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Praba Pilar curriculum
vitae
SELECT PERFORMANCE
2008 “SPEC.FLIC: Welcum 2 the Infosphere,” Infospherian character, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2007 "Cabaret Marx," Humane Slaughter Acts Performance Festival, Healdsburg, CA
"Broom Ceremony/Tierradentro," Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Arizona
"The First Time," Terry Messman Benefit, Berkeley, CA
"A Cyborg Soap Opera,"
21 Grand, Oakland, CA
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
2006 "Computers Are A Girl's Best Friend"
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
MACLA/ISEA Zero One Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, CA
“SPEC.FLIC 2.0,” Infospherian character, ISEA/Zero One Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, CA
“San Francisco Address: The School of Panamerican Unrest,” Museum of African Diaspora/Mexican Museum, SF
"The Church
of Nano Bio Info Cogno,"
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Seminar in Experimental Theory, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2005 "PornOrchestra," Oakland
Metro, Bay Area Bayenalle.
"Computers
Are A Girl's Best Friend"
State
University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York
2004 "Computers
Are A Girl's Best Friend"
Cyberimaginaries:
Decolonizing the Future Conference, Mujeres Activas en
Letras y Cambio Social
University
of Washington, Seattle, Washington
The
LAB, San Francisco, California
Le
Local, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada
"Cabaret
Techno" Quartier Ephemere/Darling Foundry, Studio XX,
Montreal, Canada
“Techno-Santeros,
An Appropriated Ritual to the Four Directions,” Powering
Up, Powering Down Conference,
Center
for Research in Computing and the Arts UC San Diego,
San Diego.
2003 “Chicano, Chicana, Hispano, Hispana, Latino,
Latina Tech TV,” DSLR-West, Balazo Gallery, SF
“Juana
La Banana,” Dating Game Show, Galeria de la Raza, SF
“Futuro
Hackeros,” 1111 Minna Street Gallery, SF
“El
World Brain Disorder: surveillance.control.pendejismo”
University
of San Francisco; San Francisco, California
Brown
University; Providence, Rhode Island
Carnegie-Mellon
University; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002 “El World
Brain Disorder: surveillance.control.pendejismo”
Museum
of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, California
Arizona
State University; Phoenix, Arizona
LAB
Gallery; San Francisco, California
“De-Educacion:
Computas in the Classroom” Galeria de la Raza, SF
“Techno-Santeros”
Modern Times Bookstore, SF
“She-Mob”
Starry Plough, Berkeley
2001 “Urban Invasion, The Last Post-Latin American“
Ultrabaroque, SF Museum of Modern Art, SF
“Techno-Santeros”
Burrito Performance Series, SF
“High
Sweat Tech Shop” Potrero Nuevo Fund Award Performance,
Lilli Ann Mural, SF
“La
Paparazzi,” Media Bash, SOMARTS Gallery, SF
“Webopticon:
Arquitectura of Control,” LAB Gallery, SF
“EduMaquina:
De-Educacion” 010101 Exhibition, SF Museum of Modern
Art, SF
“Global
WarMaquina: The Internet and its Discontents,” LAB Gallery,
SF, KPFA Radio
2000 “Dr. Monsanto,” in Biowhore.com; San
Francisco State University, SF
“May
Lowly,” National Association of Broadcasters, Moscone
Center, SF
“Dr.
Ana Condo” Ese: The Last Mexican; Galeria de la Raza,
SF; KPFA Radio
“Cybrid
#3” Internet 2010 Conference, El Rio, SF
1999 “FabRAGE,”
Fairmount Hotel, SF
“Hexterminator,”
Radical Performance Fest, SF
“Super
Seed Woman,” UC Berkeley, Berkeley
“Reclaim
Lilli Ann,” Mumia 911 Performance Event; San Francisco
1998 “The Hexterminator”
“Biogrrrl” “Super Seed Woman.” Founder of The Hexterminators, performance troupe
of
22 artists and scientists, working on issues of genetics,
multiple performances, Seattle, SF, NY.
“Lilli
Ann Lives,” Chuy Campesano Memorial; CELL Space; SF
“Spirit
of Lilli Ann” Lilli Ann Mural Street Theatre, 17th and
Harrison, SF
“Cabaret
Fatale” ATA Performance Space, SF
1996 “Reversal
of Fortune” Galeria de la Raza, SF
1994 “The Heart of the Matter,” The Healing
Fields Street Performance Series. SF
1993 “Roots,” “The Turning,”
“Burdens of Blockage.” The Healing Fields Street
Performance Series. SF
1992 “Paint the White House Pink,” the Pink
Pussy Pranksters, SF
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2007 "CodeSwitching," Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
"Social Justice Eco-Art," Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, CA
2006 "Fronteras Electronicas," MACLA/ISEA Zero One Festival of Art on the Edge, San Jose, CA
2005 "EcoVisions:
Bay Area Artists Exploring Ecological Issues," the
Gallery at Thoreau, Thoreau Center
for Sustainability, San Francisco, CA
“What's Not To Love?: Humor and Satire,” Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
"Arte Nuevo Interactiva '05 Biennial,"
Centro Cultural Olimpo, Merida, Mexico
"The
Chicana/o Biennial," MACLA, San Jose, CA
"Su Arte Here," Galeria de la Raza, SF
2004 "Empire: Videos for a New World,"
Maryland Institute College of Art , Baltimore
"Picarte: Photography Beyond Representation," The
Heard Museum, Phoenix
2003 "R & D," The LAB, San Francisco
“Sex
Stitched,” Hiestand Gallery, Miami University of Ohio,
Oxford, Ohio
“Race
in Digital Space,” Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,
Atlanta, Georgia
2002 “Bay Area Artists,” 25th Bay Area Playwrights
Festival, SF
“Race
in Digital Space,” University of Southern California,
Los Angeles
“Paper
Tigers,” Galeria de la Raza, SF
2001 “Techno-Promesas: Putografia Virtual,”
multi-media installation, Galeria de la Raza, SF
“Race
in Digital Space,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Boston
2000 “Anima House,”
Residency Award Exhibition, MACLA, San Jose
“Environmental
Solutions,” The Art Gallery at Cesar Chavez, San Francisco
State University, SF
1999 “Polly, Lamb of God?” SOMAR Gallery,
SF
“WTO:
The Aftermath,” Media Alliance Gallery, SF
“warning:warning:warning,”
Artists Television Access, SF
1998 “Carnavale
of Bio-Life: Russian Roulette of the Brave New World,”
S.F. Arts Commission, SF
“Pasado
en Claro,” Open Studios, Oakland
“Saints,
Icons, Alter-egos, Redefining Art of Devotion,” MACLA
San Jose, Curator Tere Romo
“Cultura:
The Chicano Experience,” Balazo Gallery, SF
“Funhouse
Ranch,” Pro Arts Gallery; Oakland
1997 “Fresa Farms:
It’s a Whitewash,” Galeria de la Raza, SF
“Parturition,”
City of Oakland NPR, Oakland
“Post-Postcard
II,” Four Walls Gallery, SF
1996 “Round Trip Ticket; to the Immigrant Land,”
Folsom Street Interchange, SF
“Reversal
of Fortune,” Galeria de la Raza, catalog.
“All
Saints/All Souls: Altar?ed Images,” Falkirk Cultural
Center, San Rafael
“New
Work,” Can Gallery, Oakland
1995 “Ventanas de Devocion,” Cafe Fanari,
SF
“the
things she left behind,” Belcher Gallery, SF
1995 “The Last Frontier,” Center for Visual
Arts, Oakland; Juror, George Rivera
“Another
Life Up Inside Her Head,”” Galeria de la Raza,
SF, catalog
“Toy,”
Show & Tell Gallery, SF
1994 “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,”
Galeria Tonantzin, San Juan Bautista, CA
“Art
as a Healing Force; Personal Transformation,” Bade Museum,
Berkeley
1993 “Books by Women,” 848 Community Artspace
Gallery, SF
“The
Healing Fields,” Process, SF
1992 “Telling Stories, Artists Books & Journals,”
Prieto Gallery at Mills College, Oakland
PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS
2003 “Fruitvale Historic Markers,”
historic tile project, Oakland, CA
2001 “Humaquina:
Manifest Tech-Destiny,” digital mural, Galeria de
la Raza, SF
“Webopticon:
Sistema de Vigilancia,” digital mural, Galeria de
la Raza, SF
“Digital
Divide, Last One is a Rotten Egg,” digital mural,
Galeria de la Raza, SF
2000 “Ese: The Last
Mexican,” digital mural, Uberlocos, Galeria de la
Raza, SF
1999 “Fruitvale Plaza
Park.” Design and implementation of site-specific
public art project in Oakland, including broken tile mosaic
work, floor piece, historic narratives, structures. Redesign
of entire site for pedestrian flow, functionality and community
aesthetics.
1998 “Pueblitos:
My Oasis,” biodegrading ceramic site installation,
Oakland.
“Fecundo,”
biodegrading ceramic site installation; Echo Park, Oakland.
1995 “Encuentro Vivo,” temporary Day of
the Dead installation, Aquatic Park, SF
HONORS
UC Davis Presidential Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, UC Davis 2006-2009
Dean’s Scholarship, Mills College,
2004, 2005, 2006
George Kingdon Memorial Scholarship, Mills College, 2005
Puffin Foundation Award, 2004
Nominated for a Eureka Fellowship, 2004
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center Travel Grant, 2004
Association of Performing Arts Presenters Award, 2003
Creative Capital Foundation Award, 2002
Zellerbach Family Fund Award, 2002
Nominated for a Rockefeller Award, 2002
Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, New Langton Arts, 2001
Creative Work Fund Award, 2000
Commission Award, Fruitvale Historic Tile Public Art Project,
City of Oakland, CA, 2000
Master Residency Award with Pepon Osorio, MACLA Center for
Latino Arts, 2000
Historic Preservation Award, Oakland Heritage Alliance, Fruitvale
Public Art Project, 1999
Environmental Web Site Award for www.artactivist.com, 1999
Activist Web Site Award for www.artactivist.com, 1999
Fluxus Award, Fluxus Hawaii, 1999
Commission Award; Fruitvale Public Art Project, Oakland, CA,
1998
Honorable Mention, WESTAF/NEA, Regional Fellowships, New Genres,
1996
Residency Grant, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, SF, 1995
SELECT MEDIA
2007 “The Bunny Show,” Cox 97, Tucson, Arizona, August 11, 2007
"Cyborg Soap Opera," Radio 2050, KPFA Radio, June 2, 2007
2006 “Featured Artist,” NewmediaFIX, at www.newmediafix.net, August 2006
"In 'social cinema,' you have a role," San Diego Union Tribune, by James Hebert, December 31, 2006
“Cyber.Labia Review,” n.paradoxa, Vol 18, p. 95, 2006
2005 “Ecovisions at the
Thoreau Center for Sustainability,” Artweek, September
2005
“Sight Unseen,” KALX Radio, October 14, 2005
“ClubLand”
San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2005
2004 “Radio 2050,” KPFA Radio, Berkeley,
June 5, 2004
“Terra
Verde”, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, June 4, 2004
Interview
on the XX Files - CKUT 90.3 FM, Montréal. May 19, 2004
“Girls
and Their Toys,” Montreal Mirror, May 20-26 2004
“Clean
Up on Aisle Six,” Claire Light, Sensor Magazine, Issue
No. 1, February 2004
2003 “Civic Planning,”
SF Bay Guardian, October 1 2003
“On-Air
Cyber Chifladas,” Radio 2050, KPFA Radio, May 2003
“Ciberfeminismo
y Arte en Latinoamérica: fusión pendiente”
Cindy Gabriela Flores, www.artwomen.org
2002 “Cybridnetics: an ese from the Other side
of the Digital Divide” Tripwire, A Journal of Poetics,
Fall 2002
“Ostrich farm marked
on foot-tour of historic Fruitvale,” Oakland Tribune,
July 2002
2001 “Surf This,” Sarah Lidgus, SF Bay Guardian,
October 2001
“Alex
Bennet Show,” CNET Radio, July 2001
“A
Disturbing Latino View of Tech,“ WIRED Magazine
News, June 2001
“Firing
Warnings About Information Technology,” El Tecolote,
June 2001
“Dando
Advertencias Acerca de la Tecnologia Informatica,”
El Tecolote, June 2001
“GlobalWarMaquina,”
KPFA Radio, performance/interview on Los Cybrids by Pratap
Chatterjee.
"Tech Flesh 3: The Hexterminators," interview Eugene
Hacker, CTHEORY.NET, May 2001
“atlas(t),”
Critics Choice, SF Bay Guardian, March 2001
2000 “Erasing San Francisco,” San Francisco
Chronicle Datebook, December 2000
"Ese Last
of His Tribe,” Critics Choice, SF Bay Guardian, September
2000
“To
Web or Not To Web,” Media Channel, August 2000
“Blow up The Internet,“ Salon Magazine, July
2000
“Benchmarks,”
Artweek Magazine, June 2000
“Assist
for Local Talent,” San Jose Mercury News, June 2000
“The
Pause That Refreshes,” East Bay Express, May 2000
“Hacktivism
and its Discontents” interview by Public Affairs Director
Harry Osibin, 105FM Radio, April 2000.
“Park
Here,” Chris Kelsey, Artswatch, Ms. Magazine, February/March
2000
1999 "Once Blighted, Plaza Now Glistens," Laura Counts,
The Oakland Tribune, CitySide, July 1999.
"Changing
more than the face of Oakland," Laura Counts, The Oakland
Tribune Sunday, June 27
"Developer
Whitewashes Mural,” The Progressive Magazine, April
1999
"Terra
Verde," KPFA Radio Program, interview by Pratap Chatterjee
1998 “Hex on the Great White Wall,”
Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Examiner, Sept 23, 1998
"Terra
Verde," KPFA Radio Program, interview by Pratap Chatterjee
1997 "Reversal of Fortune, Round Trip Ticket," Broadcast,
Channel 25.
1996 "Que Viva la Vida," Interview, Broadcast, KCAH
TV.
PUBLICATIONS
2007 UPCOMING: Are All The Women
Still White? Globalizing Women’s Studies. Essay
UPCOMING: Walls of Empowerment, Guisela Latorre, Image
Phoenix, 21st Century City, Edward Booth Clibborn, Image
Naked on the Internet, by Audacia Ray, Seal Press: Review of Cyber.Labia
Cyberlabia: Gendered Thoughts and Conversations on Cyberspace, Tela Press: Chapbook
2005 Encyclopedia Project: Volume I, A-E. Essay
The Womanist: Mills Women of Color Journal, Spring 2005,
Vol. VIII. Image
B/ordering Space (Border Region) by Henk Van Houtum, Oliver Kramsch, Wolfgang Ziefhofer, Image
2004 Pangea, Disclosure: A Journal of Social
Theory.Cover Image
2003 Breaking Ground: Adventurous New Plays from
Adventurous Theaters, edited by Kent Nicholson
Bookspan Press: Cover Art.
2002 The Civil
Disobedience Handbook: A Brief History and Practical Advice
for the Politically Disenchanted,
edited by James Tracy, Manic dPress: Interview.
2001 Surveillance: How to Survive, Thrive and Stay
Alive, edited by Tiny, aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Po’
Press. Essay.
2000 Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and
the Crisis of American Urbanism, Rebecca Solnit, Verso
Press.
On
Women Turning 30: Making Choices, Finding Meaning, Cathleen
Rountree, Jossey-Bass Press. Interview.
PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES AND ARTIST’S
PANELS
2007 Artists Talk, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Guest Lecturer, Cyber Realidades, Laney College, Oakland, California
Panel, Eco-Artists Roundtable, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Juror, The San Francisco Foundation Matching Grants Fund
2006 Artists Talk, University of California at Davis, Davis, California
Artists Talk, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California
Panel, Technology in the Service of Social Change, Seminar in Experimental Theory, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
Roundtable, The School of Panamerican Unrest, Museum of the African Diaspora and the Mexican Museum, SF, CA
Guest Lecturer, Interventionist
Performance Seminar, San Francisco State University,
SF, CA
Artists
Talk, Tactics and Critics Series, University of Southern
Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois
Guest
Lecturer, "Agent Provocateur, Interventionist Storytelling,"
University of Southern Illinois, Carbondale, Illinois
2005 Guest Lecturer, "Women in Media," State
University of New York, Albany, New York
Artist Talk,
State University of New York, Albany, New York
2004 Guest Lecturer, "PrabATELIER, Interactive
Seminar," Studio XX, Montreal, Canada
Artist Talk,
Le Local, Montreal, Canada
Guest Lecturer,
“From Intervention to Artervention,” John F. Kennedy
University, Berkeley
Panel,
“Use, Misuse and Appropriation,” Powering Up/Powering
Down Festival of Radical Media Arts,
University
of California San Diego
2003 Guest Lecturer, "From Public Art to DSLR-West,"
University of San Francisco, SF
Guest Lecturer, "Manipulative,
Coercive Landscapes and DSLR-WEST," San Jose State University,
San Jose
Guest Lecturer, "DSLR-West,"
Laney College, Oakland
Guest Lecturer, "From
Technotopia to Technopocalypse," Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, Illinois
Workshop, "Art Strategies
of the Surveillance Society," Version3.Fest, Chicago,
Illinois
Guest Lecturer, "Chicano
Collaborations in the New World," Brown University, Providence,
Rhode Island
2002 Guest Lecturer, “Oral Histories in Installation
Art,” San Francisco State University, SF.
Guest Lecturer, “Fruitvale
Historic Markers," Oakland Heritage Alliance, Oakland
Panel, “Women
in Technology,” Int’l Museum of Women; Inst for
Women & Technology, XeroxParc, Palo Alto.
Guest Lecturer,
“Cultural Activism in Global Organizing,” University
of California, Davis.
2001 Panel, “Framed Media Representations of Crime and
Punishment,” Critical Resistance, Fine Arts Cinema,
Berkeley.
Artist Panel,
“Restrained Abundance: Social Issues in Latin American
Art,” SF Museum of Modern Art, SF.
Panel, “Using
Language as a Tool for Social Change,” Living Word Festival,
SF.
Panel, "Beyond
Borders Conference," UC Santa Cruz
Guest Lecturer,
Graduate Department of Interarts, SF State University.
2000 Visiting Artist, Graduate Department of Conceptual Information
Arts, SF State University.
1999 Artist Panel, “Alternative Media Conference,”
University of San Francisco.
Guest Lecturer,
“Guerilla Modem,” Lecture on Web Artivism at Media
Alliance, SF.
1998 Guest Lecturer, “Scratch Disk Lunch-Box
Lecture Series,” Graduate Department of Conceptual
Information Arts, SF State University.
Guest Lecturer,
“Social Art Tactics” class, MFA Program, SF State
University.
Artist Panel,
“Saints, Icons and Alteregos: Redefining the Art of
Devotion,” MACLA San Jose
Center for the Latino Arts, San Jose, CA.
Web Site
Debut; Your Mama’s Tongue; Proyecto Contra SIDA Por
La Vida.
1997 Guest Lecturer, “Contemporary Artists Series,”
BFA Program, UC Berkeley.
Artist Panel,
"Home Grown: Fields of Califas," Galeria de la Raza, S.F.,
CA.
1996 Artist Panel , “Go Unnoticed; Images of Regeneration,”
Galeria de la Raza, S.F., CA.
Guest Lecturer,
“Recent Work,” Folsom Street Interchange Gallery,
S.F., CA
EDUCATION
University of California at Davis, PhD Program, Performance as Practice 2007-2011
Mills College, Bachelors of Intermedia Art, academic honors;
2006
San Francisco Art Institute, Fine Arts; 1991-93, 1995
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