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Lost Prairie Valley

Planetary Bayou

Field Guide to Environmental Crime: Houston and the Oil Coast

Dead Zones

Extinction Simulation Landscapes

Lunar Mosaics

MacDowell Trilogy

Humans Lived Here Once

Whole Life Academy

Comfort in Hydrology


Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys

Water Castle

Radio Aporee Sound Map

Midstream at Twilight

Parallelograms

Arrowhead

Forest Threnody

Big Hill Petro-glyphs

Current State

Points of Presence

Brandenburg Series

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Sonic Boom Archive

Johnston Island Saturday Night

Suspension of Disbelief

Quantum Danube

Telegraph

Culpeper Media Bunker

A Doubting World

“... the floors of silent seas”

Background Listening Post

Regional Spatialities

Dark Places

Ultimate High Ground

American Oil Vol. I

Kleine Stücke von Berlin

TX AUX IN

Playas Townsite

Shepard Inversion Ghost

Hydromancy

Shock + Awe

Gloom & Doom / Tactile Air

Routes of Least
Surveillance


KDRS

Weather Radio

Site: Nonsite: Quartzsite

The Mountain Radio Project

Ballarat: Beneath Sentinel



CLUI Projects

Networked Nation

Perishable

Urban Crude

CLUI Touchscreen

Texas Oil

Wendover, U.S.A.

CLUI Exhibit Posters

Pavement Paradise

Vacation: Dauphin
Island


Dissipation & Disintegration

Terminal Island

Immersed Remains

Diversions & Dislocations

Emergency State

Loop Feedback Loop

A View into the Pipe

Ground Up

Nellis Range - Revisited

West Coast Points

The Best Dead Mall

Property

Antarctic 1

One Wilshire

Alternate Routes

Proximity Issue

Back to the Bay



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Mark

Steve Rowell


CV


MFA with Distinction, University of Oxford
BA, Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin


Awards & Honors



2025
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Grant

2024
McKnight Fellowship in Media Arts

2022
Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Grant
University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment Mini-Grant
 
2021
MacDowell Fellowship, St. Peterborough, New Hampshire

2020
Distinguished Visiting Professorship (Spring 2021), Environmental Studies / Art, University of Minnesota, Morris

2019

Guggenheim Fellowship (film), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York

2018
Groundwork commission, Cornubian Arts & Science Trust, Cornwall, UK
ART SAFIENTAL commission, Alps Art Academy, Switzerland

2017
Faculty Development Award, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City

2016
Erna Plachte Scholarship Award, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford

2015
O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Scripps College, Claremont
Visiting artist, Art + Technology program, University of Florida, Gainesville
Artist fellowship, Villa Aurora, Berlin
Artist residency, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin
Artist residency, Pitzer College, Claremont

2013
Creative Capital Award, Emerging Fields: Interdisciplinary
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts: Film, Video
Provisions research residency, Washington, D.C.

2012
Fogo Island artist residency, Newfoundland
Visiting Professor, Graduate Media Arts Practices, ArtCenter, Pasadena
DCCAH 5x5 curatorial commission, Washington D.C.

2011
Visiting artist fellowship, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Acadia Summer Arts Program artist residency, Mt. Desert Island, ME

2010
Visiting artist fellowship, Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Werkleitz Festival commission, Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle, Germany

2009
Arts Catalyst commission for Ultimate High Ground, UK project, London

2008
Ballroom Marfa commission for TX AUX IN, Marfa

2007
Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts commission for Hydromancy, El Paso

2006
Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art commission for Gloom & Doom I&II, Cincinnati

2006
The Durfee Foundation Exhibition completion grant

2005
The Institute for Figuring research grant for Sonic Boom Archive
Visiting artist fellowship, Texas A&M University

2004
Vectors residency at the Annenberg Center for Communication Institute for Multimedia Literacy, USC

2001-2007 Grants and awards in collaboration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation:The Annenberg Foundation, The LEF Foundation, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, The Los Angeles County Arts Commission, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Nevada Humanities Committee, The Lannan Foundation, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, The Smithsonian American Art Museum


Links


https://creative-capital.org/projects/uncanny-sensing-remote-valleys/

https://www.gf.org/fellows/steve-rowell/
http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5017?body_class=grantee&mode=overview
https://archive.transmediale.de/content/parallelograms
https://jsma.uoregon.edu/SteveRowell
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/106743/placing-the-golden-spike-landscapes-of-the-anthropocene/
https://www.fogoislandarts.ca/steve-rowell/
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/09/13/steve-rowell-speaks-about-uncanny-sensing-at-inova/
https://www.vatmh.org/en/fellowship-berlin.html
https://www.zku-berlin.org/people/steve-rowell/
https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Flash--Steve-Rowell/2C3B100675232D21
https://www.mocp.org/exhibition/petcoke-project/
https://indicators.stormking.org/about/
https://mcachicago.org/Exhibitions/2013/The-Way-Of-The-Shovel-Art-As-Archaeology
https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2014/02/Steve-Rowell
https://www.antenna.works/insurgent-ecologies/


Teaching, Fellowships, & Workshops


Please contact me for a current teaching CV


Lectures & Seminars


2021
Dead Zones, University of Houston
Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys conversation with Emily Eliza Scott, Assistant Professor of Art History and Environmental Studies, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
The Cold Coast Archive lecture, University of Minnesota, Morris

2020
Ways of Reading symposium, KADIST and e-flux, New York City

2019
The Whole Life Academy, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

2018
Alps Art Academy, Switzerland

2017
Visiting artist talk - ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Department of Architecture, Zurich
Guest Lecturer - Stanford University Overseas Program, Oxford, England

2016
Visiting artist talk - University of Houston, Houston
Panelist - Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy symposium, MoCP, Chicago
Visiting artist talk - Spencer Mueum of Art, Lawrence
Opening presentation and discussion with Brian Holmes - transmediale 2016, Berlin

2015
Fellowship presentation - Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin
Visiting Artist talk - Art + Technology program, University of Florida, Gainesville
O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship talk - Scripps College, Claremont, IL
Panelist and Visiting Artist workshop - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

2014
Visiting Artist talk - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Visiting Artist talk - Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, IL
Visiting Artist lecture - University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

2013
Department of Art History, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Department of Art, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI
Institute of Visual Art, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Department of Art, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Department of Art & Art History, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
Obermann Center for Interdisciplinary Research, School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Network Architecture Lab, Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
College Art Association 2013 Annual Conference, New York, NY

2012
Graduate Media Design Practices, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA  
American Association of Geographers 2012 Annual Conference, New York
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C.
Fogo Island Arts, Fogo, Newfoundland, Canada

2011
Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig, Germany
School of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria  

2010
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Department of Geography, University College London, London, England
University College Falmouth, Falmouth, England
The Program, Berlin, Germany
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England

2009
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, England
The Program, Berlin, Germany

2008
College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2007
School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
TELIC, Los Angeles, CA

2005
College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX  

2004
The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARC), Los Angeles, CA

2003
Chapman College, Orange, CA

2002
California Institute of the Arts (CAL ARTS), Valencia, CA


Review Board & Committee


  • Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
  • Department of Art & Art History, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
  • School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
  • Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 
  • School of Architecture, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria 
  • The College of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
  • MAK - Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA
  • College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 
  • The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARC), Los Angeles, CA


Bibliography


Please contact me for a current bibliography (2016-present).

  • "Office of Experiments: Overt Research Project" (with Neal White), The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Research Methods, Routledge, 2016,
  • “Artist Project: Steve Rowell, Parallelograms”, Cabinet Magazine, No. 52, Spring 2014
  • “Peaks and Nulls: Supersonic Amplitudes in the Airspace above the Mojave Desert”, Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations, Volume 3, Spring 2013
  • Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine, Cabinet Books, 2012
  • “Quantum Danube”, Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations, Volume 2, Summer/Autumn 2012
  • “A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis”, Afterall, issue 27 - Mapping, June 2011
  • "Traffic: Blocking All Lanes," in The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, edited by Kazys Varnelis, 102-117. Barcelona and New York: Actar, 2008. (with Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton)
  • “Routes of Least Surrveillance” map, An Atlas of Radical Cartography (credited as “SITE-R”, with the Institute of Applied Autonomy) - The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007
  • Not A Cornfield Document - FarmLab LLC & The Annenberg Foundation, 2007
  • “Blocking All Lanes: Sig-Alerts, Detection Loops, and the Management of Traffic”, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 17, 2005, co-authored with Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton,
  • “Twilight Capitol”, Forum Annual 2004, Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 2004Review & Catalog Bibliography
  • Points of Presence for Way of the Shovel reviews pending
  • Uncanny Sensing (WI Prototype), Third Coast Daily, August, 2013
  • Interview with Régine Debatty, we-make-money-not-art, May, 2012
  • Where do Experiments End?”, Geoforum, May 2010, Gail Davies
  • Angst Hat Grosse Augen, Werkleitz Festival 2010 catalog, Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle, Germany, 2010
  • Friedensschauplätze / Theater of Peace, Exhibition catalog, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, 2010
  • Radical Nature, Exhibition catalog, Barbican Art Gallery, Koenig Books, 2009
  • “Office of Experiments”, Blueprint, Issue 289, April 2010, Peter Kelly
  • “Illuminating landscapes”, Afterimage, March 1, 2010, Paul Roberts
  • Dark Places, exhibition catalog, The Arts Catalyst, SCAN, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2009
  • On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston, Texas Oil exhibition catalog, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery, 2009
  • “Immersion in the Land of Oil”, Art Lies, Issue 58 (Summer 2008), Bree Edwards
  • “Global Issues / Portrait of a Place / CLUI”, DAMnº Magazine, Issue 18, 2008
  • "Dwelling the the State of Exception", Drain, Issue 9 (Cruelty), Kim Paice, 2007
  • “True beauty: Jeffrey Kastner talks with Matthew Coolidge about the CLUI”, ArtForum, Summer 2005, Jeffrey Kastner
  • “Lords of Muddled Earth - On Site”, ArtForum, January 2004, Daniel Herman


Select Photographic Bibliography

Please contact me for a current photo bibliography (2016-present).

  • “Suburban Futurism”, Art in America, December 2016, Gavin Kroeber
    Vertical: The City From Above and Below, Stephen Graham, Verso, 2016
  • "Archives of the Present-Future: On Climate Change and Representational Breakdown"
    The Avery Review, issue 16, Emily Eliza Scott, Columbia GSAPP Books on Architecture, 2016
  • "Office of Experiments: Overt Research Project" (Steve Rowell with Neal White), The Ashgate Research Companion to Military Research Methods, Ashgate, 2016,
  • “Parallel Worlds: Sites of Influence and Power in the Federal District”, Cabinet Magazine, January 2014
  • The Lay of the Land, CLUI Newsletter, CLUI, 2001 to present
  • “The Incomplete Illusion: Photographing the Training Ground”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 292-300, Ruth Dusseault, 2013
  • One Hundred Places You Will Never Visit, Dan Smith, Quercus Publishing, 2012
  • “Quantum Danube”, Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations, Volume 2, Summer/Autumn 2012
  • “A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis”, Afterall, issue 27 - Mapping, Steve Rowell, 2011
  • Cities under Siege: The New Military Urbanism, Stephen Graham, Verso, 2010
  • “US-Shopping Malls: Untergang der Konsumtempel”, Spiegel Online, September 29, 2009
  • "Traffic: Blocking All Lanes," in The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, edited by Kazys Varnelis, 102-117. Barcelona and New York: Actar, 2008. (Steve Rowell with Sean Dockray and Fiona Whitton)
  • “The Administrative Sublime, or The Center for Land Use Interpretation”, Afterall, Spring/Summer 2006, Michael Ned Holte
  • Desert America: Territory of Paradox, Ramon Prat, ed., ACTAR Press, 2006
  • Presidential Doodles, Immaterial Inc, David Greenberg, Basic Books, 2006
  • Overlook: Exploring the Internal Fringes of America with the CLUI, CLUI, Metropolis Books, 2006
  • “Lords of Muddled Earth - On Site”, ArtForum, January 2004, Daniel Herman
  • “Directions; Putting the Culture in Agriculture”, The New York Times, Erika Kinetz, October 30, 2005
  • Hallucination of Theory, Sylvere Lotringer & Giovanni Intra, eds., Art Center College of Design, 2001
Mark