Curated Group Exhibition at Boston Cyber Arts Gallery in March 2025.
Presented the Lucent Reverberations series, Installed on the gallery’s large front window.
Re:boot call for submissions:
As we dig through the tangled wires of our lives in the modern era, we have found ourselves increasingly connected to technology. Tools like the computer have progressed so deeply that we begin to see ourselves within their complexity; we have become nearly one with our mutual dependence. The evolution of artificial intelligence has also posed a massive ethical dilemma about the role of technology in human lives. But could things have gone any differently? Imagine we go back to a time before smartphones and high-speed internet. Where would we be today? Can we re:boot, or are we forced to carry the mistakes of the past with the consequences of the present?
Spark* invites artists to explore the intersections of retro technology and modern life in imagining the ideal update for the future of humanity. Our exhibition, re:boot, looks to bring artists into the minds of computers through the minds of themselves. Through the
bright flashing error messages and black and white static screens, we are transported to a past, but what past?
In re:boot, Spark* is asking artists to immerse themselves in the digital world in ways they didn’t think were possible. By hitting the refresh button and watching the walls around you dissipate, Spark* wants you to look beyond the screen and into the reflection. The world of re:boot looks to set artists on a journey of reexamining the buzzing blocks in our pockets and the invisible world wide web above our heads to begin to question the interplay that the digital world has on our real world.
Sincerely,
Your Head Curator, Kate Yanulis and your Junior Curator, Clara Hassan
