Stephanie Rothenberg

Exhibition Dates: September 29- November 9, 2024
Buffalo Art Studio, Buffalo, NY

Very excited about the first solo exhibition of the “Aquadisia” project. In this iteration I created the “Aquadisia Showroom” – think Apple Store meets biotech lab meets oxygen bar. Check out the project webpage for images and video!

More about the exhibition and Buffalo Arts Studio:
https://www.buffaloartsstudio.org/events/stephanie-rothenberg-aquadisia-september-27-november-9-2024/ 

August 23-25, 2024

Excited to be back in Norway and show work at the Oslofjord Triennial @oslofjordtriennale — an amazing 3 days of performances, screenings, talks and fun in the wild glamping on Lågøya in the heart of the fjord, August 23-25. A big hurrah to the extraordinary team – Kristin Bergaust, Camilla Dahl, Lin Cecilie Ulvin, Mari Kamsvaag, Vibeke Hermanrud!

https://www.oslofjord-triennale.no/

August 7-20, 2024

I’ve been super fortunate to be in residence at Cultivamos Cultura in Sao Luis, Portugal. The residency is founded by esteemed bioartist Marta de Menezes. This will be the first part of my residency and I’ll continue in Spring 2025. I will begin by exploring biomaterials and circular economies sourced from the ocean and the Great Lakes. I’ve been interested in learning how to create more sustainable materials for sculpture making that directly relate to my interests in the politics of conservation and ecosystem services.

Read more about the residency and what I’ll be working on!

February 20, 2024

In February I was invited to be part of a roundtable organized by theorist Maria Antonia Gonzales Valerio at the School of Philosophy and Literature of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. The roundtable included: bio artist Adam Zaretksy; Aisen Caro Chacin, artist and medical interface designer at University of Texas; and Sandra Gonzáles Santos, researcher studying bioethics on repro technologies.

My talk titled “The Aphrodisiac in the Machine” starts at 26:45.

Click here for talk

Excited to debut the first iteration of “Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling” at Harvestworks exhibition space on Governors Island in NYC. Exhibition dates: Sept 1 – Oct 29, 2023.
https://www.harvestworks.org/sept-1-oct-29-tending-ostreidae-serenades-for-settling-by-stephanie-rothenberg-and-suzanne-thorpe/#

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

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

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

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/

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/

SEPTEMBER 30- OCTOBER 3, 2021
University at Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (virtual)

I’m very happy to be very involved in this year’s SLSA as it was postponed last year. I’ll be speaking on 3 panels (!!!) and also presenting “Aphrodisiac in the Machine” in the online project poster exhibition.

https://litsciarts.org/slsa2021/

SEPTEMBER 24-25, 2021
Riga, Latvia (virtual and in person)

Excited to present a new work in progress “Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling”, a collaboration with sound artist Suzanne Thorpe, that explores the “listening” oyster and the impact of noise pollution in New York Harbor.

http://rixc.org/en/home___/0/rixc-festival-2021-postsensorium-exhibition-is-closed/

MARCH 22 – APRIL 11, 2021
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY

Looking forward to several events at FLEFF this year: a keynote speaker event in conversation with Claudia Pederson where I’ll talk about “Aphrodisiac in the Machine” and my new video “The Beauty Spot” reflecting on COVID-19 featured in the “Entangled Infiltrations” virtual exhibit!

https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival

https://www.ithaca.edu/finger-lakes-environmental-film-festival/week-one-events/monday-march-22-300-430-pm

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Excited to be part of this season’s speaker series!

https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/media-study/news-events/plasma.html

OCTOBER 13-18, 2020
ISEA 2020 Montreal “Why Sentience?”

I’m thrilled to be part of ISEA 2020 Montreal “Why Sentience?”. I’ll be showing “Aquadisia”, a new version of my ongoing project “Aphrodisiac in the Machine.” This new version manifests as an immersive website and participatory performance about the magical powers of drinking cyborg oyster juice. I will also be speaking on two panels: “Queering Infrastructure: The System Through the Erotic” with Antonia Hernandez, Kathy High and Joel Ong and “Boundary Crossings” with Roberta Buiani, Joel Ong and Jennifer Willet.

FEBRUARY 18–MAY 1, 2020
NEW MEDIA ARTSPACE
Baruch College, New York, NY

I’m thrilled to be showing a special 4-channel installation at Baruch College this winter/spring. The video installation spanning 4 floors takes you through the history of the oyster “Ostreidae” to its current bioengineered form. The videos provide an overview of oyster cultivation from worker food source to bourgeois delicacy, genetic modification in the lab and harvesting in the futuristic aquaculture farm.  I will also be giving a public artist lecture on Tuesday, March 31, 2020 from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M. in the Engelman Recital Hall, BPAC at Baruch College.
http://newmediartspace.info/exhibitions/2020_stephanie_rothenberg_aphrodisiac_in_the_machine/index.php

JANUARY, 2020
XENOFORM LABS RESIDENCY, San Francisco

I’m thrilled kickoff 2020 at Xenoform Labs, a new art and technology residency started by artist Scott Kildall. I’ll be experimenting with soft robotics to create a robotic oyster sculpture for my media installation “Aphrodisiac in the Machine.” And I get to be in California for January!
https://xenoformlabs.com/stephanie-rothenberg/

NOVEMBER 27 – FEBRUARY 2, 2020
GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD IT’S OVER
Weltkunstzimmer Art Center, Düsseldorf, DE

I’m thrilled to be in the exhibition “Goodbye Cruel World” curated by Janine Blöß at the Weltkunstzimmer in Düsseldorf along with some of my favorite artists including Sasa Spacal and Verena Friedrich. I’ll be showing a few works including “Proof of Soil” and “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales.”
https://weltkunstzimmer.de/goodbye-cruel-world-its-over-erdlings-geschichten/

NOVEMBER 1 – DECEMBER 14, 2019

Cultural Arts Center, Columbus Ohio

The group exhibition, Technomeme 2019, considers how new media art translates the ongoing technological phenomena of replication, imitation, variation, reproduction, and mutation responding to technological evolution at the nexus of digital culture. A project of FUSE Factory.

SEPTEMBER 20–NOVEMBER 27, 2019
RE: WORKING LABOR > Proof of Soil
Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

This fall I’m debuting a new artwork titled “Proof of Soil” in a fantastic exhibition called “Re: Working Labor” that explores the current state of contemporary labor. My piece looks at the problem of massive energy required to produce cryptocurrency. It speculates on the new forms of non-human labor – the labor of microbes in contaminated soil/brown fields (microbial fuel cells) as a solution to power the massive energy use of the computer AI of the blockchain to create cryptocurrency.
http://sites.saic.edu/reworkinglabor/projects/stephanie-rothenberg/

SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2019

Berlin, Germany

I’m excited to be a resident fellow at Z/KU this fall. It’s located in an old train station in the neighborhood of Moabit. I’ll be developing two projects that explore the ethical and socio-economic dimensions of biology as technology for human survival in extreme landscapes. Specifically the mass extraction of resources as the dominant solution to support human life and innovations in biological engineering.

https://www.zku-berlin.org/fellows/508/

AUGUST 13 – 26, 2019
Gamboa, Panama
I’m thrilled to be going to Gamboa, Panama to participate in Dinacon 2! Created by artist Andrew Quitmeyer Dinacon is is an experimental conference about exploring new ways of interacting with nature. Situated in the heart of the Panamanian Rainforest and the hub of the Panama Canal, Gamboa is one of the world’s major sites for biological field research.
https://www.dinacon.org

FEBRUARY 4 – MARCH 16, 2019
Tokyo, Japan
I’m been awarded a 6-week research residency at TOKAS Tokyo Art and Space in Japan. I’ll be conducting research for 2 projects. One is in conjunction with my visiting scholar position at Bowdoin College and explores the impact of climate change on Japan’s fishing industries alongside innovations in aquaculture farming. The other project examines robotics and regenerative/life extending technologies within the world of transhumanism.
http://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/english/index.html

AUGUST 2018 – JUNE 2019
Roux Center for Environmental Research, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

I’m thrilled to announce that I am the inaugural Roux Scholar-in-Residence at the new Roux Center for Environmental Research at Bowdoin College for the 2018-2019 academic year! In this role I will be collaborating with faculty and students in the Environmental Studies program to create an interactive artwork focused on the changing Maine coastline and its impact on the regional fishing industry. My first week on campus was exhilarating with visits to both art and science classes including the immersive studies course that takes place outside on the bay at the Schiller Coastal Studies on Orr Island. I spent the day with students wading in magnificent tide pools studying sea organisms.

Read more about the residency here:
http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/09/artist-stephanie-rothenberg-excited-to-be-first-roux-scholar/

DECEMBER 6, 2018 – JUNE 2, 2019
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
“Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales” is featured in this exhibition that explores the intersections of art and the environment with works drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection. Featuring objects from antiquity to today, “Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment” examines artists’ dependence on Earth’s material resources, while presenting art as an integral “material” resource in the study of the environment.
I am thrilled to be next to Le Corbusier’s “Untitled (Plan for a Model City)” from 1935!

https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/index.html

NOVEMBER 15 – 18, 2018
Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Toronto, CA

A new version of “Planthropy” featured in this exhibition curated by Belinda Kwan that responds to this year’s SLSA conference theme “Out of Mind.” Multiple Contingencies explores some of the foreign and extra-rational forces that challenge and undo the way our minds run.

Presented as a part of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Cohosted by University of Waterloo and York University

OCTOBER 5 – 27, 2018
El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales” debuts in a solo exhibition at one of Buffalo’s oldest alternative spaces located in Allentown.
Read more about the project and view exhibition images:
http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/trading-systems-bio-economic-fairy-tales

http://www.elmuseobuffalo.org/exhibitions/stephanie-rothenberg-trading-systems/

JUNE 24 – JULY 22, 2018
Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY

“Planthropy” featured in this exhibition that expands notions of care through three curatorial “acts” composed of three artistic “scenes.” Three Acts, Three Scenes asks us to consider how we extend care to others, take ownership of our own care, and navigate the precariousness of the world, remaining conscious of our own interconnectedness to others across multiple landscapes and within larger webs of relations.

https://www.kunstraumllc.com/single-post/2018/06/12/Three-Acts-Three-Scenes-Your-Care-My-Care-Careful-Care

JUNE 15 – 19, 2018
Portugal: Lisbon, Évora and São Luís, Odemira
FEMeeting 2018 is a conference co-organised by Cultivamos Cultura and CIC.Digital of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in partnership with Centro de Arte e Cultura/Fundação Eugénio de Almeida and Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. The Meeting’s aim is to bring together women from all over the world to share and disseminate their projects in the arts, science and technology research. I am thrilled to be a part of this first meeting with so many incredible women working in the area of art and science!
https://femeeting.com/

MAY 30 – JUNE 1
Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Looking forward to presenting “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales of the Anthropocene” at this interdisciplinary conference that is the 3rd edition of the Renewable Futures project.
https://aaltofestival.fi/2018/en/hybrid-labs-symposium-2018/

MAY 7 – 11, 2018
Manizales, Columbia

Thrilled to be traveling to Manizales, Columbia for the 2018 Festival de la Imagen. I will participating in the exhibition with “Planthropy”, giving a keynote at the conference as well as an artist conversation with FACT curator Mike Stubbs. Special thanks to Asher Toledo-Remy at Hyphen Hub NYC for inviting me to participate. Other artists and speakers include Janet Biggs and Barbara London.

http://festivaldelaimagen.com/festival2018/

APRIL 27 – 28, 2018
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and Squeaky Wheel Media Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Super excited to be co-organizing the first North American MoneyLab, a critical finance event started by Geert Lovink at University of Amsterdam 5 years ago. Confirmed speakers include: Jason W. Moore, Adrian Blackwell, Caroline Woolard, Brett Scott, Cassie Thornton, Max Haiven, Fran Illich, Gabriela Ceja, Patricia de Vries, Leigh Claire La Berge, Caitlin Blanchfield, & Paul Kolling of Terra0

Through workshops, talks, and panel discussions, Matters of Currency will shed new light on money-power relations as mirrored in changing relations to technological and material transformations in the world today. Co-organized with Jordan Geiger and Chris Lee.

https://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5994.html

FEBRUARY 15 – 17, 2018
Connecticut College, New London, CT

Excited to be participating in both the symposium and the exhibition program with new work in progress “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales of the Anthropocene. The aim of the symposium, now in its thirty-second year, is to create a forum for multidisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of arts, technology and contemporary culture. Artists and speakers include Natalie Bookchin, Nancy Nowecek and Ricardo Miranda Zuniga!
https://www.conncoll.edu/cat/symposium2018/

OCTOBER 9 – NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Delighted to be part of this exhibition with artists from my Signal Fire trip summer 2017. Signal Fire builds the cultural value of the natural world by connecting artists to our remaining wild places. Their projects foster self-reliance, creative energy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Signal Fire utilizes public lands to advocate for equitable access, and protection of, wild and open places.
https://finearts.wsu.edu/event/shifting-landscapes-signal-fire/

NOVEMBER 2–3, 2017
London, England
Excited to be going to London to present at the conference Intersections of Finance and Society at City University of London. My panel will be moderated by feminist theorist Melinda Coooper who will also be giving a keynote along with Joseph Vogl.
https://intersectionsfinancesociety.wordpress.com/

MARCH 27 – MAY 27, 2017

Excited to have “Garden of Virtual Kinship” featured in this group exhibition curated by Daniel Tucker at Rowan University Art Gallery.

In How Food Moves, artists explore how food transits through complex patterns of distribution in between the point of origin (the farm) and its point of consumption (the plate). Increasingly, contemporary artists are creatively grappling with the complexity of food’s trajectory in this regard through research-based and participatory practices. Mr. Tucker, Graduate Program Director in Social and Studio Practices at Moore College of Art and Design, has brought together 10 multidisciplinary artists projects that grapple creatively with the complexity of food’s trajectory using research-based and participatory practices, community actions, video and photo documentations, interactive objects, digital technologies, and newly-commissioned pieces by artists who focus their inquiry from the regional context of Philadelphia and southern New Jersey.

http://www.rowan.edu/artgallery/How_Food_Moves.htm

FEBRUARY 6, 2017
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Los Angeles
Delighted to be giving an artist talk at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism in Los Angeles as part of their Research Seminar Series!

APRIL 28-30, 2017
Eindhoven, Netherlands

Looking forward to participating in this 3-day festival exploring art, nature and economics. Part of Economia is the second Renewable Futures Conference, aiming to push the boundaries of our thinking about economy. The conference is organized in close collaboration with RIXC and the Renewable Futures program.

thinkeconomia.com

SEPT 28-OCT 2, 2016

I will be part of this year’s Eastern Bloc Sight & Sound Festival: Per Capita happening Sept 28-Oct 2, 2016 in Montreal. I’ll be exhibiting “Planthropy” along with my collaborative project “Laborers of Love/LOL.”

https://easternbloc.ca/index.php/en/sight-sound-festival/artists/stephanie-rothenberg

OCT 9 – DEC 27, 2015

Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Excited to launch a new collaborative project that examines the use of biomimicry to rethink distribution networks. Working with permaculture designer Amy Pilling, the “Myco-planning Network” will use mapping, live data feeds and mushroom mycelium to explore natural and manmade distribution networks within the context of food justice issues in New Mexico. The exhibition curated by Grace Kook-Anderson “views of our current ecology–documentation of our marks on the land, land use, and the fractured reality of utopian visions. ”

http://www.ccasantafe.org/visual-arts/the-land-mark-show

NOV 14, 2015 – FEB 28, 2016
“Planthropy” makes it debut in the UK at the electronic exhibition “Right Here, Right Now,” This group show co-curated by Annet Dekker and Sarah Cook at The Lowry Arts & Entertainment Center also features works by Eva and Franco Mattes and Daniel Rozin.

http://www.thelowry.com/event/right-here-right-now

SEPT 4, 2015 – JAN 31, 2016 — Very excited for the official debut of “Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship” at ZKM Center for Art & Media in the exhibition “Globale: Infosphere” in Karlsruhe, Germany opening September 4, 2015 through January 31, 2016. The exhibition features a diverse array of works by artists/collectives including Bureau d’tude, Blast Theory and Julian Oliver that expose the underbelly of our data driven culture.

http://zkm.de/event/2015/09/globale-infosphare

JULY 2015 — For the month of July, 2015, I will be in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) in sunny New Mexico for their 2014-2015 residency theme on food justice. I’m excited to be back after having lived there in the mid 1990’s. In addition to drinking margaritas and eating green chilies, I’ll be working with Amy Pilling, local permaculture expert and landscape designer, to develop a series of data visualizations created with gardens that map out local and regional food insecurity areas.

http://sfai.org/residencies

MAY 13 – SEPT 11, 2015 — “10 Simple Steps to Your Own Virtual Sweatshop” co-created with Jeff Crouse will be on exhibit in a group show curated by No Longer Empty embodying the rhetorical role of parrhesia. Artists include Mel Chin, Melanie Crean, Tim Rollins and K.O.S and Dread Scott!
Nathan Cummings Foundation, 475 Tenth Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY

http://www.nolongerempty.org/nc/home/what-we-do/exhibitions/exhibition/bring-in-the-reality

Very excited to be a 2014-2015 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace artist-in-residence! Please come visit my studio at 315 Hudson St!
http://lmcc.net/person/stephanie-rothenberg

LAUNCHED MAY 2015 — “Garden of Virtual Kinship” is featured in curator Xiaoying Juliette Ying’s 4-part series that explores the creative process of artists who utilize new technologies.

Watch the interview here:
http://streamingmuseum.org/stephanie-rothenbergs-garden-of-virtual-kinship-creative-process

MAY 24 – JUNE 24, 2014 — I will be showing with Jeff Crouse, our project “Labors of Love (LOL)” in the the exhibition “Perspectives on Imaginary Futures” at the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland. The exhibition presents different artists’ concepts of how to take into our own hands the shaping of the future with the help of creative inventions, the potential of the internet and the possibilities of science. The show opens May 24th as part of Oslo Night 2014 and runs parallel with Art Fair Basel.

Other artists in the show include Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Neïl Beloufa, Michael Burton & Michiko Nitta, Markus Kayser, Julia Minnig, Marisa Olson, Reinigungsgesellschaft, Tobias Revell, and Addie Wagenknecht

http://www.hek.ch/programm/events/event/perspectives-on-imaginary-futures.html

APRIL 4 -6, 2014 — Performing Economies was a 3-day colloquium event I co-organized with artist/scholar Paige Sarlin at the University at Buffalo. The event investigated the renewed interest in alternative economic models that have emerged in response to the devastating effects of the global economic downturn. Juxtaposing concerns for financial viability with the value of cultural activity and the necessity for environmental sustainability, Performing Economies focused on the performative, social, and political dimensions of urban revitalization initiatives. Questions as to how these increasingly visible systems of exchange build on earlier forms of barter, local currency, worker cooperatives, and mutual aid were brought to the forefront. The colloquium highlighted a range of projects and practices that re-evaluate older strategies of urban development and survival and suggest progressive and radical approaches to supporting the lives of individuals and communities.

Invited guests included international feminist scholar Silvia Federici, environmental artist Mary Mattingly, activist writer Renee Ridgway and Andrew Herscher, author of “The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit.” University at Buffalo faculty included critical geographer Marion Werner and Miriam Paeslack, author of “Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo.” Local organizations included PUSH Buffalo, Go Bike Buffalo, Partnership for the Public Good, Massachusetts Avenue Project, Clean Air Coaliton and the Breadhive Workers Cooperative Bakery.

http://performingeconomies.org

DEC 12, 2013 – MAR 9, 2014 — Laborers of Love (LOL) featured in the exhibition “Time & Motion: Redefining Work Life” at FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology) in Liverpool, England. The exhibition uses artworks, research projects, archival materials and interventions to track our journey through the world of work, from clocking on at the factory gates to checking in online from our home office. Artists include Cohen van Balen, Harun Farocki, Oliver Walker, Blake Fall-Conroy, Sam Meech, Molleindustria, Andrew Norman Wilson and The Creative Exchange.
http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/time-motion-redefining-working-life

MAY 3-5, 2013 — For  MediaCities this May 3-5, 2013 at SUNY Buffalo I will be showing the first version of a commissioned artwork entitled “Reversal of Fortune: The Garden of Virtual Kinship.” I will also be presenting a paper discussing the artworks relationship to crowdsourcing and the digital commons.
http://www.mediacities.net

Very happy to announce that I will be theme leader for the ECONOTOPIAS symposium track at the 2012 ISEA Machine Wilderness in Albuquerque, NM this September. The “Econotopias” theme engages a critical dialogue around the challenges and excessive demands of the global marketplace and its impact on everyday life. It explores the future of creative economies as drivers of possibility in diverse communities and environments and through new technologies. By bringing local and international artists, engineers, economists, labor specialists and community organizers together, “Econotopias” focuses on the need for more sustainable social and production practices through programs on topics such as open-source ideologies, the gift economy, micro-credit, the culture industry and global outsourcing. Featured participants include Caroline Woolard (ourgoods.org), Jaromil (bitcoin.net), Ted Howard (Evergreen Cooperatives), Amanda McDonald Crowley (curator), Stephanie Pereira (Kickstarter) and Renee Ridgeway (curator/artist)
http://socialmedia.hpc.unm.edu/isea2012/

Very excited to announce that Jeff Crouse and I will be presenting “Laborers of Love/LOL” at the 2013 Transmediale BWPWAP (Back When Pluto Was A Planet). We will do a performative lecture for the festival’s Desire thread on Saturday, Feb 2nd. “Laborers of Love/LOL” is a crowdsourcing project that explores how sexuality and desire are mediated through new technologies, specifically new models of global, outsourced labor. The project takes the form of an Internet service that uses anonymous online workers to create “customers” video fantasies.

EMOPORN, SEX MACHINES AND MEDIATED SEXUALITIES
13:30 TO 15:30 – AUDITORIUM
http://www.transmediale.de/

“World’s Fair 2.0” is a collaboration between myself and Marisa Jahn for REV- that will be exhibited at the New York Hall of Science as part of the “Regeneration” exhibition curated by Steve Dietz and Amanda Parkes. In posing the question of what a “democracity” would look like today or in the very near future, REV- partners with youth reporters to create a virtual “augmented-reality” vision of a 2012 World’s Fair located on the former fairgrounds. The goal—a World’s Fair created not by corporations or the government, but by the community of Queens.
http://www.nysci.org 

“The Secret to Eternal Levitation”, an installation and augmented reality mobile tour examining the relationship of luxury gated communities to resource extraction and allocation willl be exhibited at 516ARTs in Albuquerque, NM as part of ISEA 2012: Machine Wilderness.

http://socialmedia.hpc.unm.edu/isea2012/

“Coming Soon!” will be part of the “Art Environment Action!” exhibition and workshop series at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center’s at Parsons/New School. The project is a mixed-reality urban walking tour enabled through smart phones and iPads that explores the visible and invisible traces of urban renewal in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx.
http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/sheila-c-johnson-design-center/

I will be showing a new project called “Coming Soon!” ,  a mixed-reality urban walking tour enabled through smart phones and iPads that explores the visible and invisible traces of urban renewal in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx. The focus of the tour is a recently rezoned area, one of the largest in the borough, slated for redevelopment into a $350 million mixed-use planned community encompassing over 5-acres of land.

Coming Soon! is part of the Bronx River Art Center’s “Virtual/Monumental” exhibition program investigating the shifting landscape of the West Farms neighborhood in the Bronx.
http://bronxriverart.org

I am very honored to have received a Harpo Award to create a new project called “The Secret to Eternal Levitation” examining the relationship of luxury gated communities to resource extraction and allocation.

I’m very excited to be in “The Workers“ an exhibition at MASS MoCA expanding on the recent exhibition “En Cada Instante, Ruptura” at Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros in Mexico City curated by Carla Herrera-Prats. With the aim of questioning the representation of the contemporary worker immerse in a global economy, the exhibition features the work of artists Haroun Farocki and Sam Durant. Exhibition runs May 29, 2011–Apr 14, 2012. http://www.massmoca.org/event_details.php?id=631

Curated by Carla Herrera- Prats, the group exhibition explores the archetypical image of the worker as it was presented by Siqueiros in his post- revolutionary murals, and also, the transformation and fragmentation that this iconic vision has suffered through the years.
With the aim of questioning the representation of the contemporary worker immerse in a global economy, the exhibition features the work of artists such as Allan Sekula, Hugo Hopping, Laboratorio 060, Yoshua Okon and Sergio de la Torre.
http://www.saps-latallera.org/saps/?page_id=1728&lang=en

From April to July, 2011 I developed a new project called The Journey West through an artist residency at HomeShop in Beijing (http://www.homeshop.org.cn) in conjunction with REV- (http://www.rev-it.org). The project, in collaboration with artist & writer Dan S. Wang (http://prop-press.typepad.com), is the creation of a temporary travel agency located in the recently gentrified neighborhood of the Dongcheng District near Tiananmen Square. The travel agency sold critical tours of “America” created by US artists and tour guides including Trevor Paglen, Ryan Griffis, Sarah Kanouse and “Wildman” Steve Brill. Images and further details on the project coming soon.

Residency at Shan Studio (www.shan-studio.com) in Beijing. Collaborated with media artist Sheng (Gogo) Jie, Founder and Director of Shan Studio, on the project “One Step Beyond Shanzhai: Virtually Fake”. The project explores China’s knock-off/ fake (shanzhai) consumer culture through the creation of a virtual “Shanzhai” Village in Second Life.  The virtual village-cum-store called “Shan Villa” was used to conduct market research in the local hutong community. Participants were asked to comment on the use-value of new utopian consumer products in their virtual state that would be coming to consumer markets in the near future.

“Best Practices in Banana Time with Doctor Rodenberger”, a mixed reality live talk show that takes place in both Second Life and real life, will be part of the upcoming 01SJ Biennial festival programming. Based on the Biennial’s theme “Build Your Own World”, Doctor Rodenberger (Rothenberg’s virtual doppelganger) will interview architects, urban planners and city activists  that are currently performing their jobs in both Second Life and real life. The show explores the virtualization of the workplace and the exchange of values, behaviors and ideologies between “worlds”.
http://01sj.org

Invisible Threads is featured in “Esse, Nosse, Posse/Common Wealth for Common People” – an online exhibition by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. Curated by Daphne Dragona, the show aims to focus on the new forms of labor as well as on the new values and costs emerging in the new connected reality it represents.

Contributing artists and theorists include Burak Arikan & Engin Erdogan, Nicholas Knouf, Jamie Wilkinson , Aaron Koblin & Daniel Massey, Geert Lovink, MediaShed, Molleindustria, Kate Rich and Trebor Scholz.

www.emst.gr/commonwealth

WorldXDiagnostics will be featured in the “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art opening July 3, 2010. The installation will be exhibited at the Artplay-on-Yauza Design Center.
http://www.youngart.ru/en

In conjunction with the Moscow International Biennale, WorldXDiagnostics will also be concurrently exhibited at Buffalo Arts Studio in Buffalo, NY opening June 18th. Gallery visitors in Moscow will be able to activate the diagnostic machine (that crazy organ thing) at Buffalo Arts Studio through a telematic interface. Thank goodness Stalin couldn’t get his hands on it!
http://www.buffaloartsstudio.org

Interview with Stephanie Rothenberg, Sept/Oct 2006 issue
www.nyartsmagazine.com

Chicago, Saturday, May 5, 2007
www.versionfest.org

Wednesday, May 2, 2007, 7pm
www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc

Usernomics 1.0 Workshop
Saturday, April 28 at 12pm at Eyebeam
www.bentfestival.org
Tickets are $10 bucks donation but you can participate for FREE!

Usernomics 1.0 Workshop
The Change You Want to See
84 Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg
Saturday, Sept 15th from 11:00am-1:00pm
www.conflux.org

Stephanie Rothenberg joined Eyebeam in NYC as a 2007 Artist-in-Residence.
www.eyebeam.org

The School of Perpetual Training at Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Hallwalls Cinema Sept 14-Oct 20, 2007
www.hallwalls.org

Digital Games & Labor Panel
Sunday, March 9, 2008,12:00pm, Philadelphia
http://www.cmstudies.org

Symposium closing event in conjunction with MOMA and Parsons featuring Invisible Threads – Virtual Sweatshop @ Eyebeam
540 West 21st, NY, Tuesday, April 15, 2008
www.mediartchina.org/events/newyorkmoma
www.eyebeam.org

Visiting artist Stephanie Rothenberg ,Ithaca College, NY
March 31-April 6, 2008
www.ithaca.edu/fleff

Tainan City, Taiwan, August 15-17, 2008
http://nightmarket.org/2008/group.htm

OCT 2009 – April 5, 2010
LABoral Center for Art, Gijon, Spain
Exhibition of Invisible Threads. Curated by Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul. FEEDFORWARD – The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces—largely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies—inexorably feed us forward.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

Exhibition and panel in conjunction with the conference Internet as Factory and Playground, Novemeber 12-14 at Eugene Lang College The New School. Organized by Trebor Scholz.
http://digitallabor.org/prelude

TURN*ON is the fourth edition of Artivistic, an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism.
http://artivistic.org

FEEDFORWARD – The Angel of History addresses the current moment in history where the wreckage of political conflict and economic inequality is piling up, while globalized forces—largely enabled by the “progress” of digital information technologies—inexorably feed us forward. Curated by Steve Dietz and Christiane Paul.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/show/108

I am collaborating with the activist group RAP on public art projects as part of Art in Odd Places 2009: SIGN, an annual festival exploring the odd, ordinary, and ingenious in the spectacle of daily life.
http://www.artinoddplaces.org
http://retailing14thstreet.blogspot.com

Conversation Pieces is an exhibition that brings together projects by artists who stage, subvert, provoke, intervene in or dt public dialogues. Curated by Miriam Ghani and Sean Donaher.
http://www.cepagallery.org/exhibitions/Conversation_Pieces/index.html

Chaired by Vagner Whitehead with panelists Barbara DeGenevieve, Doug Ischar, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse. Jeff and I presented “Laborers of Love”
http://www.newmediacaucus.org

“The Great Avatar Challenge” with Scott Kildall – a mixed reality race with runners in real life and you guessed it, Second Life. The Mixer is Eyebeam’s acclaimed event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live media performance, interactive and participatory art.
http://eyebeam.org/events/mixer-olympiad

The Round Robin Collective is pleased to announce ECSTATIC, an exhibition and series of events to be held in the former convent of St. Cecilia’s Parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
http://roundrobinbrooklyn.blogspot.com

Precious Cargo is an exhibition of contemporary art and design projects addressing the flow of goods and services in an interdependent post-global world. Organized by multidisciplinary artist Paul Lloyd Sargent, works in this exhibition critique and complicate such binary oppositions as: inter/national vs. regional/local transport, [interdependent] global trade vs. [self-sufficient] local trade, supply chain vs. disposal chain, resource exhaustion vs. sustainable culture, consumption vs. reuse, resource vs. commodity, and more.
http://www.ubartgalleries.org/?gallery=art&select=event&eventID=57

A series of Internet art projects commissioned by the Whitney specifically for whitney.org mark sunset and sunrise in New York City every day.
http://www.whitney.org/Sunset

Award in Emerging Fields received for Reversal of Fortune
http://creative-capital.org/grantees/view/334/project:320

Funding received for new project Kinomic Redistribution System in collaboration with Megan Michalak
www.nysca.org

New Frontier Theater exhibits Invisible Threads
Jan 15-27, 2008, Park City Utah
www.sundance.org

June 4-7, 2008
Artist for Global Youth Exhibition with SFAI City Youth Program + NexMap
http://01sj.org/?page_id=63

Symposium Presentation
July 25-31, 2008
www.isea2008.org

Keynote Speaker
August 24-30, 2008
www.banffcentre.ca/programs

School of Perpetual Training exhibited
October 15-19, 2008
www.iaff.nl
click under “Mafia” program

Zero Hour performance w/ Suzanne Thorpe
Oct 3-5, 2008 Calgary, Alberta Canada
www.mstfestival.org

“10 Simple Steps..” video screening
September 26-28, 2008, Brooklyn, NY
www.videodumbo.org

“Invisible Threads” reviewed by Steven Madoff
www.artforum.com/inprint/id=20915

Exhibition of School of Perpetual Training webcam website. Project commissioned through a Turbulence.org
http://csis.pace.edu/digitalgallery/index.html

Residency and exhibition for new project World X Diagnostic
http://www.arte.fi/sumu/visitors_2009.html

http://www.isea2009.org

The manifestos and revolutions found here are rife with language, overflowing with meaning whether social, personal, technological, environmental, or political. Curated by Jillian McDonald.
http://terminalapsu.org/exhibitions/manifestos/

Funding received for School of Perpetual Training webcam website
www.perpetualtraining.com

Storefront for Art and Architecture
Saturday, November 7 3:00pm

A playful tour of the New York City of the future that merges urban geography, science fiction and guerilla street theater. Four short sci-fi scenes about New York City’s political, spatial, and social futures were produced in an afternoon workshop.

Residency for new project Kinomic Redistribution System
http://www.harvestworks.org/cms/index.php/Residencies/AIR-2009.html