Email contact: rothenberg.stephanie@gmail(dot)com
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Education:
BFA Maryland Institute College of Art/MICA
MFA, Dept of Film, Video, New Media, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Merit Scholar)
Employment:
Professor, Department of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
SOLO AND 2-PERSON Exhibitions
2024 Aquadisia, Buffalo Art Studio, Buffalo, NY
2020 Aphrodisiac in the Machine (version 01), New Media Artspace, Baruch College, New York, NY
2018 Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales, El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2016 Reversal of Fortune, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
2011 The Journey West Travel Office, Beijing, China, created through residency at HomeShop
2010 Outlook: Untitled, Whitney Museum of American Art, internet artwork commission for Sunrise and Sunset.
2010 Best Practices in Banana Time, 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA, (performance)
2009 KINOMIC Redistribution System, Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Public art commission, Art Park, Buffalo, NY (upcoming)
2024 Elegy to a Cell, School of Contemporary Arts Gallery, University of Windsor, CA
2023 The Process, Serenades for Settling, Version 01, with Suzanne Thorpe, Harvestworks, Digital Media Art Center, Governors Island, New York
2023 The Digital Wilds, Cosmic Rays Media Festival, Raleigh, NC
2023 Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, SP/N Gallery, University of Texas Dallas
2022 Changwon International Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, South Korea
2022 Meta.Morf 2022 Ecophilia, Trondheim Biennale, Trondheim, Norway
2021 4th Renewable Futures in conjunction with FELT (Future of Living Technologies), screening program, Oslo, Norway (virtual)
2021 BIFF Buffalo International Film Festival, Buffalo, NY
2021 SLSA Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts annual conference, Poster Session, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (virtual)
2021 Entangled Infiltrations, 24th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY (virtual due to COVID-19)
2020 Why Sentience?, ISEA 2020/International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Montreal, Canada (virtual due to COVID-19)
2019 Techno MEME, Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio
2019 Goodbye Cruel World It’s Over, Weltkunstzimmer Art Center, Düsseldorf, DE
2019 Re:Working Labor, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2019 Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
2019 TOKAS Open Studios, Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Multiple Contingencies, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
2018 Three Acts, Three Scenes, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY
2018 The Festival de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
2018 INTERSECTIONS: Ammerman Center 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2017 Shifting Landscapes: Signal Fire, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2017 How Food Moves: Edible Logistics, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro,NJ
2016 Sight and Sound Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
2016 Creative Tech Week Arts Hub, Clemente Soto Velez Center, New York, NY
2015 Global: Infosphere, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2015 Right Here, Right Now, The Lowry, Manchester/Salford Quays, England
2015 The Land Mark Show, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2015 Bring in the Reality, No Longer Empty, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
2015 The Artist’s Creative Process, Streaming Museum, New York, NY (online)
2014 echo Art Fair, Buffalo, NY
2014 Hyperplace Harlem, New York, NY
2014 Perspectives on Imaginary Futures, House of Electronic Arts/HeK, Basel, Switzerland
2014 Aesthetics of Gameplay, ACM-SIGRRAPH Digital Art online exhibition
2014 Technolust, Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI
2013 Back When Pluto Was A Planet, 2013 Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2013 Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology), Liverpool, England
2013 Back to the Reality, Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Novas Cartografias, Pró-Design Rio de Janeiro Design Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013 Media Cities 4, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, commission
2013 Time Mutations, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2012 Art, Action, Environment!, Sheila D. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School, New York, NY
2012 ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM (in conjunction with 2012 ISEA/International Symposium on Electronic Art)
2012 Regeneration, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY, commission
2012 Virtual/Monumental, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2011 The Workers, MASS MoCA/Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2011 Time Mutations, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
2011 Expanding the Documentary, Passage Gallery, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2011 AIR Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Camel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Visual Epistomologies, Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2010 En cada instante, ruptura, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 Que Vive? 2nd Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Artplay-on-Yauza Design Center, Moscow, Russia
2010 Esse, Nosse, Posse/Common Wealth for Common People, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (online exhibition)
2010 Precious Cargo, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2010 Alternating Currents, CEPA Gallery in conjunction with 2010 Beyond/In Western New York Regional Exhibition, Buffalo, NY
2010 Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
2009 Reflecting Transformations, No Longer Empty, The Caledonia, New York, NY
2009 ISEA 2009: The Exhibition, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Ireland, in conjunction with ISEA 2009: The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art
2009 Changing Labor Value, Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, NY
2009 Manifestos! Revolutions!, Terminal, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2009 Conversation Pieces, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2009 TURN*ON, Artivistic, Montreal, Canada
2009 Sign, Art in Odd Places 2009, New York, NY (with Retail Action Project)
2009 Cities of Tomorrow, Performa 09, collaborative performance with Lize Mogel and Jen Kaminsky, New York, NY
2009 Feedforward: Angel of History, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Spain. Curators Steve Dietz, Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum)
2009 @, New Media Caucus, 2009 National College Art Associate Conference, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Pace University Digital Art Gallery, Pace University – New York, New York, NY (Turbulence Net Art Commission)
2009 Brooklyn is Watching, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, live internet and podcast
2008 Sundance Film Festival, New Frontier Theatre, Park City, Utah
2008 Amsterdam International Film Festival, Mafia program, Amsterdam, Holland
2008 M:ST, Mountain Standard Time Performance Festival, Calgary, Alberta,Canada
2008 Video_Dumbo, Exquisite Corpse program, Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2008 DC International Film Festival, Washington DC
2008 ZER01 San Jose, Global Youth Festival, San Jose Tech Museum, San Jose, CA
2008 FLEFF Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2008 Synthetic Times: Media Art Beijing, Parsons & MOMA event, Eyebeam, New York, NY
2008 CAC.2, Computer Art Congress, Monterrey Tech Campus, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Beyond/In Western New York, in conjunction with Hallwalls Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2007 Conflux Festival, The Change You Want to See/Not an Alternative, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Mobile City, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Center, Toronto, Canada
2007 Nuit Blanche, Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Center, Toronto, Canada
2007 Bent Festival New York City, The Tank and Eyebeam, New York, NY
2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2006 Gusto @the Gallery, Public Art Series, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
2006 Infringement Festival, Rustbelt Books, Buffalo, NY
2006 Made in NY, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2006 Resolutions 06, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2005 Trampoline Radiator Festival for New Technology Art, Nottingham, UK (collaboration with Elyce Semenac)
2005 Chthonic Cartographers, Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Bel Air, MD
2005 Infringement Festival, Rustbelt Books, Buffalo, NY
2005 Collective Simulated Synesthesia, ProvFlux 2005, Providence, RI (performance)
2005 Collective Simulated Synesthesia, Providence Firewater Festival, Providence, RI (performance)
2005 Termite TV: Niagara, Beyond/In WNY Exhibition, Birchfield-Penny Museum, Buffalo, NY
2005 Collective Simulated Synesthesia, Niagara Falls State Park, Niagara, NY
2004 Kiasma Theatre, Museum Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (part of Histories of the New, 2004 International Symposium of Electronic Arts/ISEA)
2004 Detourism, Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA
2004 Self-ish, Gallery Onetwentyeight, New York, NY
2004 Virtual Minds, Congress of Fictional Figures, Thealit, Bremen, Germany
2003 Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06, Radical Libre.Active Agent, StudioXX, Montreal
2003 Dirty Space Suit, Anti-future, Gene Siskel Theatre, Chicago, IL
2002 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, juried group exhibition
2002 Version>02: Digital Commons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2002 Rhizome.org (work included in online gallery collection)
2002 Word, Diverse Works Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 Ninth New York Digital Salon, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
2001 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Sidewalk Cinema, Chicago, IL
2001 A Haunted Landscape, 1926 Space, Chicago, IL
2001 Paradise Lost: Ecommerce and The Web, School of the Art Institute, Chicago,IL
2001 Under Shorts Festival 4, Biograph Theatre, Chicago, IL, video screening
2001 Ladyfest Midwest, Congress Theatre, Chicago, IL, video screening
COLLECTIONS
Outlook: Untitled, 2010 commission by Christiane Paul for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Artport in the permanent collection of Whitney Museum of American Art
Online new media art collections: Rhizome.org Database, Turbulence.org
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2024 Cultivamos Cultural, Sao Luis, Portugal (invited)
2024 FEED Media Art, Erie, NY, with Suzanne Thorpe (invited)
2023 Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY, with Suzanne Thorpe (invited)
2021-2022 Harvestworks New Works and Creative Residency Program, with Suzanne Thorpe (juried)
2020 Sensorium Artist in Residence, York University, Toronto, CA (invited -rescheduled due to Covid-19)
2020 Xenoform Labs, San Francisco, CA (invited)
2019 Z/KU Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Center for Art and Urbanism), Berlin, Germany
2019 Dinacon2 Digital Naturalism, Gamboa, Panama (invited)
2019 TOKAS Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Santa Fe Art Institute, Food Justice residency, Santa Fe, NM
2014 2014-2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency program, New York, NY
2011 HomeShop, Beijing, China (artist run co-working, residency and event space)
2009 Gallery Titanik, Turku, Finland, Sumu Artist-in-Residence for creation/exhibition of KINOMIC Redistribution System
2009 Harvests Digital Media Center, New York, NY, New Works Artist Residency for creation of KINOMIC Redistribution System
2008 Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, Women Direct New Media Artist-in-Residence, (invited)
2007 Eyebeam Atelier, New York, NY, Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence
2006 Free103point9 Wave Farm, artist residency, Acra, NY
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS (select non-university external funding)
2024 Wave Farm | Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) with Suzanne Thorpe
2023 New York State Council of Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artists Award, with Suzanne Thorpe, project “Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling”
2022 Nominated for Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year in Art & Science
2020 2020 Media Arts Assistance Fund (MAAF) in partnership with New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA)
2018 2018-2019 Roux Scholar, Roux Center for the Environment, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2014 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace studio artist residency award for 2014-2015
2014 2014-2015 New York University Visiting Scholar
2014 Echo Art Fair Juror’s Choice Award
2013 Media Cities 4, UB Architecture and Urban Planning and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, commission or prototyping and exhibition of Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship
2012 New York Hall of Science, commission for Regeneration exhibition,
Mozilla Foundation, grant for youth workshop component (with Marisa Jahn)
2011 HARPO Foundation, artist award
2009 Nominated for The Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video, The Herb Alpert Foundation
2009 Creative Capital Foundation, Award in Emerging Fields
2008 Turbulence Net Art Commission, Turbulence.org
2008 Individual Artists Award in Film/Media Production, New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA), funding for KINOMIC Redistribution System
2006 Juried exhibition award, Made in NY 2006, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
2005 Commission Award, Trampoline Radiator Festival New Technology Art, Nottingham, UK
ARTIST LECTURES (INVITED)
2024 Listening as an Oyster, FEMeeting Sister Labs, Sanctuary for Independent Media/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2024 The Aphrodisiac in the Machine, Roundtable: Beyond Human Boundaries: Exploring Art, Science, and Transgenesis in Envisioning Future Realities, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México at the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad y Arte+Ciencia, February 2024
2023 Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling, Artist lecture, Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY, with Suzanne Thorpe
2022 Artist lecture, Meta.Morf/Trondheim Biennale, Trondheim, Norway
2022 Artist lecture, Life (in the Age of Artificial Intelligence), Humanities to the Rescue, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2022 Artist lecture, School of Theater, Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2022 Artist lecture, School of Film and Media Studies, Purchase College, Purchase,NY
2021 24th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2021 PLASMA, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2021 Artist Lecture, Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2019 Weimar Bauhaus University, School of Art and Design, Weimar, Germany
2019 Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2019 Bowdoin Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (in conjunction with the exhibition Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment)
2019 Artist lecture, TOKAS Open Studios, Tokyo Art and Space, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Garden of Earthly Delights: The Role of Art in Environmental Studies (lecture title) presented at Understanding Our Environmental Future: Science, Policy, and Art Symposium, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2018 Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales, El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2018 The Festival de la Imagen, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, organized by Hyphen Hub NYC (keynote)
2017 Annenberg School of Communication, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Supermarkt, Berlin, Germany
2014 Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology Art & Science Lecture Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
2014 School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Art & Science Lecture Series, Chicago, IL
2014 University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Department of Art, Champaign, IL
2013 Syracuse University, Department of Art, Syracuse, NY
2011 Alfred University, Department of Art, Alfred, NY
2011 Designs on E-Learning International Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, (keynote)
2008 It’s All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye, Interactive Screen 2008, Banff New Media Institute, Banff, Canada (keynote)
2008 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Digital Games & Labor session, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Usernomics 1.0: Rethinking Our Relationship to Technology artist lecture, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, NY,
2007 Dorkbot NYC, Location One Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Version>07, in conjunction with the Eyebeam Roadshow, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
2007 Mobilized! Mobile Media Festival, Brooklyn Polytechnic, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Sichuan School of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
2006 Central Academy of Art, Beijing, China
2005 Harford Community College, New Media Design Program, Bel Air, MD
2003 Sarai, New Delhi, India
2003 Now Design Club, 798 Dashanzi Art District, Beijing, China
2003 Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06, Radical Libre.Active Agent, StudioXX, Montreal, Canada
PANELS (INVITED)
2021 Entangled Infiltrations, 2021 FLEFF/24th Annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2020 Who’s the Boss? Microbes for Hire on the panel Boundary Crossing(s) : Multi-scalar Entanglements in Art, Science and Technology
2020 ISEA/International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Montreal, Canada
2019 MoneyLab 7 Outside of Finance, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
2019 FEMeeting, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and Cultivamos Cultura, Sao Luis, Portugal
2016 MoneyLab 3 Failing Better, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
2015 MoneyLab 2 Economies of Dissent, Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Celebrating Women in New Media Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2013 transmediale 2013 (BWPWAP/Back When Pluto Was a Planet), Berlin, Germany
2013 Novas Cartografias, Rio de Janeiro Design Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Machine Wilderness: 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), symposium co-organizer and moderator for subtheme “Econotopias” on creative economies
2011 Alternative Internet Economies, Eyebeam, New York, NY
2011 MFA Symposium, Queens College, Department of Art, Queens, NY
2011 Expanding the Documentary, Department of Film and Media, Purchase College, Purchase, NY
2009 The New York Electronic Art Festival, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY (artist presentation with Megan Michalak)
2009 Art = Kapital | Art and Global Economics, in conjunction with the exhibition Feedforward: Angel of History, LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, Gijon, Spain
2009 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
2008 Digital Counterpoints: Performance and Networked Media, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), Ithaca College, NY
2008 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, New York, NY. Organized by Trebor Scholz.
2004 Free Cooperation, Art and Networks Conference, Department of Media Study, SUNY Buffalo. Organized by Trebor Scholz and Geert Lovink. Bonnie Parker Jr Show, moderator, Institutionalized: Leveling the Ivory Tower, invited panelist
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. Panelists included Faith Wilding, Lucia Sommer, John Leanos, Irina Aristarkhova, Karen Wong.
PANELS (JURIED)
2023 “I am oyster. Hear me roar! Reconfiguring knowledge production in Science through Research-creation”, Taboo, Transgression, Transcendence (TTT) conference, Malta Society of the Arts, Valletta, Malta
2023 Serenades for Settling project lecture, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology conference, Taos, NM
2022 Aquadisia project lecture, Future Bodies, Panel: Water, Non-human Ecology + Liminal Experiences, 2022 New Media Caucus Symposium, Virginia Tech
2022 Serenades for Settling project lecture, FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology conference, Lisbon and Evora, Portugal
2021 4th Renewable Futures in conjunction with FELT (Future of Living Technologies), Oslo, Norway (virtual)
2021 SLSA Society for Literature, Sciences and the Arts annual conference, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (virtual)
2021 PostSensorium Symposium, 2021 RIXC Art Science Festival, Latvia, Riga (virtual), co-presentation with Suzanne Thorpe
2020 Aphrodisiac in the Machine paper presentation on the panel Queering Infrastructure: The System Through the Erotic at the 2020 ISEA/International Symposium of Electronic Arts, presenter, moderator, organizer
2019 Session 3.3.3: Human Seas and Fairy Tales, Art and the Anthropocene, Trinity College, Dublin, IE
2019 Renegotiating Value Through Chindogu and Unuseless Nature (lecture title), Out of Mind: 32nd Annual Meeting, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Hilton Conference Hall, Toronto, Canada
2018 Hybrid Labs Symposium, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
2018 FEMeeting, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal and Cultivamos Cultura, Sao Luis, Portugal
2018 INTERSECTIONS: Ammerman Center 16th Biennial Symposium on Arts & Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT
2017 Intersections of Finance and Society, University of London, London, England
2017 Association for the Society of Literature and Environment (ASLE): Rust/Resistance 12 Biennial Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2017 Renewable Futures: Economia, Economy as a Market, as Evolution, Baltan Laboratories, Eindhoven, Holland
2014 Digital Labor, Eugene Lang College The New School University, New York, NY
2014 Affective Capitalism, University of Finland, Turku, Finland
2013 Media Cities 4, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
2012 College Art Association Annual Conference, Tourism (and) Culture conference session, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Mobility Shifts, Eugene Lang College The New School University, New York
2011 International Symposium on Electronics Art (ISEA), Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Visible Evidence, SUNY Interactive Media and Documentary, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 Feminism and New Media, College Art Association/New Media Caucus, Hunter College, NY
2010 Cybersex: What’s Art Got To Do With It?, College Art Association/New Media Caucus, Chicago, IL
2008 International Symposium of Electronic Arts Singapore (ISEA), National Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Ludic Interfaces program, “It’s All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye” artist lecture
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS ABOUT WORK
Published Authored Articles
Rothenberg, Stephanie, “Expansions” section introduction, Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change, Burroughs, xtine, and Walgren, Judy, eds. New York: Routledge, 2022. Print.
Rothenberg, Stephanie, “Aquadisia: The Aphrodisiac in the Machine”, Viral Culture, McKenzie, Louise, and Nettleton, Claire, eds. Indiana: Bloomsbury Press, 2024. Print.
Kwan, Belinda and Rothenberg, Stephanie, “Watered by Data and Other Bio-economic Thoughts”, Plants by Numbers, Pritchard, Helen, and Prophet, Jane, eds. Indiana: Bloomsbury Press, 2023. Print.
Rothenberg, Stephanie, “Reversal of Fortune: Visualizing Marketized Philanthropy” in MoneyLab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy, Lovink, Geert, Tkacz, Nathaniel, and de Vries Patricia, eds. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool of Amsterdam, 2015. pp. 189-197. Print.
Books
Zimmermann, Patricia R., Documentary Across Platforms: Reverse Engineering Media, Place and Politics, Indiana University Press, 2019. Print.
Hudson, Dale and Zimmermann, Patricia R., Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Print.
Vaughn Garland, “Participation in the Digital Public: New Media Art as Online Community” Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology Series: Future City, Vol. 5. [1], New York, Philadelphia: Springer Press, Springer Science+Business Media LLC, 2015. Print.
Miah, Andy. “6 Steps to Your Own Virtual Sweatshop.” Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty. Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press and Foundation for Creative Technology (FACT), 2008, section 4.3. Print.
Von Oldenburg, Helen and Sick, Andrea. “The Mysterious Disappearance of Akirema.” Virtual Minds. Congress of Fictitious Figures. Bremen, Germany: Thealit, 2004, pp 180-187. Print.
Periodicals, Journals, Blogs
Debatty, Regine, “Meta.Morf 2022:What does it mean to love nature when many of us doubt that it still exists?”, We Make Money Not, June 13, 2022,
https://we-make-money-not-art.com/meta-morf-2022-what-does-it-mean-to-love-nature-when-many-of-us-doubt-that-it-still-exists/
Kany, Daniel, “Art review: Culture and the environment intersect in ‘Material Resources’”, Portland Press Herald, May 12, 2019, https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/12/art-review-culture-and-the-environment-intersect-in-material-resources/#
Nelson, Gayle, “Is a Microloan Any Different from a Payday Loan?”, Nonprofit Quarterly online, January 29, 2016, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/is-a-microloan-any-different-from-a-payday-loan/
Voon, Clair, “Growing a Garden According to the Economics of Philanthropic Crowdfunding”, Hyperallergic, January 12, 2016, http://hyperallergic.com/261458/growing-a-garden-according-to-the-economics-of philanthropic-crowdfunding/?wt=2
Ha, Thu-Hong, “Ghost in the Machine: This museum’s website gets ‘hacked’ every day at sunrise and sunset”, Quartz (qz.com), July 18, 2015, https://qz.com/455393/this-museums-website-gets-hacked-every-day-at-sunrise-and-sunset/
Elwood, Sarah, “Still Deconstructing the Map: Microfinance Mapping and the Visual Politics of Intimate Abstraction” Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, Vol.50[1]:45-49, March 2015. Print.
Heartney, Eleanor, “How Newness Enters the Artworld”, The Brooklyn Rail, July-August, 2012
http://brooklynrail.org/2012/08/artseen/how-newness-enters-the-art-world
Heartney, Eleanor, “Art & Money Workers Unite?”, Artnet.com, July 26, 2011,
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/heartney/the-workers-mass-moca7-26-11.asp
Sanderson, Edward, “Stephanie Rothenberg & Dan S. Wang: The Journey West Travel Office”, Artslant.com, 2011, https://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/24349-b-stephanie-rothenberg-dan-s-wang-the-journey-west-travel-officeb
Madoff, Steven. “Service Aesthetics” Art Forum, September 2008:165-169,484, 492. Print.
Kresin, Frank, “Virtual Sweatshop”, Waag Society (blog), September 29, 2008, http://blog.waag.org/?p=430
Van Buskirk, Eliot “Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics”, Wired.com, September 19, 2008, http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/09/products-placed.html
Doctorow, Cory, “Paid Placement for Brands in Pop Lyrics”, boingboing.com, September 19, 2008, http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/19/paid-placement-for-b.html
Hafner, Katie, “At Sundance, a Second Life Sweatshop Is Art”, New York Times Bits – Technology, January 25, 2008, http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/at-sundance-a-second-life-sweatshop-is-art/
Stringer, Jacob, “Visual Art | Politically Curate: Sundance’s New Frontier on Main captures current concerns in a variety of ways”, SL Weekly (Salt Lake City), January 17, 2008. Print.
“Virtual Work, Real Pay”, The Pueblo Chieftain Online, Business section, January 2008 (web address unavailable).
Zimmer, Linda, “Virtual/RealWorld Custom Manufacturing Project: Double Happiness Jeans”, Business Communicators of Second Life, December 31, 2007, http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/2007/12/virtualrealworl.html
Elenbaas, Adam, “Second Life Sweatshop”, Reality Sandwich, December 28, 2007, http://www.realitysandwich.com/invisible_threads
Moda, Becky. “Biennial X2”. Artvoice, September 27, 2007, p.19. Print.
Mellor, Carl. “Made in New York 2006”. Syracuse New Times Online, July 26, 2006 (group exhibition review)
Martina, Kristina. “Made in New York 2006”. The Citizen, July 22, 2006, p. A1. Print.
Gleason, Ann. “Made in New York 2006”. The Post Standard/Stars, p. A1, A6, July 26, 2006. Print.
Rushworth, Katherine. “Made in New York 2006”. The Post Standard/Stars, July 9, 2006, p. 12. Print.
Koch, Peter. “In the Center Ring: Infringement Festival”, ArtVoice, July 27, 2006, p. 19. Print.
Burrows, W. “Dip Into Technology”, MetroLife, Nottingham, England, November 29, 2005, p. 31. (review of Radiator Festival). Print.
Paul, Christiane. “Ninth New York Digital Salon.” Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 34, no. 5 (2001): 514, MIT Press. Print.
Camper, Fred. “Nomads and Homesteaders”, Chicago Reader, March 30, 2001, p. 4. Print.
Rosenblatt, Jay. “Chicago Underground Film Festival”, Chicago Reader, August 21, 2001, p. 35. Print.
Rosenblatt, Jay. “Under Shorts Festival 4”, Chicago Reader, May 12, 2001, p. 15. Print.
EXHIBITION CATALOGS
Blöß, Janine and Antlfinger, Hörner. Goodbye Cruel World, It’s Over. Earthling Stories. Published in the context of the WELTKUNSTZIMMER exhibition of the same name from 11/28/2019 – 02/02/2020. Publishing house of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 2020.
Bini, Giulia, Lutz, Jens, Mille, Daria, and Stumer, Miriam. Infosphere. Karlsruhe: ZKM Center for Art and Media, 2015.
Gansing, Kristoffer, Go, Teresa, Weier, Sabine and Zuppke, Lina. BWPWAP transmediale 2013. Berlin: medialis Berlin, 2013.
Driver, Cherie, Loughran, Grainne and Mey, Kerstin. 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Belfast: Interface, University of Ulster, 2009.
Chalcraft, Miles and Schafer, Anette. Radiator 2005 Festival for New Technology Art. Nottingham, 2005.
Boyko, Robin. Beyond/In Western New York 2007. Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2007.
Makela, Tapio and Tralla, Mare. 12th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Helsinki: m-cult, 2004.
2008 Sundance Film Festival. Park City: Sundance Institute, 2008.
INTERVIEWS
Vesna, Victoria, “Particle Episode 8: Stephanie Rothenberg,” ArtSci PARTICLES podcast series, The Art|Sci Center + Lab, UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Design Media Arts Department, UCLA, April 24, 2020. http://artsci.ucla.edu/node/1489
Porter, Tom, “Artist Stephanie Rothenberg Thrilled To Be First Roux Scholar”, Bowdoin College News, September 18, 2018, https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/09/artist-stephanie-rothenberg-thrilled-to-be-first-roux-scholar.html
Hock, Regina, “Stephanie Rothenberg: Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship,” GLOBALE: Infosphere Exhibition, ZKM Center for Art and Media, September 4, 2015, https://zkm.de/en/media/video/stephanie-rothenberg-reversal-of-fortune-garden-of-virtual-kinship
Yuan, Juliet Xiaoying, “Artist’s Creative Process: Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship”, Streaming Museum, May 6, 2015, https://streamingmuseum.org/stephanie-rothenbergs-garden-of-virtual-kinship-creative-process/
Van Buren , Jay, “BiW Podcast #39 Part I: Double Happiness Jeans made in a Virtual Sweatshop”, Brooklyn is Watching, Jack the Pelican Presents Gallery, December 19, 2008
http://brooklyniswatching.com/2008/12/19/double-happiness-jeans-made-in-a-virtual-sweatshop/
“Virtual low-riders”, Beyond the Multiplex iTunes Video Podcast, Salon.com, January 23, 2008
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2008/01/23/video_secondlife/index.html
Morrison, Mandy, New York Arts Magazine, September/October 2006, p.64
http://nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6295&Itemid=199
CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL ORGANIZING
2024 FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science and Technology, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Three-day event in collaboration with FEMeeting Network and the Coalesce Center for Biological Art (University at Buffalo). It featured local and international artists and scholars, faculty, students and community members for a day-long symposium, exhibition, BioArt workshop and performance at Torn Space Theater.
2018 Matters of Currency, MONEYLAB, University at Buffalo and Hallwalls Media Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Co-organized international symposium with former University of Buffalo faculty in Department of Art, Chris Lee and School of Architecture, Jordan Geiger. The symposium focused on economy and the Anthropocene and was part of the symposia series of MoneyLab/Institute of Network Cultures based out of the Hogeschool University of Amsterdam, Holland. Guests included keynote speaker Jason W. Moore, Cassie Thornton and Max Haiven.
2014 Performing Economies, University at Buffalo and nonprofit organizations, Buffalo, NY
Co-organized 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. Guests included keynote speaker Silvia Federici, Andrew Hersher and Mary Mattingly.
2012 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA): Machine Wilderness, Albuquerque, NM
Symposium co-organizer for track Econotopias; organizer/moderator of featured keynote panel Econotopias: Imagining Possible Futures Through the Creative Economy; organizer of panel Alt.Economy? Guests included Caroline Woolard and Amanda McDonald Crowley.
2003 Version>03: Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Co-organized with Katherine Behar and moderated The Integrated Circuit: Embodiment, Difference, Resistance. Panel & workshops exploring intersections of digital technologies, postcolonialism, repression and resistance. Guests included Irina Aristarkhova and Faith Wilding.
2002 Version>02: Digital Commons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Co-organized the second annual Nomads & Homesteaders event in conjunction with V>02. Panels, workshops, evening sound performance focused on technology as both spectacle and as tactical agent with regards to artistic practice. Guests included Critical Art Ensemble, Steve Dietz, Dan Sandin.
2001 Nomads & Homesteaders, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Directed and co-organized first 3-day media symposium of the graduate student run media collective Nomads & Homesteaders featuring work from Madcat Women’s International Film Festival & The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema located in New York, NY.