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Art |
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420 Olive Tjaden Hall |
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(607) 255-9519 |
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(607) 255-3462 |
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Renate Ferro is a media artist working in emerging technology and culture. Her artistic practice reflects critical interactivity incorporating social and theoretical paradigms of the psychological and sociological condition with networks of technology.
At the heart of her most recent interests, Ferro critically engages the corporal body's symbiotic relationship with technology. By aligning artistic, creative practice with critical approaches to cyber configurations, she permits emerging creative skins of networks and resources whose resulting configurations range from drawing and text to performance, installation, and net-based projects.
Her work is represented in both corporate and private collections across the United States as well as in Canada, France, Germany, and Australia. Her work has been published in such journals as Diacritics, Theatre Journal, and Epoch. She is co-moderator for the online new media list serv-EMPYRE-soft-skinned space and the art/imaging editor of the journal Diacritics published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
education
Renate Ferro received her MFA in New Media from Cornell University in 2004, an MS in Education and Curriculum Development from Elmira College, and a BA in Fine Arts from Mercyhurst College.
work
2009 Fort/Da: A playful, interactive video and sound installation based on Freud's research on the obsession of losing and retrieving one's posessions. The installation incorporates sensor technology, programming, surveillance video, and sound through the interface of a closed circuit telephone system.
2010 Fort/Da: A series of interactive robotic sculptures that viewers will be able to push and pull. The sculptures will record both image and sound input from the viewers who partake in the exhibit.
2009-2010 Suspiscious Packages: An interactive sound installation based on real-life narrated passages of travelers who have had their belongings, suitcases, briefcases, backpacks rifled through when crossing both familiar and unfamiliar boundaries. This project is realized through sensor technology, installation and sound.
publications
Ferro is managing moderator for the online list-serv -empyre soft skinned space. The list-serv features a subscription of over 1200 international participants including artists, curators, and programmers who discuss critical perspectives on contemporary crossdisciplinary issues, practices and events in networked media. -empyre was a featured journal at Documenta Kassel, Germany in 2007.
Ferro is currently the art editor of the journal Diacritics published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Ferro's images have been published in the journals Diacritics, published by the Johns Hopkins University Pess, Theatre Journal, also published by Johns Hopkins, and Epoch Magazine. Her work has also been featured on the covers of several monographs.
courses
New Media, Critical Theory, Time-based projects, and Interactivity.
research
The Tinker Factory: a lab for research design, creativity and interdisciplinary technology, founded by Renate Ferro, supports a collaborative interdisciplinary space that nutures interactive, technological, artistic research. Participants including students and faculty from cross-disciplinary areas will investigate technical possibilities, artistic collaborations, and critical and historical implications of ongoing collaborative research projects.
exhibitions
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