Aquadisia
Aquadisia

Can a new species of bioengineered oysters solve the climate crisis?

Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling
Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling

Can an oyster listen? A collaboration between visual artist Stephanie Rothenberg and sound artist Suzanne Thorpe

Proof of Soil
Proof of Soil

Can the non-human labor of microbes solve the cryptocurrency energy crisis?

The Beauty Spot (response to COVID-19)
The Beauty Spot (response to COVID-19)

How do we brand science?

Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales
Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales

After Hurricane Maria: What might it look like if nonhuman forces could be put in the driver's seat during Puerto Rico's reconstruction?

Reversal of Fortune: The Garden of Virtual Kinship
Reversal of Fortune: The Garden of Virtual Kinship

A telematic garden, both real and virtual, whose lifeline is linked to monetary exchanges between the developed and developing world.

Reversal of Fortune: Planthropy
Reversal of Fortune: Planthropy

A garden of illuminated hanging planters whose lifelines are dependent on the techno-social rhythms of social media

Diagrams (Radical Cartographies)
Diagrams (Radical Cartographies)

Can we create power through other models of world making?

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  • Changwon Sculpture Biennale

    Excited to show “Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling” co-created with Suzanne Thorpe @feminumelectric in KOREA at the Changwon Sculpture Biennale. The project is a multimedia operetta that explores the impact of anthropogenic noise on oyster life cycles in New York harbor. Project supported by a 2022 @Harvestworks New Works Program residency and partnership with the Billion Oyster Project @billionoyster in NYC
    https://across-space.art/Stephanie-Rothenberg-Suzanne-Thorpe

  • 2022 Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center residency

    Thrilled that my collaborator, sound artist Suzanne Thorpe, and I have received a 2022 Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center residency to create our immersive media artwork “Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling”. We will be partnering with the Billion Oyster Project, a NYC based nonprofit working to ecologically restore the city’s waterways through oyster reseeding/repopulating initiatives.
    https://www.harvestworks.org/2021-22-artist-residencies

  • Meta.Morf 2022 Ecophilia: Trondheim International Biennale

    APRIL 1 – AUGUST 14, 2022
    Trondheim, Norway
    Extremely excited to be participating with my project “Aquadisia” in this biennale that features so many of my favorite artists and curators including Laura Beloff, Martin Howse, Jens Hauser, Spela Pectric, Rasa Smite and Jakob Steensen,
    https://metamorf.no/2022/program

  • 4th Renewable Futures in conjunction with FELT (Future of Living Technologies)

    NOVEMBER 4-5, 2021
    Oslo, Norway (virtual)
    I’ve been participating yearly in this fantastic series of symposia and exhibitions under the umbrella project called “Renewable Futures”. For this year’s event based out of Oslo, I will be giving a short artist talk and also featured in the screening program curated by Jens Hausner and Kristen Bergaust where I’m showing the “Aquadisia” water promotional video.

    https://feltproject.no/renewable-futures/

  • BIFF Buffalo International Film Festival

    OCTOBER 7-11, 2021
    Great to be part of this Buffalo-based film festival where I’ll be screening the “Aquadisia” water promotional video at Silo City!

    https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-offscreen-stephanie-rothenbergs-aquadisia/