Upgrade! Boston: Jane Prophet :: October 26, 2010; 7:00 - 9:00 pm :: MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts (map).

Jane Prophet, a renowned British visual artist, uses traditional and new media and materials to produce surprising and beautiful objects. Site-specific installations include “Conductor,” a flooded power station lit with 120 electro luminescent cables. “Decoy” and “The Landscape Room” combine images of real and simulated landscapes, and “Model Landscapes” uses rapid prototyping to make miniature trees from mathematical data. Prophet is the driving force in a number of internationally acclaimed projects that break new ground in art, technology and science. Her collaborations with stem cell researchers, mathematicians and heart surgeons radically re-envisage the human body. In 2005 she won a National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts Fellowship to develop interdisciplinary artworks like “Net Work” (comprising hundreds of illuminated buoys) and “Big Plastic Tree” (an artwork built by robots). She has worked with digital media for two decades and currently focuses on the physicalisation of data: making real 3D objects. She is Professor of Art, Interdisciplinary Computing at Goldsmiths, London. More here.

Upgrade! Boston is curated by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org. It is one of 34 nodes currently active in Upgrade! International, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. If you would like to present your work or get involved, please email jo at turbulence dot org.