Faculty Profile

Renate Ferro (US) has worked in the areas of emerging technology and culture for the past ten years. By aligning artistic practice with critical approaches to cyber-configurations, her work takes the form of web-based projects, time-based media, installation, performance, drawing, and text-based work. Most recently her work has been exhibited at the Freud Museum (England), United Arab Emirates, Janus Pannonius Muzeum (Pecs, Hungary), FOMMA (San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapis, Mexico), Free University of Berlin (Berlin), Harvestworks (New York), Dorsky Gallery (New York), Chicago City Arts (Chicago), Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (Los Angeles), Apex Art (New York), AWOL (Toronto, Canada), Tsing Hua University (Beijung, China), Hang Zhou Museum of Fine Arts (China).

Renate runs a lab for research design, The Tinker Factory, and is managing moderator of the new media listserv -empyre-soft_skinned_space, featured in the Documentary 12 Magazine Project. She recently has lectured in England, South  Korea, Hungary, France, Canada, and the U.S. She has served as Art Editor of Diacritics and published art and writing in Diacritics, Theatre Journal, Epoch, and Uncertain Aesthetics, ed. Brandon LaBelle and Maria Miranda. Before working with emerging technology, Ferro worked in the area of two-dimensional mixed media. Her print work is represented in collections in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Australia. She has been teaching in the Department of Art at Cornell University since 2004.

• ART 1701 Electronic Imaging
• ART 2702 / ART 3702 Digital Video and Sound
• ART 3702 Special Topics: Relational Art / Media / Movement
• ART 3703 Advanced Projects in Time-Based Art
• ART 3101 Contemporary Art

• "Tinkering with the Archive: Pathways to Conceptual Thought and Digital Practice" (with Tim Murray), Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference, UC-Irvine (2009)

• "Panic Hits Home / The Horror Show" (group exhibition), Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY (2009)
• "Panic Hits Home" (website network digital still), Shavis Art Network, http://shavis.com/ (2008)
• "Facing Panic/ Cornell Faculty Show," (group exhibition), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2008)

• The Tinker Factory
• Empyre