Reva Stone: Artist in Residence
to
School of Art Gallery 180 Dafoe Road, 255 ARTlab, University of Manitoba, Fort Garry Campus,, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
Image by Ernest Mayer, courtesy of the artist.
Reva Stone, "Console," (2018)
responsive environment, from Fragments Series.
RELATED PUBLIC EVENTS | ARTIST TALKS | October 2 and November 27, 12:00 pm | Location: 364 ARTlab
Winnipeg artist Reva Stone takes up artistic residence in the School of Art for 10 weeks in the fall term. From September 24 – November 30, she will engage with students individually and in groups, through studio visits, public talks, classroom visits, and study groups. She will also be continuing work on a project for fragment, her solo exhibition, February 6 – April 26, 2019, in the School of Art Gallery.
Reva Stone’s work is concerned with an examination of the mediation between our bodies and the technologies that are altering how we interact with the world. She engages with a variety of forms of digital technologies to initiate discourses about how biotechnological and robotic practices are impacting upon the very nature of being human.
Stone’s work has included pieces such as Imaginal Expression, an endlessly mutating responsive 3D environment, Carnevale 3.0, an autonomous robot that reflects on the nature of human consciousness, and Portal (iphone), a work that combines custom software, media, robotics and mobile phone technology to create a work that appears to be sentient. Recently, she has been developing a series of works that critique how drone technologies are being integrated into society, titled Fragments.
ABOUT THE ARTIST Reva Stone has received many awards, including the 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Manitoba, 2015 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts and an honorable mention from Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited widely in Canada, the US and Europe, has presented at symposia and has been published in journals such as Second Nature: the International Journal of Creative Media.