Sonya Rapoport: Objects On My Dresser (2022)
Sonya Rapoport: Objects On My Dresser (2022) is an 86-page book that offers a comprehensive exploration of Sonya Rapoport’s most ambitious project – by Alla Efimova and Terri Cohn.
OBJECTS ON MY DRESSER: 1979-83 & 2015
Sonya Rapoport’s most extensive project, and an early example of interactive computer art, Objects on My Dresser was created in eleven “phases” over five years (1979-83.) The final, 12th phase, was created in the last year of Rapoport’s life (2015).
The phases range from complex interactive performances to single-page publications and were exhibited at such venues as Franklin Furnace, NY; 80 Langton Street, SF; Artists Space, NY, and published in “Leonardo” and “Heresies” magazines.
Objects on My Dresser sees Rapoport applying computing and the principles of scientific visualization to the analysis of psychologically charged objects. In the manner of Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973-79) that mapped an evolving mother-child relationship, the project is informed by feminism and psychoanalysis.
Learn more at Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust
