Bromfield Art Gallery
Adam Sherman   | |

Bromfield's member artist, Adam Sherman, presents work in multiple parts of image, projection, spoken word, and music. Bromfield Art Gallery is a member of the Boston Art Dealers Association. April 25-May 19, W-Sat. 12-5pm. Reception Saturday, April 28, 4-6pm. Bromfield Art Gallery, 560 Harrison Avenue, Boston. Free! Handicapped accessible. For more info call (617) 451-3605 or email bromfieldartgallery@earthlink.net

Brush Art Gallery and Studios
The 3rd Dimension in Prints   | |

Artists explore the third dimension within and beyond the picture frame. Eye-popping lenticular, Luminage(tm), stereographic and inkjet prints. Artists Henry Aguet, Helen Golden, Kenneth A. Huff, Dorothy Krause, Mel Strawn, Dan Younger. Curator: Mary Ann Kearns, 911 Gallery. April 14-June 24. Gallery hours: 11-5 Tues-Sat; 12-4 Sun. Opening Reception: April 22, 2-4pm. Curator's talk: May 12, 2 pm. Brush Art Gallery, 256 Market Street, Lowell,MA. Free! Handicapped accessible. For more info visit www.thebrush.org, call (978) 459-7819, fax (987) 453-9886, or email thebrush@thebrush.org

CyberArtCentral @ Boston Architectural Center
Augmented Realities   | |

"Augmented Realities:" An exhibition of multi-media interactive and immersive installations by artists who are bridging the gap between the work of art and the viewer, the real and the imagined. Sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc. and Activeworlds.com, Inc., the exhibit is curated by festival director George Fifield and 911 Gallery director Mary Ann Kearns. Artists/participants: J. Michael James; Dana Moser; Camille Utterback; Walter Wright; Bruce Campbell and Duff Hendrickson of The Human Interface Technology Lab of Washington University; and Boston Architectural Center architects Warren Wake, Sally Levine, Barry Turner and Patricia Aguiar.

The "V-Art" virtual environment is an art installation and an art venue in the 2001 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Accessible on the world wide web using an ActiveWorlds.com 3-D browser, it is a virtual cyber fairgrounds designed by architects Sally Levine and Warren Wake from the Boston Architectural Center. In V-Art participants are able to visit the sites and buildings, stroll promenades, and investigate markers to learn about festival events. As 3-D avatars, they can also chat and tour with other on-line visitors, and interact with art in the gallery space by Dana Moser and Walter Wright. For instructions on how to access V-Art, please see the listing under 'Categories/conversations/V-Art'

"Text Rain" by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv is a playful interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar and the magical. Participants use their bodies to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist. In the Text Rain installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text. Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The text can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again.

Interactive virtual plant life will be in full bloom during "Augmented Realities:" the Human Interface Technology Lab's Bruce Campbell has created a genetic engine that allows participants to design captivating varieties of virtual plants and flowers. This impressive flora is made possible by the fertile minds of the HIT Lab at the University of Washington, creators of the "Magic Book" (a state of the art pop-up book) and other interfaces that navigate the transition between virtual reality and physical reality. CyberArtCentral visitors will have the unique opportunity to explore interchange between the virtual world and the "natural world."

"Sierpinsky" is an animation by virtual sculptor Michael James, who drew much praise for his work in the 1999 Boston Cyberarts Festival. The latest piece in a series that explores natural forms through mathematic and computer-graphic means, with animations featuring dramatic fly-throughs and fractal zooms.

April 21 - May 6, 2001. Opening Reception, Sat April 21, 3-5pm. Gallery hours M-Th 9am-9pm; F and Sat 9am-5pm; Sun noon-5pm. At CyberArtCentral: Boston Architectural Center (McCormick Gallery), 320 Newbury Street, Boston. Free! Handicapped accessible. Location reachable by T: Green line, Hynes Convention Center. For more info please call (617) 524-8495.

Davis Museum and Cultural Center
2 Exhibitions at the Davis Museum   | |

The Davis Museum and Cultural Center will display two art works to coincide with the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Installations by Alan Rath and Ann Hamilton can be viewed from March 15 through June 17 in the Towne Gallery:

"abc," by Ann Hamilton: Ann Hamilton's metaphoric installations use everyday gestures and activities to explore the boundaries between language and truth and perception and knowledge. The installation "a,b,c" on view at the Davis takes the form of a video screen set into a wooden dictionary table. The video sequence involves a hand erasing and re-applying the letters a, b, c. The installation illustrates a recurring theme in Hamilton's work: what do we know, how do we know it and what are we blind to? Based in Columbus, Ohio, Hamilton has shown her work in numerous national and international venues including the Venice Biennale and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Hamilton is a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship.

"Thumper III," by Alan Rath: Alan Rath is an MIT-trained engineer artist whose humanoid sculptures, like Thumper III, playfully critique and satirize the intersection of technology and nature. Rath's first forays into art began with digital video sculpture. The artist writes his own programs and builds piece-specific software for his creations. His work is interactive in that these works or "robots" move about the gallery space and sometimes respond to and interact with human stimuli. Rath recounts that his career began when he stuck a hairpin into an electric socket at age 6. His anthropomorphic creations serve as a commentary on the relationship between humans and technology.

Show runs March 15-June 17. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 11am-5pm; Wednesday and Thursday 11-8; Sunday 1-5; Closed Monday and major holidays. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. Free! Handicapped accessible. For more information call (781)-283-3355

DeCordova Museum
Flights of Fantasy   | |

"Flights of Fantasy," a collaborative work by storytellers and researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory, premiers at the DeCordova Museum on April 7, 2001 as part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Inspired by the comings and goings of the carrier pigeon and board games found in urban parks, "Flights of Fantasy" combines digital moving-image and sound construction with physical interfaces that invite visitors to create and discover story messages. As one or more visitors construct paths through a database of story fragments using the large game board located in the museum or a remote interface on the WWW, other Museumgoers release story potential and receive story mementos as they move through a forest of bird cages in a landscape of sound. Directed by Glorianna Davenport, founder of the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Lab, the work is part of a continuing exploration into a pervasive, personal and poetic future cinema which reaches out as if in conversation with its audience. Leading collaborators include Barbara Barry, Aisling Kelliher, Nyssim Lefford, Paul Nemirovsky, Arnan Sipitakiat, James Seo and other members of the Interactive Cinema Group, MIT Media Lab. This exhibition is being organized by George Fifield, Media Arts Curator at the DeCordova.

Installation runs April 7-May 28, T-Sun. 11-5pm. $6 Adults/$4 Children, Students, Seniors. Reception and artist talk, Thursday, April 19, 7pm, Free admission. Handicapped accessible. DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 51 Sandy Pond Rd., Lincoln, MA. For more info: tel (781) 259-8355, fax (781) 259-3650, email info@decordova.org

Fort Point Arts Gallery
Internal Drive   | |

The FPAC Gallery will be showing artwork in a variety of mediums that addresses the question: How has technology changed the way you approach/create your art? The work will be from FPAC artists and those who work in the Fort Point neighborhood. *FPAC Gallery will also feature work from the "Lite Show," an international festival of cutting-edge low-bandwidth animation and interactive web-based art. For more info on the Lite Show please look under 'Screenings.' March 30th-May 6, 2001. Mon-Fri, 9-3pm; Sat12-5pm. At the FPAC Gallery, 300 Summer St., Boston. Free! Handicap accessible. For more info call 542-4122, email: jkali@rcn.com or visit www.fortpointarts.org

Gallery fx
Dirty Pixels   | |

What happens when a Fine Artist uses a computer? Being part of such a technological era, artists incorporating technology into their own artwork was inevitable. Dirty Pixels, a show curated by Enoch of Gallery fx, takes a provocative look into the worlds of student artists who are using digital media to produce Artwork. Will technology be a compliment or hindrance to the originality and intensity of their work? This show will examine how large of a part technology plays in ways of expression. April 21-May 12, 2001. Gallery hours Wed-Sat, 12-5 and by appointment. Free reception and digital video presentation: Friday, May 4, 5-8pm. At Gallery fx: a non-profit gallery for student arts, 39 Thayer street, Boston MA (South End). Free! At this time the gallery is not wheelchair accessible. For more info, visit www.galeryfx.org or call (617) 695-2808, or email ArtVigor@yahoo.com
Free reception and digital video presentation: 5-8pm

Gallery@Green Street
Pressure   | |

"Pressure" is a site specific installation where computer controlled sensors manipulate the sights and sounds of daily commuting to address issues of accelerated culture and the evolving metaphors for speed and progress. "Pressure" seeks to explore the psychology and physicality of individuals in the contemporary urban landscape. The show is a collaborative effort by the students of the Interactive Installation class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, taught by New York artist Larry Shea. In addition to the collaborative work, several individual student installations will also be presented: In "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," James Nadau uses the transcript from the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on gays in the military together with archival footage of 1940s Naval training films to examine the construction of male heterosexuality as repressed homosexual desire. Nadau, a self-described military brat, inserts himself into his work by wearing Navy whites and projecting basic training films of young Navy recruits onto his body. Using tropes from Hollywood B movies in "Make-up as a Weapon," Candice Deutz projects a video loop inside a cosmetic case, examining how women use make-up as a tool of power. In "Grooming Masculinity," Randy Lynch examines the cultural coding of masculinity by projecting images of his daily grooming onto the inside of an antique men's shaving kit. "Cara a Cara...Face to Face" is an installation of a series of looped videos that explore the complexities of a thirteen year old matador's first public bullfight, and show the boy facing both masculinity and death simultaneously. April 21- May 19. Tu 6-9pm, W-Th 12-9pm, F-Sat 12-5pm. Opening Saturday, April 21, 6-9. At the Gallery@Green St., Green St. Station, MBTA Orange line, Boston. Free! Handicapped Accessible. For more info, email bridgetmurphy@hotmail.com

Goethe Institute
The Treasure of the Nibelungs   | |

By Auber+Hoge (A+H), Emmanuel Mâa Berriet, Thierry Fournier. An interactive installation for voices, music and images in real time produced for the Nibelungen Museum, Worms. The "Nibelungenlied," one of the most famous literary works of the German Middle Ages, gave rise to the myth that the greatest treasure the world has ever know lies at the bottom of the Rhine by the town of Worms. At the heart of the treasure lies the "Ring" - an inexhaustible source of gold, love and joy for those who possess it if not used for selfish ends. What is this gold which gods and men have fought to the death over? In Iceland, a thousand years ago, its secret was handed down by the poets - known as the Skalds - in the forms of initiatory verses known as Kenningar. Certain nineteenth century Romantics saw the increasing power of the "Kapital" as the gold in another guise. And what could the gold represent today? Memory? Technology? Speed?

The Nibelungen Museum opens in Worms, Germany, in August 2001. The innovative virtual reality installation will be an integral part of the museum, allowing visitors to enter another dimension of the myth. It was produced in collaboration by Bernd Hoge and Olivier Auber (A+H) - Treasure Concept and Art Direction; Emmanuel Maa Berriet (La Graine/The Seed) - Virtual Reality software and world design; and Thierry Fournier -Music, Sound and Real Time Software. *For more info on related panel discussions please look under 'Conversations' listings.

April 25 -30, 10-5 pm daily. Opening Reception and artists' presentation: Wednesday, April 25, 6 -10pm. Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston. Free! Please call ahead for Handicap access. For more information visit www.goethe.de/boston or call (617) 262-6050.

Harvard - Three Columns Gallery
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Mouse in the Studio   | |

An exhibition of digital prints by Martha Jane Bradford, Roberto Bermejo, Aida Laleian, and Jaye Phillips. These four artists have each established a different relationship with their assistant, the computer. Bradford substitutes a computerized stylus for a pencil to create what is otherwise a traditional and precise drawing. Bermejo writes a computer program that generates the image for him, taking his hand out of the creation entirely. Laleian and Philips work in the realm of cyber-collage, transforming and synthesizing digital photographs. This exhibition shows how the computer is changing the way we make art. April 21st - April 30th, 9am-5pm, M-F. At Three Columns Gallery, Mather House, Harvard University, 10 Cowperthwaite Street, Cambridge. For more info please call (617) 495-4834.

Howard Yezerski Gallery
Basket Case III   | |

Sculpture by Alan Rath.Rath is an MIT-trained engineer artist whose humanoid sculptures playfully critique and satirize the intersection of technology and nature. Rath's first forays into art began with digital video sculpture. The artist writes his own programs and builds piece-specific software for his creations. His work is interactive in that these works or "robots" move about the gallery space and sometimes respond to and interact with human stimuli. Rath recounts that his career began when he stuck a hairpin into an electric socket at age 6. His anthropomorphic creations serve as a commentary on the relationship between humans and technology. Also see listing for Davis Museum and Cultural Center. March 31-May 1. Gallery hours Tuesday-Sat 10-5:30 pm. Located at 14 Newbury St., 3rd Floor, Boston. Free! Handicapped accessible.

International Society's Tremont Theatre
WAAM: Digital Landscapes   | |

Wellesley Alumnae & Affiliates in Multimedia (WAAM) presents independent and collaborative multimedia work created by Wellesley and MIT alumni. Projects include: experimental works in computer animation, video, electronic imaging, web design, and interactive Chinese-American poetry.

Sunday, May 6th,1-7pm. At International Society's Tremont Theatre, 276 Tremont St., Boston. (located next door to Wang Center). Free! Handicap accessible. For more info, email WAAM Founder Janet at jlee6_98@alum.wellesley.edu

Lesley University
Digital Identity, Better Living through Bits   | |

A web and wall show, curated by artists Ellen Wetmore and Fred Levy, that surveys emerging artists who explore issues of personal identity in the age of computers, binary code, and the internet. Please see expanded listing under 'Categories - exhibitions - Art Institute of Boston.' Reception to be held at the Art Institute of Boston, Thursday April 26th, 8-10pm. Exhibit runs from April 26-May 15, 2001. Sites include Art Institute of Boston, 700 Beacon Street, Boston and Lesley University, Porter Exchange, Cambridge, as well as online at www.identity.8m.net. Hours for both sites are: Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm. Free! All sites are handicapped accesible. For more info email identity@aiboston.edu or call 617.585.6662

Little White Box Gallery
Honey Apparatus   | |

"Honey Apparatus: digital photographic assemblage by Mark Snyder." Mark has constructed a 6'X6' steel tripod that allows him to digitally photograph a single focal plane in a sequence of 56 contiguous view points. Focusing on the picture plane rather than the subject or medium raises questions about examination: the way that imposing a system influences meaning and the way we reassemble meaning through cognitive process. Once photographed, the images are reassembled using both traditional and unconventional techniques. April 24th to May 6th at The Little White Box Gallery at 288-300 A St., Fort Point, Boston: a five minute walk from the South Station stop on the Red Line. Opening reception and gallery talk Saturday, April 28 from 3-6pm. The gallery is open Tuesday through Friday noon to 5pm (call first: 617.439.8617). Free! Unfortunately not handicap accessible. For more info: visit www.littlewhitebox.org or call 617.439.8617

Louis Boston
The Princess Project   | |

"Who's the Fairest of Them All?" an interdisciplinary visual art collaboration between artists Kathleen Bitetti and Joanne Kaliontzis, examines gender roles/gender assignment, fairy tales, Royality/class structures and women's issues by utilizing a vast array of mediums including: new media and digital image making, sculpture, performance, installation, photography, video, and the Internet.

April 21-May 5th. MTF & Sat 10am-6pm; WT 10am to 7pm. (Closed Sundays). Reception & Royal Launch party for ThePrincessProject.com & PrincessSophia.com: May 4th 4-6pm at Loius Boston. w/Special Guests: HRH Princess Sophia Solar Michalski and DJ Dave L. At Louis Boston, 234 Berkeley Street, Boston. Free! Handicap accessible. For more info contact the Artists Foundation, tel (617)-464-3561. During the Cyberarts Festival visit: www.theprincessproject.com & www.princesssophia.com

Maine New Media Arts Project
Website Launch   |

"The Maine New Media Arts Project" is a not-for-profit initiative of artists, curators and scholars who are investigating various aspects of new media. The Project defines new-media artworks as those involving electronic and digital mediation in the creative process. This spring during the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Project will host an online exhibition featuring exciting works from here in Maine plus contributions from national and international artists. April 23, website goes online at http://www.mainenewmedia.org. For more info call Ron Hutt, (207) 779-0510, or email rhutt@hotmail.com

MIT List Visual Arts Center
Four Exhibitions at the List Visual Arts Center   | |

This spring, the MIT List Visual Arts Center is presenting four exhibitions that utilize digital technologies:

British artist Isaac Julien's film installations are spectacular mediations of popular mythology, history, race, and high culture. "The Long Road to Mazatlan," created in collaboration with Javier De Frutos, is a three-screen telling of a modern cowboy tale set on a scale as vast as the West itself. Vagabondia, his newest video installation, is a vibrant, double-projection video that collapses narrative, cinematic structures, modern dance, and discourses on culture into a kaleidoscope of color, movement, and architecture. Julien's films and videos (such as Young Soul Rebels and Looking for Langston) have been shown at museums and film festivals around the world. He lectures and writes extensively on issues of film, art, and sexuality.

Paul Pfeiffer's "The Long Count (I Shook Up the World)," is the first of three works in which the artist has painstakingly removed Muhammad Ali from the boxer's most famous bouts. This piece continues his investigation of racial identity through his use of popular iconography ? namely athletes and movie stars? across various media. Born in 1966 in Honolulu of Philippine descent, Pfeiffer has not had a great deal of public exposure until recently and has never before exhibited in the Boston area. Pfeiffer recently won the $100,000 Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum of American Art s 2000 Biennial Exhibition.

Johan Grimonprez's "Inflight" is a spin-off of the airline magazines found on commercial flights. As such, it contains all the appropriate iconography: motion discomfort bag, safety instructions, in-flight entertainment, shopping specials, passenger information, plus a series of feature articles, as well as some uncommercials and subvertisements. The List will create a lounge installation with sound elements for visitors to peruse this publication and associated materials. Inflight gives the visual and written account of airplane hijacking, as seen through the history of its indeterminate relationship with news media. A recently added portion of the articles zooms in on the 1990s shift from skyjacking to cyberjacking , featuring data-hostages caught in digital hijacks, and hereby plugging into the debate around information territories and INFOWAR. Conceived by Johan Grimonprez and designed by Pandiscio Inc. (New York), Inflight was published in May 2000 by CANTZ, Verlag (Stuttgart). The project was premiered at the Musee d'Art Contemporaine de la ville de Paris and has since been exhibited in New York and throughout Europe.

"Race In Digital Space," presented by the MIT List Visual Arts Center in conjunction with a conference on race and technology hosted at MIT, will feature the work of approximately 30 artists using film, video, new media, and web techniques. With an emphasis on cultural hybridity, the artists explore how electronic culture influences the production of identity, race, and nationhood as our conception of the historical document evolves. Organized by Erika Dalya Muhammad and presenting works that cover a 20 year span, the exhibition will offer works that inhabit electronic space and engage these topics in creative and progressive ways. *Please see 'Discussions' listings for more information on the conference panels and speakers.

These installations are presented in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Major support for LVAC programs is provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Council for the Arts at MIT. April 26 - July 1. Gallery hours are 12-6pm daily; Friday 12-8pm; closed Mondays. Reception Thursday, April 26, 5:30-7:30pm. At the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Wiesner Building, E-15-109, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge. Free! Wheelchair accessible. For more info call (617) 253-4680 or visit web.mit.edu/lvac

MIT Museum
Approaching Chaos - Visions from the Quantum Frontier   | |

Exhibition of work by Eric Heller (Physics and Chemistry faculty of Harvard University). February 13th - May 6th. M-F 9-5, Sat-Sun 12-5. At MIT Museum's Compton Gallery, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA. Free! Handicap Accessible. For more info call (617) 253-4444 or visit web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/comtongallery.html

Mobius
Imaging New England   | |

"Imaging New England," like its parent project 'Imaging North America,' is an interdisciplinary collaborative research initiative, conducted across institutions and over distances. Bridging the gaps between esoteric understanding, the project uses new technology to bring disparate bodies of knowledge together throught the investigation of place. The artists involved are: John Craig Freeman, Lisa Link and Margaret Wagner. April 25-May 12. Opening reception and gallery talk, April 28, 3-5pm. Gallery hours are Wed.-Sat., noon-5pm. Mobius is located at 354 Congress St., Boston. Free! For access for people with disabilties, please call in advance to make arrangements. For more info visit www.mobius.org, email mobius@mobius.org, or call (617) 542-7416 or fax (617)-451-2910

Mount Wachusett Community College
Student Digital Art Exhibit   | |

A juried exhibit of all forms of graphic design work and cyber art by Mount Wachusett Community College students. The show is juried by graphic designers and art faculty. For a taste of our student work, visit our website starting April 20: www.mwcc.mass.edu/html/cgspring.html Opening Monday, April 23rd, 6-8pm. April 23-May 6. Free. Handicapped Accessible. 444 Green Street, Gardner, MA. For more info: tel (978) 632-6600 X154

Museum of Science
Cyberarts Exhibitions at the Museum of Science   | |

Throughout the Museum are exhibits that highlight computers and creativity. These include "Envisioning Science," the Virtual Fishtank, Musical Stairs, Laser Shows, the Light Bars in the Theater of Electricity, and Cahners ComputerPlace. *Please look under 'youth' listings for more information on the Computer Clubhouse, and under 'public art' for more information on the Musical Stairs.

"Envisioning Science: Images by Felice Frankel." Felice Frankel's beautiful images portray the hidden mysteries revealed by science and technology researchers. See them here displayed much much 'larger than life' on the Current Science & Technology Center's new 50" flat-panel plasma displays, in a multi-image presentation with music and text.

Virtual Fishtank: This exhibit immerses visitors in a 1,700-square-foot virtual undersea world, where they create and interact with their own virtual fish to discover new insights into how complex living systems work. Visitors design behaviors for their fish, launch their creations into the tank, and then see how the few simple rules they used to design their individual fish lead to complex behaviors and patterns for whole groups of fish. The Virtual FishTank, originally created by the MIT Media Lab and Nearlife, Inc., with funding from the National Science Foundation, will become an exciting new element in the Making Models activity center of the Museum's master exhibits plan, "Science as an Activity."

Musical Stairs: Photoelectric sensors, a computer, a sampling synthesizer and an elaborate sound system transfer a simple flight of stairs into a musical instrument. Designed by Boston-based sound artist Christopher Janney, the " Sound Stair" exhibits has been a popular attraction at the Museum of Science since its installation in 1989.

Laser Shows: Dazzling multicolored laser images move to the inspiring sounds of music in the Planetarium. Shows are 45-60 minutes long. For more info on music and showtimes please visit www.mos.org

Light Sticks in the Theater of Electricity: Light Sticks, created by local artist Bill Bell, are visual arts, biology, and human perception rolled into one! Using a series of rapidly flashing LEDs (light emitting diodes) the artist can use the human eye's persistence of vision trait to "draw" a picture on the eye's retina. Animals, and other images, can be perceived as the retina retains the fleeting images of the flashing lights. This same trait is what causes you to see all those spots after you've had your picture taken with a flash camera.

Cahners ComputerPlace: Cahners ComputerPlace brings the excitement of the hands-on discovery to the world of computers. Equipped with the latest technology, including Compaq Prosignia computer systems, Cahners ComputerPlace features five areas: The Best Software for Kids, from The Computer Museum; the Internet; Creativity; Music and Sound; and Info Bytes. In a warm lively environment, staffed by Museum educators and volunteers, visitors experience the myriad ways they can use computers to enhance their own lives. Currently on display at Cahners ComputerPlace are paintings composed by a computer program called AARON, and painted by a robot. AARON was built by Harold Cohen, one of Britain's leading abstract artists in the 1960s. By following a set of programmed rules about artistic composition, AARON independently creates a completely original work of art which a small robot arm, controlled by AARON, paints.

Exhibits ongoing, at the Museum of Science, Science Park, Boston. For information about museum hours, tickets, and parking please call (617) 723-2500 or purchase tickets on-line on the Museum's web site: www.mos.org. Handicapped accessible.

New Art Center
b/t   | |

In this exhibition, artists use technology to comprehend complex human relations, the experience of absence, gaps in representation and other intangible phenomena. Video, film, installation, painting and computers are used to engage the audience with the creative potential of technology. Curated by Alison Cornyn. Artists include Henry Brown, Alison Cornyn, Martin Dammann, Tirtza Even, Polly Gould, Sue Johnson, Bruce Ledbetter, Mark Shepard, Uri Tzaig, Alex Villar, and Mary Ziegler. Up from April 20-May 25, 2001 in the Main Gallery with an opening reception on Friday, April 20, 6-8pm. Gallery Hours 9-5 M-F, 1-5 Sunday. Workshops and gallery talks TBA. New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville, MA. Free! Handicapped accessible. For more info: visit http://www.newartcenter.org, call (617) 964-3424, or email nacn@newartcenter.org

New England School of Art and Design
d{s}eduction dialogue   | |

"d{s}eduction dialogue," an installation by Boston artist Carmin Karasic. Karasic is an internationally-exhibited digital artist and a graduate of Suffolk University. The show features a collaborative video dialogue with the artist Rolf van Gelder. The artists, a black American woman and a white Dutchman, confront each others' realities through two Flash movies looping on confrontational TVs. d{s}d is seven synchronized movie pairs spinning bytes about race, gender, culture, power, control, war, and reproduction.

April 21 through May 6, 2001. M-Sat., 9am-5pm. At New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, 75 Arlington Street Boston, MA. Free! Handicap accessible. For more info contact Linda Leslie Brown, lbrown@acad.suffolk.edu or visit http://sibylle.tue.nl/dsd/

Tufts University - Dowling Hall
CollageMachine / JumboScope   | |

The JumboScope installation presents an interactive streaming multimedia collage. The collaged content includes websites and live video images. CollageMachine collages these materials together. The installation has been conceptualized site-specifically, with the goals of exploring tensions between democracy, surveillance, and censorship in public space. It integrates input from smart room sensors with direct pointing. From interactions, an agent learns about audience interests. It acts to shape the ongoing development of the collage visualization on your behalf. April 1 - April 30, 2001. 9am - 6pm, M-F. At Tufts University Dowling Hall, 419 Boston Ave., Somerville, MA. Free! Handicap accessible. For more info please visit jumboscope.eecs.tufts.edu or call 617-627-3217.

Wellesley - Jewett Art Center
Spotlight on Media Arts   | |

Works by the Electronic Imaging and Multimedia classes. April 13-April 29, 2001 at Jewett Art Center Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. For more Info: (781) 283-2107 or 283-2042

Worcester Art Museum
The Wall at WAM: Denise Marika   | |

Widely considered an innovator in the field of video sculpture, Denise Marika will create the first projected image for The Wall at WAM. Using a signature subject - herself, nude - she will explore the conceptual, emotional, and physical conditions that have characterized creative endeavors throughout time. Viewers will monitor a video image of Marika attempting to construct a wall in clay, a slow, labor-intense progress that is constantly thwarted by an inherent process of deterioration. Incorporating real space, time, and volume, Marika's video "wall" will coincide with the Museum's 67 ft, second story, terra cotta wall in the Renaissance Court. In a technically sophisticated juxtaposition of the present and the past, the conditions of the contemporary artist that Marika's project explores - isolation, vulnerability, anonymity, labor, control, repetition, personal goals - poetically converge with those of artists who labored on the museum's "Hunt" mosaic 1500 years ago.

April 5-June 3, 2001. Museum hours: Wednesday-Friday and Sunday, 11 am-5pm; Saturday 10 am-5 pm. Reception for the artist: Thursday, May 3, 6-8pm. At Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA. Museum admission: $8 Adults; $6 Seniors and Students; 17 and under FREE; FREE to all Saturdays 10 AM - noon. Handicap accessible. For more info: website - www.worcesterart.org; Phone - 508.799.4406; Fax - 508.798.5646; email information@worcesterart.org

Zeitgeist Gallery
Media Midway   | |

Zeitgeist Gallery and 911 Gallery present an extravaganza of interactive video art, video projection, and video art performance. Sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc. Artists: Anita Allyn, Steve Feuerborn, Pam Payne, Alberto Roblest, Philip Sanders, Sarah Smiley, Walter Wright. April 19 - May 7. Thurs-Sun 2-7pm. Ancillary music and video performance by Immersion Music Salon, Saturday April 21, 8pm. At Zeitgeist Gallery, 312 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. Reachable via the Red line, near Central Square T Stop. Gallery is free; suggested donation during performance evening. Handicapped Accessible. For more info visit www.911gallery.org, call Alan Nidle at (617) 876.2182, or email artgal@iquest.net

Babson College
Cyber Feast for Eyes and Ears

New digital music and artworks featuring computer animations with music by Dennis Miller, Bret Battey, and Bill Alves; electro-acoustic music by Eric Chasalow and Craig Walsh; live interactive electronic music by Paul Lehrman and Neil Leonard, and performances by cellist Rhonda Rider and bass clarinetist Gary Gorczyca.

Sunday, April 29, 8pm. At the Sorenson Center for the Arts, Babson College, Babson Park, MA. Students $3, staff and alumni $6, general public $12. For more info: (781) 239-5682

Boston Public Library
The Boston T1 Party: Electronic Literature in Performance   | |

Online writing is revolutionary - and no solitary affair. ELO presents award-winning authors reading from their projected work: Shelley Jackson's monster will show off her stitches, asking the audience which thread to follow. The Unknown will let the audience yell out when they want to switch scenes. The Ed Report team will offer a "press conference" about their mock government report. Kurt Heintz will connect distant poets with two-way televideocameras. With writers Adam Cadre (Photopia), MD Coverley (Califia), William Gillespie, Scott Rettberg, and Dirk Stratton (The Unknown), Kurt Heinz with participants from the e-poets network, Shelley Jackson (Patchwork Girl), Talan Memmott (Lexia to Perplexia), Nick Montfort and William Gillespie (The Ed Report), Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Gray Matters), and Rob Wittig (tank20 Literary Studios). Wednesday, April 25th, 6:30-8:30pm. Rabb Auditorium, Boston Public Library. Free! Handicap accessible. Reserve your free seats online! For more info contact Scott Rettberg, rettberg@eliterature.org

Boston University - Tsai Center
Tod Machover's Hyperstring Trilogy   | |

The Hyperstring Trilogy features Machover's celebrated hyperinstruments. Special string instruments were designed by Machover's team at the MIT Media Lab to measure performance nuance and expressiveness. The instruments' sounds, the players' movements, and the instruments' vibrations are analyzed; the result allows the hyperstring to blossom, all under the artists' control. The Hyper soloists are Matt Haimovitz, Kim Kaskashian and Ani Kavafian, accompanied by the critically acclaimed Boston Modern Orchestra Project led by Artistic Director Gil Rose. May 6, 2001, 8-10pm. At the Tsai Center, 685 Commonwealth Avenue on the campus of Boston University. $15 and 7.50 (half price) for students and seniors. Handicap accessible.

Brandeis - Slosberg Recital Hall
Boston Cyberarts Electronic Music Marathon   | |

BEAMS (Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio) presents a marathon concert at the Slosberg Recital Hall. Eric Chasalow - director of BEAMS and chair of the Brandeis Music Department - will curate a selection of electro-acoustic music performed by some of the best new music ensembles in Boston, including Auros, Dinosaur Annex, and Brandeis artists-in-residence the Lydian String Quartet. This unprecedented gathering of ensembles will be augmented by performers from New York City, Italy, and England, including London's Frances Lynch. The marathon will feature classic and new works by an international roster of composers (some in attendance) including John Cage, James Dashow, Mario Davidovsky, Jonathan Harvey, Akemi Ishijima, Elsa Justel, Alvin Lucier, Ake Pamerude, Steve Reich, Jean-Claude Risset, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Alejandro Vinao. Come celebrate the history and future of electronic music at Brandeis University, a pioneer in electronic music for more than 40 years.

The concert, which begins at 9:30am, May 5th and runs through 1am the following morning, features a multi-channel sound system in an intimate, acoustically excellent hall - the way electronic music was meant to be heard. *The Marathon will include the first screening of the restored 1924 premiere version of the landmark film Ballet Mecanique. Look under 'Screenings' for more info.

May 5th-6th, 2001. 9:30 AM - 1AM(sic) Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Free! Handicapped-accessible. For more info visit www.brandeis.edu/departments/music/beams/marathon/index.html, call (781) 736-3331 or email music@brandeis.edu

Brandeis - Slosberg Recital Hall
Digital Polyphony   | |

A day long event featuring new works, talks, and panel discussions by members of Boston's electronic music scene. This event-series, hosted by Brandeis University, organized by Eric Chasalow, brings the directors and students of Boston area University Electronic Music labs together for panel discussions and concerts. Friday, May 4, 2001. 2pm-10pm, Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Free!

Coolidge Corner Theatre
DJI ROBOT   | |

This event has unfortunately been cancelled due to illness.

DJ I ROBOT uses a PC, several micro-controllers, and an advanced 'motion control' system to automatically mix, scratch, and search three vinyl records on robotic phonographs. It can spin the platters at speeds up to 800 RPM, and has an advanced database system that analyzes and processes current information, hints from the operator, and an "expert system" of early DJ techniques. Special thanks to VideoSpace and to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Saturday May 5 at 9pm, Coolidge Corner Theatre Video Screening Room. $5. Unfortunately not handicap accessible. For more info please visit www.dj-i-robot.com/