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Margaret Weigel

Visual Arts Review: Cyberarts’s Art on the Marquee — Digital Game Shorts for Now People

Whether art can comfortably exist in this thoroughly commercial frame is a question for the ages. Let’s say that whether this show succeeds is firmly in the eye of the beholder.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Art on the Marquee, Boston Convention & Exhibit Center, Boston Cyberarts, Margaret Weigel, PAX East convention

Arts Commentary: To Stay or Not to Stay? Copley Place’s fountain faces an uphill battle

Today, the fountain at Copley Place feels embarrassing in some way; not its form or execution, but its very existence.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Commentary, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Copley Place, Dimitri Hadzi, fountain, Omphalos, The Copley Place Fountain

Visual Arts: HarborArts “OccupyING the Present” Brings Boston Harbor to Life

The Boston Harbor Shipyard is a nifty setting for public art, redolent of old-school fisherman and maritime work. Its fading grandeur of weatherbeaten brick buildings, crumbling facades and stern signage sometimes rivaled the formal artwork.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Harbor Shipyard, East Boston, HarborArts, OccupyING the Present, public art

Fuse Visual Arts Review: “Convergence: Boston Sculptors Gallery Exhibits on the Christian Science Plaza”

The show was like topping a delicate wedge of artisanal cheese with a handful of artisanal trail mix. Both the Christian Science Plaza and the sculptures themselves are exquisite on their own, but together the experience felt disjointed and oddly incompatible.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Sculptors Gallery, Christian Science Plaza, Convergence: Boston Sculptors Gallery Exhibits on the Christian Science Plaza, Galleries

Visual Arts Review: Boston Cyberarts’ “The Game’s Afoot” — Something Clever

None of these games engendered any suffering at all. They were already pre-designed for failure; a player has no chance of success. But isn’t part of the pleasure of gaming the repeated failures that, over time, lead to successes?

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Technology and the Arts, Video Games Tagged: Airlock Park, Boston Cyberarts, Campaign Horse, CollisionCollective, Debtris, George Fifield, Into the Void, O.f.f.i.c.e.A.n.t.s., Pax East, Sisyphus, The Game’s Afoot: Video Game Art

Visual Arts Review: “City Of Work” — A Satirically Dystopic Vision of The Daily Grind

Artist Michael Lewy’s comprehensive, clever and surprisingly humorous take on an imaginary experimental settlement explores the ramifications of having human potential promptly assessed and harnessed for work, and work alone.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Cyberarts Gallery, City of Work, Michael Lewy

Visual Arts Review: The Sounds of “Unreal Memories”

Sound artist Tutschku employs audio selections that are briefly broadcast periodically throughout the course of the day to startle and surprise listeners, to crack the shell of our typically prosaic and hectic modern lives.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Hans Tutschku, harvard-university, Unreal Memories

Visual Arts Review: COLLISION18:present — The Expanding Range of Cyberarts

The more cerebral visitor may leave “Collision18:present” wondering if, like the classic definition of what constitutes pornography, ‘cyberart’ is firmly situated in the eye of the beholder (or of the curators).

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Technology and the Arts, Visual Arts Tagged: Boston Cyberarts, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Collision18:Present, CollisionCollective, Galleries

Fuse Review — ROUND: Cambridge Sounds the Depths of the City’s Public Art

ROUND: Cambridge is a testament to what can be accomplished using smart phones, GPS coordinates and a Google map.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Halsey Burgund, ROUND: Cambridge, site-specific installation, sound art

Arts Feature: Artisan’s Asylum — A Unique Organizational Mashup

Part of the great experiment that is Artisan’s Asylum: meeting your neighbors, realizing you need someone to help you solder/weld/create a 3d prototype, and then wandering amongst the open workspaces until you meet a co-collaborator.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Artisan's Asylum, artist workspace, Galleries, Margaret Weigel, Somerville

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