Barbara Lattanzi

Barbara Lattanzi is a digital artist whose films, videos, Internet art, and interactive software works have been screened and exhibited widely. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MAH from the Center for Media Study of SUNY at Buffalo. While living in Buffalo, N.Y. in the 1980s, she was the video curator for Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. During this period she also made a number of video works and installations exploring the intersections of still photography and film. In subsequent years she served as a visiting lecturer and artist in residence at various institutions and taught at Smith College before accepting a position at the School of Art and Design of the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University.

Her work has been screened at such venues as the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the European Media Art Festival, and Robert Beck Memorial Cinema. Her experimental software, "C-SPAN Karaoke", received an Honorary Mention in 2005 at Transmediale, the Berlin-based international media art festival. Her interactive media works have been exhibited at the 2003 Version>03 Digital Arts Convergence - Chicago, the 9th New York Digital Salon, Electronics Alive II Invitational, the 4th Seoul Net and Film Festival, and Turbulence. In 2005 she contributed a gatepage to the Artport website of the Whitney Museum of American Art. The production of her multimedia applets and software has been stimulated in part by the open structures of net-based cooperative venues such as Moscow on-line software art archive, "Runme.org" and Rhizome "Artbase", where her work is included. An essay about Lattanzi's software in relation to 1970s experimental film appears in Millenium Film Journal Nos.39-40. Barbara Lattanzi currently teaches in the Expanded Media Division of the School of Art and Design, Alfred University, Alfred, New York.

Barbara Lattanzi took part in No Man's Land (2005-2006), with a work titled Optical De-dramatization Engine (O.D.E.) applied in 40-hour cycles to Thomas Ince's "The Invaders", 1912

* Biography adapted from Barbara Lattanzi's website 'Wilderness Puppets' https://www.wildernesspuppets.net/about.php and Birchfield Penny Arts Center, https://burchfieldpenney.org/art-and-artists/people/profile:barbara-lattanzi/#barbara-lattanzi. Accessed July 30th, 2025.