About

What is the Festival?

The biennial Boston Cyberarts Festival celebrates a long tradition of technological and artistic innovation throughout Massachusetts. The Festival showcases artists and high-technology professionals from around the world who use new technology to advance traditional visual and performing arts disciplines.  The Festival includes exhibitions of visual arts; music, dance, and theatrical performances; film and video presentations; educational programs; and lecture/demonstrations and symposia. Events take place at locations in and around Boston, including theatres, museums, galleries, artists’ studios, educational institutions, and other public spaces. Please see the Attend page for more information on what to see, when and where!

Who is the Boston Cyberarts Festival?

The Boston Cyberarts Festival is presented by Boston Cyberarts, Inc., a 501 (c)3 non-profit arts organization created to foster, develop and present a wide spectrum of media arts including electronic and digital experimental arts programming. We exhibit and promote the media and digital arts of Boston, New England and the world to audiences in the New England region and beyond and by doing so, helping to promote a sense of media and digital literacy, locally and regionally.

Boston Cyberarts Festival Staff:

Founding Director: George Fifield | george@bostoncyberarts.org
Associate Director: Heidi Kayser | hkayser@bostoncyberarts.org
Festival Coordinator: Autumn Ahn | autumn@bostoncyberarts.org
Public Relations: Nina Berger | press@bostoncyberarts.org
Marketing: Graham Wright
Graphic Design: Meghann Hickson
Web: Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder | webmaster@bostoncyberarts.org

Board of Directors:

George Fifield, Director
Director, Boston Cyberarts, Inc.

Kevin Cavanaugh, Clerk
VP of Development for Domino Software Products, IBM

Blake Courtney
Owner, BC Design

Judith Donath
Berkman Faculty Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard University

Maura Fitzgerald
Partner, Version 2.0 Communications

Abigail Ross Goodman
Past director of the Judi Rotenberg Gallery

Pattie Maes
Associate Professor of Media Technology, MIT Media Laboratory

David Newbold
Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Michael Spalter

James M. Utterback
David J. McGrath Jr. Professor of Management and Innovation and Professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.