Sonya Rapoport

Sonya Rapoport is a media artist who focuses on interactive installations. Since the 1970’s she has utilized technology as her medium. She’s been producing work since 1994 and continues to create pieces based on the concepts such as gender, religion, and science. Her work often consists of a humoristic quality, which is the first thing that interested me about her pieces. She often uses parody, mysticism and humor to convey her ideas. The picture above is from her work Arbor erecta. This piece refrences the story of a transsexual change of James from female to male. In her Transgenic Bagel piece, she touches base on the idea of altering genes and the ingestion of medicine to alter one's personality. In this piece the spectator, or participant has a choice of a certain gene that was taken from an animal.