If
you’re anything like us, some days may see you spending half your
waking hours staring at one screen or another — typing your way toward
a case of carpal tunnel at work, texting your updated ETA while
traveling the T, and twittering way too much information to friends
before collapsing in front of the TiVo at night. So it’s nice to know
that all that screen time can inspire more than just eyestrain. In Syntax,
an exhibit staged as part of the 2009 Boston Cyberarts Festival, eight
artists interrogate the language of digital information, creating works
that are right at home in an age in which pixels and digital data have
replaced daubs of paint and celluloid still frames as the major modes
of visual representation. Mark Stock, an aerospace engineer and artist
who lives in Newton,
