SONYA RAPOPORT (1923 - 2015)
Note: includes both works by and about the artist.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jonathan Gardner, New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now, New York Times, March 21, 2019.
Charles Desmarais, In the galleries: From photos to Berkeley’s early digital native, 4 exhibitions to see in January, San Francisco Chronicle, January 10, 2019.
Leslie Jones, The Personal is Computable: Sonya Rapoport, Art in Print, Volume 8, Number 5, January, 2019.
Lou Fancher, Sonya Rapoport's Legacy Lives on Through Hae Voces, San Francisco Classical Voice, May 21, 2018.
Terri Cohn and Alla Efimova, Yes or No?, Catalogue, 2015.
Emily Holmes, Last Week to Remember or Discover Sonya Rapoport at Krowswork, KQED Arts, December 15, 2015.
Marcia Tanner, Farewell to a Berkeley Visionary, Berkeleyside, December 11, 2015.
Sarah Burke, Sonya Rapoport: Final Works, East Bay Express, December 09, 2015.
Amy Ione, Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport edited by Terri Cohn, Leonardo, Vol.46 No.1 , (MIT, 2013) (image and review)
Judy Malloy, AUTHORING: Thoughts on the Publication of Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport (August, 2012)
Meredith Tromble, Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation, art & shadows, Size Matters: Sonya Rapoport (May 6, 2012)
Bancroft Library Oral History Project, University of California, Berkeley, selected interview transcription published on-line honoring Director Richard Candida Smith’s retirement
Terri Cohn editor, Pairing of Polarities: The Life and Art of Sonya Rapoport, Heyday, Berkeley, CA
(July 2012)
DeWitt Cheng, Bay Express, PICKS Spaces of Life (March, 2012)
ARTINFO Slideshow 10 Works Of Art About the Iraq War , The Whitney Museum Tower (March, 2012) from Whitney Biennial 2006
Michelle Lewis-king, Cultures of the Digital Economy: A Visit Atop the Berkeley Hills with Artist Sonya Rapoport , Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and Chelmsford, UK (March 17, 2012)
Jeremiah Barber, KQED Arts (March 21, 2011) Parodies: Pairings of Polarities by Sonya Rapoport
Terri Cohn, Artist’s Response: Portraits & Self -Portraits Meridian Gallery Catalog (San Francisco, CA 2010)
Judy Malloy, Travels with Contemporary New Media Art, GIA Reader, Vol. 21, No 2 (Summer 2010)
UC Berkeley Art Department Alumni: Sonya Rapoport and Fred Martin", Bancroft Library Oral History Project, (2010). youtube.com/watch?v=l9w5SXhHFAw
Meredith Tromble, The Advent of Chemical Symbolism in the Art of Sonya Rapoport, Foundations in Chemistry (Spring 2009) Springer Netherlands
Paul Hertz, Art, Code, and the Engine of Change, Art Journal, (New York: College Art Association, Vol. 68, No.1 (Spring 2009) 62,71
Richard Candida Smith The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.
This interview was created via email and first posted in November, 2009. This update, posted in March, 2017, recodes the text and updates the design to the current content | code | process template.
Judy Malloy, "Featured Interview: Sonya Rapoport on the Process of Creating Participatory New Media", Authoring Software, (November 2009, republished 2017). narrabase.net/rapoport.html
Debora Wood, Imaging by Numbers: A Historical View of the Computer Print, (Evanston: Northwestern University Press with Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2008)
Laura Tortosa Nieto, Analysis Make Me a Jewish Man] Universitat de Valencia Press, December 2008.
In Transition Russia 2008, ed. Helene Black (Catalogue of NeMe / Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Sonya Rapoport, (in)Authentic: Woman, War, Jew
Jews and Shoes, ed. Edna Nahshon, Sonya Rapoport, “The Artist’s Shoe: Digging Into the Jewish Roots of Shoe-Field” Berg Publishers, Oxford, N.Y (2008)
Frank Popper, From Technological to Virtual Art (Cambridge Mass.:MIT, Press, 2007) 69-75.
Leila e Amir Geiger (orgs) In Vitro, in vivo, in silicio: ensaios sobre a relação entre arte, ciência, tecnologia e o sagrado, Sonya Rapoport: Re-Encountering Redeeming The Gene, Trans. Adauto Villela, (São Paulo: cnpq/pronex, 2007): 321-336.
Terri Cohn, “Tansu, Text and Technology: Sonya Rapoport’s Objects on My Dresser, Lecture, Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assoc Conference (October 2007)
Mutamorphisis Conference, Honorary Panel, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
Sonya Rapoport, Digitizing the Golem: From Earth to Outer Space, Leonardo, Vol. 39, No. 2, (MIT, 2006): 117-124.
Remedios Zafra, Sinopsis de Violencia sin cuerpos Carcel de Amor:Relatos culturales sobre la violencia de genero, (Madrid: Museo Naciaonal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2006), 328-341
Susan Landauer, San Francisco and the Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, 162-163, 2005.
Ernestine Daubner, From Alchemy to Bioweb: Metaphors of Transmutation and Redemption. An Interview with Sonya Rapoport, Montreal: Presses de l’Universitie du Quebec, 2005.
Sonya Rapoport, Smell Your Destiny: Web Interaction with the Fifth Sense, Leonardo, Vol. 37, No. 3, (MIT, 2004) 182-186.
Sonya Rapoport, Process(ing) Interactive Art: Using People as Paint, Computer as Brush, and Installation Site as Canvas, Leonardo, Vol. 37, No. 3, (MIT, 2004) 182-186.
Women, Art, and Technology, Ed. Judy Malloy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT University Press, 2003): 180-191; 526.
Margaret Morse, “The Poetics of Interactivity”, Women, Art, and Technology Ed. Judy Malloy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT University Press, 2003): 16-33.
Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT University Press, 2002): 105-107.
Congres Annual 2001, Association d’Art des Universities du Canada (Sonya Rapoport,
[Redeeming the Gene, Moding the Golem, Folding the Protein. Ernestine Daubner respondent]
Electronic Business Innovation Center, Make Me A Jewish Man: An Alternative Masculinity, (Stuttgart:Fraunhofer, 2000),130-31;253
Axis Reader- Gender and New Media, Amsterdam Foundation for Art and Gender, March 2000
Sonya Rapoport, “Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation”, Leonardo, Vol. 32, No. 4. (MIT, Press: 1999): 333-335.
Sonya Rapoport , [Conference Review, ISEA95], Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol. 7, No.10, October 1999
Sonya Rapoport, The Transgenic Bagel: The Transformation of Computer-Based Artwork, Leonardo, Vol. 31, No. 4, (MIT, 1998): 271-275.
Susan Hassler, Transgenic Bagels and Neurotic Genes, Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 15, January 1997: 1.
Anne de Haan, “The Vagina is the Boss on the Internet: New Female Media Artists Inspired by Erotics, Identity and Social Interaction,” Rhizome Raw, (June 1997). nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9706/msg00111.html
Barbara Fisher, “A Question of Access: Technology and the Arts,” Artweek, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Marin/Sonoma/Napa: February 1996): 16.
Anna Couey and Judy Malloy, A Conversation with Sonya Rapoport on the Interactive Art Conference on Arts Wire, June 1995. people.well.com/user/couey/interactive/rapoport/sonya.html
Sonya Rapoport, “Documenting Documenta,” Ylem Newsletter, Vol. 12, No. 12, December 1992.
Robert Kaupelis, Experimental Drawing, New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1992): 182-183.
Fred Martin, Artweek Vol.23 (July 1992) Art and History– About Education, Art Alumni RegionalOral History Project, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Carl E. Loeffler and Darlene Tong, Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art, (Los Angeles: Last Gasp, 1990): 500, 507, 509, 526.
Nancy Cadet, “Art Com Software: Digital Concepts and Expressions”, High Performance, (Summer 1989), 63.
Clive Phillpot, Eleni Cocordas, and Ed Colker, The Arts of the Book, [Catalogue], (Rosen-Wolf Gallery, Haviland Hall, and Arronson Gallery at the Philadelphia College of Art & Design, 9 September—15 October 1988), (Philadelphia: The University of the Arts, 1988), 17.
Will Torphy, “Sonya Rapoport”, High Performance: A Quarterly Magazine for the New Arts Audience, Vol. 9, No. 4, Issue 36, (Los Angeles: 1986): 72-73. Sonya Rapoport [as “Rappaport”], “Objects On My Dresser”, Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, Vol. 5, No. 2, Issue 18/19 (New York: Heresies Collective Inc., 1985): 66.
Stephen Moore, “Shoe-Field”, Box Car: A Magazine of the Arts, No. 1., (Los Angeles: 1983): 69-71.
Frank Cebuiski, “The Challenge of New Technologies”, Artweek, Vol. 13, No. 20, (San Francisco: 22 May 1982), 2, 20.
Renny Pritikin, “Sonya Rapoport,” New Langton Arts, (San Francisco: 1982): 11.
Robert Atkins, “Critics’ Choice”, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Vol. 16, No. 23, (San Francisco: 31 March—7 April 1982), 19.
The New Yorker, Goings on About Town, (1979): 10. Truman Gallery, New York City, New York.
Edgar Buonagurio, “Jack Bergamini / Sonya Rapoport,” Arts Magazine, April 1979.
Kristen Murray, “Behind those Fascinating Computer Etchings—An Interview with Sonya Rapoport,” CVA Center for the Visual Arts, Vol. 5, No. 5, Oakland Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, California, 1979: 7.
Stephen Moore, Sonya Rapoport: An Aesthetic Response, (California State University Press, 1978).
Robert McDonald, “Colors and Images Coded,” Artweek, 28 October 1978. John Marlowe, “Interviews: Sonya Rapoport,” Currânt Magazine, October/November 1975: 29;
Robert H. McDonald, “Grids and Circles, Diagonals and Drips: Recent Paintings by Sonya Rapoport,” Artweek, 7 September 1974: 5-6.
Miriam Dungan Cross, “Subtlety, Ingenuity in Rapoport Show,” Oakland Tribune, 14 May 1972: 30-EN.
Thomas Albright, “Fabric Painting Has Vigor,” San Francisco Chronicle, 4 February 1970.
Thomas Albright, “Paisley Runs Wild at Bolles", San Francisco Chronicle, 10 August 1967: 43.
Miriam Dungan Cross, “East Bay Art Tops Westbay Scene,” Oakland Tribune, 28 May 1967.
Palmer French, “San Francisco Review,” Artforum, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1965. Miriam Dungan Cross, “Avant-Garde Art in Sedate College,” Oakland Tribune, 18 April 1965: 8-EN.
Miriam Dungan Cross, “Berkeleyan’s Inventive Answer to Wither Art?,” Oakland Tribune, December 1964.
Dean Wallace, “Art: Hard-Edge and Electronic”, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 November 1964.
Alfred Frankenstein, “Varied Show by Women Artists,” San Francisco Chronicle, 11 January 1964.
James Monte, “Art Reviews in San Francisco", Artforum, Vol. 2, May 1963.
Erle Loran, “Art in San Francisco,” Art News, December 1961: 19.
James McCray, “Sonya Rapoport at the East West Gallery", The Argonaut Feature Magazine, San Francisco 31 January 1958: 18.
Thomas Albright, “Women Artists Succeed Where Drama Gives Way to Poetry,” San Francisco Chronicle, 24 November 1957.