Renate Ferro

Renate Ferro has worked in the areas of emerging technology and culture for the past 15 years. By aligning artistic practice with critical approaches to cyber-configurations, her work takes on varying forms from web-based and time-based media, to sculpture and installation, performance, drawing, and text-based work. Most recently her work has been exhibited at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Hunter College Gallery in New York City, and the Freud Museum in London.

Ferro runs a lab for research and emerging technology, The Tinker Factory, and is managing moderator of the new media listserv titled -empyre-soft_skinned_space that was featured in the documenta 12 magazines project. She has lectured recently in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Seoul, Busan, Lima, and London. Her recent publications include those in Media N, Uncertain Practices/ Unsightly Aesthetics, and Erasure, the Spectre of Cultural Memory.

Ferro received a B.A. from Mercyhurst University, an M.S. from Elmira College, and an M.F.A. from Cornell University. She was a member of the art department faculty from 2004 to 2023 and previously served at the Director of Undergraduate Studies.