Film Practicum: Boston Athenaeum
The Boston Athenæum, located at 10 1/2 Beacon St. has been a Boston institution for over 200 years. With a gallery and an extensive calendar of events open to the public as well as a multitude of additional benefits for their members, this beautiful membership library sought the help of Boston University's Center for Digital Imaging Art's Practicum program in June, 2010 to create video content introducing the public to The Boston Athenæum's varied offerings. The crew included full-time students Catherine Giarrusso (Producer), Mike Moore (Director of Photography), Gordon Woolfrey (Assistant Camera), Tom Lawrenson (Sound Recordist, Editor) and was advised by Greg Croteau. Our goal was to introduce the organization to the public, highlighting the varied benefits of membership in this longstanding and multi-faceted institution.
PULSE 2018 Opening Night Artist Panel
PULSE Art + Technology Festival kicked off this year with an opening lecture by exhibiting artists Max Almy, Teri Yarbrow, Josephine Leong, and Jacob Kudsk Steensen. These artists discussed their work currently on view in PULSE as well as the previous works throughout their careers that led them here.
Teri Yarbrow and Max Almy are EMMY, AFI, NEA, and ARS ELECTRONICA award-winning and internationally exhibited new media artists known for pushing the boundaries of art and technology. Their complex installations seamlessly combine video, interactive media, constructed surfaces, painting, digital imagery, flat screens, and video projection to create dramatic, mesmerizing works. Their works have been featured in major museums, festivals, screenings, and collections throughout the world including: MOMA, NY; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LA; Ars Electronica, Austria; SIGGRAPH; the Stedelijk Museum; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the New Museum; the Whitney; and many more.
Jakob Kudsk Steensen is a Danish artist and art director based in New York, specializing in VR and interactive media installations. Steensen is concerned with how imagination, technology, and ecology intertwine by developing futuristic virtual simulations of existing real-world landscapes. His work is at the forefront of real-time rendered virtual environments, and he develops projects through collaborations with science, technology, and natural science divisions. His art has recently been exhibited at Carnegie Museum of Art, The Moving Image Fair, NYC, MAXXI, Museum of Modern Art, and at Sundance and TriBeCa film festivals. Steensen is currently a 2017–2018 member of NEW INC, a technology and culture incubator by The NEW MUSEUM, in NYC.
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