Claudia Hart

In 1988, Hart began to exhibit with the Pat Hearn Gallery, moving from critical to artistic practice.

At that time, she exhibited paintings and installations inspired by the visionary architectural languages of Ledoux, Boullee and Leque.

Much of her work attempts to introduce women into a male-dominated technological culture and condemn the violent impulses of a masculine digital production environment.

The works shown were inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice in Wonderland and apply the metaphors in the text to explore the increasing mediation of contemporary life through digital platforms and technology.

At the core of this work are issues of representation, as Hart questions what might be considered "natural", and the role of the computer in shifting values about identity and the real.

[7] On Synchronics is a media project Hart created in collaboration with 24 of her current and former students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

In the work, "many individual characters merges into a single global body, performing one unified, poetic choreography in which a digital avatar heroically wrestles to escape the confines of the artificial computer world an emerge into the unpredictable flow of reality.

The framing of the body develops a sense of claustrophobia, depicting the figure as imprisoned by a kind of modern coffin.