Stephanie will present recent work exploring robotic gardens and a new project in progress called “Trading Systems: Bio-Economic Fairy Tales in the Anthropocene.” The new project explores the overlapping trajectories between economics and the sciences, specifically biology. It questions how these intersections between social systems and non-human ecologies are situated within our current anthropogenic, socio-political climate. Through whimsical, speculative visualizations realized as drawings and sculptural installations that utilize citizen science models of sustainable technology, the project aims to ask, what more equitable and “chlthulucentric” societies can we imagine outside of our current “fairy tales”?

Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary artworks make visible the physical and imaginary networks that create technological utopias. Moving between real and virtual spaces, she explores how new technologies mediate our everyday experiences and connect us to larger global systems. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and festivals around the world including House of Electronic Arts (HeK), MASS MoCA, LABoral, Sundance Film Festival, Transmediale and ZKM. She is a recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Creative Capital. Residencies include the LMCC Workspace program, Eyebeam and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum and has been widely reviewed including Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail and Hyperallergic. Stephanie received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art at SUNY Buffalo.

Sponsored by the “Science Studies Research Workshop” through the generous support of UB’s Humanities Institute.

The lecture is free and open to the public.