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NEW YORK ARTIST CLAUDIA HART RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
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Congratulations to our friend and exceptionally wonderful human CLAUDIA HART.
Hart has received the 2026 ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artists Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art in recognition of her decades-long, internationally influential contributions to digital art, media theory, and experimental practice. A pioneer in virtual worlds and virtual, augmented, and mixed reality, Hart has advanced critical discourse on embodiment, the representation of female bodies, and socio-political power structures.
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Distinguished by her art-historical approach to simulation technologies, Hart’s work bridges digital and historical art forms through sustained artistic innovation, conceptual rigor, and pedagogical leadership at the intersection of art, computation, and critical theory.
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Photo by Grace Roselli, part of her Pandora-s_BoxX_Project
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@acmsiggraph with our thanks.
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Hart currently appears in the group exhibition Consciousness of Stream at Patrick Mikhail in Montreal. And stay tuned for new major project announcements for Fall 2026.
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@claudhart @acmsiggraph @siggraph_digitalarts @patrick_mikhail_gallery