Doctor of Design, Harvard University
MPS, New York University (Tisch)
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University

My practice unfolds in the extended fields of mobile media art and landscape studies. I create installations and scholarly writings that variously traverse the terrains of digital media, fine and performing arts, environmental art and design, architecture, landscape and urbanism. Currently I am teaching graduate studios, including DMS561 Network Landscapes and DMS603 Mobile Media Workshop, where we make projects using locative media as we read and discuss theoretical, historical and critical texts from media and cultural studies, architecture and landscape art and design, as well as art theory. I am also interested in critical approaches to landscape representation and the ideology of the map (DMS566 Mapping Embodied Networks).  My newest course is a summer travel course DMS 418/518 On the Road: Media Geographies, launching in 2012!

From a phenomenological perspective, I view landscape, technology and the body as intertwined and mutually constitutive systems. Mobile networks are inherently spatial across the scale of the body, landscape, architecture and infrastructure. As we increasingly interact with and through mobile network media in variously local and global, as well as private and public realms, design problems of an ecological scale and nature arise. Our relationship to culture(s) and the environment – our very sense of “place in the world”- is at stake in the design of interfaces to this “network landscape”. Through practice and theory, I wish to promote an ecological approach to interface art and design that emphasizes the deeply intertwined nature of art, science, technology, the body and the environment.

My practice engages digital, architectural and traditional media and modes of production. A most recent site-specific project, “Elsewhere : Anderswo” is currently on exhibit across two sites in Northern Germany, The Edith Russ Site for Media Art (Oldenburg) and the Springhornhof Kunstverein (Neuenkirchen). Another recent project “Core Sample”, a site-specific installation commissioned by the Boston ICA, received a 2008 Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Digital Musics category. I also recently completed my doctorate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where my research focused on constructions of landscape and subjectivity produced at the liminal thresholds of potential network connectivity.

Emerging from a practice based in site-specific public art, I have created GPS-based interactive sound installations since 1996. Some of the more notable funding sources that have supported my work are the Santa Fe Art Institute / ISEA, Edith Russ Site for New Media (with Klangpol and the Springhornhof Kunstverein), The Banff Center for the Arts, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Artslink, Turbulence.org, and various State Arts Councils. I lecture and present my work widely at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Transmediale, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma Museum, and IRCAM.

Prior to joining the faculty in Media Study I served as Associate Professor (with tenure) and Department Head of the graduate Department of Digital + Media at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) where I was one of two founding faculty members of the department from 2004-2009. Prior to my tenure at RISD I was Associate Professor of Visual Arts (with tenure) at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). I completed my master’s degree at New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program and my bachelor’s degree in Painting, Sculpture and Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University.

My work is documented online at: www.terirueb.net