RENATE FERRO
BIOGRAPHY
Renate Ferro is a conceptual artist working in emerging technology and culture. Her artistic practice reflects critical interactivity incorporating social and theoretical paradigms of the psychological and sociological condition with networks of technology. At the heart of her most recent research interests, Ferro critically engages the corporal body’s symbiotic relationship with technology. By aligning artistic, creative practice with critical approaches to cyber configurations, she permits emerging creative skins of networks and resources whose resulting configurations range from drawing and text to performance, installation, and interactive,and net-based projects.
Most recently her work has been featured at The Dorksy Gallery (NY), The Hemispheric Institute and FOMMA (Mexico), The Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Hungary), and The Free University Berlin (Germany). Her work has been published in such journals as Diacritics, Theatre Journal, and Epoch. She is a co-moderator for the online new media list serve -EMPYRE-soft-skinned space and the art/imaging editor of the journal DIACRITICS published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Renate Ferro is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University teaching digital media and theory. She also directs the Tinker Factory, a creative research lab for Research Design, Creativity, and Interdisciplinary Technology.