Reva Stone

Reva Stone is digital artist, native to Winnipeg, whose work explores how technology changes the relationship between humans and our surroundings.[1] As one of the first women to be involved in the new media arts in Canada, her large scale projects influenced many artists she mentored.[2]

Early Career

Stone graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1985.[3] In art school, she originally began as a painter, "but that didn't last long" (according to Stone).[4] She began working on interactive pieces in 1989, after encouragement from Richard Dyck, a fellow Winnipeg, technologically-focused artist, and the piece Legacy was born.[5][4] Legacy, finished in 1993, is a child's room, one wall representing a stereotypical girl and the other representing a stereotypical boy, exploring gender roles of young children.[4] The viewer can interact with the installation through a computer game that cries out "Come play with me," begging for human interaction.[5] Since the early 1990s, Stone has focused almost exclusively on interactive, technologically based art forms.[4]

Current Work

Since 1992, Stone has used technology to isolate and explore specific properties of the human experience. Her "most ambitious piece" (according to Robert Enright) is Imaginal Expression, which appeared in a featured exhibition at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2004.[4] In this piece, she shaped parts of her own body (hair, skin, fingers) into protein molecules projected as moving images on a 9' x 48' screen.[4] Carnevale 3.0, finished 2002, mirrors human consciousness by taking pictures of viewers in the gallery that are either stored or "forgotten" as a way to simulate human memory.[4][1] sentientBody, 1998, uses Stone's own disembodied breathing matched with images of water and sand "to both realize and dematerialize the existence of the body" (according to Enright).[4] Stone has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions as well many group exhibitions.[1] She is also featured in six public collections in Canada and private collections throughout Canada and the United States.[1]

Awards and Recognitions

In 2015, Stone was awarded one of the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.[2] She was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2007.[6] Carnevale 3.0 was recognized by Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition, Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, Spain with an honorable mention.[3] Stone has received numerous grants including an Explorations grant and a Manitoba Arts Council Grant in 1990 which funded her first interactive piece, Legacy. She also served on the board of Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA), Video Pool Inc., and Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Curriculum Vitae". Reva Stone. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Reva Stone". Governor General's Award. Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Reva Stone". CCCA. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Enright, Robert (March 2007). "The Incredible Lightness of Machines: an interview with Reva Stone". Border Crossings.
  5. 1 2 Fulford, Robert (16 June 1993). "'Issues art' thrives in a vacuum". The Globe and Mail (Canada).
  6. ↑ "Cross-section of artists lauded". The Windsor Star. 23 June 2007.

External Links

Official website

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