Reva Stone facts for kids

Reva Stone RCA (born 1944) is a Canadian artist. She is famous for her amazing digital art and interactive projects. She was one of the first women in Canada to work with new media art. Her big projects helped and inspired many other artists.

Reva Stone's Early Art Journey

Reva Stone finished her studies at the University of Manitoba in 1985. She first started as a painter in art school. But she soon found her true passion in interactive art. In 1989, she began creating her first interactive piece called Legacy.

Legacy: Exploring Gender Roles

Legacy was finished in 1993. It shows a child's room with two walls. One wall looks like a typical girl's room, and the other looks like a typical boy's room. This art piece helps people think about how gender roles affect young children. Viewers can play a computer game that is part of the art. The game even calls out, "Come play with me!"

How Reva Stone Creates Art

Since the early 1990s, Reva Stone has mostly focused on art that uses technology and allows people to interact with it. She uses technology to look closely at different parts of human life and feelings. Her art has explored many interesting ideas, like:

• The world of video games
• How medical science affects us
• Making robots that seem to think and feel
• Showing protein molecules as visual models

Imaginal Expression: Body and Science

One of her most important artworks is Imaginal Expression. It was shown at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in 2004. For this piece, Reva Stone used parts of her own body, like her hair, skin, and fingers. She shaped them to look like protein molecules. These shapes were then projected as moving images onto a very large screen, 9 feet tall and 48 feet wide! Stone believes Imaginal Expression shows the exciting possibilities of changing and redesigning our genes.

Carnevale 3.0: Robots and Memory

Carnevale 3.0 was completed in 2002. This artwork is a robot that acts like human memory. It takes pictures of people visiting the gallery. Some pictures are saved, and others are "forgotten," just like how our own memories work. The robot looks like a picture of Reva Stone when she was a young girl. Stone chose this on purpose to challenge how women are often shown in computer culture.

sentientBody: The Body's Presence

In 1998, Stone created sentientBody. This artwork uses the sound of Stone's own breathing, but without her body. It is combined with images of water and sand. This piece helps us think about how our bodies exist and how they can also seem to disappear.

Reva Stone's art has been shown in many solo exhibitions (shows just for her work) and group exhibitions (shows with other artists). Her art is also part of six public collections in Canada. Many private collectors in Canada and the United States also own her work.

Awards and Special Recognitions

Reva Stone has received many honors for her amazing contributions to art:

• In 2007, she became a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
• Her artwork Carnevale 3.0 received an honorable mention at the Life 5.0, Art & Artificial Life International Competition in Madrid, Spain.
• In 2015, she was given a special Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. This is one of the highest honors for artists in Canada.