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Marjorie Franklin is an American conceptual artist and a pioneer in electronic art. [1] She uses digital media in interactive installations.
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In 1992, as part of an Images du Futur exhibition in Montreal featuring California artists, Franklin demonstrated her interactive computer/video exhibit "The Town of Doubt", which was designed to show that excessively simplicity can lead to ambiguity and ambivalence. [2] That same year her exhibit "Miss Violette and Her Boundaries" displayed at the San Francisco Art Institute's annual exhibit, featured a video monitor with computer-processed images of women, animals and machines that a reviewer noted was possibly a meditation on the meanings of boundaries and liberating future possibilities. [3]
She has worked on CD-ROMs such as "Digital Blood", an interactive narrative comparing two mothers who create an artificial life construct and "She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology, an Interactive CD-ROM", a collaboration with Christine Tamblyn and Paul Thompkins. [4] [note 1] [5] In the interactive computer audio and video installations she creates her work focuses on the implications of the culture of computer technology for humans living in industrialised countries. Tamblyn said that Franklin was influenced by Donna Haraway's essay A Cyborg Manifesto. [6]
Franklin was an assistant professor of conceptual art at the University of Minnesota, where she collaborated with a colleague from the music department exploring the potential of mixing electronic art and music. [7]
