Email contact: rothenberg.stephanie@gmail(dot)com
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS
2020
Why Sentience? ISEA 2020 Montreal, exhibiting Aphrodisiac in the Machine (upcoming May 2020)
Aphrodisiac in the Machine, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2019
TechnoMEME, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
Goodbye Cruel World It’s Over, Weltkunstzimmer Art Center, Düsseldorf, DE
Re:Working Labor, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment, Bowdoin College Museum of Art
2018
Multiple Contingencies, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Toronto, CA
Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales, El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY (SOLO EXHIBITION)
Three Acts, Three Scenes, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY
The Festival de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
INTERSECTIONS: Ammerman Center 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2017
Shifting Landscapes: Signal Fire, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
How Food Moves: Edible Logistics, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2016
Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (SOLO EXHIBITION)
Sight and Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
2015
Global: Infosphere, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Land Mark Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Right Here, Right Now, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester, England
Bring in the Reality, No Longer Empty, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
The Artist’s Creative Process, Streaming Museum, www.streamingmuseum.org, New York, NY
2014
Perspectives on Imaginary Futures, HeK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland
Technolust, Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI
Time & Motion: Redefining Work Life, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, England
2013
Novas Cartografias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Media Cities 4, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (commission)
2013 Transmediale Back When Pluto Was A Planet, Berlin, Germany
Time Mutations, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2012
Art, Action, Environment!, Sheila D. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School
516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM (in conjunction with International Symposium on Electronic Art, September 2012)
Regeneration, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, commission, curated by Steve Dietz and Amanda Parkes
Virtual/Monumental, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Subtle Technologies, Toronto, CA
2011
The Workers, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, curated by Carla Herrara-Prats and Susan Cross
Time Mutations, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
Expanding the Documentary, Passage Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
AIR Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
Camel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Visual Epistomologies, Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
Best Practices in Banana Time, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (SOLO performance in conjunction with exhibition “The Workers”)
The Journey West Travel Office, Beijing, China, two-person collaborative exhibition, created through residency at HomeShop (SOLO SHOW)
2010
En cada instante, ruptura, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Que Vive? 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Artplay-on-Yauza Design Center, Moscow, Russia, curated by Daria Pyrkina
Esse, Nosse, Posse/Common Wealth for Common People, online exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Precious Cargo, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Alternating Currents, CEPA Gallery/2010 Beyond/In Western New York Regional Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
Sunrise and Sunset, Whitney Museum of Art, internet artwork commissioned by Christiane Paul
Best Practices in Banana Time, 2010 01SJ Biennial, Empire Drive-In, San Jose, CA, curated by Steve Dietz (SOLO performance)
2009
Cities of Tomorrow, Performa 09, with Lize Mogel and Jen Kaminsky, New York, NY
Conversation Pieces, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, curated by Miriam Ghani and Sean Donaher.
Sign, Art in Odd Places 2009, in collaboration with Retail Action Project, New York, NY
TURN*ON, Artivistic, Montreal, Québec, Canada
Changing Labor Value, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York, NY
Manifestos! Revolutions!, Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee
Reflecting Transformations, No Longer Empty, The Caledonia, New York, NY
Golden Threads Gallery, Belfast, Ireland (in conjunction with 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Art)
Feedforward: Angel of History, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Spain, curated by
Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul
“@”, Southern California Institute of Architecture, College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA
Turbulence@Pace Digital Gallery, Pace University – New York
Brooklyn is Watching, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland, and Harvests Digital Media Center, New York, NY
two-person collaborative exhibition that took place simultaneously in both galleries (SOLO EXHIBITION)
Best Practices in Banana Time, Hallwalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY (SOLO performance in conjunction with exhibition “Conversation Pieces”)
2008
Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier Theatre, Park City, Utah
Amsterdam International Film Festival, Mafia program, Amsterdam
M:ST, Mountain Standard Time Performance Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Video_Dumbo, Exquisite Corpse program, Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
DC International Film Festival, Washington DC
ZER01 San Jose, Global Youth Festival, San Jose Tech Museum, San Jose, CA
FLEFF Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Synthetic Times: Media Art Beijing, Parsons & MOMA event, Eyebeam, New York, NY
CAC.2, Computer Art Congress, Monterrey Tech Campus, Mexico City
2007
Hallwalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY (in conjunction with 2007 Beyond/In Western New York Regional Exhibition)
Conflux Festival, The Change You Want to See/Not an Alternative, Brooklyn, NY
Mobile City, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Center, Toronto, CA
Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA
Bent Festival New York City, The Tank & Eyebeam, New York, NY
2006
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Albright-Knox Gusto @the Gallery, Public Art Series, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Infringement Festival, Rustbelt Books, Buffalo, NY
Made in NY, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
Resolutions 06, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2005
Trampoline Radiator Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham, UK
Termite TV: Niagara, Birchfield-Penny Museum, Buffalo, NY
Chthonic Cartographers, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD
ProvFlux 2005, Providence, RI (Conflux Festival in Providence)
Providence Firewater Festival, Providence, RI
2004
Histories of the New, Kiasma Theatre, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (in conjunction with 2004 International Symposium on Electronic Art)
Self-ish, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
Virtual Minds, Congress of Fictional Figures, Thealit, Bremen, Germany
Detourism, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA, curated by Nato Thompson
2003
Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06, Radical Libre.Active Agent, StudioXX, Montreal
Dirty Space Suit, Anti-future, Gene Siskel Theatre, Chicago, IL
2002
Version>02: Digital Commons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Word, Diverse Works Gallery, Houston, TX
Rhizome.org (work included in online gallery database)
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
2001
Ninth New York Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Sidewalk Cinema, Chicago, IL
A Haunted Landscape, 1926 Space, Chicago, IL
Paradise Lost: Ecommerce and The Web, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
Under Shorts Festival 4, Biograph Theatre, Chicago, IL
Ladyfest Midwest, Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, “Outlook: Untitled,” 2010, commission for the Whitney Museum’s “Artport”
FELLOWSHIPS/VISITING SCHOLAR
2018-2019 Roux Scholar, Roux Center for Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2014-2015 Humanities Institute Fellowship, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2014-2015 New York University Visiting Scholar
GRANTS/AWARDS
2014
2014 echo Art Fair Jurors Choice Award, for “Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship”
2013
Media Cities 4, artwork commission award
2011
Harpo Foundation, artist award
2009
Creative Capital Foundation, artist award in Emerging Fields
Harvestworks New Works Residency, project funding
2008
Turbulence.org, Turbulence Net Art Commission
New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), Individual Artists Award in Film/Media Production
Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action/Diversity Leave Program, SUNY UUP
2007
2020 Scholars Award, University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo
Individual Development Awards Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo
2006
Made in NY 2006 juried exhibition award, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2005
Trampoline Radiator Festival New Technology Art, project commission award, Nottingham, UK
2004
College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Untenured Travel Fund, University at Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo
2002
Road Less Traveled Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2000
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Full-tuition Merit Scholarship
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2020
Sensorium Artist in Residence, York University, Toronto, CA
Xenoform Labs, San Francisco, CA
2019
Z/KU Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanism), Berlin, DE
Dinacon 2 Digital Naturalism, Gamboa, Panama
TOKAS/ Toyko Art and Space, Tokyo, JP
2015
Santa Fe Art Institute, Food Justice Themed Residency (July), Santa Fe, NM
2014
2014-2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace, artist residency program, NY, NY
2011
HomeShop, Beijing, China
2010
Shan Studio, Beijing, China
2009
SUMU Arts Residency, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
Harvests Digital Media Center, New York, NY, New Works Artist Residency
2008
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, Women Direct New Media Artist-in-Residence
2007
Eyebeam Atelier, New York, NY, Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence
2006
Free103point9 Wave Farm, artist residency, Acra, NY
INVITED ARTIST LECTURES
2019
Weimar Bauhaus University, School of Art and Design, Weimar, DE
Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, DE
“Stephanie Rothenberg, 2018-2019 Roux Center for the Environment Scholar,” Bowdoin Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Artist lecture, TOKAS Open Studios, Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2018
“Garden of Earthly Delights: The Role of Art in Environmental Studies”, “Understanding Our Environmental Future: Science, Policy, and Art” Symposium, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
“Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales,” El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Festival de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, co-organized with Hyphen Hub (keynote)
2017
Annenberg School of Communication, artist lecture, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Creative Tech Week/Hyphen Hub, artist lecture, Clemente Soto Velez Center, NYC
2014
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art & Science Lecture Series, Chicago, IL
Cornell University, Art & Science Lecture Series, Ithaca, NY
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Department of Art, Champaign, IL
2013
Syracuse University, Department of Art, Syracuse, NY
2011
Alfred University, Department of Art, Alfred, NY
Designs on E-Learning International Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, keynote
2008
Interactive Screen 2008, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada, keynote
2008 International Symposium on Electronic Art, National Institute of Singapore, Singapore, “Ludic Interfaces” program
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, “Digital Games & Labor”, Philadelphia, PA
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, NY
2007
Dorkbot NYC, Location One Gallery, New York, NY
Version>07, in conjunction with the Eyebeam Roadshow, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
Mobilized! Mobile Media Festival, Brooklyn Polytechnic, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Sichuan School of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
2005
Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD, New Media Design Program
2003
Sarai, New Delhi, India, invited artist lecture
Now Design Club, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06, Radical Libre.Active Agent, StudioXX, Montreal
PANELS AND JURIED PRESENTATIONS
2019
MoneyLab 7 Outside of Finance, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
FEMeeting, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and Cultivamos Cultura, Sao Luis,
Portugal
Art and the Anthropocene, “Session 3.3.3: Human Seas and Fairy Tales,” Trinity College, Dublin
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Out of Mind: 32nd Annual Meeting, “Renegotiating Value Through Chindogu and Unuseless Nature,” Toronto, ON
2018
Hybrid Labs Symposium, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
FEMeeting, co-organised by Cultivamos Cultura, Portugal (Lisbon, Evora, Sao Luis)
INTERSECTIONS: Ammerman Center 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT
MoneyLab 5 Matters of Currency, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2017
Intersections of Finance and Society, “Hopes, Dreams and Nightmares,” moderated by Melinda Cooper, City, University of London, London, UK
Association for the Society of Literature and Environment (ASLE): Rust/Resistance 12th Biennial Conference, “Mushrooms, Microbes, & Weeds in the Anthropocene City: How Artists Imagine Urban Renewal and Creative Place-Making,” moderated by Leila Nadir, Detroit, MI
Renewable Futures: Economia, “Economy as a Market, as Evolution,” Baltan Laboraties, Eindhoven, Holland
2016
MoneyLab 3 Failing Better, “When Art Mirrors Marx,” moderator, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
Celebrating Women in New Media Arts, “Games and Narrative Experiments in New Media,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“WordHack XIX,” Babycastles Gallery, New York, NY
Creative Tech Week/Hyphen Hub, “Not Your Mom’s Anthropocene,” moderated by Carla Gannis, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2015
MoneyLab 2 Economies of Dissent, “Artistic Interventions in Finance,” Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
2014
Digital Labor: Sweatshops, Picket Lines, Barricades, “The Labor of Love and the New Soviet Man in Silicon Valley,” Eugene Lang College The New School University, New York, NY
“Affective Capitalism”, University of Finland, Turku, Finland
2013
Novas Cartografias, “Mapping and Perception,” Pró-Design Rio de Janeiro Design Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Media Cities 4, “Uncommons: Uncommon Economies & Institutions,” University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2012
Media Mobilities, Techne Institute, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, “Tourism (and) Culture,” Los Angeles, CA
2011
Mobility Shifts, Eugene Lang College The New School University, New York, NY
Alternative Internet Economies, Eyebeam, New York, NY
Queens College, Department of Art, MFA Symposium, Queens, NY
Expanding the Documentary, Department of Film and Media, Purchase College
International Symposium on Electronics Art (ISEA), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey:
@China, Virtually Speaking: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion on Emergent Practices in China, panel chair; Critical Perspectives on Economies of Art Today, panelist; Virtual Doppelgangers: Embodiment, Morphogenesis, and Transversal Action, panelist
Visible Evidence, SUNY Interactive Media and Documentary, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 College Art Association/New Media Caucus, “Feminism and New Media,” Hunter College, NY
2010
2010 College Art Association/New Media Caucus, “Cybersex: What’s Art Got To Do With It?” Chicago, IL
2009
The New York Electronic Art Festival, presentation in collaboration with Megan Michalak, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY
Art = Kapital | Art and Global Economics, in conjunction with the exhibition Feedforward: Angel of History, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Spain
Internet as Factory and Playground, Eugene Lang College The New School University, New York, NY
2008
Social Cyborg: How Technology is Changing Us, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT
Digital Counterpoints: Performance and Networked Media, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, NY
International Symposium on Smart Living Technologies, Cross-Disciplinary Education & Sustainable Culture, National Cheng Kung University in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
2005
Share, Share Widely: A Conference on New Media Education, CUNY Graduate Center, NewYork, NY, organized by Trebor Scholz
2004
Free Cooperation, Art and Networks Conference, Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo, Bonnie Parker Jr Show, moderator, Institutionalized: Leveling the Ivory Tower, panelist, organized by Trebor Scholz and Geert Lovink
2003
The Integrated Circuit: Embodiment, Difference, Resistance, Version>03: Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, organized and co-moderated with Katherine Behar
PUBLISHED ESSAYS
“Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy,” MoneyLab Reader, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, 2015
Scholarship in Progress:
Interview article, co-authored with Belinda Kwan for upcoming book “Plants by Numbers” edited by Jane Prophet and Helen Pritchard, Bloomsbury Press. Initial stage with expected completion date for article April 2020.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING
2018
MoneyLab #5: Matters of Currency, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Co-organizer with Chris Lee and Jordan Geiger of the 5th international MoneyLab conference started by Geert Lovinck in Amsterdam in 2015 as part of the Institute of Network Cultures. Invited guests included Caroline Woolard, Leigh Claire Lebarge, Cassie Thorton, Brett Scott and Max Haiven.
2014
Performing Economies, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Co-organizer with Paige Sarlin, Assistant Professor of Media Study, University at Buffalo.
3-day event focused on the impact of alternative economies and cultural production on urban revitalization. Featured urban bus tours, Sunday Soup, roundtables, performances. Invited guests included Silvia Federici, Mary Mattingly, Andrew Herscher, Renee Ridgway.
2012
2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA): Machine Wilderness, Albuquerque, NM
Symposium co-organizer for subtheme “Econotopias”; organizer/moderator of featured keynote panel “Econotopias: Imagining Possible Futures Through the Creative Economy” with Caroline Woolard (ourgoods.com), Jaromil (Bitcoin, Dyne.org) and Ted Howard (Evergreen Cooperatives); organizer of panel “Alt.Economy?” with Amanda McDonald Crowley, Stephanie Pereira, Renee Ridgeway, Christina Worsing
PUBLIC ARTIST WORKSHOPS AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
2012
Coming Soon! Explorations in Urban Renewal from the Physical to the Virtual, in conjunction with Art, Action, Environment! at the Sheila D. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School.
2-day workshop conducting on-location field research in West Farms, Bronx followed by hands-on tutorial session on creating augmented reality content for mobile platforms.
2011
Fashion Week Intervention, series of public art interventions during Fashion Week in NYC created in collaboration with the Retail Action Project, a labor rights organization for NYC retail workers
2010
Community Planning in Second Life, an urban planning workshop with residents of Troy, New York in collaboration with students in Urban Planning at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, sponsored by the Sanctuary for Independent Media
Sustainable, exhibition of SUNY Buffalo art and design students’ collaborative projects with local non-profit organizations Buffalo Blue Bikes, Buffalo ReUse, PUSH
2009
Retailing 14th Street, series of public art interventions on 14th St in NYC created in collaboration with the Retail Action Project as part of the public art festival “Art in Odd Places”
Sustain in the Brain, an exhibition of SUNY Buffalo art and design students’ collaborative projects with local non-profit organization Buffalo ReUse
Virtual Ability, 3D modeled assistive devices created in Second Life by SUNY Buffalo art and design students in collaboration with Virtual Ability, an online community and real world organization for people with physical disabilities
2008
Usernomics 1.0, hacktivist workshop exploring technological obsolescence. Conducted at Interactive Screen 2008, Banff New Media Institute; San Francisco Art Institute City Studio Program as part of Zer01 Global Youth Festival in San Jose, CA
Introduction to Basic Divination, workshop exploring the relationship between the ancient art of dowsing/divining and information technologies. Conducted at SP Weather Station, Long Island City, NY; The Audacity of Desperation, exhibition at PS 122, New York, NY
Nightmarket, technology workshop with Marisa Jahn, International Symposium on Smart Living Technologies, Cross-Disciplinary Education & Sustainable Culture, National Cheng Kung University in conjunction with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan
2007
Usernomics 1.0, Bent Festival, Eyebeam, New York, NY; Conflux Festival, Brooklyn, NY; Hallwalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2005
Intro to Basic Divination: Lecture & Field Expedition, 16 Beaver Group, New York, NY; ProvFlux 2005, Providence, RI
2004
Intro to Basic Divination: Lecture & Field Expedition, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA