BitStreams.

Plagens, Peter

WHITNEY MUSEUM Of AMERICAN ART

"Exploring the reverberations of digital technology in contemporary art and

culture" is like counting the fish in the Mississippi: pointless unless there's an insightful a priori focus to the project. Thus "BitStreams" is likely to be of interest as much for indicating the tastes of Lawrence Rinder, the new curator from Berkeley who came to the museum via his participation in the most recent Biennial, as for showing us what "new creative tools" artists are using these days. Rinder is considered a multimedia maven. He's also been known to write rhymed verse for public consumption. We can't wait to see if the bard is as big as his byte. Mar. 22-June 10.