Faculty Profile

My work as an artist has been to seek spaces of overlap between art, design, and society in order to frame discourses that can ultimately emerge as new forms.

• M.F.A., The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Painting
• B.F.A., Syracuse University, Painting

Parsons School of Design, Department of Design and Technology

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Oddcast

Medianoche

New Museum of Contemporary Art

In addition to teaching, Ms. Owens is a creative director, designer, and is director/owner of WallflowerMedia, a media consultancy focused on ambient and environmental digital art and design projects. She is a founding member of the locative media research group "Mobile Geographies" at Parsons School of Design.

Ms. Owens is also founder of MediaNoche, first digital art space in upper Manhattan and founding member of Oddcast, a media company that develops distributed models of interactive entertainment. She has worked as a creative director/designer for numerous high-profile interactive design companies where she has led the creation of innovative applications for emerging technologies.   

• A Transformational Object: Artistic Authorship and the Phenomenal Aesthetics of New Media, SIGGRAPH Art Papers, 2005
• The Power of Oz-Interview with Digital Artist Adrianne Wortzel, Issue #17, Fall 2001
• That's Data-tainment: Consumer Communities and the Outlines of a Digital Art, SiliconSalley, Issue #14, Summer 2001
• This Designer's Predicament, SiliconSalley, Issue #11, Spring 2001
• The Significance of Glass -or- Making Technology Meaningful, SiliconSalley, Issue #10, Spring 1999 

• Intro to Electronic Imaging in Art
• Contemporary Theory and Visual Culture
• Technologies of Place

My work seeks connections between the material and non-material forces that form our understanding of art and society. I am drawn to the notion of phenomenal form as a mode of understanding the dynamics that lnk global information space and personal experience. Frequent areas of investigation include: aesthetics, philosophy of art, systems theory, biotechnologies, ubiquitous computing, information design, interactive architecture rsponsive environments. 

Selected Solo/Group Exhibtions

• "Beauty, Desire, and Evanescence", Tasanzu Art Festival 2008, Beijing, China, curated by Inhee Iris Moon
• "New Media/New Forms", Margaret Meade Film & Video Festival, New Media Projects, 2005, New York, NY
• "Threading Time", SIGGRAPH 2005, Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• "Media in 'F' - The Female in New Media", The 5th Ewha Media Presentation, Ewha Art Center, Seoul, Korea
• "First Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition", Millenium Museum, Beijing, China
• "Machinista", 2004, International Arts and Technology Festival
• "Liquid Eden: The Discreet Paradise of Networks", MediaNoche Gallery, New York, NY
• "Exploding Cinema", Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
• "New Painting", Z Gallery, New York, NY
• "Explorations into the Physical and Metaphysical Hole", Betty Rhymer Gallery, Chicago, Il
• Graduate Exhibition, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Il
• "Episodes and Entrances", McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA
• "The Select Show", Sawhill Gallery, Harrisonburg, VA
• "Passion's Metaphor", White Cube Gallery, Syracuse, NY