It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston

www.evacuateboston.com
A networked running project by kanarinka.

How do you measure fear in a society obsessed with security and preparedness?

This Spring, kanarinka is running the entire evacuation route system in Boston, MA, and measuring its distance in breaths. While running, she amplifies and broadcasts each breath into the public space around her body.

The project is an attempt to measure our post-9/11 collective fear in the individual breaths that it takes to traverse these new geographies of insecurity.

The $827,500 Boston emergency evacuation system was installed in 2006 to demonstrate the city's preparedness for evacuating people in snowstorms, hurricanes, infrastructure failures, fires and/or terrorist attacks.

It takes 154,000 breaths to evacuate Boston consists of a series of running performances in public space (2007), a web podcast of breaths (2007), and a gallery installation of the archive of breaths (2008). The performances and website are presented by iKatun for the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival.

More info: info@ikatun.com | 617-501-2441
Listen now: www.evacuateboston.com

Thanks to the generous support of: iKatun, The RISD Professional Development Fund, The LEF Foundation, and the Boston Cyberarts Festival.

Check out your Night Vision Sat May 5

sam smiley here, hailing from the front lines of Night Visions, a four day festival of art, technology and moving image at 1803 Mass Ave, Porter Square in Cambridge in a huge white church. Organized by Karen Frostig and me, it is currently going on and will culminate in a number of really great events this Saturday May 5 and it's free.


I’d like to focus on what is going on Saturday, May 5.

From 1pm-8pm there will be videos and installations going all day. Ongoing screenings include Local Exposure : Wall projections curated by the ICAs Carole Anne Meehan with screenings ofFemlink, With Us or Against Us, and Teleoperator.

Jenn Moller from the Art Institute of Boston has pulled a great selection of innovative works in animation and video. Aziza Braithwaite Bey will create a mixed media installation on the subject of Cherokee Art and Technology, Past and Present. Jonathan Lawrence has a Black Box sculpture..take a look inside the black box!

Here's the evening program:
6-8pm reception and free food!
8:00PM Media Art Screenings by Lumen Eclipse: An assortment of short films, music videos, and animations
9:00PM AstroDime Transit Authority: "Will Pandabears Ride Free on the Handlebars of Bicycles in 2092?" Short experimental videos on future and imagined transportation
10:30PM Perky Pat Layouts- a Space Opera.

For details on events past and current, go to http://www.lumeneclipse.com/nightvisions.

Cyberarts on Drivetime

One of my dreams come true; I was a guest on Ravi Jain's vlog Drivetime. Ravi and his beautiful co-host Sonya invited me on, to talk about the Festival. We drove around and even switched from Studio A to Studio B, which I'm told is a Drivetime first. Check it out.

George Fifield

I.C.A.R.U.S. -Take A Trip On A Homemade Ship! April 21st, 5-10 pm

Mass College of Art's Studio for Interrelated Media graduate students have constructed a rocket ship designed to simulate the experience of space travel. Come take a ride on April 21th at Mass College of Art's Doran Gallery between 5-10 PM.

I.C.A.R.U.S. questions our reliance on the Internet as a primary source of entertainment and information. This crew of space pioneers will explore our changing definition of play and escapism by constructing a rocket ship that offers a simulation of space travel. Using schematics, diagrams, and data gathered from Internet sources as a point of departure, they have built the structure out of accessible information and discarded materials.

The possibilities for escape through the internet are limitless, and while the web often provides positive opportunities for connection and the sharing of knowledge, these virtual distractions can also slowly chip away at our own childish abilities to pretend and imagine. I.C.A.R.U.S. plays between our online virtual imagination and our organic imagination in the physical world. Take a trip on a homemade ship, and join the quest to return to the delight of childhood.

The Puzzle Master at Brandeis Univeristy

The Puzzle Master is an hour long multimedia retelling of the Daedalus and Icarus myth set on an imaginary island. Five singers perform in counterpoint with layers of computer-manipulated sound and video projection.

Music by Eric Chasalow, libretto by F. D. Reeve, video and set design by Denise Marika.

May 5th and 6th at The Laurie Theater at Brandies University.

Admission: $20 general admission; student/senior discounts available.

To listen to music samples from The Puzzle Master click here

Excerpts from the video:

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Excerpt 2

Excerpt 3

Works selected from ASPECT Magazine at Axiom Gallery

Four years ago ASPECT Magazine published its first DVD volume of contemporary art entitled “Artists of the Boston Cyberarts Festival”. Our goal was to expand understanding and access to new media art by broadly distributing video documentation. ASPECT has become widely regarded as the periodical of record for contemporary new media art. Along the way we have had the privilege of working with some of the world’s leading artists and critics.

Two years ago Axiom Gallery, a small artist run collective curated its first formal show, to coincide with the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival. Since then, Axiom Gallery has emerged as a critical Boston venue and resource for artists who push the limits of new media and experimental art. Given such similar missions, it was natural for our two organizations to work together and create a unique exhibition drawing from the archives of ASPECT. The final selection of work spans the canon of new media and illustrates the many directions that new media artists are exploring utilizing these new tools.

Artists included in the exhibition are as follows:

Jim Campbell: Motion and Rest #2 & #5
Tony Cokes: headphones
Jill Magid: L.O.V.E.
Christopher Miner: Making God Happy

Selected works from ASPECT magazine runs from 4-6-07 thru 5-6-07
for more information please visit www.axiomart.org

Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble: Pioneers & Premieres IV

Dinosaur Annex presents veteran ensemble member pianist Donald Berman in a solo recital of contemporary classical works. The evening’s program includes works for piano and electric sounds by composer Eric Chasalow and the World Premiere of a commissioned work for piano and computer processor by composer Mark Wingate. The concert will take place at The First Church Boston. on April 29, 7:30pm. Tickets are $20, and student and senior rates are available.

To listen to an excerpt of Donald Berman playing Due (Cinta)mani for piano and electronic sound, by Eric Chasalow please click here