Through her artwork, Praba has investigated ethical issues raised by biotechnology and the evolving definitions of the body, humanity and spirituality. She founded ?The Hexterminators: SuperHeroes of the Genetix Devolution,? in 1998 to bring together artists, activists and scientists to collaborate on multiple interventions, installations, performances, panel discussions and university lectures exploring the negative economic and environmental impacts of biotechnology. She is a founding member of the former collective Los Cybrids: La Raza Techno-Critica, (1999-2003) that worked to incite critical dialogue around the relationship between technology, capitalism, authority and civil society. With Los Cybrids Pilar produced performances, digital artwork, video, installations, and web art raising questions about evolving forms of ubiquitous computing, wireless connectivity, and the surveillance society. Over the

Over the last two years they toured their performance El World Brain Disorder: surveillance.control.pendejismo to universities around the country. Their public murals in San Francisco merged the sophisticated, quick-hitting aesthetic of commercial billboards with the layered social consciousness of the Mexican mural tradition. Their 2001 multi-media installation, ?Tecno-Promesas: Putografia Virtual? focused on the hollow promises of information technologies, highlighting the environmental, cultural and financial costs of computers and web culture through digital video, digital audio pieces, and mixed media sculpture.

Ms. Pilar has performed at The LAB, Galeria de la Raza, the SF Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and public streets and universities around the United States. She has participated in panel presentations organized by Teknica Radika, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, The SF Museum of Modern Art, Critical Resistance, the Living Word Festival, the Media Alliance and several universities and galleries locally and around the country. Her work has been featured in MIT's "Race in Digital Space" Conference and in UC Santa Cruz's Social Change Across Borders Conference. She is the recent recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant (2004), an Association of Performing Arts Presenters Award (2003), and the Creative Capital Foundation Award (2002), Zellerbach Family Fund Award (2002), the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize of New Langton Arts (2001) and the Creative Work Fund Grant (2000). She recently completed a Master Residency with MacArthur Fellow Pepon Osorio (2000) at MACLA San Jose, and was featured in a book on inspirational women by Cathleen Rountree, On Women Turning Thirty: Making Choices, Finding Meaning (2000). Praba currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Womens Environmental Artists Directory.