Casemore Gallery presents an exhibition of works on paper by Sonya Rapoport (1923- 2015), recognized asa pioneer of computer art. The exhibition explores the evolution of her engagement with the computer, from her earliest drawings on computer printout paper in the late 1970s, through her computer-mediated “audience participation performances” in the 1980s.
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Drawn to the futuristic aesthetic of sprocket holes, grid lines, and carbon-black, dot-matrix printed code, she drew into the existing patterns with graphite, colored pencil, and ink stamps, and stitched the construction together with colorful yarn to create drawings such as “Right-On”.
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Shoe-Field, an interactive installation, 1986
“Shoe-Field” (1982-1989) began with a performance at a home computer store in Berkeley, where participants were asked how they felt about their shoes. Their answers were analyzed by a computer and given a printed “Shoe-Psyche Plot” that represented their feelings as an electromagnetic force field printed in ASCII characters. -
