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Boston Cyberarts

OMNI Theater Screening Programs

Museum of Science, Boston

July 13, 2023

Organized by Georgie Friedman

Juried by Leonie Bradbury, Georgie Friedman, Al Miner

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WaveForms 2023

WaveForms | July, 13 2023

Boston Cyberarts OMNI Theater Screenings

Museum of Science, Boston

PROGRAM 1: Electronic Dimensions

PROGRAM 2: Spatial Bodies

Twenty-one local, national, and international artists were selected to present new media art, experimental animations, and video art in the five-story tall, 180-degree domed viewing environment of the Mugar Omni Theater at the Museum of Science, Boston.

Open call, juried by: Leonie Bradbury, Georgie Friedman, Al Miner.

Screenings, organized and curated by Georgie Friedman.

All artist and screening info: bostoncyberarts.org/waveforms

About the Boston Cyberarts WaveForms jury:

Leonie Bradbury, Ph.D (she/her), has over twenty years of experience creating compelling and innovative exhibitions, developing new artistic works, and promoting artists as thought leaders. She is the Henry and Lois Foster Chair of Contemporary Art, Theory, and Practice, and Distinguished Curator-in-Residence for Emerson Contemporary, at Emerson College, Boston, MA. Under Bradbury’s curation, Emerson Contemporary presents and commissions new media art, performance art, and art engaged with emerging technologies

Georgie Friedman (she/her), is an internationally exhibiting video and video installation artist who creates experiential, site-specific, and sculptural video installations. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Art, Art History and Film Studies program at Boston College, and was recently invited to be on the board of Boston Cyberarts.

Al Miner (he/him), is an artist and the Founding Director/Chief Curator of the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery and Spagnuolo Gallery at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. From 2010-2017, he was an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and from 2005-2010 he worked in the curatorial division of the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

WaveForms 2023 - A MULTIMEDIA ART OCCURRENCE

This summer, the Museum of Science is partnering with MASARY Studios, Illuminus, Boston Cyberarts, MIT Spatial Audio Lab, and AVFX to provide resources of space, equipment, production, curation, and mentorship to multimedia practitioners in our region to present media artworks.

For one night, the Museum will come to life with activations such as: projection-mapped video installations, screenings of spatial audio, experimental animation, video art, and AV performance that take over the Red Wing at the museum:

• Mugar Omni Theater will be curated by Boston Cyberarts

• The Atrium and commons spaces curated and programmed by Illuminus Boston

• A pop-up Spatial Sound Theater curated and programmed by MIT Spatial Sound Lab

• Charles Hayden Planetarium taken over by MASARY Studios for AV Performance

FULL EVENT INFORMATION: waveforms.media

ARCAAN Collective: Jérémy Oury & Antoine Briot: France & Mexico

DebStep, MA

Dylan Valev, MA

Heather Lyon and Juliette Sutherland: Maine

IMUU, Weilu Ge & Kelon Cen: MA

Jacklyn Brickman, MI

Joshue Ott, NY