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AUGMENTED LANDSCAPE Lai The Augmented Landscape: Virtual Sculptures Curated by Boston Cyberarts The Augmented Landscape is an outdoor exhibition of augmented reality art to take place at the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in 2017, consisting of 12 works by 6 international augmented reality artists. They have all exhibited with Boston Cyberarts either at the Institute of Contemporary Art as part of the 2011 Boston Cyberarts Festival or at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery. In addition various artists have exhibited at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey,the 2012 Zero One Festival in San Jose and the Corcoran Gallery of Art at Corcoran College, Washington D.C. among many others. Artists include Joseph Farbrook, Brookline, MA,Mark Skwarek,NYC,Tamiko Thiel, Berlin, Germany , Will Pappenheimer,NYC,John Clearer, Hudson,NY, Lalie S. Pascual, Lausanne, Switzerland. Boston Cyberarts will site the 12 AR artworks around the site campus. The art will be on the land and in Salem harbor. In the sky, Will Pappenheimer makes AR sky writing art. The chosen works would be positioned via GPS, each in a specific place on campus. A Geo Layer,which display points-of-interest near you, using your device location would allow each work to be seen when the viewer and their smartphone or tablet were nearby. Once sited the works would remain as long as the NPS wished. The NPS will have printed maps that include the site of each piece, an image, artists' information, title of the work and a QR code to download the app. A page on the Boston Cyberarts website would contain the same information which could be linked to or repeated by the college. The NPS will also provide iPod touches available for checkout. Joseph Farbrook would give an awareness raising lecture and workshop on Augmented Reality sculpture at the Salem National Park Service Visitor Center in the Fall of 2016. All works will be up and viewable by May 2017. This exhibition will advance a number of goals that the National Park Service has set itself for this their centennial year including going digital and more art in the parks. It is expected that the addition of this exhibition will increase the park attendance above it's past 450,000 annual visitors. Both the Peabody Essex Museum Curator of the Present Tense and the Salem Cultural Council have expressed excitement at an exhibition of cutting edge art like this premiering in Salem. The works will be chosen for their artistic merit. But it is also expected that they will be cognizant of the historic mission of the site and reflect the significant meaning of the Salem National Maritime Historic Site, the place where the new nation's economy was built carrying cargo back and forth from the West to Asia. Salem also represents some of the fledgling nation's earliest artistic efforts. Author Nathaniel Hawthorne worked in the Custom House in Salem, which is now part of Salem Maritime NHS. Boston Cyberarts will hold workshops for NPS staff so they can help visitors use their own smart phones to see the works. In addition there will be a couple of tablets for use by visitors. Visits to the site are free to the public. The application Layar is free for iOS and Android. Artists being considered are: t — ; s A t� i Joseph Farbrook Based in Boston Able to do preliminary talks in Fall 2016 e r Mark Skwarek Founder of Manifest AR Well known for a series of light-hearted sci-fi/monster"invasion"pieces Based in NYC S _ A�« ,r. iI f 'Shades of Absence: Governing Bodies,' augmented reality installation Corcoran Gallery of Art atrium Tamiko Thiel Politically engaged, visually spare work Based in Sin a ore 'ves the ro'ect a lobal reach Will Pappenheimer Elegant skywriting projects Also based in NYC John Cleater Large scale sculpture,usually placed in obscure locations Potential for integrating a QR code-based work(rather than geo-tagged, as much of the rest of the work may be) Lalie S. Pascual Lives in Lausanne, Switzerland Swissnex Boston has indicated an interest in bringing Pascual to the US for talks ---united-St-ates Dopa-r-tmmt of-rho–ntoxior— IIA"FNK t A NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEAVIeE A Salem Maritime National Historic Site »r Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site 2p3 ,Bh9 160 Derby Street Salem,Massachusetts 01970-5136 February 29, 2016 National Endowment for the Arts c/o ART WORKS: Media Arts Grant 400 70' Street, SW,Washington DC 20506 To Whom It May Concern, Thank you for the opportunity to apply for the ART WORKS:Media Arts grant sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. We're excited to support this grant application,in partnership with Boston Cyberarts,for the creation,cumflon and promotion of a series augmented reality art pieces that will engage 450,000 annual visitors to Salem Maritime National Historic Site(SAMA)in the form of a dynamic and compelling public art exhibit. We're prepared to provide non-federal matching funds through an educational non-profit partner,Eastern National,to support this grant. This augmented reality proposal and its deliverables embody a variety of current national priorities for the National Park Service(NPS),including improving park relevancy,expanding civic engagement and connecting under-served audiences with their national parks and cultural heritage. The NPS is currently celebrating its Centennial and is charting a course towards creating new i programs and opportunities for visitors that go beyond traditional park programming.This shift in program design is a necessary step for connecting and creating a next generation of park visitors, supporters and advocates that seek new and different experiences in our national parks. This augmented reality public art exhibit will enable park visitors,community residents and visiting artists,scholars and critics to experience an emerging form of digital art within nationally-significant historic buildings,exhibits and park grounds.SAMA was established as the first National Historic Site in the United States(1938)and is responsitle for preserving and interpreting our nation's maritime history—including the growth and expansion of 18th-191i century American culture as a result of trade and cultural exchange with foreign nations on six continents.One of the earliest examples of a uniquely American cosmopolitan culture is found in post-revolutionary Salem,MA. This grant is an opportunity to develop an innovative,distinctive public art exhibit that is a continuation of Salem's tradition of sharing new forms of art and culture to the community.The park maintains a number of community partnerships,including with the Peabody Essex Museum,that enable this exhibit to ultimately reach large,diverse audiences. In addition,the exhibit will directly advance several goals specified in the NPS A Call to Action(C2A),a national strategic plan.This augmented reality art project supports four C2A goals including: #4 In My Backyard,#10 Arts Afire,#17 Go Digital,#19 Out with the Old. We' leased to submit this letter of supportin cooperation with Boston Cyberarts,for the ART RK :Media Arts-gra t and we look fonvardxo hearing from you. Ylrey Superintendent March 30,2016 The New England Foundation for the Arts 145 Tremont Street,7th Floor Boston,MA 02111 To Whom It May Concern, I am Curator of the Present Tense at the Peabody Essex Museum where I lead a cross-departmental team working with artists and other creative agents to explore expressions that emerge at the intersections of cultures,disciplines,or technologies.Much of my work revolves around embedding contemporary creativity across the breadth of the museum's activities.l believe it is of paramount importance to present contemporary practices in ways that connects across time and culture. It is from this background that I am writing this letter in support of Boston Cyberarts application for NEFA support for an exhibition of Augmented Reality artworks around the National Maritime Historic Site campus in Salem.The list of artists include some key figures who were early adopters of AR in contemporary art contexts.The siting of these AR works in the National Maritime Historic Site is particularly significant because it offers synergistic opportunities for connecting past historical and contemporary technological experiences.The NMHS organization cares for a range of important historic buildings and sites which are in need of significant cultural engagement,and this project would provide such an opportunity.The timing of this project would be beneficial to larger conversations going on in the city of Salem.Salem is emerging as a significant cultural center on Boston's North Shore.As such this project will dovetail with other initiatives currently taking place surround the city's creative goals. 1 hope you will look favorably on Cyberarts'application.If I can provide further information please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Trevor Smith Trevor Smith Curator of the Present Tense Peabody Essex Museum East India Square 161 Essex Street Salem,MA,01970 t:+1978 542-1630 m:+1917 9815268 e:trevor smith@pem.org Switchboard:+1978 745 9500 5/24/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented landscape,"ar open-air virtual art gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 Parr, Michael <michael_parr@nps.gov> Fwd: "The Augmented Landscape," an open-a•r i u a gallery, opens this Saturday, May 27 George Fifield <george@bostoncyberarts.org> Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:41 PM To: "Parr, Michael" <michael_larr@nps.gov> Cc: Paul DePrey <paul_deprey@nps.gcv>, Nina Berger<ninajberger@gmail.com>, Stephanie Dvareckas <stephanie@bostoncyberarts.org>, Maryann Zujewski <maryann zujewski@nps.gov>, Tamiko Theil <tamiko@alum.mit.edu> / -0 —00 bg Michael I'm including the last press release for the exhibition. You can also link to our website (http://bostoncyberarts.org/the- augmented-landscape/)and we will link to yours. The map with locations, that Tamiko sent you, is the latest and setting the tent up next to Waite& Pierce will be fine. Just not too far down Central Wharf so it's not on top of Kristin LucasGoodbyes. We're looking forward to Saturday! George a Fifield_r y -------------------------- Geo rg I 1 617 524-21091 9 Myrtle Street Director cell 617 2905010 1 Jamaica Plain Boston Cyberarts I george@bostoncyberarts.org I MA 02130 USA http://www.bostoncyberarts.org Begin forwarded message: From: Nina Berger/George Fifield <press @bostoncyberarts.org> Subject: 'The Augmented Landscape,"an open-air virtual art gallery, opens this Saturday, May 27 Date: May 22, 2017 at 9:44:42 AM EDT To: george@bostoncyberarts.org Reply-To: press@bostoncyberarts.org Augmented Reality sculptures exploring history and ecology come to life in virtual outdoor gallery! The Augmented Landscape opens this Saturday,May 27 at the National Park Service's Salem Maritime National Historic Site&Saugus Iron Works. Boston cyberarts Press Contacts: Nina J Berger For Immediate Release press@bostoncyberarts.org May 22, 2017 617543-1595 George Fifield, george@bostoncyberarts.org https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&tk=6lf3266e9a&view=pt&msg=15c3b59597e9977c&search=inbox&siml=15c3b59597e9977c 1/6 5124/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented land>cape,"an open-air virtual at gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 617-290-5010 The Augmented Landscape opens May 27 at National Park Service's Salem Maritime National Historic Site Exhibition expands to Saugus Iron Works & Salem Visitor Center l \ a {1 Yr � r . r V John Crag Freeman, Virtual Russia, St.Petersburg,geo-located augmented reality public art,2017. [Boston, MA] - Boston Cyberarts presents The Augmented Landscape, an outdoor exhibition at the National Park Service's Salem Maritime National Historic Site, featuring eight Augmented Reality(AR) sculpt.lres created by four internationally acclaimed artists-John Craig Freeman, Kristin Lucas, Tamiko Thiel, and Will Pappenheimer. Located on the historic waterfront in Salem, Massachusetts, the free exhibition will be on view May 27 to November 30, 2017. There will be a public opening reception on Saturday, May 27 from 6-8pm. Inspired by Salem's unique history and ecolocy, the eight artworks will delve into issues as diverse as East-West relations, New England's maritime connections with Russia, Japan & China, American idealism, the discord between globalism and isolationism, piracy as warfare, as well as the effects of climate change, global warming and rising waters. The works being premiered will be John Craig Freeman's Virtual Russia: Saint Petersburg and Virtual China: Wuhan; Kristin Lucas's Elephant in Room and Goodbyes; Will Pappenheimer's Ascension of Cod and Privateers Reenactment; and Tamiko Thiel's Gardens of the Anthropocene and Treasures of Seh- Rem. In addition, at the National Park Service's Saugus Iron Works, Will Pappenheimer and Zachary Brady's SkywriteAR will generate virtual skywriting vapor phrases hundreds of feet above the viewer. For the next six montns, SkywriteAR texts relating to the notion of everything connected to "iron"will be posted in the sky at monthly intervals. And in the Salem Visitor Center, Pappenheimer wi I be creating another version of his Ascension of Cod, with fish swimming upwards into the Center's atrium. Augmented Reality (AR) is computer-generated sound, video or graphics that are layered into a real-world environment. Sited throughout the park, either on the land and https://mail.google.com/mail/d0r?ui=2&ik=6lf3266e9a&view=pt&msg=15c3b59597e9977c&search=inbox&siml=15c3b59597e9977c 2/6 5/24M17 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented Landscape,"an open-air virtual art gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 or in Salem harbor, the sculptures will be positioned via GPS, each in a specific place on the Salem campus, and will be viewable by using the augmented reality app Layar (free for iOS and Android) on a smartphone or tablet. The National Park Service will have printed maps available for visitors that include the site of each piece, an image, artists' information, title of the work and how to download the app to view the work. The information will also be available online, at the Boston Cyberarts and NPS websites. Visits to the site are free to the public. "AR stretches the limits of our imagination, melding the virtual world with the real world," says Boston Cyberarts Director George Fifield. "I'm thrilled to be bringing this groundbreaking new work to the city of Salem, and the more than 450,000 annual visitors to the park. This is an exciting expansion of our collaboration with the National Park Service presenting public art in the Greater Boston area. Cyberarts has been programming the LED screen on the Boston Harbor Island Welcome Center on the Greenway since 2014. Bringing AR sculpture to the landscape at the NPS's Salem site this summer will be a dynamic new direction for public art in New England." "Augmented Reality is the street art of the 21 st Century!" adds artist Tamiko Thiel"It is the medium par excellence for site-specific public art, giving artists unique opportunities to create works in the public sphere. It gives the phrase 'artistic freedom' a whole new meaning" The Augmented Landscape, presented in partnership with the National Park Service and Essex National Heritage Area, is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, PTC, Eastern National, Salem Cultural Council, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. For more information about the project, please visit htti)://bostoncybera rts.org/the-aug mented-landscape/ ABOUT THE ARTISTS John Craig Freeman (Virtual Russia and Virtual China) has more than twenty-five years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. Freeman seeks to expand the notion of public by exploring how digital networked technology is transforming our sense of place. His exhibitions have been seen around the world including in London, Mexico City, Calgary, Havana, Kaliningrad, Warsaw, Zurich, Belfast, Venice, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Milano, Sydney, Singapore, Liverpool, Coimbra, Basel, Paris, across America, as well as in Beijing, Xi'an, Wuhan, and Hong Kong. In 2016 he traveled to Wuhan, China as part of the ZER01 American Arts Incubator. In 2015, he was the recipient of a commission from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Art + Technology program. He has also had work commissioned by Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org. The NEA awarded Freeman one of the last Individual Artist Fellowships in 1992. Freeman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. He is currently a Professor of New Media Art at Emerson College in Boston. www.JohnCraiciFreeman.net Kristin Lucas (Elephant in Room and Goodbyes) explores the contingencies, issues and poetics of digital technologies through conceptual, performative, social, and collaborative frameworks. She reinvents the familiar in uncanny circuitous works that lie somewhere between reality and "reality." Lucas's work has been presented nationally and internationally at galleries and museums, including Dia Center for the Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Artists Space (New York), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City), DiverseWorks, Aurora Picture Show (Houston), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool), House of Electronic Arts (Basel), Nam June Palk Art Center (Gyeonggi-do), XPO Gallery(Paris), and ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe); and at festivals, https://maiI.google.com/mail/WOt?ui=2&ik=61f3266e9a&view=pt&msg=15c3b59597e99T7c&search=inbox&simI=15c3b59597e9977c 3/6 5/24/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented Landscape,"an open-air virtual at gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 including: Fusebox Festival (Austin), ISEA (Manchester/Liverpool); Transmediale Festival (Berlin), Visions of the Now Festival ;Stockholm), and more. Lucas is represented by Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Postmasters Gallery in New York, and And/Or Gallery in Los Angeles. She serves as faculty for the Department of Art and Art ' History at the University of Texas at Austin and is a 2017 Artist in Residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (New York) and Print Screen Festival and Yafo Creative (Tel Aviv). www.KristinLucas.com, www.KristinLucas.com Will Pappenheimer (Ascension of Cod, Privateers Reenactment, and SkywriteAR) is a Brooklyn-based artist working in new media, performance, and installation with an interest in institutional or spatial intervention and the altered meaning of things. His work often explores the confluence and tension of the virtual and physical worlds. He is a founding member of the Manifest.AR collective. His projects and performances have been shown internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, Los Angeles; San Francisco MOMA; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich; Fringe Exhibitions in Los Angeles; the ICA, Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington; the Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast; FILE, Sao Paulo, BR; Turbulance.org; Xi'an Academy of Art Gallery in China; and Exit Art, the New Museum and the 2017 Moving Image Art fair in New York. The artist's works have been reviewed in Christiane Paul's recent historical edition of"Digital Art," a chapter of Gregory Ulmer's theoretical book "Electronic Monuments,"Art in America, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, WIRED, Modern Painters, The Boston Globe, EL PA;S, Madrid, Liberation, Paris, and Art US. He teaches new and locative media at Pace University, New York. www.willpaD- projects.com Tamiko Thiel (Gardens of the Anthropocene and Treasures of Seh-Rem) is an internationally acknowledged pioneer in creating poetic spaces of memory for exploring social and cultural issues in both virtual reality art (VR, since 1994) and augmented reality art (AR, since 2010). A founding member of the artist group Manifest.AR, she participated in their path-breaking guerrilla AR intervention at MoMA NY in 2010, and was main curator and organizer of their uninvited intervention into the Venice Biennial in 2011. Her works have also been shown at the Istanbul Biennale, ZKM, Centre Pompidou, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, ICA London, ICA Boston, and Art Gwangju, Contemporary Istanbul, UNPAINTED Munich and Moving Image New York. Her VR and AR works are featured in reference books such as Whitney curator Christiane Paul's "Digital Art" and Stanford professor Matthew Smith's"The Total Work of Art: From Bayreuth to Cyberspace." Her work has been supported by the McDowell Colony, MIT Fellowship, IBM Innovation Award, WIRED Magazine, Japan Foundation Fellowship and Berlin Capital City Fund. As AR artistic advisor to the CCCADI, she helped secure a Rockefeller Cultural Innovation award for the "Mi Querido Barrio"AR project in East Harlem. In 2017 she is an Eyebeam New York Mentor and GoogleVR Tilt Brush Artist in Residence. SALEM MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE was designated in 1937, the first National Historic Site in the National Park system. The nine-acre site includes the homes of merchant and mariner families, the US Custom House in which the famous author National Hawthorne worked, and a replica of the three-masted cargo vessel Friendship of Salem. Today, the park rangers, staff and volunteers of Salem Maritime continue to inform and inspire visitors with the maritime history of New England and the United States. For more information visit w,Mw.nps.gov/sama or call 978-740-1650. SAUGUS IRONWORKS NATIONAL HIS—ORIC SITE is a nine-acre National Park includes working waterwheels, hot forges, mills, an historic 17th century home, and a lush river basin. Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site preserves the archeological and historic sites, structures, objects, and the reconstructed historic landscape associated with the first successful fully-integrated iron works in North America. In the 1600's, on the banks of the Saugus River, something extraordinary happened when https://mail.google.com/mail/u/O/?ui=2&ik=6lf3266ega&view=pt&msg=15c3b59597e99T7c&search=int)ox&siml=l5c3b59597e9977c 4/6 5/24/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented Landscape,"an open-air virtual art gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 European iron makers brought their special skills to a young Massachusetts colony, establishing the birthplace of the American iron and steel industry. For more info, visit www.nps.gov/sair/index.htm or call 978- (781) 816-7299 BOSTON CYBERARTS, launched by George Fifield in 1999 with seed funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is an umbrella for several ventures - the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and the Harbor Island Welcome Center Screens in Boston's Greenway Conservancy. Cyberart encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used to expand artistic possibilities-that is, where the computer's unique capabilities are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic film, musical instruments, and other materials have always been used to express an artist's vision. Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Further information on Boston Cyberarts is available by visiting www.bostoncyberarts.ora. calling 617.524.8495 or emailing infon.bostoncyberarts.oro. What: The Augmented Landscape Who: John Craig Freeman, Kristin Lucas, Will Pappenheimer, Mark Skwarek, Tamiko Thiel When: Opening Reception: Saturday, May 27, 6.8pm Exhibition: May 27 -November 30, 2017 Cost: FREE and Open to the Public Where: National Park Service's Salem Maritime National Historic Site, 160 Derby St, Salem, MA 01970, Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. gnmilib I&P OUR SPONSORS: - - National Endowment AtortheAris ARTWORKS. aingo. PLATINUM SPONSORS: PTC, Eastern National GOLD SPONSOR: Essex National Heritage Area /A\,ink ESSEx NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA httpsJ/mail.google.com/mail/LVOI?ui=2&ik=6lf3266e9a&view=pt&msg=15c3b59597e9977c&search=inbox&simi=15c3b59597e9977c 5/6 5/24/2017 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Mail-Fwd:"The Augmented Landscape,"an open-air virtual art gallery,opens this Saturday,May 27 OTHER SUPPORT: Salem Cultural Council Massachusetts Cultural Council BRIM© MasacMaetts Q Itural Council See what's happening on our social sites F1 © ® G Boston Cyberarts, Inc., 9 Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 SafeUnsubscribeTM george@bostoncyberarts.org Forward this email I Update Prof le I About our service provider Sent by press@bostoncybera-Is.org in collaboration with Constant Contact',sem' Try it free today htlps://mail.google.com/mail/u/Of7ui=2&ik=61f3266e9a&viev=pt&msg=15c3b59597e9977c&search=inbox&siml=15c3b59597e9977c 616 About the Artists: How to see the art Tamiko Theil: Internationally recognized pioneer in cre- The Augmented Landscape is an exhibition of augmented i ating poetic spaces of memory for exploring social and reality art.To see the art,enable location on your smart- cultural issues in virtual reality since 1994 and augment- phone or tablet.Then download and launch the free Layar ed reality since 2010. In 2017, Eyebeam NY Mentor and app for Apple or Android. Pull down the upper left hand GoogleVRTiilt Brush Artist in Residence. Menu a,tap Geo Layers,then Search Layfor the two words:Salem Art.The eight art works will NS Will Pappenheimer.Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn art- appear. If all eight do not appear you can Search by name `" ist working in new media,performance and installation, for the others. Follow the map to the location of one of and a founder of the Manifest.AR collective.His projects the red dots on the map and click the associated Layer. klkoahm 0 have been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Look through your phone in all directions to find the Mo���0,,� 0 Art, LACMA, Los Angeles;San Francisco MDMA;Stedelijk work.To view another work,click the upper right hand Lfllokhuk Museum,Amsterdam and the ICA,Boston. Menu a again and select another artwork. 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Salem Cultural Council Y ok c" �• Founded by George Fifield in 1998, Boston Cyberarts sup- R t 'll�lj _... ports and encourages experimentation in art and te.chnol- ogy.The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is located in the Green � . .... ,� Street station on the MBTA's orange line in Jamaica Plain, ®�I ® • { R � MA and 1s the only independent art organization in Mas- sachusetts focusing on new and experimental media. Bos- ton Cyberarts runs two public art projects in downtown ti� Boston;Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention and t✓ � Exhibition Center and the arton the LED screens on e y b e r a r t s Essex NATtoNAL the Harbor Island Pavilion located in Boston's Greenway HBRRAoz AREA ° Conservancy and run by the National Park Service.To Front Page from top: rdvare n Reenactment,Will Nppenhdmer,2017;Treasures of contact us,email infoebostoneyberarts.org Seh-Rem,Tamiko Thiel,2017;Woual Russia,Saint Petersburg,John Craig Beeman. 2017;EMphant in Room,Kristin Lucas,2017 Salem Maritime National Historic Site 1. Elephant In Room by Kristin Lucas.An elephant, brought to America as cargo, lounges in a psychiatrist The Narbonne Hous chair reminiscing about its natural habitat—a twist on idioms: "elephant in the room" and"elephants never The Derby House forget". The Hawkes House 2. Ascension of Cod by Will Pappenheimer creates a school of virtual cod swimming upwards in a column around and above Scale House as if in an ascension to the heavens. It calls.ip the reverence and endangerment The Custom House for these fish both as an abundant food source and as a historic local livelihood. Derby Street 3 & 4. Virtual Russia and Virtual China, by John Waite&PeirceAft Craig Freeman,uses the historic Salem Custom House as a metaphoric portal,transporting users to two alternative Hatches Wharf It realities created by*e artist on location in the cities of „ Wuhan in Central China and Saint Petersburg Russia last Central Wharf r year.The project is meant to evoke the history and con- tempory manestfetations of globalization, international The Pedrick Store trade and revolution. Virtual Russia and Virtual China House I can be viewed anywhere in the Maritime Historic Site from Derby Street to the lighthouse at the end of Derby The Friendship of Wharf. Salem 5. Treasures ofSeh-Rem by Tamiko Thiel.What treasures did the Orient desire from Yankee traders?The Salem Maritime Museirn greensward becomes a surreal fever dream of odd, precious wares under the watchful eyes and hairy visages of Westerners, as depicted by Japanese artists on first contact. 6. Gardens of the Anthropocene by Tamiko Thiel. Mutant giant red algae invade Salem Harborl Ebbing and flowing around you,they surround you with their spores.The giant algae are virtual,but the danger of climate change provoking more frequent toxic blooms is real. j7. Goodbyes by Kristin Lucas.3d models collected through online markets—crafted by others for"goodbye" Derby Wharf occasions—arrive and depart. Discontinued aircraft, vestiges of software graduates, a figure stoically waving goodbye. Light Station 8. Privateers Reenactment by Will Pappenheimer re-envisions the enactment of Privateering,the Revolu- tionary war form of piracy as warfare.A giant virtual ball of galleon type ship masts hovers and rotates over Derby Wharf mixing the goals American idealism with wealth acquisition. 0 www.bostoncyberarts.org n2017 Boston Cyber...Inc.