Email contact: rothenberg.stephanie@gmail(dot)com
Stephanie Rothenberg works in both traditional media and digital formats to make visible the inequitable systems and infrastructures of techno utopias. Moving between real and virtual spaces her artworks focus on themes concerning emerging economies and their underlying sociopolitical impact. Earlier projects explored the rise of digital currencies and their effect on global labor. More recently she has been researching the politics of conservation initiatives and sustainability myths around new blue economies such as aquaculture. She is also currently developing a collaborative artwork on the impact of anthropogenic sound as an environmental detriment on marine life. Her artworks engage a variety of platforms that include interactive installation, drawing, sculpture, video, sound and performance.
Stephanie has exhibited internationally in venues and festivals including ISEA (international), Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (US), Sundance Film Festival (US), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art / MASS MoCA (US), House of Electronic Arts / HeK (CH), LABoral (ES), Transmediale (DE), and ZKM Center for Art & Media (DE). She is a recipient of numerous awards including a Creative Capital, Harpo Foundation and NYSCA. She has been an artist-in-residence at ZK/U in Berlin, TOKAS / Tokyo Art and Space (JP), the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace/LMCC (US), Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (US), Santa Fe Art Institute (US) among others. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and has been widely reviewed including Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. She is Professor and Chair in the Department of Art at University at Buffalo, SUNY where she teaches classes in design and emerging technologies and co-directs an interdisciplinary design studio collaborating with local social justice organizations.