Tina Laporta
1967–
Tina LaPorta (b. 1967; Chicago, Illinois) is known for pioneering performances created specifically for the internet and early explorations of live streaming. Her work has been shown at venues such as the Cornell Art Museum, Delray Beach, Florida; the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Florida; and Locust Projects, Miami; and was included in the touring exhibition Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace (2001); as well as E.Mergence: Technically Engaged (2001) at A.I.R Gallery, New York; Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications (2000–2001) at Tribes Gallery, New York; and Body as Byte (2001) at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland. LaPorta has participated in symposia and online projects, including The Warhol Hijack, at weliveinpublic.com (2000–2001); INVENCAO: Thinking for the Next Millennium, Brazil (1999); and Alterities: Interdisciplinarity and Feminine Practices of Space at the Ecole Superieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1999).
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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