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The French Artist Orlan began her In conjunction with the UC Digital Arts
highly unconventional career at the Research Network and the department of
age of seventeen, with a series of Design|Media Arts, the Art|Sci Center
staged photographs of her own body, hosted and coordinated an open source
which has become her art medium and application development symposium led by
her primary creative voice. She D|MA professor Casey Reas.
continued to make her body the center
of public and aesthetic debate with The event took place the same week
works and performances staged in the that Nicholas Negroponte was on campus
most prestigious art galleries in for the Annual Regent’s Lecture. It
France. Orlan’s art has taken a myriad was followed by a UC DARnet campus
of forms: painting, sculpture, poetry, tour by Reas and Arduino developer,
photography, and video. David Cuartielles, for a series of
presentations about the OPEN Symposium
She addresses themes of disfiguration and the Processing and Arduino open
and refiguration, virtual and real, source platforms.
beauty and grotesque, as well as
sexuality, female identity, and
Catholic symbolism. Her current digital
photograph work, “Self-Hybridizations”
continues to question the social and
cultural pressure exerted on the body.

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