Manifest.AR at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston | Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2011
Boston Cyberarts, Inc. is a non-profit arts organization created to foster, develop, and present a wide spectrum of media arts, including: digital, electronic, time-based, new MEDIA and experimental practices.
The Boston Cyberarts Gallery supports and encourages experimentation in the arts through exhibitions, events, educational programs, and collaboration with community groups, colleges, and other art organizations in an effort to foster the development of new practices in contemporary art making and Public Art Projects. Boston Cyberarts is the only independent art organization in Massachusetts focusing on new and experimental media.
With an interest in technology based, innovative combinations of sculpture, installation and live performance, the Boston Cyberarts Gallery brings together members of the new media community as well as the general public, supporting emerging and established artists and encouraging community engagement, to expand media art literacy and appreciation.
Located on the street level of the Green Street station on the MBTA’s Orange line in Jamaica Plain, and along the Southwest Corridor Park bike and walking path, the Boston Cyberarts Gallery is easily reachable, wheelchair accessible, and close to JP restaurants and shops.
HISTORY: Boston Cyberarts originally began as the Boston Cyberarts Festival (1999 - 2011), a biennial festival of artists and high-technology professionals from New England and throughout the world. The Festival included exhibitions of visual arts: music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations; educational programs; and lectures, demonstrations, and symposia. Events united locations in and around Boston, including theatres, museums, galleries, artists’ studios, educational institutions, and other public spaces. The Festival first took place during the first two weeks in May 1999. The last festival was held in Spring 2011.
selected community collaborations
Public Processes with the Boston Public Art Triennial.
Ongoing collaborations with WaveForms, and organizers such as Alpha 60 and Transporter.
Co-presented the Boston Immersive Music Festival with Bill Sebastian, receiving coverage on WBUR.
Ongoing, fully funded Game Development Workshops for local high-school students, featuring field trips, professional development talks, and hands-on game creation.
Art on The Marquee - Boston Cyberarts and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority teamed up to create “Art on the Marquee,” an ongoing project to commission public media art for display on the new 80-foot-tall multi-screen LED marquee outside the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in South Boston. The largest urban screen in New England, this unique digital canvas is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. to integrate art alongside commercial and informational content as part of the MCCA’s longstanding neighborhood art program.
Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion - Boston Cyberarts, the National Park Service, and Boston Harbor Islands Alliance have collaborated on an ongoing project to commission public algorithmic art for display on the LED screens at the park Welcome Center.
Art Technology New England (ATNE), was a member-run organization whose purpose is to foster existing and new collaborations in the New England art and technology communities, including non-profit, academic and corporate entities, as well as individuals.
PRESS ARCHIVE
Founder and director (1999 - 2022)
Gallery director
Valerie Guinn Polgar, 2025 -
THE BOSTON CYBERARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Kevin Cavanaugh, Chair
Mark Favermann, Favermann Design
Maura Fitzgerald, Clerk, Partner, Version 2.0 Communications
Interested in the future of Boston Cyberarts? Board of Directors letters of interest are currently being accepted. Please email: info@bostoncyberarts.org