About Medium Reality

Do you have sturdy shoes and a hard hat? Good, let's proceed. Watch your step.

We are making things, and making things happen.
At Medium Reality we set aside our everyday assumptions about people, society, materials, and the way that things work, then rebuild ways of representing and interacting with them from the ground up. The work spans and interweaves a web of disciplines, like elaborate staged presentations of mythical ideas layered into narration over live music and strutting fashion models. Or a series of mixed media acrylic collage paintings layered together from maps and nightclub flyers then laser etched with digital photographs of the city streets. Or a group of interface projects designed to imbed controls into garments, making us into cyborgs.

Rachel Lyra Hospodar, artist & founder
Medium Reality is the design and production studio of artist Rachel Lyra Hospodar. Medium Reality began as a felting studio and has since become a brand of recycled menswear which has been featured in Altered Couture magazine. Rachel also produced Pandora's Trunk, a series of events part underground warehouse trunk sale and part grand theater performance. In publishing, she acted as technical editor of Reconstructing Clothes for Dummies. As a mixed media collage artist, Rachel has shown her work in nontraditional venues across San Francisco and at Fabric8 urban art gallery. Her twin passions for the arts and the sciences often inform each other in her work, merging organic and data-driven worlds. This merge shows in theme and in execution, as evidenced in the Pants Interface. Rachel is on the board of directors for Noisebridge, is a member of City Art cooperative gallery, and has been involved with Manchester Craftsman's guild. Complete bio >