-The Boston Cyberarts Gallery is pleased to present Poetic Codings, straight from its premiere exhibition at the Fellows of Contemporary Art gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes three projections by John Carpenter, Casey Reas and Jeremy Rotsztain as well as 20 original, interactive iPad artworks by 8 artists including John Baldessari, Jason Lewis, Lia, Erik Loyer, Jeremy Rotsztain, Rafaël Rozendaal, Scott Snibbe and Jody Zellen.
This exhibition includes computer projections by three of the finest new media artists on the West Coast. In the wonderfully interactive Dandelion Clock by John Carpenter, the viewer’s proximity blows the seeds of a digitally created dandelion about the wall. Jeremy Rotsztain’s Action Painting is a video projection transferred onto a large canvas in the style of Jackson Pollock. It is composed using data from action movies as material. Casey Reas, one of the inventors of Processing (a computer language for artists), presents Signal to Noise (Software 1), which uses television signals as a raw material distorting contemporary information into new abstract data structures. ...