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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cambridge, MA (Jun 26, 2002) - The Art Interactive, a new non-profit exhibition space dedicated to the promotion of art which is contemporary, experimental and participatory, is proud to present its inaugural exhibition, Time Share, an exploration of time, perception and interactivity. The exhibition, curated by Denise Markonish, will present the work of Jane Marsching, Michael Mittelman, Andrew Neumann, Scott Snibbe, Jeff Talman, and Camille Utterback. These six artists have exhibited widely across the United States and internationally.

Denise Markonish, curator for the Art Interactive’s inaugural show, Time Share, says, “These artists make time perceptible and more interactive, allowing the observer to participate and contemplate their own relationship to the perception of time. These large scale pieces call to the viewer’s attention the break between digital and analog time, and the speeding up and slowing down of temporality.”

The Art Interactive will hold an opening reception for Time Share at 6:00pm on Friday, Sept 27 at its 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge facility. Regular visiting hours are every Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 5:00pm beginning on Saturday, September 28.

The Art Interactive was founded in 2001 by Emanuel Lewin and Irene Buchine. Its arts advisory board includes such well known Boston arts professionals as Joe Paradiso of MIT’s Media Lab, George Fifield, director of the Boston Cyber Arts Festival, and Joseph Ketner, director of the Waltham-based Rose Art Museum.

For more info on the show and artists please turn to following page 

Jane Marsching (Boston, MA) will exhibit para://adatabaseofwonders, a photographic panorama and accompanying internet database exploring notions of historical time and the boundaries between fact and fiction. Visitors will be allowed to scan the database, making direct connections to all the images on view, a virtual time warp.

Michael Mittelman (Boston, MA) will present Fathers, exploring the duel role of interactivity, creating separate experiences for the active participant and observer while dealing with family history. Accompanying this is Fathers. Surveillance, which records and plays back, delayed interaction with his work, exploring notions of time and privacy.

Andrew Neumann (Boston, MA) presents a more passive notion of interactivity in his creation of industrial panels with fans, texts and moving video screens. These works are about the time spent with them and the awareness of this act, watching a monitor slowly move, reading texts and in some cases even being recorded into the piece.

Scott Snibbe (San Francisco, CA) will present Circular Breathing, an altered fan that allow a participant to record, store and play back a breath pattern, making perceptible that which usually evaporates. Recording, Snibbe’s other work, is a projected screen that records and plays back the motions of viewers, altering both time and motion.

Jeff Talman (New York, NY) will create a soundscape with, The Distance of the Discreet Voyeur. This works is a 5-channel sound installation that explores temporal-spatial impacts as the viewer walks through the space they are confronted by a series musical instruments whose natural resonances are reverberated throughout the space.

Camille Utterback (New York, NY) will present Liquid Time; a projection linking altered temporality with participation. In this work, the viewer is confronted with images of various cityscapes. As the viewer passes in front of these images their presence pushes them forward in time, effectively allowing the participant to alter the time in front of them.

The exhibition will be on view from September 27, 2002 – January 5, 2003, with a public opening reception on Friday September 27th from 6:00pm – 9:00pm. Regular visiting hours to the exhibition space are every Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am to 5:00pm, beginning on Saturday, September 28.