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Steve Rowell
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Steve Rowell is an artist, curator, and researcher based in Los Angeles. His spatial practice involves overlapping aspects and perceptions of technology, culture, and infrastructure on, beneath, and above the landscape – contextualizing the built and the natural environment, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and cartographer. Photography, video, and audio field recordings are the media of his projects, often exhibited as installations or as public interventions.
In addition to being Program Manager at The Center for Land Use Interpretation since 2001, he collaborates with SIMPARCH and The Office of Experiments.
2012 projects include:
- A visiting artist residency at the University of Applied Art in Vienna where Steve is focusing on a landmarking project stemming from infrastructures of extreme durations and a 2006 quantum teleportation experiment along the Danube River carried out by quantum physicists based in Vienna.
- One of 5 curators of the DC5x5 public art initiative in Washington D.C. in March / April 2012, where Steve brought 5 artist and artist teams from Germany, England, Canada, and the US to D.C. to explore the singular qualities of the Federal District beyond the monumental core with his curatorial project entitled Suspension of Disbelief.
- A residency on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, at the extreme Northeastern corner of North America, in the summer of 2012 which will continue his fieldwork, filming, and research on the topic of historical submarine cables and wireless links between the "Old and New Worlds".
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). |
EXHIBITS
/ EVENTS / PROJECTS (note: repeat, traveling CLUI exhibits do not appear
here)
2012
May: "The Cold Coast Archive" exhibition (with Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén), Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh
March:Suspension of Disbelief curatorial project, DC 5X5 public art initiative, Washington, D.C.
February: "Sites of Monumental Institutional Response to Catastrophe", talk, Association of American Geographers 2012 Annual Meeting, New York
February: "The Cold Coast Archive" video presentation,The Long Now Foundation SALT seminar, San Francisco
2011
November-December: Artist in Residence, The University of Applied Arts Vienna
December: Selected for the DC 5X5 curatorial competition, Washington, D.C.
July: Telegraph (live video broadcast), Field Broadcast: Seven Sunsets, 20:13 EDT 07/28/2011,Washington, D.C.
July: ASAP Kamp Kippy residency, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
June: A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis (article), Afterall, issue 27 - mapping
May: Pre-production of Territorial Nature, a collaborative video installation project with the Office of Experiments
May: Eden's Edge Workshop, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
May: Incidental Soundscapes: High and Low, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts & the Long Now Foundation, San Francisco
May: Hollow Earth (sound installation / performance), Performances in Hansaviertel, TiergartenEins, Berlin
May: Workshop, The College of Fine Arts, Braunschweig
March: Ultimate High Ground (online version), Triple Canopy, New York
February: A Field Guide to Future Island (fieldwork) with Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén, Svalbard, Norway in partnership with Kulturkontakt Nord, the Norsk kulturråd and the Long Now Foundation
January - present: ongoing research / production on underground, think tanks, 'complexes', and monuments in the Federal District region
2010
November - December: Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy, credited as SITE-R),
Saint Étienne International Design Biennial, Saint Étienne, France
July - October: Background Listening Post, Angst in Form, Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany
See this project webpage for more
June : HaSS Visiting Fellowship, Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
May - October: Greater New York 2010 (with An Atlas
of Radical Cartography), P.S.1, New York
May 21-23: TelePort – A Tour of the Lizard’s Landscape of Telecommunication, conference and bus tour,
Falmouth Convention, Cornwall
May: Ultimate High Ground Global Map, Theater of Peace group show, NGBK, Berlin
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March - May: The Sonic Boom Archive, Aural Indicators, Contemporary Conflict Institute, Troy, New York
March 31: Show and (Fore)Tell event, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
March: The Atrocity Exhibition group show, FEINKOST, Berlin
February: American Oil Vol. I audio piece for Framework & Resonance FM, London
January: Contribution to The Redactor (ed. Neal White), for the The Incidental Person exhibition at apexart, New York
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 for Applied Autonomy, credited 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 for Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas
of Radical Cartography, Gallery 400, Chicago
October:Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for 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  |
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AWARDS & HONORS
2011
Acadia Summer Art Program aka: Kamp Kippy residency, Mt. Desert Island, Maine
Fellowship, Landscape Design department, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
2010
HaSS Visiting Fellowship, Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Werkleitz Festival commission, Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle, Germany
2009
The Arts Catalyst commission for Ultimate High Ground, UK project and for The Overt Research Project with The Office of Experiments, London
2008
Ballroom Marfa commission for TX AUX IN, Marfa
2007
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts commission for Hydromancy, El Paso
2006
Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art commission for Gloom & Doom I&II, Cincinnati
The Durfee Foundation Exhibition completion grant
2005
The Institute for Figuring Research grant for Sonic Boom Archive
Texas A&M University Artist residency
2004
Vectors residency at the Annenberg Center for Communication Institute for Multimedia Literacy, University of Southern California
With CLUI
Lucella Award - The Smithsonian American Art Museum; Grants from: The Annenberg Foundation, The LEF Foundation, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Nevada Humanities Committee, The Lannan Foundation, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation |
SELECTED
PRINT BIBLIOGRAPHY (photographs and/or text)
2001 - present
The Lay of the Land - CLUI Newsletter
2011
“A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis”, Afterall, Issue 27: “Mapping”, London, June 2011
“A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis”, republished in Landscape, Vol 1 “Editing Spatial Relations”, Vienna, Autumn/Winter 2011
2010
“A Doubting World? Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower Site Agfa Corporation’s Land for Sale”, The Redactor
(ed. Neal White,) London 2010
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 REVIEW & CATALOG BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Where do Experiments End?”, Geoforum, May 2010, Gail Davies
Angst Hat Grosse Augen, Werkleitz Festival 2010 catalog, Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle, Germany, 2010
Friedensschauplätze / Theater of Peace, Exhibition catalog, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2010
Radical Nature, Exhibition catalog, Barbican Art Gallery, Koenig Books, 2009
“Office of Experiments”, Blueprint, Issue 289, April 2010, Peter Kelly
“Illuminating landscapes”, Afterimage, March 1, 2010, Paul Roberts
Dark Places, exhibition catalog, The Arts Catalyst, SCAN, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2009
On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston, Texas Oil exhibition catalog, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery, 2009
“Immersion in the Land of Oil”, Art Lies, Issue 58 (Summer 2008), Bree Edwards
“Global Issues / Portrait of a Place / CLUI”, DAMnº Magazine, Issue 18, 2008
“The Administrative Sublime, or The Center for Land Use Interpretation”, Afterall, Spring/Summer 2006,Michael Ned Holte
“True beauty: Jeffrey Kastner talks with Matthew Coolidge about the Center for Land Use Interpretation”, ArtForum, Summer 2005, Jeffrey Kastner
“Lords of Muddled Earth - On Site”, ArtForum, January 2004, Daniel Herman
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 |
EVENTS
- GUEST LECTURER / REVIEW BOARD
University College London - Department of Archaeology / Anthropology, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, The University of Dundee, Scotland; The Schindler House (MAK CENTER); Carnegie Mellon University; University of Texas, El Paso (Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art); University of Southern California; California Institute of the Arts; Texas A&M; SCIARC; Art Center; Chapman University |
ASSOCIATIONS
and AFFILIATIONS
The Center For Land Use Interpretation (CLUI); SIMPARCH; The Institute for Applied Autonomy; The Office of Experiments; Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design; Architecture Urbanism Design Collective (AUDC); Dilettante Press; Semiotext[e] |
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