Lucia Grossberger Morales

Lucia Grossberger Morales weaves multimedia strands of technology to tell her story of emigrating from Bolivia to the United States. She was born during the Bolivian Revolution of 1952, when the Indigenous majority overthrew the white minority. In 1955, her family immigrated to New York City. In the late 80s, while in Bolivia, Lucia dreamed she was on a bridge between Bolivia and the United States; Lucia's work lives in this in-between place, the bridge.

Lucia's journey with technology began in 1979 when she saw the Apple II Computer and immediately recognized its potential as her artistic medium. The computer was not an obvious fit because Lucia was a failing math student, though that changed when she started working on the computer. In 1982, Lucia coauthored the Designer's Tool Kit, published by Apple Computer, Inc. She collaborated with Bob Bishop in 1987 to develop Space Lace: An Interactive Kaleidoscope. She added a five-foot kaleidoscope for several installations that reflected the patterns on the screen running Space Lace. The artwork was shown at SIGGRAPH 1987 and several galleries and museums, most recently, in 2014, at Buffalo AKG and UCR as part of the Getty Initiative on Art and Science Collide. 

On Lucia's fifth birthday, she heard a voice telling her she must tell my story. In 1987, she had the digital multimedia tools to chronicle her emigration to the United States and return to Bolivia. Creating her CD-ROM, Sangre Boliviana, Lucia expressed the complexity of her stories and her experience, not in a strictly linear approach, but using links and layering of images, text, sound, and video.

Lucia's installations include shrines, which are assemblages of hand-made objects and computers. The shrines and installations were exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Her exploration of current technology involves installations that incorporate AI elements, augmented reality, and virtual galleries.

Websites: digweaving.com  lgmapple2.com  luciagrossbergermorales.com

The images are all self portraits using different hardware and software. Except for the bottom, a self portrait I painted in 1970