Rebecca Sira Studio

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  • Wall projection of Soulful Synthesis by Rebecca Sira, with title and curatorial text displayed beside it, Technology and Humanity Canvas at Kanvas, Dubai

    soulful synthesis

    Four looping digital animations – three walls and the floor – made for Technology and Humanity Canvas, a group show at Kanvas, an immersive new-media gallery in Dubai, put on by my gallery, Vernissage. Eight artists were selected worldwide for the show curated by Marina Alvitr. November 8-12, 2023. Every other installation I’ve built, I…

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  • Grid of nine abstract acrylic paintings digitally enhanced, in a mix of red, teal, orange, and pink palettes with organic shapes and gestural brushwork.

    sensory echoes

    A collection of older acrylic paintings revisited through digital tools – some altered during an early exploration of decentralized platforms for sharing artwork, others reworked using Studio Artist’s procedural filters. The originals stay intact; what changes is contrast, color relationships, and composition, tested to see what digital layering could add to work already finished. Testing…

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  • Rebecca Sira on the TEDxSalem stage beside a large PVC-and-yarn sculpture lit blue

    Signal

    Three sculptures built from bent PVC pipe wrapped in yarn, made to read as neurons – each took hundreds of hours to build. For TEDxSalem 2019, whose theme was “Re,” I was invited back as artist in residence – a strange full circle, since I’d co-created the TEDx Artist in Residence program itself in 2014.…

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  • The Act of Stillness dome installed at TEDActive, with signage and colorful handwritten notes attached to the frame

    the act of stillness

    A 15-foot dome, wrapped in a web of black yarn, built as the breakout-area installation for TEDActive 2015 in Whistler, BC – the same year Untangled was the stage piece. I was invited as artist in residence after Michelle Jones and I won a TEDx incubator prize for the TEDx Artist in Residence Program, an…

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  • Spiral installation of pleated black fabric with a fabric-wrapped ladder at center, Cascade AIDS Project

    spi·ral

    Spirals of pleated black fabric wound across the floor around a ladder wrapped floor to top in black cloth, paired with a black-and-white panel of hand-drawn spirals and circles. Spiral was made as a tribute to people living with and lost to HIV/AIDS, and to those who support and educate around the disease – created…

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