Stephen Vitiello is an American
visual artist and
.
[[1] Stephen Vitiello bio at Fluent Collab] Originally a
punk rock guitarist, he is influenced by
Nam June Paik who he worked with after meeting in 1991. He has collaborated with
Pauline Oliveros,
Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Steve Roden 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,[ Vitiello has had 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 at the Museum of Modern Art, the 2002 Whitney Biennial,][ the 2006 Sydney Biennale and Ce qui arrive (Unknown Quantity) curated by Paul Virilio at the Cartier Foundation, Paris. CD and LP releases include Captiva with Taylor Deupree (12k), The Sound of Red Earth (Kaldor Public Art Projects), Box Music with Machinefabriek (12k), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), The Gorilla Variations (12k), Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls) and Second, with Brendan Canty and Hahn Rowe (Balmat). Vitiello is currently a professor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University.]
Collaborations
Vitiello has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously),[[2] Charles Sage interview with Stephen Vitiello]
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.
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