Stephanie Rothenberg

Stephanie Rothenberg
Born	Newark, NJ[1]
Nationality	American
Education	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known for	Internet Art Performance Art New Media Art
Notable work	Best Practices in Banana Time Invisible Threads Garden of Virtual Kinship
Awards	Creative Capital Emerging Practices (2009)

Stephanie Rothenberg is an American artist who lives and works in Buffalo, NY and Brooklyn, NY.^[2] Rothenberg's interdisciplinary practice employs performance, installation, and networked media in the creation of public interactions.^[3]

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 in the Department of Art at the University at Buffalo, SUNY where she teaches within Design and Emerging Practices.^[4]

Collaborations

Rothenberg has collaborated with Jeff Crouse, Byron Rich, Bobby Gryzynger, Brian Clark, and Megan Michalak among others.^[5][6]

Notable works

• 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 (in conjunction with the exhibition “The Workers”), 01SJ Biennial (2010), and Hallwalls among other venues.^[7]
• 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.^[8] 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.^[9]
• The Garden of Virtual Kinship - a live networked garden in the form of a world map that plots real-time monetary exchange data from online crowdfunded charity projects onto the geographic regions that benefit from the transactions. The project has been presented at Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe among other venues.^[10]

References

1. "Stephanie Rothenberg - 2010 01SJ Biennial". 01sj.org. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
2. "Stephanie Rothenberg - 2010 01SJ Biennial". 01sj.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
3. "Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". www.creative-capital.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
4. "Stephanie Rothenberg". UB Department of Art. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
5. "S. Rothenberg: Creative Process – STREAMING MUSEUM". streamingmuseum.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
6. "Megan Michalak & Stephanie Rothenberg: “World X Diagnostics” Redux". UB Department of Art. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
7. "MASS MoCA | Museum of Contemporary Art presents: Stephanie Rothenberg in our Club B-10 on". www.massmoca.org. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
8. "The New Frontier on Main: Panels, showcase, new tech from Sundance | Filmfestivals.com". www.filmfestivals.com. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
9. "Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics". WIRED. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
10. "Stephanie Rothenberg: Reversal of Fortune: Garden of Virtual Kinship | 2015-09-04 | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2016-02-26.

External links

• Stephanie Rothenberg Official Website
• Art Forum review of Invisible Threads (requires login)
• 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