She is, after all, a local guru of art and new media, with a master's in visual studies from MIT and 15 years of experience as the visionary leader of the Do While Studio, a sort of high-tech atelier on South Street. The show is in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts Festival in May. You would think all this would make Hall a happy preacher who has seen her cause move from the fringes to the masses. You would think it was payback time. Our mission came true.
More artists are into new media.
But we're all on this treadmill. This culture doesn't ask those questions. We plug in. We freak out. And even though Hall has been championing technology for two decades, she's worried about the consequences of our mad dash to get wired.