Mat Rappaport (born 1971) is an internationally exhibited

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and installation artist, curator, and educator. He is currently an associate professor at

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, a board member of the New Media Caucus, and a founding member of v1b3 (Video in the Built Environment). He currently lives and works in

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Education

Rappaport earned a BFA from the

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and

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. While an undergraduate Rappaport spend a year studying at

Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

and the

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design ( he, בצלאל, אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב) is a public college of design and art located in Jerusalem. Established in 1906 by Jewish painter and sculptor Boris Schatz, Bezalel is Israel's oldes ...

in Jerusalem, Israel. Upon returning to the United States, he was an intern in Objects Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Rappaport received his MFA in Studio Art from the

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Work

Rappaport's projects include video installation, public art interventions, mobile media performance, and interactive installation dealing primarily with the mutability of architecture and media representation as sites of meaning. His creative works and published writing explore public art and media. Specific works include ''a game we play'' an

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application to impose a video game atmosphere onto the Chicago Financial District. The project was funded by a Propeller Fund grant from threewalls in Chicago., touristic intents, a multi-modal documentary art project that explores the use of architecture and tourism as a projection of political ideology and

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., and ''current'', a site-specific video and sound installation, made for showing over the Delaware River, between New York and Pennsylvania. A flashlight is programmed to flash morse code over the river at a video screen on the opposite side. The code spells out a portion of the Constitution about interstate trade. Earlier works, such as ''way'', a single channel video, made in 2005 has been critically reviewed. His work has been featured in a wide range of exhibition venues, including the Under Surveillance exhibition at the

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and William Betts, who deal with surveillance in the contemporary world.

Awards

2011 Propeller Grant
Propeller Fund, Chicago, IL
2006 Howard Fellowship
Howard Foundation, Brown University, Providence, RI
Center for 21st Century Studies Fellowship

References

External links

Studio of Mat Rappaport

v1b3 (video in the built environment)
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