Stephanie Owens

Stephanie Owens
156 109th street, #2
New York, NY 10029
cell: 917.825.1211
www.wallflowermedia.com
e-mail: s@wallflowermedia.com

Stephanie Owens is an inter-disciplinary artist who explores the paradoxical relationship between materiality and representation. In her painting, installation and digital work, she has focused on notions of system failures, muteness, absence and the post-representational tension between form and content. Ultimately all of her work addresses questions about the nature of human expression within restrictive systems and the gap between systemic logic and our experience.

Ms. Owens has worked commercially as a designer, where she developed a series of projects dedicated to using web technologies to connect local communities to larger global networks. She was the designer and media consultant for "Rights Alert," a broadband Web site for ³Witness,² a
documentary video organization founded by Peter Gabriel. She is also the designer of "Mapping New Terrains: Communities in Transition," a web initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council that tracks the transformation of Central Harlem. Most recently, Ms. Owens has co-founded the storefront new media space in East Harlem, NY, "MediaNoche" which is dedicated to context-specific media and network-based art projects.

Currently Ms. Owens is an instructor of new media at Parsons School of Design, Graduate Department of Design and Technology in New York City. She has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited as an artist and designer in New York, Europe and Asia. Most recently, she has exhibited her work in the First Beijing International New Media Arts
Exhibition in Beijing, China and will exhibit her work this July at SIGGRAPH 2005 in Los Angeles.

"Liquid Eden: The Discreet Paradise of Networks,"
a real-time, networked digital installation, 2004