Sun. May 13th: Joseph Farbrook
Join us for a special artist talk with Joseph Farbrook whose work is currently on display as part of Now You See It…
Farbrook’s piece Amorphous Ball is an augmented reality kinetic sculpture. He writes about it, “We’ve come to expect that the device that we carry in our pocket will be all things at once. One by one, our other things are beginning to disappear as this pocket toy becomes the only toy that we play with. We’ve lost our cameras, camcorders, postcards, letters, notes, maps, tape recorders, flashlights, radios, stereos, watches, wallet photos, newspapers, calculators, answering machines, not to mention telephones. Like an amorphous ball, this shape-shifting device that we carry has also absorbed boredom, getting lost, physical contact, eye contact, talking, meeting, connecting, observing, remembering, asking advice, and discovering by chance.”
This talk is on Mothers Day and the final day of the exhibition. We would love to see you and your mother!
When: Sunday, May 13th, 4pm
Where: Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, MA (next to the Green Street Station)
Presenter: Joseph Farbrook
Free event
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About the Presenter
Joseph Farbrook grew up in New York City and Santa Fe. His father was a concrete poet and his mother, a painter. Farbrook creates digital artwork in the form of electronic installations, interactive video, augmented and virtual reality, video sculptures, live performances, and interactive screen projections. He has invented customized media platforms that mix physical and virtual art making practices. Within his work, he explores the evolution and consequences of cultural mythology and mediated perception.
Farbrook exhibits his work regularly in galleries and museums worldwide, including SIGGRAPH, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Watermans Gallery in London, Galerie Vaclava Spaly in Prague, and numerous solo and group exhibitions in NYC, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle and other cities. Joseph Farbrook is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.