Invitation to Paradise

Hello Rhizomers,

If any of you are in the Boston area over the next week I'd like to invite you out to see iKatun's voice-responsive installation, "Paradise", at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street.

The artwork is based on Paradise from Dante's Divine Comedy, however it takes information, rather than religion, as its starting point. The artwork fills a small theater with white fabric, minimalist soundscapes and a voice-responsive LED grid driven by a computer algorithm called "The Game of Life". I'm including the official press release below if you want more details.

the hours are:

Saturday 11AM - 10PM, opening reception 6PM - 8PM
Sunday 12noon - 6PM
Monday 12noon - 5PM
Tues - Thurs - 12 noon - 5PM, 7PM - 9PM


Hope that some of you will be able to make it!

cheers,
kanarinka


[[[ Printable version: http://www.ikatun.com/ParadisePressRelease.pdf ]]]


The iKatun Collective presents


Paradise: A large-scale interactive artwork at the intersection of Art & Technology

Opening reception: Saturday, September 21st from 6PM to 8PM at the Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Media Contact
Pirun | 617-501-6538 | [email protected]


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
“Paradise”, a large-scale interactive installation created by the iKatun collective and based on Dante’s Paradise will be running at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Leland Center from September 18 – 25.


iKatun’s Paradise is based on Dante’s Paradise from the Divine Comedy, however, iKatun’s Paradise is not about perfect morality but about perfect information. iKatun’s Paradise alludes to a faultless model of information to which all media systems aspire and a space where entropy does not exist.


Visitors to the Paradise installation walk through labyrinths of white fabric and minimalist soundscapes to reach a large grid of LED lights controlled by a computer program. The LED grid runs patterns of light based on “The Game of Life” [1]. The patterns change and evolve based on the visitor’s voice.


Paradise involved the work of more than 10 local artists, programmers, engineers, and musicians working collaboratively over the past year. Paradise will be presented at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Leland Center in conjunction with the South End Open Studios weekend and other exhibits at the Mills Gallery and the Cyclorama.


The opening reception will be on Saturday, September 21st from 6PM to 8PM at the Mills Gallery, located at 539 Tremont Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116. Paradise will be open to the public at the Leland Center from September 18 – 26. On weekdays, the hours are 12PM to 5PM. Saturday, September 21st: 11AM – 10PM. Sunday, September 21st: 12PM – 6PM.

About iKatun
www.ikatun.com
iKatun is a non-profit collective of artists and technologists co-founded in 2000 by Catherine D’Ignazio and Savic Rasovic. iKatun creates multimedia, installation, and performance artworks in physical space and cyberspace. iKatun also curates and produces art exhibits that bring technology and interactivity into the artwork. iKatun works in a uniquely collaborative way that involves the efforts of many different types of professionals including artists, engineers, programmers, designers, musicians and administrators. iKatun is a 501c3 organization based in Boston, MA.


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iKatun
21 Symphony Rd. 1-A, Boston MA 02115 Tel: 617/501-6538 Email: [email protected]

[1] For more information on the Game of Life, please view this link: http://www.math.com/students/wonders/life/life.html