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 exhibitions "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 New York City; 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 Superieur Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris France.

contact:
laporta@interport.net
ICQ 64314682