Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the CADRE Media Lab with Rhonda Holberton

Hosted in conjunction with SJSU Research Week, this presentation by Art & Art History Department Chair Rhonda Holberton celebrates the 40th anniversary of the CADRE Media Lab, a pioneering center for art and technology founded in 1985. Highlighting CADRE’s legacy of innovation and collaboration, Holberton will share her current research projects including a Simons Foundation–funded neuroscience collaboration with UC San Diego, a community-centered AI project with artist named Time100's People in AI Stephanie Dinkins and SJICA, and the Digital Stewardship initiative to preserve landmark digital artworks in partnership with Leonardo Journal and New Art City. The presentation will also preview a virtual exhibition on the history of digital art in the South Bay (1984–2014) and the relaunch of Switch journal, one of the earliest online new media art publications.

Rhonda Holberton utilizes technology as a medium to reconcile the biological body with geologic time, revealing their material and environmental impacts both on individual entities and on a planetary scale. Her subtle animations, digital interventions, sculptures and installation pieces move between the material and the immaterial, the authentic and synthetic, and pay special attention to the phenomenology of climate change in order to imagine ways we might collectively write more inclusive rules for digital platforms. Holberton has exhibited widely, including at CULT Aimee Friberg (San Francisco), RMIT Gallery (Melbourne); La Becque | Résidences d’artistes  (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland);  FIFI Projects (Mexico City); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco); San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (San José); and the San Francisco Arts Commission (San Francisco). She was awarded the Fondation Ténot Fellowship in Paris and the CAMAC Artist in Residence at Marnay-sur-Seine, France. Holberton’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Whitney, SFMOMA, and the McEvoy Foundation, as well as various private collections. She holds a MFA from Stanford University and is currently Chair of the Art & Art History Department and Associate Professor of Digital Media at San José State University.

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