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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Cambridge, MA (Mar 14, 2005) - Walk, Dance, Jump and Move…with your own shadow!
Shadow Play features ‘Legend of Interactivity’, Scott Snibbe
April 23rd-July 3rd
Opening Reception: Friday, April 22nd, 6-9pm
What would it be like to play with your shadow? What if you could interact with the shadows of other people? Shadows are the featured subject in Shadow Play, a solo show by artist Scott Snibbe, recently named a ‘Legend of Interactivity’ by The Kitchen gallery in New York City.
Shadow Play is the world premier for two new works by Snibbe: Visceral Cinema: Chien and Shadow Bag. This exhibit is being held concurrently with the opening of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, for which Art Interactive is the exclusive headquarters.
The four screen-based works in Shadow Play invite visitors to interact with the shadows, and the shadows of others, as never before. Curated by Molly Polk, this exhibit demonstrates Snibbe’s masterful explorations in electronic, interactive media. All of these works invite adults and children to walk, dance, jump, or move to create individual performances with their shadows.
And in some of the works, the shadows play back!
Scott Snibbe’s work has been shown internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Artport (New York) the InterCommunications Center (Tokyo); and Institute of Contemporary Art (London). He has been awarded a variety of international prizes, including the Prix Ars Electronica, and a 2004 Rockefeller New Media Fellowship.
Press kits with more detailed information about Shadow Play and Art Interactive are available upon request or online at: http://www.artinteractive.org
PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Friday, April 22, 2005, 6-9pm
Opening Reception: Shadow Play! Free and open to the public
Saturday, May 14, 2005, 4pm
Curator Talk with Molly Polk
Saturday, June 11, 2005, 2-3pm
Family Day- Movement workshop: Interactive Shadows with Stefani Reitter
Boston dancer/ choreographer Stefani Reitter will lead children and parents through an interactive movement workshop focusing on playing with shadows.
Thursday, June 16, 2005, 7pm
Dance Performance- Interacting with Shadows
Drawing inspiration from Snibbe’s images on view, dancer/ choreographer Stefani Reitter will present an exploration of the relationship between movement and shadow.
Friday, June 24, 2005, 6-9pm
Closing Reception Free and open to the public
For more details about these programs or to schedule educational visits, please contact info@artinteractive.org
ABOUT ART INTERACTIVE
Art Interactive is a non-profit art space founded in 2001 by Boston-based entrepreneurs Emanuel Lewin and Irene Buchine. Its arts advisory board members include Joe Paradiso, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Co-Director of the "Things That Think" research consortium at the MIT Media Laboratory; George Fifield, director of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival and New Media curator at the DeCordova Museum; Joseph Ketner, director of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University; and Kathy Brew, an independent media producer, curator and educator based in New York.
Art Interactive's mission is to provide a public forum that fosters self-expression and human interaction through the development and exhibition of art that is contemporary, experimental, and participatory. As the Boston Globe commented in a review coinciding with the gallery’s public opening in 2002: “Viewers here become part of the art…There is nothing exactly like Art Interactive elsewhere in the United States.” In describing the gallery’s first exhibition, Time Share - an exploration of time, perception and interactivity organized by Denise Markonish – the Boston Phoenix called the work “bold, technologically inventive, and daring…” Likewise, ArtsMedia wrote that the inaugural show demonstrated Art Interactive’s achievement in “setting a precedent for mixed interactive media art.” Body Double, also organized by Markonish, focused on works that physically depended upon the viewer's body to bring the works to completion, which were hailed by the Boston Herald as a “striking mix of images and ideas” that generated a “lively buzz of a communal good time.” WBUR, the National Public Radio local affiliate, praised Origins: Rediscovering the Future of Video Art — mounted by Mary Ann Kearns, founder and director, 911 Gallery, Boston, MA — for “contextualizing the rise of new media by examining the antecedents of the digital revolution.”
Gallery Hours and Information
The gallery is open Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 12-6pm or by appointment, and is located at 130 Bishop Allen Drive, at the corner of Prospect Street. For more information, please contact info@artinteractive.org or call 617.498.0100.
