Stephanie Rothenberg: Outlook: Untitled
Mar 30, 2010–Mar 10, 2011
Stephanie Rothenberg: Outlook: Untitled
Stephanie Rothenberg, screenshot of Outlook: Untitled at sunset, 2010
Outlook: Untitled by artist Stephanie Rothenberg referenced the world economic crisis of 2010 with a frenzy of faux pop-up advertisements that take over the screen space of whitney.org at sunrise and sunset. The advertisements are interrupted by a spinning globe that turns into a Magic 8 Ball fortune-telling game, inviting visitors to “try me.” The Magic 8 Ball delivers ambiguous messages or cryptic advice about the possibilities of shaping economic structures or affecting the state of the world with the click of a button. Outlook: Untitled employs the strategies of a mediated internet culture in which meaning is delivered instantaneously in visual packets of bits and bytes while at the same time generating messages that disrupt and question that meaning.
Flash programming by Jose Raymond Rodriguez-Rosario.
Stephanie Rothenberg (b. 1967; Newark, NJ) works in both traditional mediums and digital formats to explore emerging economies and their underlying sociopolitical impact.
Rothenberg has exhibited internationally in venues and festivals including the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art); Eyebeam, New York; the Sundance Film Festival; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; HEK (House of Electronic Arts), Basel, Switzerland; LABoral, Gijón, Spain; Transmediale, Berlin; and ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany. She has received awards from Creative Capital (2009), the Harpo Foundation (2011), and the New York State Council on the Arts (2023), among others. She has been an artist-in-residence at ZK/U in Berlin, Tokyo Arts and Space, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Eyebeam, and the Santa Fe Art Institute, among others. Her work has been widely reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic. She is a professor of art at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York.
Sunrise/Sunset
Sunrise/Sunset was a series of internet art projects that marked sunset and sunrise in New York City every day from 2009 to 2024. All were commissioned by the Whitney specifically for whitney.org, each project unfolding over a time frame of ten to thirty seconds. Indicating the switch from day to night and vice versa in one specific location, Sunrise/Sunset projects played with the perception of time and space, underscoring the physical location of the Whitney and the global accessibility of virtual environments.
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