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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello Empyre list!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m a media artist teaching in the Dept of Art at SUNY
Buffalo (where it was almost 50 degrees today). Yikes!</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Several years ago I was co-entrepreneur of a virtual
sweatshop in Second Life called Double Happiness Manufacturing – a just-in-time
initiative. My business partner Jeff Crouse and I manufactured Double Happiness
jeans through the cyber sweat and tears of beautiful avatars. You can check out
our jeans here: </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/invisible-threads">http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/invisible-threads</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Although the Lowrider and MyPants styles were a big hit, our
business model failed so we decided to move on to porn. We created an adult
entertainment website called Laborers of Love/LOL. Thankful to Amazon.com we
were able to crowdsource customers’ fantasies through <a href="http://mturk.com">mturk.com</a> for just a few
cents per video upload. My favorite was “Queering Pluto:” <a href="http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/laborers-of-love">http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/laborers-of-love</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">More recently I’ve shifted from porn to plants and created a
series of robotic gardens called “Reversal of Fortune” that examine the
intersection of crowdfunding, finance and philanthropy. In the gardens, plants
represent human lives. Their lifelines, water, are dependent on charitable
social media transactions that activate automated watering systems.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">“Garden of Virtual Kinship” is somewhat of a gigantic
aquaponic system merged with a bank that maps and visualizes the circulation of
micro financed capital as it is exchanged between the developed and developing
world. The installation was featured in the exhibition “Global: Infosphere” at
ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/reversal-of-fortune-the-garden-of-virtual-kinship">http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/reversal-of-fortune-the-garden-of-virtual-kinship</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">“Planthropy” is a collection of hanging planters that
respond to Twitter posts about why people donate. Each plant represents a
different cause such as climate change, breast cancer and refugees. The
installation is currently on view in the exhibition “Right Here, Right Now” at
The Lowry Galleries in Manchester, England.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/planthropy">http://www.pan-o-matic.com/projects/planthropy</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">And a nice review of the project in Hyperallergic:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://hyperallergic.com/261458/growing-a-garden-according-to-the-economics-of-philanthropic-crowdfunding/">http://hyperallergic.com/261458/growing-a-garden-according-to-the-economics-of-philanthropic-crowdfunding/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">BIO</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white">Stephanie Rothenberg is an
interdisciplinary artist using performance, installation and networked media to
create provocative public interactions. Mixing real and virtual spaces, her
work explores the power dynamics between contemporary visions of utopia and
real world economic, political and environmental factors. She has exhibited
throughout the US and internationally in venues including Eyebeam in NYC,
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams,
MA, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, House of Electronic
Arts in Basel, Switzerland, LABoral in Gijon, Spain, Transmediale in
Berlin and ZKM Center for Art & Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. She is a
recipient of numerous awards, most recently from the Harpo Foundation and
Creative Capital. Residencies include the Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council Workspace, Eyebeam Art and Technology and the Santa Fe Art
Institute. Her work is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
and has been widely reviewed including Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail and
Hyperallergic. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Art at SUNY
Buffalo where she teaches courses in design and emerging technologies.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">cheers, Stephanie</p>
<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Stephanie Rothenberg</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small">Associate Professor, Department of Art, SUNY Buffalo<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:small"><a href="mailto:rothenberg.stephanie@gmail.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">rothenberg.stephanie@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.stephanierothenberg.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.stephanierothenberg.com</a><br></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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