Stephanie Rothenberg (USA) | |
  
| School of Perpetual Training Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary practice merges performance, installation and networked media to create provocative interactions that question the boundaries and social constructs of manufactured desires. Her interest in motion economics and the work place exemplified in the research of Muybridge, Taylor and the Gilbreths play a significant role in projects that investigate how consumer technologies influence behaviors and shape value systems. The use of game-based models in recent projects is motivated by the current phenomena of computer video gaming and how the use of digital gaming in business applications, education and advertising is blurring the lines between leisure and labor. School of Perpetual Training exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the computer video game industry. Designed as an ironic corporate training video, a virtual personal trainer leads players through a series of physical exercises for outsourced jobs in digital game manufacturing and distribution. Players learn about unfair labor practices and environmental concerns caused by the industry. Pushing joystick and mouse aside, the interactive installation uses motion detection requiring full range of body motion to play. Stephanie has lectured and exhibited in the US and internationally at venues including the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, ISEA 2004/2008, Zer01 San Jose, Banff New Media Institute Interactive Screen, Hallwalls Media Art Center, ConFlux Festival, Interaccess Media Arts Centre, Bent Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Radiator Festival New Technology Art, Knitting Factory, Studio XX, Thealit, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing and Sarai Media Collective in New Delhi. Stephanie received her MFA in 2003 from The Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo where she teaches courses in the Communication Design and Emerging Practices concentrations. Recent awards include 2008 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist award, a 2007 Eyebeam Artist-in-Residence in NYC and a free103point9 Artist-in-Residence. |
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