Monday, November 30, 2009
BOSTON CYBERARTS UPDATE - December 12, 2009
Art Technology New England brings together four digital arts communities to provide resources, foster connections, build the creative economy.
New project is a collaboration of Boston Cyberarts and Axiom Center
Boston, MA – Artists, high-tech businesses, educators, and nonprofit organizations who are working at the intersection of art and technology are invited to join Art Technology New England (ATNE), a new initiative being launched in December by Boston Cyberarts and the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media. ATNE is intended to foster connections between four distinct groups:
Multimedia and digital artists.
Academic institutions that train digital artists.
Nonprofit organizations who support the digital arts.
Businesses that either generate new creative technologies or use those technologies to create digital arts and entertainment.
ATNE will provide a variety of services to this sector, including resource sharing, a forum for interaction and networking, opportunities for learning and collaboration, workforce development and human resource assistance, and avenues for advocacy and community building. Among the specific programs will be a Job Board, Internship Placement Program, a Digital Art Lending Program, Artist Residencies at high-tech companies, and an array of professional development workshops and social/networking events.
“This important sector of the creative economy in Massachusetts is fueled by these four key communities,” said George Fifield, Founder and Director of Boston Cyberarts. “But until now, there has not been a single entity that represents them and connects the participants to each other. Individual membership in ATNE is $60 per year, or $45 for students; organizational memberships are also available, and are based on organization size.
ATNE will officially launch on December 12 with Spark: A Gala Celebration, taking place at Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Pozen Center, 621 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, and hosted in conjunction with Eventworks at MassArt’s Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). The evening will include a one-night-only exhibition of digital art, live performances, a silent auction, creative costume prizes, a test-tube champagne toast, and demonstration of a device that prints in caramel on latte foam.
Start-up funding for ATNE was provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Adams Arts Fund, a program that invests in cultural economic development projects across the state.
More information about ATNE and Spark is at www.atne.org,
About the Principals
The Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is the premiere organization in the Boston area dedicated exclusively to showcasing emerging and established artists working in new media. www.axiomart.org.
Boston Cyberarts is dedicated to the presentation and exploration of artists working with new technologies in all art forms, including both visual and performing arts, film, video, electronic literature, public art, and web art. Among the organization’s many programs is the biennial Boston Cyberarts Festival. www.bostoncyberarts.org.
New project is a collaboration of Boston Cyberarts and Axiom Center
Boston, MA – Artists, high-tech businesses, educators, and nonprofit organizations who are working at the intersection of art and technology are invited to join Art Technology New England (ATNE), a new initiative being launched in December by Boston Cyberarts and the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media. ATNE is intended to foster connections between four distinct groups:
Multimedia and digital artists.
Academic institutions that train digital artists.
Nonprofit organizations who support the digital arts.
Businesses that either generate new creative technologies or use those technologies to create digital arts and entertainment.
ATNE will provide a variety of services to this sector, including resource sharing, a forum for interaction and networking, opportunities for learning and collaboration, workforce development and human resource assistance, and avenues for advocacy and community building. Among the specific programs will be a Job Board, Internship Placement Program, a Digital Art Lending Program, Artist Residencies at high-tech companies, and an array of professional development workshops and social/networking events.
“This important sector of the creative economy in Massachusetts is fueled by these four key communities,” said George Fifield, Founder and Director of Boston Cyberarts. “But until now, there has not been a single entity that represents them and connects the participants to each other. Individual membership in ATNE is $60 per year, or $45 for students; organizational memberships are also available, and are based on organization size.
ATNE will officially launch on December 12 with Spark: A Gala Celebration, taking place at Massachusetts College of Art and Design’s Pozen Center, 621 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, and hosted in conjunction with Eventworks at MassArt’s Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM). The evening will include a one-night-only exhibition of digital art, live performances, a silent auction, creative costume prizes, a test-tube champagne toast, and demonstration of a device that prints in caramel on latte foam.
Start-up funding for ATNE was provided by the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Adams Arts Fund, a program that invests in cultural economic development projects across the state.
More information about ATNE and Spark is at www.atne.org,
About the Principals
The Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is the premiere organization in the Boston area dedicated exclusively to showcasing emerging and established artists working in new media. www.axiomart.org.
Boston Cyberarts is dedicated to the presentation and exploration of artists working with new technologies in all art forms, including both visual and performing arts, film, video, electronic literature, public art, and web art. Among the organization’s many programs is the biennial Boston Cyberarts Festival. www.bostoncyberarts.org.
MEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS OPEN STUDIOS CALL FOR ARTISTS - February 7, 2010
Seeking artists to participate in the WMOS art show that will take place on May 8 & 9, 2010. WMOS is a celebration of the arts that features visual work as well as live original readings by local writers and musical performances. The committee is seeking local and non-local artists. Using homes and community spaces throughout West Medford, WMOS provides artists with a venue to show and sell their work in the community. Visitors are provided with free maps to all the sites and events of the weekend. Entry fee.
Contact:
Tanya Howard
West Medford Open Studios
77 Monument St
Medford MA 02155
781-483-3605
http://www.wmos.org
Contact:
Tanya Howard
West Medford Open Studios
77 Monument St
Medford MA 02155
781-483-3605
http://www.wmos.org
Friday, November 13, 2009
SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS - November 21 & 22, 2009
Open Studios event - November 21 & 22, 2009 from 12-6pm
86 Joy St Studio 13
Somerville, MA
http://joystreetartists.org
There are over 100 artists participating at Joy Street Studios and our neighbors at the Brickbottom Artists Association
See both up-and-coming and established artists' artwork in the studios where they were created. All media are represented from painting and sculpture to photography, digital art and environmental and performance art. Glass blowing, ceramics, printmaking, and animation will round out the multi-media event. Genres range from abstract to realistic and everything in between.
Artists will talk about the creative process and give demonstrations of techniques. And of course much of the work will be available for sale. We will also once again be having our Lobby show / Silent auction.
As a special treat this year there will also be Live Music Saturday Night at 6:30 Please enjoy the music of our special guests: Slim Jim & The Mad Cows www.slimjimmusic.com
86 Joy St Studio 13
Somerville, MA
http://joystreetartists.org
There are over 100 artists participating at Joy Street Studios and our neighbors at the Brickbottom Artists Association
See both up-and-coming and established artists' artwork in the studios where they were created. All media are represented from painting and sculpture to photography, digital art and environmental and performance art. Glass blowing, ceramics, printmaking, and animation will round out the multi-media event. Genres range from abstract to realistic and everything in between.
Artists will talk about the creative process and give demonstrations of techniques. And of course much of the work will be available for sale. We will also once again be having our Lobby show / Silent auction.
As a special treat this year there will also be Live Music Saturday Night at 6:30 Please enjoy the music of our special guests: Slim Jim & The Mad Cows www.slimjimmusic.com
Thursday, November 05, 2009
BOSTON CYBERART NEWS - Nov 10 - Dec 19, 2009
The weather may be getting colder, but things are heating up in Cyber-world.
RIDERS on the TRAIN
Luminous Garden in NYC
Digital Writing with Purple Blurb
SPARK: A Gala Celebration
The End (of the year) is Near ...
Think Big Ideas for Boston
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RIDERS on the TRAIN
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Axiom's
next exhibition is "RIDERS on the TRAIN," an interdisciplinary art exhibition that
explores new relationships between artist, audience, site, and context. Drawn from
an international call for submissions, artists and writers explore "the
private within the public" experience of mass transit in Sweden, Australia,
South Africa, India, Switzerland, NYC, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Mexico
City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, DC, Portland - and Boston too! The
mass transit experience is seen through a diversity of lenses and media
including video, sound art, photography, web-based interactivity, performance,
installation and writing.
The exhibition runs from November 10 through December 19, and there's an opening reception on November 13 from 6-9 pm. The Axiom Center for New and Experimental Mediais located -- appropriately -- next to the Green Street T stop, at 141 Green Street in Jamaica Plain. For more information, visit
www.axiomart.org/riders [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102797337731&s=2873&e=001a5EZMgxFP2Hb9izkEwWs7ZVTp2wC4uQpv8VejCOBR2YHq6OnOB7owVkohW2kK9W1NWrm3RiMxxtlcYqbbo5wnuS1lAX0BR2mLQywEDu22LaDRyQoyr0rMqvduvIyw1Gt].
RIDERS on the TRAIN
Luminous Garden in NYC
Digital Writing with Purple Blurb
SPARK: A Gala Celebration
The End (of the year) is Near ...
Think Big Ideas for Boston
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RIDERS on the TRAIN
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Axiom's
next exhibition is "RIDERS on the TRAIN," an interdisciplinary art exhibition that
explores new relationships between artist, audience, site, and context. Drawn from
an international call for submissions, artists and writers explore "the
private within the public" experience of mass transit in Sweden, Australia,
South Africa, India, Switzerland, NYC, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Mexico
City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, DC, Portland - and Boston too! The
mass transit experience is seen through a diversity of lenses and media
including video, sound art, photography, web-based interactivity, performance,
installation and writing.
The exhibition runs from November 10 through December 19, and there's an opening reception on November 13 from 6-9 pm. The Axiom Center for New and Experimental Mediais located -- appropriately -- next to the Green Street T stop, at 141 Green Street in Jamaica Plain. For more information, visit
www.axiomart.org/riders [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102797337731&s=2873&e=001a5EZMgxFP2Hb9izkEwWs7ZVTp2wC4uQpv8VejCOBR2YHq6OnOB7owVkohW2kK9W1NWrm3RiMxxtlcYqbbo5wnuS1lAX0BR2mLQywEDu22LaDRyQoyr0rMqvduvIyw1Gt].
SOMERVILLE VERNON STREE OPEN STUDIOS - Nov 7-8, 2009
Vernon Street Open Studios
6 & 20 Vernon Street, Somerville MA
Nov. 7 & 8, noon - 6pm
Vernon Street Studios are in the Rogers Foam factory on the corner of Vernon and Central Streets. There are 2 buildings full of artists with 2 separate entrances. My studio is in 20 Vernon -- the 2nd doorway into the factory from the corner. I'm on the 6th floor which is only 2 1/2 easy flights up. Enter the 6th floor door and turn right immediately.
I teach Sunday mornings so I may not get there exactly at noon that day. If you are coming on Sunday I'd suggest you not come to my studio before 12:30.
For directions to Vernon Street http://www.vernonstreet.com/directions.html.
I so look forward to showing you my new work! For a preview please visit http://www.janesherrill.com/truro.html.
Jane Sherrill
Visual Artist
20 Vernon St., 6-West
Somerville MA 02145
617.800.6435
jane@janesherrill.com
http://www.janesherrill.com
6 & 20 Vernon Street, Somerville MA
Nov. 7 & 8, noon - 6pm
Vernon Street Studios are in the Rogers Foam factory on the corner of Vernon and Central Streets. There are 2 buildings full of artists with 2 separate entrances. My studio is in 20 Vernon -- the 2nd doorway into the factory from the corner. I'm on the 6th floor which is only 2 1/2 easy flights up. Enter the 6th floor door and turn right immediately.
I teach Sunday mornings so I may not get there exactly at noon that day. If you are coming on Sunday I'd suggest you not come to my studio before 12:30.
For directions to Vernon Street http://www.vernonstreet.com/directions.html.
I so look forward to showing you my new work! For a preview please visit http://www.janesherrill.com/truro.html.
Jane Sherrill
Visual Artist
20 Vernon St., 6-West
Somerville MA 02145
617.800.6435
jane@janesherrill.com
http://www.janesherrill.com
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
ELIOT SPITZER LECTURE AT HARVARD - November 12, 2009
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS
Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm
Emerson Hall, Room 105
25 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This is a ticketed event.
Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the Harvard Box Office at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets are also available by phone for a fee by calling 617.496.2222.
Please visit www.ethics.harvard.edu for a full listing of this year's events.
EDMOND J. SAFRA FOUNDATION CENTER FOR ETHICS
Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General of New York, will deliver a public lecture as part of the 2009/10 Labs Lectures on the Question of Institutional Corruption.
Thursday, November 12 at 4:30pm
Emerson Hall, Room 105
25 Quincy Street, Cambridge
This is a ticketed event.
Tickets are free and can be obtained in person at the Harvard Box Office at 1350 Massachusetts Avenue. Tickets are also available by phone for a fee by calling 617.496.2222.
Please visit www.ethics.harvard.edu for a full listing of this year's events.
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