Sonia Sheridan
Sonia Landy Sheridan (Newark, Ohio, April 10, 1925), is an American artist, founder of a generative art department called Generative Systems, professor emeritus at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), and editor of Leonardo, the Journal of the International Society for the Arts Sciences and Technology.[1][2]
Biography
Sonia Landy Sheridan was born on April 10, 1925, in Newark, Ohio. She made her studies in visual arts at the Hunter College in New York City between 1941 and 1945. Between 1946 and 1947, she attended Columbia University and, between 1948 and 1949, she finished her studies of postgraduate at the University of Illinois. Also, she studied at the San Jose City College in 1952. [3]
In 1957, she moved with her husband, James E. Sheridan, to Taiwan and, during their stay, she attended the National Taiwan Normal University. In 1961, back in the United States, she finished her studies in Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts [4]
In the 1970s, she began to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she founded a new department which it was called Generative Systems and that it focused in the investigation for artistic purposes of the new technologies that emerged in that period, like the world´s first color photocopier, the 3M Color in Color Machine.[5] In the meantime, she continued with her artwork, and in 1974 she made an exhibition at the MoMA of New York along with Keith Smith.[6]
Her artistic works were shown for the first time in Europe, within the collective exhibition Electra, made in the year 1983, at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.[7] In this exhibition she presented the first image manipulation software for artists, Lumena artware of TimeArts.[8] Three years later, her work was shown for the first time in Spain, together with other artists, at one of the inaugural collective exhibitions of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of Madrid titled "Procesos: Cultura y nuevas tecnologías", which offered a compilation of different artistic approximations by the use of the new means that arose in the contemporary art during the second half of the 20th century, and in which she presented, apart of her work, the graphic computer invented by her student of SAIC, John Dunn, the EASEL software and Time Arts PC computer. With this system, during a month, she made a workshop open to all the public at the exhibitions rooms of the Museo Reina Sofía.[9][10]
Her work forms part of big collections like the Telefónica Foundation of Spain, or The Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, New Hampshire), and all the documentation on her long artistic career can be consulted in the Foundation Daniel Langlois of Montreal.[11][12][13]
Publications
- Art at the Dawning of the Electronic Era. Generative Systems. (Lonesome Press, Hanover, 2014)
- Generative Systems in La Fabrica: Marisa Gonzalez. (Foundation Telefonica, Madrid, 2000)
- Energized Art/Science. (Chicago Museum of Science and Industry and 3M Corporation, St. Paul, 1978)
- Artist in the Science Lab. (3M Corporation, St. Paul, 1976)
- Evolution 2.0. Generative Systems & Generative Art. (ISEA, Liverpool, 1998)
External links
References
- ^ The Art Institute of Chicago
- ^ Leonardo
- ^ «Sonia Sheridan
- ^ «Sonia Sheridan
- ^ «Imaging With Machine Processes | transmediale».
- ^ «MoMA | Projects».
- ^ www.fondation-langlois.org.
- ^ «Sonia Sheridan fonds
- ^ Consulted the 2016-01-22.
- ^ www.museoreinasofia.es.
- ^ «Artistic Collections».
- ^ «Sonia Sheridan fonds
- ^ «The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan | Hood Museum».