FICTIVE NET / PORN   Site: techno.FETISH.ism    Tina LaPorta - New York City based, net art, USA Site Description: techno.FETISH.ism utilizes pictures found on fetish and BDSM web sites to explore voyeurism, the gaze and power dynamics played out in pornographic image making and electronic distribution networks. Site Creator: Tina LaPorta is a media artist who lives and works in New York City. Her most recent work has been created specifically for the internet. She has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Alternative Museum and turbulence.org to create web-specific art projects.   Her work has been included in the exhibition, "Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace," at the San Francisco Art Institute; "Technically Engaged" at AIR Gallery, NYC; "Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications," at Tribes Gallery in NYC and "Body as Byte," at Neues Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland.   Ms. LaPorta has been invited to participate in several symposia and on-line projects including: "The Warhol Hijack," at weliveinpublic.com, Gender in New Media Online Panel at "INVENCAO: Thinking The Next Millennium," conference (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Alterities : Interdisciplinarity and Feminine Practices of Space at the Ecole Suprieure Nationale desBeaux Arts, Paris France. splash! http://whitney.org/artport/artists/laporta/tina.html   || | || distance.portal || | || http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/i/ga2750/tina/portal.html   :::net.works + avatars::: http://heelstone.com/meridian/templates/laporta/

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