FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 
August 30, 2022

Contact: Carolyn Wirth
wirth.carolyn@gmail.com
617-504-5155
"CURRENCY"
a FeministFuturist exhibition
“CURRENCY” exhibition poster designed by AK Liesenfeld with the assistance of Midjourney AI
Boston Cyberarts is excited to open the fall season with CURRENCY, an exhibition by the artist collective FeministFuturist on view in the gallery from Friday September 9 - Sunday October 16, 2022. This exhibition is created, curated and presented by the collective and encompasses both physical and virtual work. CURRENCY’s themes include the concept of monuments (their permanence or impermanence in physical or digital realms); Feminism in digital platforms; and ways in which a Feminist perspective can heal Earth from a male-dominated, capitalist-technological hegemony.

In their own words, the FeministFuturist art collective’s founding purpose is the following: “We call on fellow artists to foment cultural change by creating visionary art. We seek to evolve culture creatively, equitably, with sustainable technologies, and with deep respect for the ecological systems of planet Earth. Feminist Futurism offers visions of coexistence, healing, and community with all living things.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Freedom Baird is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring the interconnection between humans and nature. Her work addresses systems and society, and often includes performance and viewer participation. She holds master's degrees from the Media Lab at MIT and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and has exhibited recently at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and the Fuller Craft Museum.

Christina Balch (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, producer, and technologist. Her work explores perceptions of self through digital technology and data. 

Nancy Hayes was a ceramic sculptor before becoming a painter who develops forms and visual landscapes built from her imagination. Hayes creates elaborate compositions using color, line, pattern, and shape, building characters with their own texture and biology. She lives and works in South Dartmouth, MA

Marjorie Kaye is a visual artist currently based in North Adams in the Berkshires. Although primarily a painter working with gouache, she has also explored her wild, unruly, yet precise compositions in wood as well. She is the Director of Galatea Fine Art in Boston’s SoWA Art and Design District in addition to her art practice, and has had extensive exhibitions and has been awarded grants from the Provincetown Art Museum and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Anna Katharina (AK) Liesenfeld is a fashion designer and virtual reality concept artist. She has worked with Boston Fashion Week, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, creating garments and accessories exploring identity in fashion. AK will be showing a salon made entirely using VR. With this piece, she hopes to inspire the audience to join her in the conversation around the legacy of pioneering female educator Helen Temple Cooke.

Karen Meninno is a mixed media sculptor, painter, and fashion designer whose work spans many realms of futuristic visions. Currently, Meninno investigates the peculiarities of the digital (machine-based) and the analog (human or organic) in the digital spaces we inhabit, and the effects of interactions between them.

Carolyn Wirth, a Boston-area sculptor and occasional installation artist, uses the figure to describe people and landscapes historically unrepresented due to gender bias. Her practice inhabits the experiences of feminist-defined representation; she has been artist-in-residence at several regional museums and exhibits in numerous New England galleries.
"Lexicon 2022" by Karen Meninno, time-lapse video created in Procreate
 "Awake" by Christina Balch, Collection of NFTs, 2022
"Mined" by Freedom Baird, oil on canvas 24”x 36” yellow diamond with certificate of value
NFT & geopositioned digital object
ABOUT BOSTON CYBERARTS GALLERY
 
The Boston Cyberarts Gallery supports and encourages experimentation in the arts through exhibitions, events, educational programs and collaboration with like-minded groups in an effort to foster the development of new practices in contemporary art making. Located in the Green Street station on the MBTA's Orange line in Jamaica Plain, the Boston Cyberarts Gallery is the only art space located in a train station in the country, and also 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 alike.
 
BOSTON CYBERARTS, launched by George Fifield in 1999 with seed funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, is an umbrella for several ventures - the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Art on the Marquee at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and the Harbor Island Welcome Center Screens in Boston's Greenway Conservancy. 
 
Cyberarts encompasses any artistic endeavor in which computer technology is used to expand artistic possibilities - that is, where the computer's unique capabilities are integral elements of the creative process in the same way that paint, photographic film, musical instru­ments, and other materials have always been used to express an artist's vision. 
 
Boston Cyberarts is grateful for the support of many generous individuals and institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. This program is supported in part by a grant from the Boston Cultural Council/Reopen Creative Boston Fund administered by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture.
 
Further information on Boston Cyberarts is available by visiting www.bostoncyberarts.org, calling 617.290.5010 or emailing info@bostoncyberarts.org.
What: CURRENCY
Who: FeministFuturist art collective
When: Friday, September 9 - Sunday, October 16, 2022
Where: Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain.
Located inside the Green Street T Station on the Orange Line