Lumen Eclipse

History

Facts

• In Fall 2005, curator Ryan Hovenweep asked Turbulence.org's Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green to recommend works for his December 2005/January 2006 exhibitions. Two Turbulence Artists' Studio works - "" by Peter Horvath, and "" by Michael Takeo Magruder - were included in the December exhibition, which was reviewed by Cate McQuaid for the . A Turbulence.org Commission, "" by Victor Liu, was shown in the January 2006 exhibition. These were the first instances of net art shown as video art in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Manhattan’s New Museum of Contemporary Art acted as the gallery’s first guest curator in February 2006.
• The gallery commissions original work on the theme of life in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• In June 2006, the gallery’s first interactive exhibit – by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Nell Breyer – went on display.
• Lumen Eclipse hosts their annual 1-minute film festival on Palmer Street in Harvard Square.

  Works

• is a compilation/archive of 57 videos that provide humorous yet simple things one can do for fun in Harvard Square. These "things to do" are both simple and silly and could likely be done in any urban environment. The site has a matrix structure, where any point of the site can be accessed from any other point; this form of organization allows the user to jump to any one of the 57 videos from any place on the site at any time.

  Exhibited artists of note

• DJ Spooky
• Miranda July
• Yoko Ono
• Mike Mills
• Michel Gondry
• Hexstatic
• Isaac Julien
• William Kentridge
• Janet Biggs
• Aleksandra Domanovic
• Max Hattler
• Martha Colburn
• Takeshi Murata
• Encyclopedia Pictura

  Images