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Claudia Hart is a computational fine artist that turns photographs into digital moving art. Originally from New York, New York, she attended school at New York University earning a BA in art history in 1978. She then studied architecture at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture and earned her MS is 1984. After exhibiting with the Pat Hearn Gallery, she received an NEA Fellowship in 1989 and moved her practice to Europe where she spent ten years and received many awards and fellowships such as the Kunstfond Bonn, the Stiftung Luftbruekendank Grant, and the Arts International Foundation Grant.
One of her many projects that I found notable portrayed one of her major themes: the blend of technology and nature. The piece is titled “Noh-timeGarden” and it is the third in a series of instillations. These works feature two side by side screens that portray nature in the form of animation. In this particular piece, she portrays a garden from two different points of views that are moving towards one another. Utilizing algorithms and a computer, she is able to digitize nature realistically enough that it appears three dimensional, although it still has the smoothness and perfection of being computationally rendered – seen in the smooth ground and perfectly green pointed leaves. I really admire her ability to make a social statement of nature and technology through her art.