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SARA ROBERTS
Pasadena, CA
USA

born 1955
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
married, one daughter

EXHIBITIONS

One Person Shows
June 14 - 18, 1999
Silence - site-specific installation in abandoned limestone mine
Deep Creek, Telluride, Colorado

May 24 - July 19, 1998
Sara Roberts: Physical Fiction (complete retrospective)
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, CA

November 22, 1997 - January 31, 1998
Physical Fiction: Electronic Installations by Sara Roberts
Arizona State University Art Museum, Matthews Experimental Gallery
Tempe, Arizona

September 18 - November 9, 1997
Programmed Presences: Video-installations by Sara Roberts
Filmhusets Galleri, Filmhouse Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark

November, 1994 - February, 1995
Elective Affinities
Electronic Gallery, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco

Group Shows
June 1 - November. 3, 2002
Art, Women, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

January 12 - March 4, 2000
Neural Notations
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA
curator, Donna Schumacher

December 2, 1999 - May 29, 2000
Outoäly - Alien Intelligence
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
curator, Erkki Huhtamo

January 18 - March 3, 2000
Point of Origin II
Western Gallery, Western Washington University,Bellingham, Washington
alumni show

June 4 - 18, 1999
Interactive Frictions
Fischer Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,CA
curator, Marsha Kinder

April 15 - 25, 1999
IM,LA
Bradbury Building, Los Angeles,CA
Year-end show, Integrated Media Students and Faculty

March 10 - 27, 1999
Turbulences [video / art actuel]
Exposition installations, Vidéoformes '99, City of Clermont-Ferrand, France
curator, Gabriel Soucheyre

September 9 - October 18, 1998
Encoded Identity
Galleria Otso, Helsinki, Finland
curator, Erkki Huhtamo

January 12 - Feb 8, 1996
Techne
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco
Techne group show

August 6 - October 1, 1995
Digital Mediations
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
curator, Steven Nowlin

December, 1994
Techne
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Arts (LACPS)
curator, Elliot Anderson

October,1993
A New Sensation, The Interactive Gallery, Seybold '93, Moscone Center, San Francisco
curator, Elliot Anderson

November 4, 1990 - January 6, 1991
Mother and Child Reunion
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
curator, Michael Nash

October, 1989
Revealing Conversations
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
curator, Zlata Baum

July, 1989
Tableaux Vivants
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
curator, Christine Tamblyn

June, 1989
Takes One to Know...
National Computer Graphics Assoc. Arts Conference, Works Gallery, San Jose

December, 1988
Sara Roberts/ Francisco Garcia
Arlington Gallery, Oakland, CA
MFA exhibit, California College of Arts & Crafts

WORKS IN COLLABORATION

with Lynn Hershman:
My role in these two collaborations was design, programming and supervising
the construction of interactive physical settings for characters and scenarios
designed by Lynn.

A Room of One's Own (1992-93)
shown at: Videonale, Kunsthelle, Bonn, Germany; Medienalle, Munich Germany;
Siggraph '93, Anaheim, CA; InternationalCenter for Photography, New York;
Montage 93, Rochester, New York; Distinguished Mention, Ars Electronica'93, Linz;
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Mass.;
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco; National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa;
Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati; Center of Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland;
V Topia, Glasgow; Umbrella, Liverpool; Hess Collection, Sonoma, CA.

Deep Contact (1989-90)
shown at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Ars Electronica, Linz;
International Center for Photography,NY; Expo 91, Finland; Fresno Art Museum;
Video Galleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Rijksmuseum, Enschede, Netherlands;
Images du Future,Montreal, Canada; Medienale, Karlsruhe, Germany;
BMS Munich, Germany ; St. Lawrence University;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Magnetoscope, Rio de Janero, Brazil;
University of California, Davis.

with Donna Schumacher
In this collaboration for I was responsible for conceptualizing, shooting,
and editing the 3 video elements of the piece.
A Breath(1991)
shown at ProArts, Oakland and at the Security Pacific Bank, San Francisco

EDUCATION

1988
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Master of Fine Arts, with high distinction,
Film/Video

1978
Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Bachelor of Arts

1973
Colorado Rocky Mountain School, Carbondale, Colorado
boarding school w/ extensive wilderness sports & survival training
High School diploma

POSITIONS/EMPLOYMENT

9/1994 - present
Faculty, Composition Program, School of Music
Co-Director, Center for Experiments in Arts and Technology (CEAIT)
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

9/1996 - 6/2001
Founding Director, Integrated Media Program
(a graduate program for interdisciplinary work in art and technology)
California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles

Summer 1994
Instructor
Multimedia Studies Program, San Francisco State University Extension
San Francisco State University, San Francisco

1/1993 - 5/1994
Visiting Assistant Professor
Conceptual Design Department, School of Art
San Francisco State University, San Francisco

Fall 1991
Adjunct Lecturer
Performance/Video Dept
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

Spring/Fall 1990
Asst. Professor
Inter-Arts Department, School of Art
San Francisco State University, San Francisco

1989-12/1992
Technical staff
Video Services, Skywalker Sound North
LucasArts, Nicasio, CA

1981 - 1989
Assistant Picture Editor / Sound Editor
for various feature films including The Right Stuff (Academy Award for Film Editing, 1983),
Heaven Help Us, Oceanquest, Howard the Duck, The Serpent and the Rainbow,
Bigtime - Tom Waits in Concert

1980 - 1981
Staff (Projectionist, Recording Studio Assistant, Assistant Engineer)
Zoetrope Studios, San Francisco

Spring, Summer 1980
Adjunct Instructor
Film/Video Program
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

AWARDS

2002 Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship 2002-2003
1999 Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship nominee
1998 California College of Arts and Crafts, Distinguished Alumni Award
1994 WESTAF Visual Arts Award, New Genres
1993 Djerassi Resident Artist's Program, three month residency
1981 JVC Student Video Competition - Creative Category Award
1979 Ford Foundation Award of Merit

PUBLIC LECTURES

10/1/01
Cafe Science, Kafcafeen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Computers and the Narrative, featured speaker
9/21/01
cast01//Living in Mixed Realities, Bonn, Germany, Networked Citizens, panelist
11/14/00
Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA, featured speaker
9/15/00
Göteborg University, School of Photography, Sweden, featured speaker
7/28/00
SIGGRAPH, New Orleans, Interactive Storytelling, panelist
5/15/00
Center for Digital Arts, UCLA, Physical Fictions, featured speaker
4/8/00
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, High Touch/High Tech, panelist
12/5/99
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA, Technological Rituals, speaker
12/3/99
KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, Alien Intelligence, artist's panel
11/1/99
Mills College, Oakland, Song Lines Series, featured speaker
7/7/99
The Kitchen, New York, Artists in Interactive Art, featured speaker
11/13/98
Santa Fe Institute of Art, Santa Fe, Art of the Artificial, featured speaker
5/21/98
International Sculpture Conference, Chicago, Art & Technology, panelist
1/18/98
The Culture of Interactivity, New York, Metaphors, panelist
4/26/96
Art Resources, Los Angeles, Authoring Options: Who is the authority in multimedia?, panelist
4/10/96
Dept. of Digital Arts, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, featured speaker
2/10-11/96
Annenberg Center for Communication, USC, Technological Rituals, featured speaker
8/5/95
ArtCenter, Pasadena, The Digital Dialectic, artist's panel
11/18/94
Works Gallery, San Jose, A Short History of Automata, Mechanical Mirrors, featured speaker
11/15/94
San Jose State University School of Art & Design, Techne, panelist
10/19/94
SIGGRAPH Multimedia Conference, SF Hyatt Regency, Artist's Roles in Developing Media, panelist
10/21/93
Film Arts Foundation/Techne, SF Art Institute, Artists Working with Multi-Media, panelist
1/14/92
Moscone Center, MacWorld Expo: Multimedia Conference, SF, Artist Experimentation with Multimedia, panelist
2/26/91
SIGGRAPH Seminar, Exploratorium, Computers as Characters, speaker
11/1/90
Long Beach Museum of Art, Early Programming, artist's talk
5/4/90
Collective "I" Conference, SFSU and Sonoma State Univ., Programming as Representation of the Self, speaker
3/22/90
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collectors Forum, panelist
3/19/90
National Computer Graphics Association, Anaheim, panelist
10/25/89
Richmond Art Center, Revealing Conversations, artist's panel

ARTICLES

Tildy Bayar, "Some Notes on Some Pieces by Sara Roberts", Open Space Magazine
(Red Hook, NY: Spring 2000) pg 97-98

Joan Hugo, "Sara Roberts' Physical Fiction", CalArts Currents (LA, Oct, '98)

Araxi Kitsnian, "Eleven Recent Graduates of Distinction", CCAC News (SF, Fall '98) pg 2-5

Regina Cornwell, "Q&A - The Computer and Artmaking", Coil : British Arts Council Quarterly,
(London:issue 7, 1998) 10 pgs (pages un-numbered), front and back cover

Judy Malloy, "Words on Work", FineArtsForum (online, Nov.'97)

Rosanna Albertini, "La Macchina dei Sentimenti", Virtuel, (Milano:June, '97) pg 27-30

Christopher Meeks, "New Integrated Media Program Begins", Cal Arts Currents,
(LA, Oct. '96) cover article

Lynn Hershman, "Art-ificial Sub-versions, Inter-action, and the New Reality",
Camerawork (SF, Spring '93) cover

Anne Barclay Morgan, "Interactivity in the Electronic Age", Sculpture (Wash.DC,5/91) pg 37-43

Christine Tamblyn, "Computer Art as Conceptual Art", Art Journal,
Quarterly of the College Art Assoc. (NY, Fall /90)

WRITINGS

Sara Roberts in David Crandall (editor), contribution to "Becoming Machine, Becoming Live",
Link Journal (Baltimore, Fall 2001)

"20 to 20 Project", proceedings of cast01//Living in Mixed Realities netzspannung.org conference
(Schloss-Birlinghoven, Germany), pg 249

"Some Writings", website, http://shoko.calarts.edu/~sroberts/articles, articles from 1989, 1997

"Programmed Presences/ Programmeret Naerver", Filmhusets Galleri publication (Copenhagen, Denmark:9/97)

"Words on Works: Elective Affinities", Leonardo (MIT Press, #3 '97)

"Virtual Residency: A Conversation with Sara Roberts", Interactive Art Conference, Artswire
(online:6/96) http://www.well.com/~couey/interactive/sara.html

"Affinités électives" (french transl.by Sébastian Lemaire) Turbulences [vidéo/art actuel] VideoFormes
(Clermont-Ferrand:Avril'99), pg 30-34

"Words on Works: Early Programming", Leonardo (MIT Press, Spring /91)

"Early Programming", MFA Thesis, California College of Arts and Crafts, Spring '89

PUBLICATIONS

Stephen Wilson, "Information Arts: A Survey of Artists and Researchers Working at the Intersection of Art,
Science, and Technology", (MIT Press, A Leonardo Book, Cambridge , Mass, 2001) pg. 798-799

Peter Lunenfeld, "Snap to Grid", (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 2000)

Donna Schumacher, "Neural Notations", Porter Sesnon Gallery (UC Santa Cruz, CA, 2000)

Rosanna Albertini, "Technological Rituals", (USC Annenberg Center, LA, 1999) pg. 51-71

Erkki Huhtamo, "Outäly >> Alien Intelligence", ( KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland, 1999)

Stephen Nowlin, essay Margaret Morse, "Physical Fiction", (Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, 1998)

Heidi Tikka and Pekka Kantonen, "MuuMediaFestival 98", essay Erkki Huhtamo, (AV-arkki, Helsinki, Finland, 1998)

Michael Heim, "Virtual Realism", (Oxford University Press, NY, 1998) pg. 109-117

Stephen Nowlin, essay, Erkki Huhtamo, "Digital Mediations", (Pasadena, CA: Art Center College of Design,1995)

Chris Bruce, Kathleen Sheilds, "Withinsight, Visual Territories of Thirty Artists", (Western States Art Federation,
Santa Fe, 1994) pg 26, 79

Sara Diamond, "Angles of Incidence", videocompilation, (Banff Centre for the Arts, 1993)

Frank Popper, "Art of the Electronic Age", (Harry Abrams Inc., NY, 1993) pg. 113

Timothy Druckery (ed.), "Iterations: the New Image", (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1993), pg 150

Stephen Wilson, "Multimedia Design with Hypercard", (Prentice-Hall, 1991)

PLANNING AND ORGANIZING

Creative Practices from Art and Design in Interdisciplinary Research
(invitational workshop to discuss and prepare a joint EU proposal for a work group)
Interactive Institute, Malmö, Sweden 4/15/02

Curriculum and Program Development, Integrated Media Program, Cal Arts 1996-2001

Curriculum Development, Composition/New Media, CalArts 1994-1996

"Integrated Media" Lecture Series, Cal Arts, Los Angeles, 1997

"IM,LA" Installations and Performance, Bradbury Building, LA,1998

"Net.net.net" Lecture Series, Cal Arts & MOCA (with Natalie Bookchin and Kaucyila Brooke), 2000

"Integr8.net", Website and 24 hour launch performance, CalArts Main Gallery, April, 1999

"Immediate Distance", Installation-fest and 16 hour performance, CalArts Main Gallery, April, 2001

CONSULTATION AND CURATION

Consultant, MFX1 Project, Interactive Dance Club,
Gorden Kummel and Bruce Odland, Chicago - 10/01

Curator, VIDEACY: Expanded Media, Side Street Live, LA - 7/2001

Nominator, Rockefeller Media Fellowships - 6/2001

Nominator, Rockefeller Film and Video Fellowships - 6/2000

SELECTED REVIEWS

Rick Gilbert,"Interactive Frictions at USC Fisher Gallery", Artweek, (San Francisco, Sept. 99)

Holly Willis, "Sara Roberts at the ArtCenter", Artweek, (San Francisco, July/August '98)

William Wilson, "The Physical Fiction of Virtual Reality", Los Angeles Times (LA, 6/8/98)

Peter Lunenfeld, "Technofornia", Flash Art, (Milan:Mar/Apr '96)

Suzanne Muchnic, "Digital Mediations", Art News (New York, Jan.'96)

David A. Green, "Digital Mediations", Art Issues, (LA, Nov/Dec '95)

Christopher Knight, "An Old Tradition in Art is Revived in the Digital World", Los Angeles Times (LA, 9/2/95)

William Wilson, "Art Goes Online and Becomes Intimate", Los Angeles Times, (LA, 8/12/95)

Charles Hagen, "Virtual Reality, Is it Art Yet?", New York Times (NY 7/5/92)

Meg Sullivan, "Art News And Notes", LA Daily News, (Los Angeles, 11/16/91)

Tony Reveaux, "Polytechnical Diversity", Artweek, (San Francisco, 4/19/91)

Calvin Ahlgren, "Bayside Media Burst", San Francisco Chronicle (SF, 3/11/91)

Barbara Osborn, "Mom's the Word", Afterimage, (San Francisco, 1/91)

Ann Garrison, "MacWorld News", MacWorld (San Francisco, 9/90)

Rory J. O'Conner, "From Dada to Data", San Jose Mercury News, (San Jose, 3/23/90)

Karen Jelenfy, "Indiscrete Computers", Artweek (San Francisco, 11/89)

Harry Roche, "Critic's Choice", SF Bay Guardian (San Francisco, 8/9/89)