Sherrie Rabinowitz | |
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Born | January 6, 1950 |
Died | April 8, 2013 |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Video Art |
Partner | Kit Galloway |
Sherrie Rabinowitz (1950–2013) [1] was an American video artist and a pioneer in satellite-based telecommunications art. She worked exclusively with Kit Galloway under the moniker Mobile Image from 1977 onwards. She co-founded the Electronic Café International (ECI), a performance space and real café housed in the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, with Galloway. [2] She died in 2013, from complications due to multiple sclerosis. [1]
She studied at University of California Berkeley and was involved in the collective Optic Nerve, [3] which created underground video and guerrilla television. Optic Nerve was one of the few San Francisco video collectives with women members in the 1970s. [4] As part of Optic Nerve she collaborated with the architecture and performance collective Ant Farm which was also based out of San Francisco. These projects include: Media Burn (1975), The Eternal Frame (1975), and Pier 40 Fire Clean Up (1978). [5]
From the mid-1970s onwards, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz created numerous art works which could be categorized as communication aesthetics, telecollaborative art, telematic art, cyber art, and digital theatre. [6] One example of their work is the 1977 Satellite Arts Project: A Space with No Boundaries, which created composite images of two dancers in California and two dancers in Maryland, and was supported by NASA. [7] Another example is their 1980 satellite relay project Hole-in-Space which connected public spaces in New York and Los Angeles with live audio and life-sized video. [8] Rabinowitz coined the phrase "We must create at the same scale that we can destroy" [9] which would become the headline of Mobile Image's manifesto [10] for their Electronic Cafe Network Project (1984) commissioned for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Art Festival.
Sherrie Rabinowitz | |
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Born | January 6, 1950 |
Died | April 8, 2013 |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Video Art |
Partner | Kit Galloway |
Sherrie Rabinowitz (1950–2013) [1] was an American video artist and a pioneer in satellite-based telecommunications art. She worked exclusively with Kit Galloway under the moniker Mobile Image from 1977 onwards. She co-founded the Electronic Café International (ECI), a performance space and real café housed in the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, with Galloway. [2] She died in 2013, from complications due to multiple sclerosis. [1]
She studied at University of California Berkeley and was involved in the collective Optic Nerve, [3] which created underground video and guerrilla television. Optic Nerve was one of the few San Francisco video collectives with women members in the 1970s. [4] As part of Optic Nerve she collaborated with the architecture and performance collective Ant Farm which was also based out of San Francisco. These projects include: Media Burn (1975), The Eternal Frame (1975), and Pier 40 Fire Clean Up (1978). [5]
From the mid-1970s onwards, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz created numerous art works which could be categorized as communication aesthetics, telecollaborative art, telematic art, cyber art, and digital theatre. [6] One example of their work is the 1977 Satellite Arts Project: A Space with No Boundaries, which created composite images of two dancers in California and two dancers in Maryland, and was supported by NASA. [7] Another example is their 1980 satellite relay project Hole-in-Space which connected public spaces in New York and Los Angeles with live audio and life-sized video. [8] Rabinowitz coined the phrase "We must create at the same scale that we can destroy" [9] which would become the headline of Mobile Image's manifesto [10] for their Electronic Cafe Network Project (1984) commissioned for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Art Festival.