“Mariniana: The Interrupted Wave”
Artists: Karen LaFleur and Renata Janizewska
MYTH & MEANING BENEATH THE SURFACE
A VISIONARY COLLABORATION ACROSS SCIENCE & STORYTELLING
ARTSCOPE MAGAZINE / Article by Lee Roscoe
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Jan-Feb Issue, 2025, Artscope Magazine
Illuminating ocean mysteries through myth and science.
Benton Jones, Director of Art for the Cape Cod Museum of Art, feels that the digital world is here to stay as a way that we will receive arts; that it can cut across boundaries to be a social, economic and cultural equalizer by providing access to a wide community. To that end the museum digitized its col- lection of over 2000 pieces in 2022 and is upgrading its brick- and-mortar performance space to allow for more digital art.
That space is now exhibiting “Mariniana, The Interrupted Wave: Techspressionists moving image works,” created by Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska. This cutting-edge digital exhibition rides its own exciting wave of the avant- garde, using “Myth” and “Science” to explore the world of “Ocean.” The two year-long collaboration is an outgrowth of an exhibition in 2020 called “Pixels,” when Jones began to talk to Karen, who he said is one of digital art’s pioneers, about a larger project.
LaFleur said the theme of the ocean fit the museum’s mission, “and it seemed right because the ocean is so global and we are global artists, and the ocean touches people’s lives in so many different ways… how do people actually experience the ocean to understand the world? And that’s how we came up with science and myth.” Too, humanity impacts the oceans that LaFleur said is a major reason for the show: getting people to fall in love with the ocean through the artists’ imagery.
