Dear Friends,
We’re writing from our studio in Boston with a few updates from recent weeks. There’s a sharpness in the air lately—a sense of imbalance in power, a turning away from care, and a failure to honor the strength found in our differences. These moments remind us why we keep showing up—to make art, to stay rooted in community, and to work with purpose for a more just and connected world.
Alongside our own projects, we’re sharing a few links below to others who are moving important conversations forward and making a real impact here in our region.
In this edition of Light Reading, we’re excited to invite you to our first-ever film screening of Inundation District, our new building-scale artwork titled Interdimensional, and reflect on the latest gathering of Art School Confidential, our art critique series. As always, we’d love to hear from you—reach out if something resonates or you’d like to collaborate.
Big big love,
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Interdimensional
Last year, we were invited by Denver Digerati to create a new piece for Night Lights Denver, a dynamic public media art series featuring works projected onto the iconic Daniels & Fisher Tower downtown. Spanning 10 stories and powered by 10 large-scale projectors, the tower offers a striking canvas for time-based artwork. We were excited by the scale and immediacy of the space—and drawn to the idea of using movement and the body as central visual elements. To bring this vision to life, we collaborated with Mike Esperanza, blending his expressive choreography with our animation techniques to create the final piece:
Interdimensional is a video dance work in which the dancer is immersed in digital media technologies. The dancer is accompanied by his dynamic, digital representations that mimic and respond to his movements, while blurring the lines between the human, the digital, and the alien.
Featuring dancer and choreographer Mike Esperanza.
Commissioned & Presented by Denver Digerati
Night Lights Denver 2024
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DS4SI
The Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) partners with communities, artists, and social justice practitioners to imagine, demonstrate, and collectively rebuild places to be more just and vibrant. LINK HERE.
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Boston Harbor Now
Their mission is to ensure that Boston Harbor, its waterfront and islands are accessible and inclusive and that these special places are properly adapted to the risks of climate change. LINK HERE.
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Mass. Transgender Political Coalition
MTPC works to ensure the wellbeing, safety, and lived equity of all trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive community members in Massachusetts. LINK HERE.
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Masscreative Action Network
MCAN is presenting Creative Sector Advocacy Week 4/28 - 5/2. Celebrations, performances, and action at the Mass. State House. LINK here for more.
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There are incredible organizations right here in the greater Boston region digging deep and caring for community, the arts, the climate, and individuality. Please consider connecting and supporting them. We would love to hear about others as well.
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Art School Confidential
Ep. 11
Buzzing from ASC Ep.11 last month. A beautiful evening of the Art School Confidential community coming together to support each artist involved through participatory critique and discussions. Thematics came about including dreams, memory, love, light & darkness, machine vs human, and soul searching. Thank you to everyone who showed up with the vibrant energy and big ups to the Ep. 11 artists that showed work: Matt Bajor, MASARY, Senia Novak, Ellen Oliver, Shozab Raza.
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Phase Garden Vinyl Available
Transforming the original 175ft diameter artwork into a 12in vinyl has been a rewarding and opening process for us as an artist collective. What other ways can we take artworks which are experiential and craft them into artifacts for others to personally keep? We are seeing this rendition as the first of others to come.
We have hand signed the 200 limited editions.There are still signed vinyls left! Click the link to order and listen now ~
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TOMORROW!
INUNDATION DISTRICT is an award-winning feature-length film by David Abel & Ted Blanco about the implications of one city’s decision to ignore the threats posed by climate change and spend billions of dollars on building a new waterfront district — on landfill, at sea level.
JOIN US FOR A FREE SCREENING, Q&A WITH DAVID ABEL, AND CLIMATE COMMUNITY BUILDING. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS TO BE PROVIDED. SCREENING BEGINS AT 7:30PM.
There are still some seats available!
(Tomorrow) Thursday April 17th 🗓️
7pm - 10pm • RSVP only through Eventbrite ☑️
Location: MASARY Studios 📍
Supported by MASARY & Boston Lyric Opera
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"Art is our attempt to change the order of reality that was given to us."
CHINUA ACHEBE
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