Claudia Hart has been active as an artist, curator and critic since
1988. She works with digital trompe l’oeil as a medium, directing theater and making
media objects of all kinds. Hart creates virtual representations that take the form
of 3d imagery integrated into photography, multi-channel animation installations,
performances and sculptures using advanced production techniques such as Rapid
Prototyping, CNC routing and augmented-reality custom apps. Her works deal with
issues of representation, the role of the computer in shifting contemporary values
about identity and what might be called the “natural.” Her project is to
de-masculinize the culture of corporate technology by inserting the irrational and
the personal into the slick, overly-determined Cartesian world of digital design.
Hart’s works are widely exhibited and collected by galleries and museums including
the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum, the New Museum, Eyebeam Center
for Art + Technology, where she was an honorary fellow in 2013-14. She works with
Transfer and bitforms galleries, both in New York. Hart lives in Chicago where she
is a tenured professor at the School of Art Institute, in the department of Film
Video, New Media and Animation.
