Praba Pilar curriculum vitae 

EDUCATION

University of California at Davis, PhD Program, Performance Studies: Practice as Research; Feminist Theory, 2007-2012
Mills College, Bachelors of Intermedia Art, academic honors; 2006

HONORS

UC Davis Presidential Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, UC Davis 2007-2011
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
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 PERFORMANCE PROJECTS

2010-2011  “BOT I” 
  Galeria Studio Cerrillo, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
  Radical Philosophy Association Conference: Violence,” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
   Arena Theatre, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
   Actions of Transfer: Women’s Performance in the Americas, UCLA, CA

2007-2011  "The Cyborg Soap Opera
   Center for Sex and Ecology, SF, CA
   Galeria de la Raza, SF, CA
   Counterpulse, SF, CA
   21 Grand, Oakland, CA
  "DADA Cabaret," UC Davis, Davis, CA

2006-2011  “The Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno,”
  Multispecies Salon, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York
  Cosmopolitics Conference, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York
  NatureCulture Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
  University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
  Bay Area Now 5, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
  Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
  Mills College, Oakland
  Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

2004-2009   “Computers Are A Girl’s Best Friend"
  UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
  MACLA/ISEA Zero One Festival, San Jose, CA
  State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York
   Cyberimaginaries: Decolonizing the Future Conference, Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social    University of Washington, Seattle
   The LAB, San Francisco, California
   Le Local, Studio XX, Montreal, Canada

1999-2003   “Los Cybrids: La Raza TechnoCritica”
   University of San Francisco; SF, California
   Brown University; Providence, Rhode Island
   Carnegie-Mellon University; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
   Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles, California
   Arizona State University; Phoenix, Arizona
   The LAB Gallery; San Francisco, California
   Galeria de la Raza, SF
   Modern Times Bookstore, SF
   SF Museum of Modern Art, SF
   Potrero Nuevo Fund Award Performance, Lilli Ann Mural, SF
   LAB Gallery, SF

1998-2000 “The Hexterminators”
  San Francisco State University, SF
  National Association of Broadcasters, Moscone Center, SF
  Galeria de la Raza, SF;  KPFA Radio
  Fairmount Hotel, SF
  Radical Performance Fest, SF
  UC Berkeley, Berkeley

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2011   "Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno," installation, Multi-Species Salon, CUNY Grad Center, NY, NY
2009   "Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno," installation, Computers & Writing Conference, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2008   "Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno," installation, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, Bay Area Now 5, SF, CA
           "CodeSwitching," Swarm Gallery, Oakland, CA
2007   "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



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

SELECT MEDIA 

2008  “The Other 9/11,” San Francisco Weekly,  September 9, 2008
          "Inside City Limits," Comcast Cable Channel 11, July 21, 2008
          “Bay Area NOW Showcases Local Art,” San Francisco Examiner, July 18, 2008
          “Picks,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 2, 2008
          "Radio 2050,” KPFA Radio, Berkeley, July 26, 2008
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

Images/Catalogues
Bay Area NOW 5 Wayfinder.  Catalogue of Bay Area Now 5 exhibition.  2008
Walls of Empowerment, Guisela Latorre, Image, Upcoming
Phoenix, 21st Century City, Edward Booth Clibborn, Image, 2007               
The Womanist: Mills College Women of Color Journal, Spring 2005, Vol. VIII.  Image, 2005
B/ordering Space (Border Region) by Henk Van Houtum, Oliver Kramsch, Wolfgang Ziefhofer; Ashgate Publishing, Image, 2005
Pangea, “Disclosure: A Journal of Social Theory.”  Cover Image, 2004
Breaking Ground: Adventurous New Plays from Adventurous Theaters, edited by Kent Nicholson, Bookspan
     Press.  Cover Image, 2003
Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism, Rebecca Solnit, Verso Press. Image, 2000

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2010  Panelist, "NatureCulture Conference, Society for Cultural Anthropology,"  Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2009  Panelist, " Town Hall on Sustainability," Computers and Writing Conference, UC Davis, Davis, CA
          Panelist, " Global Disconnects: The Internet & Human Trafficking" at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
          Panelist, "TechnoIntervention and Reanimating History" Hastings Law School, SF, CA
2008  Panelist, "Performance: Readers Writers and Technology Conference," UC Davis, CA
          Panelist, “Radical Philosophers Association Conference:Art, Praxis and Social Transformation,” SFState.
          Panelist, “Tactical Trade Show," UCIRA Conference, UC Riverside, CA
          Panelist, “Identity, Performance, Representation: New Modes of Interpretation in the Humanities,”
              UC Davis, CA
2007  Panelist and Moderator, Eco-Artists Roundtable, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2006  Panelist, “Technology in the Service of Social Change,” Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory,
             UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
          Roundtable, “The School of Panamerican Unrest,” Museum of African Diaspora and Mexican Museum,
             SF, CA
2004  Panelist “Use, Misuse and Appropriation,” Powering Up/Powering Down Conference on Radical Media
             Arts, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
2001  Panelist, “Using Language as a Tool for Social Change,” Living Word Conference, SF
          Panelist, “Framed Media Representations of Crime and Punishment,” Critical Resistance, Berkeley
          Panelist, “Restrained Abundance: Social Issues in Latin American Art,” SF Museum of Modern Art, SF
1999  Panelist, “Alternative Media Conference,” University of San Francisco

LECTURES AND ARTIST’S PANELS

2010  TeknoPolitica Performatica, Artists Talk, Miau Miau Art Gallery, San Cristobal de las Casas,
              Chiapas, Mexico
2008  Artists Talk, Mills College, Oakland, CA
          Guest Lecturer, Cyber Realidades, Laney College, Oakland, California  
2007  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
          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
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 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