Tina Laporta
1967–
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. She recently received the Web Residency Commission 2000 of The Alternative Museum, where she completed her World Wide Web work Re:mote_corp@REALities. In 1999, Ms. LaPorta received a commission for the creation of Distance, a web-specific work hosted on Turbulence.org. Her work has been included in the exhibitions Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace (2001) the Technically Engaged show at AIR Gallery, NYC (2000); the Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications exhibition at Tribes Gallery in NYC (2000); and in Body as Byte, at Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. Ms. LaPorta has been invited to participate in several symposia and on-line projects, including The Warhol Hijack, at weliveinpublic.com; Gender in New Media, an on-line Panel at the INVENCAO: Thinking The Next Millennium conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Alterities: Interdisciplinarity and Feminine Practices of Space at the Ecole Suprieure Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, France.
Introduction
Tina La Porta is a Miami-based digital artist who "focuses on issues surrounding identity in the virtual space". She was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. Her early work could be characterized as net:art or internet art. In 2001 she collaborated with Sharon Lehner on My Womb the Mosh Pit, an artistic representation of Peggy Phelan's Unmarked. La Porta is known for political and feminist art that explores gender, bodies and media such as the 2003 installation Total Screen which consists of enlarged Polaroid photographs of veiled men and women in TV news coverage after the events of 9/11. Later work explores mental illness and pharmaceuticals. In 2012 she presented Medicine Ball at the Robert Fontaine Gallery as part of the "Warhol is Over?" exhibition; this followed a 2011 presentation of All the Pills in My House, also at Fontaine's gallery. In 2015 she participated in the 40-person Annual Interest exhibition at the Young at Art Museum.
Wikidata identifier
Q19662732
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Roles
Media artist, mixed-media artist, photographer, sculptor
ULAN identifier
500681213
Names
Tina La Porta, Tina LaPorta
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