Sonia with many computer screens

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in graphite, lower left: "Sonia in Time"; dated and signed, in graphite, lower right: 198_ Sonia Sheridan; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse lower left: "Sonia in Time"; dated and signed, in graphite, on reverse lower right: 198_ Sonia Sheridan

Label

Sonia Landy Sheridan’s Synchronicity and Sonia in Time explore the relationship between the artist and emerging digital technology. As an artist-in-residence at 3M, Sheridan worked with early imaging and computer graphic systems to create these groundbreaking works. In Synchronicity, two triangles, each containing Sheridan’s own image, seem to emerge from the screen, pulling her into digital space and suggesting a fusion between the artist and the technology. The repetition of her image reflects a looping, recursive connection between her and the machine. In Sonia in Time, Sheridan’s image is fragmented across multiple computer screens, each displaying a version of herself, creating a sense of multiplicity and dislocation. Both works address the ways in which technology mediates self-representation, raising questions about identity, the artist’s role in creating art through machines, and the implications of existing and creating in a digital world.

From the 2025 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 127, Separation Perfected, curated by Dominic Folkes ’25, Mellon Special Project Intern

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 127, Separation Perfected, Dominic Folkes ’25, Mellon Special Project Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8, 2025 - January 4, 2026

Publication History

Sonia Landy Sheridan, Generative Systems & Generative Art, Liverpool: Liverpool School of the Performing Arts John Moores University, 1998, p. 16; Sonia Landy Sheridan, Biography & Vita, A Sonart Publication, 2000, cover image.

Diane Kirkpatrick, Katherine Hart, Mary Flanagan, The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, University Press of New England, 2009, ill, p. 61, Cat. No. 99.

Provenance

The artist, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2004.

Catalogue Raisonne

Sonia Landy Sheridan - Diane Kirkpatrick Hood Inventory List #631: "Sonia in Time" series, (Sheridan with many computer screens peeling as leaves of time), Lumena 8 software (John Dunn), IBM 280, special graphics card from Time Arts (John Dunn company), p

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