Stephanie Rothenberg & Suzanne Thorpe

Stephanie Rothenberg (visual artist and educator) and Suzanne Thorpe (sound artist and researcher) address issues of the anthropocene and environmental concerns through embedded and performed investigations. They bring their considerable histories and skills to bear on this new collaboration to construct a creative research environment to highlight undeniable human entanglement and potentially bring forth yet to be considered eco- relational qualities through uncanny juxtaposition. Stephanie Rothenberg’s interdisciplinary art draws from digital culture, science and economics to explore relationships between human designed systems and biological ecosystems. Moving between real and virtual spaces her work investigates the power dynamics of techno-utopias, global economics and outsourced labor. She has exhibited internationally and her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Suzanne Thorpe, Ph.D. is an artist-scholar whose creative research intersects electronic music, feminist and ecological theory. Weaving together traditional and creative research methods she studies past and present music-making sites as critical frameworks that animate social and political concerns, and resist hierarchical social organization, normative identity articulation and material separation.