Copyright (c) 2008 Boston Cyberarts Inc. - All rights reserved. http://bostoncyberarts.org Boston Cyberarts Festival - RSS News Feed en-us Wed http://cyberarts.qc1.net/bca/newsflash/newsflash_details.php?mode=rssfeed&id=22 Sat, 5 May 2007 10:09:32 GMT+1 <b>Boston Cyberarts Festival 2007 - Newsflash</b><br/><small>Saturday, 5 May 2007</small><br/> <br/><b>IBM INNOVATION AWARDS PRESENTED AT 2007 BOSTON CYBERARTS FESTIVAL</b><br/><br/>Grand Award of $5000 goes to Clea T. Waite&#39;s Moonwalk<br/><br/>Boston, MA - Three new-media artists are the recipients of the first-ever IBM Innovation Awards for artistic creation in art and technology, given in recognition of the outstanding exhibitions and events featured in the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival. The awards were presented this evening at the 2007 Cyberarts Gala at the Hotel @ MIT.<br/><br/>The Grand Award of $5000 went to Moonwalk by Clea T. Waite, seen at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Moonwalk is an experimental film designed for projection on a traditional planetarium cupola, composed of found footage, astronomical photographs, sound bites, poems, stories, and drawings. Recent technological advances have made it possible to project high-definition video onto a hemispherical surface, and Moonwalk takes advantage of this technology. Moonwalk will be screened at the Radcliffe Gymnasium, 18 Mason Street in Cambridge on May 5 and 6.<br/><br/>A Merit Award of $500 went to Animated Gestures by Camille Utterback at Art Interactive. Utterback is a pioneer in the field of interactive installation, and the Animated Gestures exhibition contains three of her works. In these works, the viewer moves through a space in front of a screen on which an art work is projected, and this movement both alters the works and creates a temporal history of the movement. This work can be seen at Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge through May 13.<br/><br/>A second Merit Award of $500 went to Brian Knep&#39;s Aging: Works in Progress from the Harvard Medical School Residency, which was on view at the Judi Rotenberg Gallery from April 21-28. Knep has been artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School for two years. Working with one particular lab that focuses on the aging process, he observed and filmed frogs in the lab over their lifespan and created videos in which the frogs swim up and down the gallery walls as they age.<br/><br/>[<a href="http://cyberarts.qc1.net/bca/newsflash/newsflash_details.php?mode=rssfeed&#38;id=22">read more...</a>]