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Sonya Rapoport
| Sonya Rapoport 6 Hillcrest Court Berkeley, CA 94705 U.S.A. Email: sonyarap@pop.lmi.net |
Sonya Rapoport's computer-assisted artworks date back to the mid-1970s. She has been involved in art/science collaborations with the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley and the Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible, CSIC, Córdoba, Spain. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University, The National Library in Madrid, and the Stedelijk Museum, the Netherlands were among the venues for exhibiting these works. Rapoport, trained as a traditional artist, started her art career as an abstract expressionist. She was associated with the original John Bolles Art Gallery in San Francisco in the early 1960s and has had one-person exhibitions at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the San Jose Museum of Art and the Crocker Art Museum of California in Sacramento. Since the 1970s her computer-assisted cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary interests evolved into multi-media interactive installations that have been presented nationally and internationally at Sao Paulo, Brazil; Ars Electronica, Austria; DOCUMENTA, Kassel, Germany; and the Kuopio Museum in Finland. Electronic art organizations, ISEA, DIGITAL SALON, and Siggraph, have hosted her artworks over the past several years. Her recent lecture "From Homunculus to Golem: Tracking an Alter Avatar" was presented at the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the UC Berkeley's Center for New Media, sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering Interdisciplinary Studies Program, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA and the Townsend Center for the Humanities. Her web works Make Me a Man and Brutal Myths (with Marie Sat) will be presented in April, 2005 at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. | |
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