April 24 Reception: Shifting Tides Exhibition at The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf
Join us for the April 24th reception of Shifting Tides, a group exhibition at The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf featuring environmentally-focused work by 13 artists, including MIT Sea Grant Geospatial Applications Developer Ben Bray. The selected artworks capture the theme of shifting tides and landscapes under the pressure of a changing climate, co-curated in partnership with Fort Point Arts Community’s Dorothea Van Camp and Judy Glaven. The exhibition will be up through June 29, open to the public daily from 7am – 10pm.
Ben’s work, Argo Tracks and Sea Surface Temperature – North Atlantic Ocean 4, was created using the Seaglass data visualization framework developed at MIT Sea Grant. Learn more about the interface and how to create your own art visualizations below.
Shifting Tides
Reception: Thursday, April 24, 2025 from 5-7pm
The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf
290 Congress Street, Boston, MA
Exhibition dates: April 17 – June 29, 2025
Free + open to the public 7am-10pm daily
Seaglass Art Interface
The Seaglass Art Interface allows users to create artwork using ocean data. This is networked art, driven by connections between people and ocean datasets that are continually updated. Through these connections, ocean data can flow like paint onto the canvas. The artist selects where on the canvas they want the data to start flowing, and what data they want. The end result shows distributions of color and line determined by physical and biogeochemical forces, and by the artist’s motivation for expression.
This interface was developed using the Seaglass framework for network-based data visualization. Seaglass utilizes a dynamic and flexible ensemble of data sources, including its own internal database to which users can upload their data. External data sources include raster data from satellites, drifters, buoys, ship tracks, fixed sensors, as well as MapServer layers. Artists can export their work as high-resolution files for printing, and all visualized data can be downloaded.
Explore the Seaglass Art Interface: https://gisviz.mit.edu/art/
For questions and comments, contact:
Ben Bray, MIT Sea Grant (bbray@mit.edu)
www.benbray.com
More about the Shifting Tides Exhibition
Join us for an exhibition of art showcasing the vulnerability of our natural environment and what we stand to lose.
The evidence around us is inescapable. In these troubling times with temperatures rising & landscapes disappearing, the artists of Shifting Tides bear witness by straddling the ability to see beauty deeply while nonetheless recognizing the trouble we are in. By focusing on the natural environment and its vulnerability, these works remind us of all we have to lose. Once lost, this beauty is near impossible to reclaim but with many hands contributing, maybe we can hold onto the beauty in this world.
