Thecla Schiphorst
{{short description|Canadian media artist and academic (born 1955)}}
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Thecla Schiphorst (born 1955) is a Canadian digital media artist and academic.{{cite web|title=Artist/Maker Name "Schiphorst, Thecla"|url=http://www.rcip-chin.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_ind-artist_detail_ind.app;jsessionid=E4DEBCC25382F2DC7EF3B26BBE8F5A49?lang=en&qlang=fr&rID=43018&pID=1&fID=2&anm=Schiphorst%2C+Thecla&sort=AM_ASC&ps=50&pID1=918&ps1=50&ansf=TAM&sort1=ascending|website=Canadian Heritage Information Network|publisher=Government of Canada|accessdate=30 May 2016}}
Work
Schiphorst was a founding developer of the dance and choreography software LifeForms, alongside Tom Calvert.{{cite magazine|last1=Schibsted|first1=Evantheia|title=LIfeform|url=https://www.wired.com/1996/10/schiphorst-2/|magazine=Wired|accessdate=30 May 2016}}{{cite book|author=Joke Brouwer|title=ARt & D: Research and Development in Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6yXlZzqiBGIC&pg=PT263|year=2005|publisher=V2_ publishing|isbn=978-90-5662-389-0|pages=263–}}{{Cite book |last=Salter |first=Chris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZBJbIP0fMr0C |title=Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance |date=2010 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-19588-1 |pages=264 |language=en}} Using LifeForms, she collaborated over a long period with the American dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham.{{cite book|author1=David H. Jonassen|author2=Association for Educational Communications and Technology|title=Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tImWSe_JxpYC&pg=PA466|year=2004|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8058-4145-9|pages=466–}}{{cite book|author=Johannes H. Birringer|title=Media & Performance: Along the Border|url=https://archive.org/details/mediaperformance0000birr|url-access=registration|year=1998|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-5852-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/mediaperformance0000birr/page/118 118]–}}
She is also known for her interactive work Bodymaps: Artifacts of Touch, which near-field and touch sensors to allow the viewer to control a video image of the human form by touching the image.{{cite book|author1=Jackie Hatfield|author2=Stephen Littman|title=Experimental Film and Video: An Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkv7CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA242|date=9 August 2006|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-86196-906-7|pages=242–}}{{cite book|author=Mark B. N. Hansen|title=Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8dydrmuXrH0C&pg=PA65|date=2 October 2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-87886-3|pages=65–}}{{cite web|title=Touch:Touche Daniel Jolliffe and Thecla Schiphorst. Curated by Nina Czegledy|url=http://interaccess.org/exhibition/touchtouche|website=Inter/Access|accessdate=30 May 2016}}
Academic career
Schiphorst is the Associate Director and an Associate Professor of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University.{{cite web|title=Thecla Schiphorst|url=https://www.sfu.ca/~tschipho/|website=Simon Fraser University|accessdate=30 May 2016}}
Awards
In 1998, Schiphorst was a recipient of the Petro–Canada Award in New Media, administered by the Canada Council.
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Category:Canadian women artists
Category:Canadian women academics
Category:Canadian installation artists
Category:Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
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