Mid-Atlantic Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Lori Hepner

Saturday, October 24, 2015 @ 1:00pm,

Panel 4: Dismantling Geographies

Lori Hepner is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in conceptually based photography and photographic installations. Her most recent work, Status Symbols, is a series of portraits that are studies of identity in the digital age of social media through. The portraits focus on visualizing text-based tweets into abstracted visual portraits by using the on/off signature of the computer's native language, binary code. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, earning an MFA in Digital Media in 2005 and received her BFA in Fine Art Photography from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003.Lori's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Flash Forward 2012 exhibitions in Toronto, London, & Boston; 14th International Lishui Photography Festival in Lishui, China; Houston Center for Photography; the Carnegie Museum of Art; and the Brooklyn Museum's @1stsfans project. Lori's work has been featured in the Center for Photography at Woodstock's PQ#99 magazine, Time Magazine's Lightbox blog, and in Fall 2012 a 7 page spread with article in the UK-based Next Level Magazine: Pittsburgh Edition. Lori currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA where she is Associate Professor of Integrative Arts at Penn State Greater Allegheny.