Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello is a visual and sound artist. Originally a punk guitarist he is influenced by video artist Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991. He has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud, and Frances-Marie Uitti as well as visual artists Julie Mehretu, Tony Oursler and Joan Jonas.
Vitiello was a resident artist at the World Trade Center in 1999 where he recorded sounds from the 91st floor using home-built contact microphones,[1] as well as photocells and used that material in his Bright and Dusty Things album (New Albion Records) as well as in an installation environment, World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd.[1] Vitiello has had solo exhibitions of sound installations, photographs and drawings at museums and galleries including The Project, NY, MASS MoCA, the High Line, Museum 52, Los Angeles and Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. Group exhibitions include Soundings: A Contemporary Score at the Museum of Modern Art, the 2002 Whitney Biennial,[1] the 2006 Sydney Biennale and Ce qui arrive (Unknown Quantity) curated by Paul Virilio at the Cartier Foundation, Paris. CD releases include The Sound of Red Earth (Kaldor Public Art Projects), Box Music with Machinefabriek (12k), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), The Gorilla Variations (12k), and Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls). Vitiello is currently a professor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University.[2]
Collaborations
Vitiello has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously)[3] Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, Steve Roden, Taylor Deupree, Lawrence English, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Jem Cohen[4] to name a few.
Awards
Vitiello has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts, Creative Capital funding in the category of Emerging Fields, and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music. Residencies include the Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL, the Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland and at MIT.
References
- 1 2 3 "The 2002 Whitney Biennial". Brooklyn Rail. early summer 2002. Retrieved 2010-02-01. Check date values in:
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(help) - ↑ "VCU Kinetic Imaging Faculty". Virginia Commonwealth University. Retrieved 2010-04-06.
- ↑ Harald Bode, Carrier Band, Andrew Deutsch, James Fei, Aaron Miller, Scanner, Steina Vasulka, Stephen Vitiello
- ↑ "Tony Oursler, Constance DeJong, Stephen Vitiello: Fantastic Prayers". Dia Art Foundation. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
External links
- Artist Homepage
- Artkrush.com interview with Stephen Vitiello (January 2006)
- Sound files to stream and download
- Stephen Vitiello: Listening With Intent documentary
- Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello in Bomb