Sherrie Rabinowitz

Sherrie Rabinowitz (1950–2013)[1] was an American video artist and a pioneer in satellite-based telecommunications art. She worked exclusively with Kit Galloway under the moniker Mobile Image from 1977 onwards. She co-founded the Electronic Café International (ECI), a performance space and real café housed in the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, with Galloway.[2] She died in 2013, from complications due to multiple sclerosis.[1]

Sherrie Rabinowitz
BornJanuary 6, 1950
DiedApril 8, 2013
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California Berkeley
Known forVideo Art
Partner(s)Kit Galloway

Career

Optic Nerve

She studied at University of California Berkeley and was involved in the collective Optic Nerve,[3] which created underground video and guerrilla television. Optic Nerve was one of the few San Francisco video collectives with women members in the 1970s.[4] As part of Optic Nerve she collaborated with the architecture and performance collective Ant Farm which was also based out of San Francisco. These projects include: Media Burn (1975), The Eternal Frame (1975), and Pier 40 Fire Clean Up (1978).[5]

Mobile Image

From the mid 1970s onwards, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz created numerous art works which could be categorized as communication aesthetics, telecollaborative art, telematic art, cyber art, and digital theatre.[6] One example of their work is the 1977 Satellite Arts Project: A Space with No Boundaries, which created composite images of two dancers in California and two dancers in Maryland, and was supported by NASA.[7] Another example is their 1980 satellite relay project Hole-in-Space which connected public spaces in New York and Los Angeles with live audio and life-sized video.[8] Rabinowitz coined the phrase "We must create at the same scale that we can destroy"[9] which would become the headline of Mobile Image's manifesto[10] for their Electronic Cafe Network Project (1984) commissioned for the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Art Festival.

References
  1. "Media pioneer Sherrie Rabinowitz passes". Dr. Future Show.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  2. Huffman, Kathy Rae. "Video and Architecture: Beyond the Screen." Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, a Survey of Two Decades (1999): 135-39.
  3. Durland, Steven (1987). "Defining the Image As Place: A Conversation with Kit Galloway, Sherrie Rabinowitz & Gene Youngblood". Retrieved March 7, 2020.
  4. Hanley, Joann, "Women, Art, and Technology: A Brief History" in Art, Women, California 1950-2000: Parallels and Intersections, eds. Diana Burgess Fuller, Daniela Salvioni, Deborah Munk, Gail Tsukiyama (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 317.
  5. Lewallen, Constance M.; Seid, Steve (2004). Ant Farm: 1968-1978. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 169–170. ISBN 0-520-24029-4.
  6. Wilson, Stephen. Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262731584.
  7. Shanken, Edward A.; Ascott, Roy (2003). Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness. Berkeley: CA: University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780520218031.
  8. "Satellite Arts Project 1977". Electronic Cafe. Retrieved 2008-09-23.
  9. Youngblood, Gene (2020). Expanded Cinema: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. New York: Fordham University Press. pp. xxv. ISBN 9780823287413.
  10. "A Manifesto For The Original 1984 Electronic Cafe Network Project". Electronic Cafe. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
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