Background
Harriet Casdin-Silver was bornon February 10, 1925 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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Harriet Casdin-Silver was bornon February 10, 1925 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
Casdin-Silver began her artistic career in the 1960s as a painter and quickly moved into multi-media and technological images. In 1968, she made her first holograms, becoming one of the first artists to work in this media.
Since 1976 Harriet Casdin-Silver has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge. From 1974 to 1978 she served as assistant professor (research) of physics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and from 1969 to 1973 she was artist-in-residence at American Optical Research Laboratories, Department of Optical Physics. Harriet Casdin-Silver taught at Clark University in Worcester from 1969 to 1974 and at the Worcester Art Museum in 1969-1971.
Harriet Casdin-Silver focused on the issues of feminism, the human form, the aging process, death, and issues of identity.
Quotations: She considers holography "sculpture of light. . . shaping imaginary spaces . . . fantasy, reality, politics, change." She feels that her content "derives from humanistic sociological orientation," and "though technique is secondary to concept, research is an important aspect of my work."