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Steven Rowell is an artist and researcher based in Berlin and Los Angeles, working with photography as well as with audio and video recordings captured in the field. He examines technology and infrastructure on, beneath, and above the landscape, contextualizing the built and the natural environment, appropriating the methods of the geographer and cartographer. In addition to his own practice he collaborates with The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) , SIMPARCH, and The Office of Experiments.
As part of CLUI, Steve's work has been exhibited internationally at a range of galleries and museums including: The 2006 Whitney Biennial; Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York; Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Barbican Art Centre, IBID Projects, and Between Bridges, London. With SIMPARCH, his work has exhibited at The Ballroom, Marfa, TX and Year_06 Art Fair in conjunction with Frieze Art Fair 2006, London (among other locations).
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EXHIBITS
/ EVENTS / PROJECTS (note: repeat, traveling CLUI exhibits do not appear
here)
2010
May: Theater of Peace, NGBK, Berlin
2009
December: ZEIGEN, an Audio Tour group show, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
December: Crisis: Exercises in the State of Emergency (Krise. EinÜbungen in den Ausnahmezustand) group show, Villa Ichon, Bremen
November: Ultimate High Ground, UK, for Arts Catalyst's Dark
Places group show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
November: Overt Research Project (with The Office of Experiments), for Arts Catalyst's Dark
Places group show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
October: Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
October: Mountain Radio Redux, Herbst Radio 99.1, Berlin
June: Radical
Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 group show (with
CLUI), Barbican Art Centre, London
May: Not A Cornfield (with Lauren Bon & The Metabolic Studio), George Eastman House, Rochester
January: Texas
Oil: Landscape of an Industry (with CLUI), Blaffer
Gallery, Houston
2008
September: TX AUX IN (with SIMPARCH), The
Marfa Sessions, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa
September: Experimental
Geography (with CLUI), Richard E. Peeler Art Center,
DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
July: Room Tone (18 sounds in 6 models), A group project by Brandon LaBelle, Staalplaat Record Shop, Tuned City Festival, Berlin
July: Autotechnogeoglyphics:
Vehicular Test Tracks in America (with CLUI), Between
Bridges London
February: Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute of Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas
of Radical Cartography, Redhouse Arts
Center, Syracuse
Sound design and composition for Deborah Stratman's film O'er The Land
2007
November:Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute of Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas
of Radical Cartography, Gallery 400, Chicago
October:Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute of Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas
of Radical Cartography, LACE, Los Angeles
September: Exhibit
Poster Retrospective (with CLUI), The Smithsonian
American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
June: Pavement
Paradise (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
Feb: Vacation:
Dauphin Island (with CLUI), The Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles
January: Hydromancy (in
collaboration with SIMPARCH), Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center
for the Visual Arts, El Paso
2006
October: Shock
and Awe (with SIMPARCH), Year_06 Art Fair in conjunction
with Frieze Art Fair 2006, London
October: Dissipation
and Disintegration (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
May: Gloom and Doom I (with
SIMPARCH), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art,
Cincinnati
May: Gloom and Doom II (with
SIMPARCH), Arnoff Center for the Arts Gallery, Cincinnati
March : CLUI
Touch-screen Informational Display (with CLUI),
Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
2005
September: Interstate (group
show, with CLUI), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
June: Southern
California Landscape Information Display (with CLUI),
CLUI, Los Angeles
May : Weather
Radio, Materials + Applications / 88.5 FM, Los Angeles
May: Three
Projects Revisited (with CLUI), Columbia University,
Graduate School of Architecture, New York
March: Terminal
Island (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
March : KDRS,
The CLUI Desert Research Station, Hinkley, California
January: Immersed
Remains: Towns Submerged in America (with CLUI),
CLUI, Los Angeles
2004
October : Site:Nonsite:Quartzsite (in
collaboration with AUDC), High Desert Test Sites 2004, Joshua
Tree, California
August: Wendover,
USA (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
May: Emergency
State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training Architecture (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
April: Diversions & Dislocations:
California's Owens Valley (with CLUI), CLUI, Los
Angeles
March: Loop
Feedback Loop: The Big Picture of Traffic Control In Los
Angeles (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
February: A
View into the Pipe: East Central Interceptor Sewer (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
2003
October: The
Nellis Range Complex - Revisited (with CLUI), Ibid
Projects, London
September: Ground-Up:
Photographs of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
July: West
Coast Points: A Linear Portrait from North to South (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
July: The
Best Dead Mall in America: A Photographic Documentation and
Indefinite Installation (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
June: Between
Oregon and Mexico: The California Coastal Records Project (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
February: The Silent Key: Incursions into Knob Culture (Mountain
Radio performance with Mason Cooley) (touring performance) Sheffield,
Glasgow, Brighton, London
February: The
Most Expensive Space in North America, Form + Function group show
(with AUDC), Chapman Univ. -
Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, California
January: Property
in the Harper Lake Basin: A Project of the CLUI Desert Research
Station (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
2002
September: Antarctic
1: Views Along Antarctica's First Highway (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
August: One
Wilshire: Telco Hotel Central (with CLUI), CLUI,
Los Angeles
June: Alternate
Routes: An Aerial Survey of the 'Inland Empire'group show (with CLUI) The California Museum of Photography, The
University of California - Riverside
June: Ecovention – Current Art to Transform Ecologies group
show (with CLUI), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary
Art - Cincinnati
March: Proximity
Issue: The Barricades of the Federal District (with
CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles
January: Genius
Loci (with CLUI), The Southern California Institute
of Architecture (SCIARC) - Los Angeles
January: Genius Loci (Mountain Radio Project performance
with Mason Cooley), (SCIARC) - Los Angeles
January: Lobby
in Rear - DIY lo-fi electronic sounds (Mountain
Radio Project with M. Cooley), The Schindler House & The MAK-Schindler Scholarship Program - Los Angeles
2001
December: Hallucination of Theory, reading (Mountain Radio
performance with M. Cooley), China Art Objects Gallery, Los
Angeles
December: 100 Years of Radio (Mountain Radio performance
with M. Cooley), Lat / Long: 34.08’52” x - 118.26’17”, Los Angeles
August: Back
to the Bay: An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San
Francisco Bay (with CLUI),
The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco
August: Vision Embraces the World (Mountain Radio
performance with M. Cooley), Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles |
SELECTED
PRINT BIBLIOGRAPHY (photographs and/or writings)
2001 - present
The Lay of the Land - CLUI Newsletter
2009
Cities under Siege: The New Military Urbanism - Stephen Graham (author), Verso (Playas, NM photographs);
On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation
in Houston - Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
and Blaffer Gallery
2008
Art Lies (Summer 2008 issue); DAMnº Magazine
2007
An Atlas of Radical Cartography (as SITE-R) - The Journal
of Aesthetics and Protest Press; Desert America: Territory
of Paradox - Ramon Prat, ed., ACTAR Press
2006
Presidential Doodles - Immaterial Incorporated; Overlook:
Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the CLUI - Metropolis Books; Not A Cornfield Document - FarmLab
LLC & The Annenberg Foundation; Cabinet Magazine Issues
20 & 21 - Immaterial Incorporated; Artforum
2005
Cabinet Magazine Issues 16 & 17 - Immaterial Incorporated;
LAFORUM Annual - Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban
Design; other media, including: OnEarth,The Christian Science
Monitor, The New York Times; LA Weekly; Los Angeles Downtown
News; Wired Magazine
2004
Dwell Magazine; Artforum
2001
More & Less #1: Hallucination of Theory - Sylvere Lotringer & Giovanni
Intra, eds., Autonomedia & Art Center College of Design
SELECTED ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY
CLUI, BldgBlog, Not a Cornfield, Artnet, Artinfo, LA Observed,
California State Parks, Online Journalism Review, Curbed
LA, Curbed National, Tropolism, AP News, Pruned, Wikipedia,
Arthur Magazine, CBS2, Canadian Architect, Eye Spy LA, LA.com,
LAist, Ag Online, The College Agricultural Newsletter, Delirious
LA, ArtBlogging LA, MetroBlogging LA, Archinect |