Adrianne Wortzel

1941–

Adrianne Wortzel (b. 1941; Brooklyn, New York) has explored themes of otherness, identity, in pioneering telerobotic performance productions, net-based art, videos, kinetic objects, and algorithmically generated artist’s books. She studied under artists Louise Bourgeois, Burgoyne Diller, Jimmy Ernst, and Ad Reinhardt at Brooklyn College. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in dozens of solo and group exhibitions at venues including Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria; the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the San Jose Museum of Art, California; the Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Wortzel has received support and awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation (1990), the Franklin Furnace FUND for Performance Art (2003), the National Science Foundation (2001), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1981), and the New York State Council on the Arts (2006), among others.

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Introduction

Adrianne Wortzel is a pioneering media artist based in New York City. Since the 1990s, her work has integrated robotics into performance art, installation, and electronic literature in order to examine technology's impact on both quotidian experiences and broader society. Throughout six decades, she has remained an innovator in experimental media art, playfully, and critically exploring the presence of technology in everyday life.