Faculty
Teri Rueb
Professor
(716) 645-0936
My practice is locative media-based and unfolds in the extended fields of media and landscape studies. I create installations and scholarly writings that variously traverse the terrains of media, fine and performing arts, environmental art and design, architecture, landscape and urbanism. Currently I am teaching a graduate studio, DMS603 Media Landscapes, where we make projects using locative media as we read and discuss theoretical, historical and critical precedents from media studies, architecture and landscape art and design. I am also interested in critical approaches to landscape representation and the ideology of the map.
From a phenomenological and post-human perspective, I view landscape, technology and the body as intertwined and mutually inscriptive systems. Mobile networks and technologies are inherently spatial across the scale of the body, landscape, architecture and infrastructure. As we increasingly interact with and through network media in variously local and global, as well as private and public realms, design problems of an ecological scale and nature arise. Our relationship to culture(s) and the environment -our very sense of "place in the world"-is at stake in the design of interfaces to this "network landscape". Through practice and theory, I wish to promote an ecological approach to interface art and design that emphasizes the deeply intertwined nature of art, science, technology, and the environment.
My practice engages digital, architectural and traditional media and modes of production. A most recent site-specific project, "Elsewhere : Anderswo" is currently on exhibit across two sites in Northern Germany, The Edith Russ Site for Media Art (Oldenburg) and the Springhornhof Kunstverein (Neuenkirchen). Another recent project "Core Sample", a site-specific installation commissioned by the Boston ICA, received a 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics category. I am also currently completing my doctorate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where my research focuses on constructions of landscape and subjectivity produced at the liminal thresholds of potential network connectivity.
Emerging from a practice based in site-specific public art, I have created GPS-based interactive sound installations since 1996. Some of the more notable funding sources that have supported my work are the Edith Russ Site for New Media (with Klangpol and the Springhornhof Kunstverein), The Banff Center for the Arts, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Artslink, Turbulence.org, and various State Arts Councils. I lecture and present my work widely at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Museum, and IRCAM.
Prior to joining the faculty in Media Study I served as Associate Professor and Department Head of the graduate Department of Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where I was one of two founding faculty members of the department from 2004-2009. Prior to my tenure at RISD I was Associate Professor of Visual Arts (with tenure) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). I completed my master's degree at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program and my bachelor's degree in Painting, Sculpture and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
My work is documented online at: www.terirueb.net