NAME: Lori Hepner
BIRTH PLACE: Pittsburgh, PA
BIRTH DATE: 6.20.81
BIOGRAPHY
Lori Hepner is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the cyborg female body through still and moving images. The work that she creates deals with the impact that technology has on the body through an exploration of technology and its language of binary code. The mythic creature of the cyborg, whose formation is spawned by the current culture of ubiquitous technology, is a central theme in her work. The roots of digital culture in ones and zeros are put into question through large-scale digital prints, non-linear video pieces, performance art, and installations.
Hepner's work has been shown nationally and internationally in exhibitions, screenings, and performances including the V Festival Internacional de la Imagen in Manzales, Colombia; the Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit in Havana, Cuba; the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival; the Technolocized Body exhibition at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; and the FirstWorksProv Festival in Providence, RI. She recently held a solo exhibition entitled Unworkings of a Binary System: New Work by Lori Hepner at the CAPA Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA. She lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA.
