Hey friends ~
We're happy to introduce you to Light Reading, our newsletter series from MASARY. This is a place to share with you exclusive project content, personal influences, behind the scenes, studio practice, and community digs. Thank you Matt for the design!
Business is not as usual.
These are certainly strange and challenging times for all. We are writing from a seat of unity, courage, peace, justice, and love as artists, friends, and colleagues in Boston and beyond.
It is hard for us to think anything matters but fighting injustice, bigotry and racism, to post or share anything other than our support and our actions as they relate to the injustices around us. As a studio and as individuals we stand with BIPOC everyday, and condemn the senseless police brutality and dysfunctional "justice" system built on greed and white privilege.
The work must continue to be made, we must tell our story, we must believe in our practice. We hope that this note from us can provide some of these moments in reflection and in light.
~ MASARY ~
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Our Team is Growing
This Spring we officially welcomed our Technical Director Jeremy Stewart and we have newly on-boarded our apprentice Caleb Hawkins.
We are so grateful to be creating work and expanding as a studio. Click HERE to read more about Dr. J and Caleb on our new About page.
As well, our studio is hiring a part-time Studio Manager and we are accepting applications through the middle of June. More info on the position here - please forward to a friend or colleague you think may be interested.
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Announcing: "VESSELS"
Embarking mid-June, the sound and video artworks will be displayed at various sites in the city of New Bedford, projected on building facades over the course of six weeks. Scroll down for more. DATMA.org
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Art News: Cristo
Prominent contemporary art pioneer Cristo (of "and Jeanne Claude") passed away recently. Their powerful, transcendental works transformed landscapes and cities the world over. Peek some amazing here...
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Projection Protests
Samo and Caleb have been projecting around the city of Boston. Screaming with light, protesting with public image.
Read Caleb's blog post about his experience and see more images of the projections they have been doing.
It’s not over.
Photo by Caleb Hawkins.
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"Vessels" presented by DATMA in New Bedford, MA
“Vessels,” is a new commissioned artwork debuting in New Bedford June 20. The work celebrates the fishing vessels as characters in the community's rich history. Embarking mid-June, the sound and video artworks will be displayed at various sites in the city, projected on building facades every night over the course of six weeks. The project is presented by DATMA - Design, Art, Technology Massachusetts. We are thrilled to be creating this work now for DATMA and to be exploring these incredible vessels of transit, harvest, light, sound and folklore.
We can't wait to present the work this summer, bringing public art about New Bedford to New Bedford - with authenticity and safe practice.
Check out the DATMA website to learn more about Vessels and the other work involved in their program season titled Light 2020.
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The Boston Globe! A recent article talking about Refractive Choreographies, a mobile projection project with Urbanity Dance. More below.
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Refractive Choreographies
During these times we have still been able to find a way of creating and presenting public work in Boston. We partnered with Urbanity Dance to produce the mobile projection series of Refractive Choreographies.
Under the direction of Meg Anderson, Company dancers filmed themselves dancing from their own homes, creating raw material for Jeremy Stewart’s artificial intelligence to learn from. The AI is then programmed to watch, mimic, and move with the performers, ultimately producing a digital representation of their dancing.
Ryan of MASARY composed the sound for each iteration while SAMO of MASARY deployed as the projectionist and video editor.
In accordance with social distancing guidelines and with public safety in mind, each projection was presented “pop-up” style, with locations not being announced in advance and lasting no more than three and a half minutes.
Each piece debuts via video documentation, a seamless representation of the piece taking place over the course of multiple locations from one night.
Click HERE to see the project.
Click HERE for the Boston Globe article by Karen Campbell
Photos by Aram Boghosian
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Harvard President's Innovation Challenge
Our friends at the iLAB invited us back to collaborate again. PIC is an annual event supporting innovative ideas that change the world.
We created a custom video stream system, bespoke animation and Ai interpretations of the Harvard iLAB’s Icon visual language, original sound composition, and a simple stage design in order to produce the virtual event with a directed cadence.
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Unsupervised Learning
While a pandemic has struck the world and restrictions have taken place, we challenged ourselves to more creative sketching. Unsupervised Learning is a motif series practicing the collaboration of tool and restriction.
This series uses analog synthesizers, greyscale hue, electronic music, and 3D animation to explore themes of organic cycles, texture and motion.
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JPCSMS are new friends of ours. We met over "Peace, Love, and Jamaica Plain" a holiday project we created last year, projection mapping a building as a canvas sitting on Center St in Jamaica Plain to bring joy and light to the longer Winter nights we have in New England.
JPCSMS is a non-profit doing such important work, now, and always around increasing the vitality, sustainability, and well being of the community that so many people and businesses are a part of. They sustain local awareness and are always bringing the community together through event and conscious participation.
They continue to use their new (rentable) laser projector for public activation. Including last week projecting kids drawings and important messages of solidarity onto JP Licks. Their projector is also being used June 27th to support a drive-in movie night!
Big shout out to Ginger and the team. MASARY is proud and honored to be welcomed into the Jamaica Plain community and to be colleagues. Keep an eye out this Winter for more light!
Consider supporting and donating to the good work they continue to do HERE.
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"...the most important question we can ask ourselves is 'are we being good ancestors?'"
JONAS SALK
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