"Foregrounding the relationship between technology, the body, and female subjectivity, my work explores both the potentialities and the meaning(s) of presence, absence and the desire for connectivity within a global networked environment."

-- Tina LaPorta



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by Tina La Porta





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 globally networked environment. She is the recipient of a new works commission from Turbulence.org with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and has been chosen as a Semi-Finalist in the Arts and Culture category of the Fourth Annual Global Information Infrastructure (GII) Awards. She has exhibited and lectured on her work internationally including at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Boston Photographic Resource Center, Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul in Brazil, Ecole Superieure Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.






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