cate McQuaid, The Ticket, The Boston Globe, January 21, 2021
