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Martina Johnston Gallery

February 10 - February 10, 2013

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1201 Sixth Street, 2nd Floor
Berkeley, CA 94710 Berkeley, CA 94710
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ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS? Data Gathering Event
Sonya Rapoport will be presenting ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS?, a new interactive project, and invites viewers to come and participate in a simple matching experiment under controlled conditions. The results of this experiment will become part of the work and will be exhibited at the Fresno Art Museum in May of this year. ImPOSSIBLE CONVERSATIONS? is structured by Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley's "Market Design and Matching Theory," which won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. This theory explores how people, institutions, and companies select each other to create stable matches. The work takes the form of a series of collages; each consists of a black and white photograph of a "pattern painting" that Rapoport created and exhibited in the late 60's, overlaid on a contemporary newspaper advertisement, and juxtaposed with a short text appropriated from the media. Based in the Bay Area, Sonya Rapoport has exhibited her conceptual and new media artwork internationally. She recently had retrospective exhibitions at the Kala Institute in Berkeley and Mills College Art Museum. She received her MFA from UC Berkeley in 1949.