Stephanie Rothenberg Explained

Stephanie Rothenberg
Birth Place:	Newark, New Jersey, U.S.^[1]
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Harpo Foundation, Creative Capital Emerging Practices (2009)
Field:	Internet Art Performance Art New Media Art
Training:	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Works:	Best Practices in Banana Time Invisible Threads Garden of Virtual Kinship

Stephanie Rothenberg is an American artist who lives and works in Buffalo, New York and Brooklyn, New York. Rothenberg's interdisciplinary practice combines elements of performance and installations with networked media in the creation of public interactions.^[2]

Background

Stephanie Rothenberg graduated with a master's degree from the Department of Film, Video, and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Rothenberg is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY where she teaches within Design and Emerging Practices.^[3]

Collaborations

In 2009, Stephanie Rothenberg co-founded Studio REV- with Rachel McIntire and Marisa Morán Jahn.^{[4] [5]}

Rothenberg has collaborated with Jeff Crouse,^[6] Byron Rich, Bobby Gryzynger, Brian Clark, and Megan Michalak among others.^{[7] [8]}

Notable work

• Best Practices in Banana Time - a live performance talk show about leisure and labor in the digital realm that occurs simultaneously in the virtual environment Second Life and in a physical theater. The project has been performed at MASS MoCA (with the exhibition “The Workers”), 01SJ Biennial (2010), and Hallwalls among other venues.^[9]
• Invisible Threads (aka Double Happiness Jeans or Double Happiness Manufacturing) - a collaboration with Jeff Crouse. Double Happiness is a sweatshop manufacturing plant in Second Life to build jeans based on orders made in real life. The jeans are designed and assembled in the factory and then delivered back into real life by being printed on fabric via a large format printer. The result is a tangible, wearable (however impractical) pair of pants. The project began in 2007 and was shown at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival in the New Frontiers exhibition.^[10] In 2008, Wired Magazine reported that the Kluger Agency, a product placement advertising company, contacted Rothenberg's collaborator Jeff Crouse of the Anti-Advertising Company and Double Happiness Jeans in an attempt to attract the company to "participate in a brand integration campaign" by purchasing mention within a forthcoming Pussycat Dolls song.^[11]
• The Garden of Virtual Kinship - Rothenberg created a live networked garden of plant beds in the shape of continents, to form a world map that plotted real-time monetary exchange data from online crowdfunded charity projects onto the geographic regions that benefit from the transactions.^[12] The project has been presented at Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe among other venues.^[13]

External links

• Official Website
• hyperallergic review of Garden of Virtual Kinship
• Money Lab Reader: An Intervention in Digital Economy features essay on The Garden of Virtual Kinship by Rothenberg
• University of Buffalo, SUNY faculty profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stephanie Rothenberg - 2010 01SJ Biennial. 01sj.org. 26 February 2016.
2. Web site: Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future. www.creative-capital.org. 2016-02-26.
3. Web site: Stephanie Rothenberg. UB Department of Art. en-US. 2016-02-26.
4. Web site: Companion Press Release. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. en. 2017-11-07. In 2009, with Stephanie Rothenberg and Rachel McIntire, Jahn founded REV- (www.rev-it.org), a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy..
5. Web site: Parafacts & Parafictions: Helguera, and Blachly & Shaw. e-flux.com. en. 2017-11-07.
6. Book: Thinking Through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places. 9781137433633. Hudson. D.. Zimmermann. P.. 2015-04-09.
7. Web site: S. Rothenberg: Creative Process – STREAMING MUSEUM. streamingmuseum.org. 2016-02-26.
8. Web site: Megan Michalak & Stephanie Rothenberg: "World X Diagnostics" Redux. UB Department of Art. en-US. 2016-02-26.
9. Web site: MASS MoCA Museum of Contemporary Art presents: Stephanie Rothenberg in our Club B-10 on. www.massmoca.org. 2016-02-26.
10. Web site: The New Frontier on Main: Panels, showcase, new tech from Sundance Filmfestivals.com. www.filmfestivals.com. 2016-02-26.
11. Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics. WIRED. en-US. 2016-02-26. 2008-09-19. Buskirk. Eliot Van.
12. Web site: Artist Stephanie Rothenberg Thrilled to be First Roux Scholar | Bowdoin News Archive.
13. Web site: Stephanie Rothenberg: Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship 2015-09-04 ZKM. zkm.de. 2016-02-26.