Sharon Grace
(USA)
"MILLENIUM VENUS"
versión en español
Millenium Venus is an installation where the participant has a conversation with a cyborg.
She whispers untold secrets about the Millenium and waits for a reply. She talks from a time different from our own, a time of disappearance. She talks about the eternal variations in a new language, a new system of representation between stimulus and answers. In the end she asks if it is possible to dwell in time, to invent life span, to reinvent space.
Equipment used: PC workstation, voice recognition, surveillance camera, video laserdisc.
Sharon Grace has iniciated many forms of electronic media based in audiovisual technology and since 1970, her work has been completely interactive. In 1977, she worked as an artist/technician at NASA and produced the first artistic transmission via satellite, EMITE/RECIBE, using NASA's comunication satellite. She also participated in the creation of the first coast to coast split screen between artists in New York and San Francisco. Her interactive work, based in audiovisual media, has been shown in the Venice Biennial, the Art Museum of Berkeley University and the Museum of Modern Art in New York among others. She has published numerous articles and has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is an Associate Professor of New Genres in the San Francisco Institute of Art.
