Physical Fiction: Electronic Installations

Sara Roberts Biography

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Sara Roberts received an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1988. Her thesis project, Early Programming, was shown at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (1989) and the Long Beach Museum of Art (1990). The Digital Museum was commissioned by Silicon Graphics for the Interactive Gallery at the Seybold Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco.  In 1993 she was a resident at the Djerassi Foundation. She premiered, Elective Affinities, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 1994. She has shown internationally, including Ars Electronica '89; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Images du Futur '91 in Montreal; Carpenter Center at Harvard University; Montage '93 in Rochester, New York; International Center for Photography, Midtown, New York; and in Cologne, Munich, Bonn, and Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a founding member of Techne, a group of artists working with ubiquitous (off the screen) interactivity. She has taught at San Francisco State University, San Francisco Art Institute, and the California College of Arts & Crafts, and she initiated the Integrated Media Program in the Music Department at California Institute of the Arts in fall of 1994. Also in 1994 she received a WESTAF grant in New Genres, which supported this exhibition in part.

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