About the Artist
Tina LaPorta is a media artist who lives and works in New York City. Her
most recent work has been created specifically for the Internet as a
continued exploration of female subjectivity within a global networked
environment. In 1999, Ms. LaPorta received a commission for the creation
of Distance, a web-specific work hosted on Turbulence.org (New York) with
funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. She exhibited an
installation of prints from Distance at Atelier Sevigne, Paris this
September. Distance will also be featured at the Montreal International
Festival of New Cinema & New Media this year.
Ms. LaPorta's net-specific work Future_body Version 1.0 premiered at the
Alterities conference this year at the Ecole Suprieure Nationale des Beaux
Arts in Paris where she also lectured on her work. This work is mirrored
on the Les Penelopes website in France, "remixed" for Rencontres D'Art
Contemporain 99; Aix en Provence (France) and has been included in SEAFair
'99 at the Museum of the City of Skopje (Macedonia).
Ms. LaPorta has been an Artist-in-Resident at Ars Electronica's FutureLab
(Linz, Austria) where she created her first web-specific work titled
TRACES. Traces has been included in many international festivals including
SEAFAIR '98 (Macedonia), the International Festival for New Film (Croatia)
and VIDEOMEDEJA (Yugoslavia).
Other net.works by Tina LaPorta have been included in the ALT-X exhibition,
"Being in Cyberspace", "Maid in Cyberspace" exhibition at Studio XX
(MontrŽal), the "Sex and Consciousness" exhibition on the FranceArtist
website (Paris), as well as the Leonardo Electronic Gallery (MIT press).
Her work has been included in the Web Site for the United Nations' Fourth
World Conference on Women (Beijing, China) and the Women and Performance
On-Line Journal "Sexuality in Cyberspace."
Ms. LaPorta's work has been reviewed in Art Actuel, CIAC's Electronic Art
Magazine, Bitniks, Rhizome, HotWired, ZINEn, and L'Autre Web. Her work has
been published in Leonardo; Journal for Women & Performance; PForm; Ms.
Magazine; Public Culture; Crash; William and Mary Review and in the CD-Rom
The Little Magazine, "Gravitational Intrigue: an anthology of emergent
hypermedia."
Ms. LaPorta has been invited to participate in several on-line symposia
including: "Shock of the View," sponsored by the Walker Art Center, "POV
Salon," sponsored by PBS Television Network, and the Gender in New Media
Online Panel at "INVENCAO: Thinking The Next Millennium," conference (Sao
Paulo, Brazil.)
Ms. LaPorta has organized and moderated several symposia including "Women
in New Media" for the 16th Annual Women in the Arts Conference at Rutgers
University, presented her work at the Feminist Art/Art History Conference
at Barnard, has given a lecture on Artistic Practice in the Network at
Cooper Union and lectured on her work at the University of Applied Arts in
Vienna Austria. She also Moderated a panel discussion for the Women's
Caucus of the College Art Association's Conference in 1994 which
investigated the relationship between information technologies and
Representations of the body.
Translate { } Expression [website]
Distance [website]
Shifting [website]
Unveiled Imprints [website]
Women and Performance [website]
Women in New Media [website]
laporta@interport.net [e-mail]
