Boston, MA, USA
WGBH-TV
Wednesday night at 8:30pm
Greater Boston Arts
The Boston Cyberarts Festival
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/bostonarts/thismonth.html#cyberart

repeat: 4/15 11:30 pm, 4/16 10:30 pm
4/18 noon, 4/19 10:30 pm

And check out the highlights page
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/bostonarts/highlights.html

On May 1st, 1999, the first-ever Boston Cyberarts Festival hits Beantown
with a vengeance: participating institutions include American Repertory
Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, Dance Umbrella, DeCordova Museum,
Harvard University, MIT's List Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts.

Greater Boston Arts takes this opportunity to ask: what is Cyberart? We
visit four artists with different perspectives on the relationship
between art and technology. Denise Marika is a sculptor, video artist
and performance artist. She has created a piece for the festival that
involves making a digital scan of her naked body, "printing" that image
with a cutting-edge 3-D printer, and then using the resulting figurines
as part of a video piece. Carmin Karasic is a digital artist whose work
appears both on the Web and in digital installations in galleries. She
has created autobiographical interactive work about her upbringing and
experiences as an African-American woman. Jennifer Hall works in various
digital media. Her piece involves a dozen machines that detect viewers'
proximity and communicate that information to acupuncture needles that
pierce the flesh of tomatoes. Karl Sims' piece, Galapagos, is a computer
simulation of evolution where viewers' input determines how digital
'creatures' evolve. For more information on cyberart visit this month's
highlights.