The Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media Presents:
From Homunculus to Golem: Tracking an Alter Avatar
Sonya Rapoport, Artist, Berkeley
Mon, 29 Nov, 7:30-9pm: UC Berkeley, 160 Kroeber Hall
All ATC Lectures are free and open to the public.
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In recent years, scientists have advanced our ability to understand
and control human sexuality, reproduction, and gender. These
developments have been highly controversial and have implications for
the constitution of artificially created beings. Berkeley-based media
artist Sonya Rapoport draws on alchemy and mysticism to construct
multimedia art works that address these dilemmas.
Combining ancient myths with modern technological sophistication,
Rapoport will trace the evolution of her artwork through the past four
decades,starting from her abstract expressionist paintings of the 60's
to net art. Robert Edgar, media artist and historian, summarizes her
early interdisciplinary work as a "mix between Marcel Duchamp and the
anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss." Rapoport will present slides,
video, and her recent interactive webworks, REDEEMING THE GENE, and
KABBALAH/KABUL, in which she attributes a soul to an artificially
created being, the golem.
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Sonya Rapoport is a multi-media artist and pioneer in computer based
art. Her multi-cultural net artworks have been shown in Sao Paulo,
Brazil; Ars Electronica, Austria; Documenta, Kassel, Germany; the
Kuopio Museum, Finland; the SETI Workshop, Paris and the Buenos Aires
Bienniel, Argentina. as well as ISEA conferences and traveling
exhibitions sponsored by the U.S. Information Service and the National
Endowment for the Arts. National venues include Siggraph, Digital
Salon and one-person exhibitions at The Palace of the Legion of Honor,
the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the San Jose Museum, The New School,
Artists Space, Franklin Furnace, and 80 Langton Street, Rapoport
serves on the governing board of LEONARDO/ISAST. Her critiques appear
in their MIT publications. She also serves on the Executive Committee
for University of California Art Practice Alumni Group.
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The ATC is sponsored by UC Berkeley's: Center for New Media, Office of the
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, College of Engineering
Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Center for Information Technology in
the Interest of Society, Consortium for the Arts, BAM/PFA, Townsend Center
for the Humanities, and the Intel Corporation.
ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
ATC Associate Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assistant: Therese Tierney
Curated with ATC Advisory Board
Full F04-S05 series schedule and video archive:
http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/
Contact: [email protected], or phone: (510) 643-9565
atc @ ucb: sonya rapoport, monday nov 29, 7:30pm
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Type: discussion