jeudi 7 juin 2018

Discovering The New World Of Cyber Art

By Dennis Stewart


When it comes to art and artists, there are a number of different types. In some cases, an artist focuses on painting, in others photography. Whereas, there are also artists whom create amazing art with a number of online tools. When this is the case it is often referred to as cyber art.

The term is relatively new in the art world, though has been present in the field of technology since the early 1990s. For, with the advent of desktop and laptop computers and tablets, making computerized art has become quite popular. In most cases, these artists work with creating online art work or uploading and editing photographs or videos.

The most well known of these events was the Boston CyberArts festival which took place in the 1990s to 2011. At the time, everything from Video Art, Visual Performance Art and Video Poetry were at the forefront of digital technology. Long before YouTube and other video sharing sites, the festival provided a form for digital artists to share work. In fact, it was the largest festival of digital art, performance art and film created through the use of computerized technology in the United States.

In 2007, approximately twenty two thousand people were in attendance with over 200 artists showing work from around the world. The festival was held in Boston once every two years from the last week of April into the first week of May. During that time, artists from all over the world held art openings, galas and shared work with those interested in the new age of digital art and technology.

While still in existence, the non-profit now focuses on showing digital art and other projects on a year round basis. The organizers still host a website in which the last effects of the festival can be viewed. Whereas, the popular CyberArts Gallery is still housed in a building which used to be the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media in the south Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain which is easily accessible via the Orange line on the MBTA, the city's mass transit system.

For those whom can not make it to the gallery, the non-profit also hosts an online presence in the art world. Whether showing work from past festivals or newer digital art, the website has been a success. As a result, even though the festival is no longer in existence, artists can still submit work on a regular basis.

Originally located in Boston, Massachusetts, with a centralized office where artists could find information on events while attending opening night parties, the office has since moved. Whether due to MIT or the local art school, the festival ran successfully from the early 1990s to 2011. After which, the organization closed up shop and moved to Jamaica Plain, a neighborhood just south of the city which is a convenient location on the Orange line of the Boston MBTA mass transportation system.

While hosting a centralized office, festival events were held at some of Boston's most renown public spaces, universities, museums and art galleries. Even during the early onset of the internet, the festival would provide access to virtual events when and where possible. As such, it become the most well known and renown CyberArts festival in the country.




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