\title{\sf Collision Seven, Chance\footnote{{\tt http://www.collisioncollective.org}}}

\author{{\bf \Large \sf MIT Stata Center Gallery} \\ 
        32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA USA \\[1mm]
        % {\bf \Large \sf Art Interactive} \\ 
        % 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge MA \\[1mm]
        Curated by jackbackrack, Dan Paluska, and Brian Knep
        }

\date{Exhibit: Apr 23 - May 8, 2005 10-5pm \\
      Opening Reception: Friday, April 22, 2005, 6-9pm
      % Exhibit: Apr 2,3,9,10, 2005 12-6pm \\
      % Opening Reception: Friday, April 1, 2005, 6-9pm
      }

\maketitle

\section*{Introduction}

The Collision Collective and Art Interactive present {\it Collision
Seven, Chance}, an experimental exploration of art and technology.
Collision Seven, the seventh event in the Collision series, will
showcase art from artists from MIT and beyond who use new technologies
in their work.  Ten pieces of art are presented by Rob Gonsalves, Eric
Gunther, Steve Hollinger, jackbackrack, Jeff Lieberman, Josh Lifton,
David Merrill, Michael Mittelman, Gretchen Skogerson, Elisabeth
Sylvan, Hayes Raffle, Sajid Sadi, William Tremblay, Noah Vawter, Garth
Zeglin, and Orit Zuckerman.

This show offers glimpses at the potential of technology based art.
First, this artwork introduces novel ways to perceive our environment.
Next it provides us with new perspectives on a future technology based
society.  Finally, technology based art suggests unique ways of acting
on our environment.  In Collision Seven, we provided the theme of
``chance'' and chose work based on their relation to the notion of
chance in science, robotics, artificial intelligence, art, the human
condition, modeling, games, religion, philosophy, approximation, true
reality, etc.

In general, Collisions are a showcase of envelope-pushing artwork in
an interactive workshop/laboratory format. The artwork often involves
never before tried technologies, concepts and installation
approaches. It is an opportunity for Collision colluders to experiment
and show new ideas and techniques and to discuss their work with and
gather feedback from the public.  Artists will be available during the
opening and weekends to speak with the public.

