Sketch for Trace TERI RUEB Biographical Statement |
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Teri Rueb is an artist whose practice blends traditional and new media in large-scale interactive
installations that explore issues of time, memory, and the body. In 1999 she launched
"Trace: a memorial environmental sound
installation" along a network of hiking trails in the Canadian Rockies (produced with the
support of the Banff Centre for the Arts New Media and Television Co-Productions, Alberta, Canada).
She is currently working on an interactive sound installation that explores the urban landscape and
psychosocial geography of Baltimore, Maryland. Rueb lectures and exhibits widely in
international and national venues including The International Symposium on Electronic Arts
(Paris, 2000), the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Banff Centre
for the Arts, Bell Laboratories, Interval Research Corporation, and the German National Research
Center for Information Technology (LISTEN, Glasgow, 2001). Rueb is also co-founder of
Utensile Design,
a user-interface design firm that focuses on alternative hardware and software interfaces for people
with special needs.
Rueb's work has been featured and reviewed in diverse publications including I.D. Magazine, Interactivity Magazine and "Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology", edited by Stephen Wilson, MIT Press, 2001. She holds a B.F.A. (University and College Honors, C.F.A. & H.S.S.) in Art and Literary and Cultural Studies from Carnegie Mellon University, and a master's degree in Interactive Telecommunications from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Visual Art at the University of Maryland Baltimore County where she teaches courses in interactivity, experimental interfaces, and the history and theory of imaging and digital art. RECENT PROJECTS The Choreography of Everyday Movement CAIRNS: a series of interactive sound sculptures
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