Will Pappenheimer

For the centennial celebration of Marblehead Arts Association, new media artist Will Pappenheimer will create a series of poetic texts in virtual skywriting using the Hoverlay app for smart phones and tablets. As part of his ongoing work Skywrite, created for augmented reality (AR), this version of the work will create sky written thoughts in virtual airplane trails relative to the centennial celebration.

Will Pappenheimer is a Brooklyn based artist and educator working in new media, performance and installation. His current work explores the collage of the virtual and physical worlds in the recent medium of augmented or mixed reality. His projects and performances have been shown internationally at Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum and the Moving Image Art Fair in New York; LACMA and Fringe Exhibitions, Los Angeles; MOMA and Biforms Gallery in San Francisco; Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; FACT, Liverpool, UK; Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul; the ICA, CyberArts Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. He recently debuted a solo show of new at the Alpha Gallery in Boston. His works have been reviewed in the Whitney Museum curator, Christiane Paulʼs historical editions of “Digital Art,” Art in America, New York Times, Hyperallergic.org, WIRED, the Boston Globe, and EL PAIS, Madrid. A documentary on his work is as part of Bloomberg TV’s Art + Technology series.

June 25 – July 5, 2022