Adrianne Wortzel

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Birthyear
1941
Currently based
New York, NY
Affiliated institution
New York City College of Technology, Entertainment Technology and Emerging Media Technologies, Professor Emeritus
Documented / archived by
Laura Durante and Eliana Colachis Glass
About

Adrianne Wortzel has worked in the field of robotic and telerobotic art for over five decades. Her works combine historic and cultural perspectives with fictive narrative to deploy that considered mix in several genres: robotic and telerobotic performance productions, films, drawings, texts, artist’s books, photography, and online interactive works. Her work renders aspects of how humans relate to machines and how the arc of technological advances emerge, become pervasive, spawn the next invention and eventually, is, in itself rendered obsolete. Her work celebrates the beauty and beastliness of invention, narrating the human condition by framing individual moments in the limelight of technological invention over time.

Support for her work includes the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Science Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, NYS Council on the Arts, and Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Exhibition venues include the Asheville Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Ars Electronica (Austria), and Modern Museet (Stockholm). Residency awards include Swiss Artists in Labs Award at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Zurich, Eyebeam Atelier, Thoughtworks Arts Residency and Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Collections include Whitney Museum of American Art, Duke University Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Harvard University Artist’s Book Collection, Pratt Institute Artists’ Book Collection, the Morgan Library and Museum in New York.

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COLLECTIONS

2023 SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York, NY, Collection of created and designed HTML Websites from 1996 commissioned by Matthew Drutt

2023 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE, Irvine, CA, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Squid

2023 PRIVATE COLLECTION, London, UK, Collection of etching aquatint prints, Corinthian Capital 1, Corinthian Capital 2, Corinthian Capital 3, Corinthian Capital 4

2022 MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Morsel

2022 HARVARD UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS LIBRARY ARTISTS’ BOOKS COLLECTION, Boston, MA, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Shark

2022 PRATT INSTITUTE LIBRARIES ARTISTS’ BOOKS COLLECTION, Brooklyn, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Toad

2022 SUSAN WEIL COLLECTION, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL Volume: Anemone

2022 MICHELLE VAUGHN AND FELIX SALMON COLLECTION, New York, NY, Acquisition of SEE NO EVIL framed original drawing

2017 FRANKLIN FURNACE ARCHIVE OF ARTIST’S BOOKS AT FRANKLIN FURNACE AND MOMA, Brooklyn, NY, Acquisition of SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story

2015 DUKE UNIVERSITY DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION, Durham, NC, Acquisition of the electronic and physical manifestations of SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story

2014 DUKE UNIVERSITY DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COLLECTION, Durham, NC, Acquisition of the electronic and physical manifestations of The Electronic Chronicles, 1995 Thesis and Thesis Project for MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts

2013 PRIVATE COLLECTION, USA, Collection of DIORAMAS

2006 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, ARTPORT, New York, NY, Archive of digital webwork: Veils of Transference

1996 WALKER ART CENTER DIGITAL STUDIES ARCHIVE, Minneapolis, MN, Archive of Audio/Video weekly world wide web broadcast: Pseudo Programs: Art Dirt

1993 MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER, Cambridge, MA

1993 ROGER AND JOAN SONNABEND COLLECTION, Boston, MA

1990 READERS DIGEST COLLECTION, New York, NY

1986 MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm, Sweden

1986 AMERICAN RESEARCH CENTER IN EGYPT, Cairo, Egypt

1986 TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART, Tucson, AZ

1982 CITY OF LUND, Lund, Sweden, Painting on paper

1980 NEW YORK STATE COLLECTION, Albany, NY

1980 RED GROOMS COLLECTION, New York, NY

1967 ESTATE OF AD REINHARDT, New York, NY

GRANTS, HONORS AND RESIDENCIES

2018–2019 THOUGHTWORKSARTS RESIDENCY, New York, NY, Artist in Residence and Stipend, Development of The Sentient Thespian

2019 MAUSER ECO HOUSE ARTIST’S RESIDENCY, Parrita, Costa Rica, Artist in Residence, Development of drawing and text for SEE NO EVIL

2017 DORA MAAR FOUNDATION RESIDENCY, Menérbes, France, Artist in Residence, The Brown Foundation Fellows Program and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Development of drawings and text for SEE NO EVIL

2015 NEW YORK FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AWARD IN FICTION, New York, NY, Awardee, SOLACE AND PERPETUITY, a life story

2014 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL STUDY CENTER, Santa Fe, NM, Scholar in Residence, Research, book and performance production for The Eye of the Storm Has the Warmest Temperature

2014 WILDACRES RESIDENCY PROGRAM, Little Switzerland, NC, Artist in Residence, EX SITU: Colony Relocation for Electronic Detritus

2012 SCIENCE AND ART RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS (SARC), Los Alamos National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos, NM, Artist in Residence

2011–2012 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY RESEARCH GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee, Whirled War

2010–2011 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS CUNY RESEARCH GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee, Re-enactment of the Battle of the Pyramids

2009 ARLES-SUR-TECH RESIDENCY, Arles, FR, Artist in Residence, Les Visages

2008 EYEBEAM ART AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER, New York, NY, Artist in Residence, Awardee of $7,000 for the Battle of the Pyramids project

2006 GREENWALL FOUNDATION GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee of $10,000, Development of Eliza Redux

2006 NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS (NYSCA), New York, NY, Awardee of $5,000, Postproduction of archipelago.ch

2005–2006 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, Awardee of $44,000, Research and Development of Innovative Multi-Use Devices for Telerobotics, Theater and Interactive Performance.

2005 FRANKLIN FURNACE, Brooklyn, NY, Awardee, Declared a Franklin Furnace Inc. “Visionary Artist”

2005 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: ARTPORT, New York, NY, Awardee, Gate Artist Commission, Veils of Transference

2004 SWISS ARTIST-IN-LAB RESIDENCY AWARD, University of Zurich, Zurich, CH, Awardee, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Department of Informatics

2003 FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART AWARD, Brooklyn, NY, Awardee, Eliza Redux and The Veils of Transference

2003 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, P.I. Awardee of $26,500, Research Lab And Webcasting Studio For Live And In-Demand Streaming Video to Mobile Devices

2002 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOLAR ON CAMPUS AWARD, City University of New York, New York, NY, Awardee

2002 GRADUATE RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE, City University of New York, New York, NY, P.I. Awardee of $13,475, Mobile Lab For Dissemination Of Content For Webcasting, Wireless Devices And Display Technologies

2001 CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FROM THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK ON THE OCCASION OF SALUTE TO SCHOLARS, New York, NY, Awardee, Outstanding scholarly achievements and contributions to the creation and transmittal of knowledge

2004 & 2005 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Eliza Redux

2002 & 2003 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Machine Book

2000 & 2001 PROFESSIONAL STAFF CONGRESS, CUNY RESEARCH GRANTS, New York, NY, Awardee, Pangaea • Pangaea

2000–2001 NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AWARD #9980873, New York, NY, Awardee of $50,000 matching grant, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art - Robotics and Theater, Robotic Renaissance Project

1998 ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND FILM PROGRAM OF THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY, Awardee, Production of Sayonara Diorama

1997 & 1998 POLAR CIRCUIT ARTISTS RESIDENCIES, Tornio School of Media, Lapland, FI, Artist in Residence, Moo Theatre Worldwide: Kalevala

1994 LILA ACHESON FUND: WALLACE FOUNDATION WORKSHOP, Awardee for – Inventiveness In Writing, Workshop lead by Walter Abish, Readers Digest Fund and Cooper Union

1992 ROBERT BLACKBURN PRINT STUDIO, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship to work with master printer Marjorie Van Dyke on etching series, Corinthian Capital, Ba Bird, Ba Ba Black Bird, Rosetta Takes Wing, Ornamental Molding, No Place Like House, Rosetta Spinwheel, Sitting Duck

1990 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG FOUNDATION CHANGE, INC. GRANT, New York, NY, Awardee

1988 THE PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship

1981 NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP, New York, NY, Artist Fellowship, Graphics

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS and PRESENTATIONS

2023 ACM SIGRRAPH: SPARKS, New York, NY, Artist Presenter, Robotic Art: Social and Aestheic Dimensions, Session 2: Performativity and Otherness, What’s love got to do with it?

2023 PARKBENCH, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Artist Presenter, Celebrating Nina Sobell, Emily Hartzell and Franklin Furnace, Aye Eye and Sayonara Diorama

2022 CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, New York, NY, Artist Speaker on SEE NO EVIL in conjunction with the exhibition “DAILY RITUAL”, Curated by Amanda McDonald Crowley

2013 THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presentation, sponsored by Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University and the Institute for Women & Art, Rutgers University, momentum Women/Art/Technology

2013 HOLDEN LUNTZ GALLERY, Palm Beach, FL, Guest Artist Speaker, Diorama Works

2012 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Co-hosted by the Cooper Union student chapters of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Engineering Art

2012 THE BRADBURY MUSEUM, Los Alamos, NM, Presentation in conjunction with SARC at “The Next Big Idea” conference

2012 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Albuquerque, NM, SARC Panel Participant, Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations, Machine Wilderness

2012 LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY, Los Alamos, NM, Science and Art Research Collaborations (SARC) Panel Participant and Presentation

2012 SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, Science and Art Research Collaborations (SARC) Panel Participant and Presentation

2012 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ELECTRONIC ARTS, Istanbul, Turkey, Paper Presentation, Place in Mind: A Dynamic Memory Palace

2006 50TH ANNIVERSARY SUMMIT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Monte Verita, Switzerland, Keynote Speaker, archipelago.ch: The Dynamic Diorama

2005 CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE AN INTERACTION IN ANIMALS, ROBOTS AND AGENTS, University of Hertfordshire, England, UK, Presentation and Publication: AISB2005, Co-authored with Dr. Daniel Bisig, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Information Technology, University of Zurich, Narrative In Robotic Scenarios For Art Works

2005 MARJORIE L. AND RONALD E. BRANDON ART AND CULTURE TALKS, University Art Museum at SUNY, Albany, NY, Lecturer, Artificial Strife: Differentiation And Otherness In Robotic Entities

2002 COLLABORATING WITH TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE, Union College, Schenectady, NY, Keynote Speaker, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Travel/Speakers, Stepping Lively In A World Of Dynamic Cartography

2002 BANFF NEW MEDIA CENTER, Banff, Alberta, BC, Panel Participant and Presentation, Artificial Stupidity/Artificial Intelligence, Presentation On Robotics And Theater: The Robotic Theater At Cooper Union

2002 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Brooklyn, NY, Honorary Speaker: Address to Honors Students, Spies, Lies And Remote Control: Will Robots Take Over The World?

2002 CUNY WIRED CONFERENCE, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presentation, Utilizing And/Or Developing New Technologies

2001 SONY WONDER TECHNOLOGY LAB, New York, NY, Panel of artists on the exhibition Data Dynamics at The Whitney Museum of American Art: Camouflagetown

2000 SIGRRAPH NATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Orleans, LA, Panel Participant, Fiction 2000 - Art + Culture Papers Panel

2000 UNIVERSAL CONCEPTS UNLIMITED GALLERY (UCU), New York, NY, Panel Participant, Panel moderated by Joseph Nechvatal with Thyrza Goodeve and D.J. Spooky, The Viractual

2000 COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, New York, NY, Panel Participant and Presenter, Session Speaker: Co-chairs: Barbara London, Museum of Modern Art, Kathy Rae Huffman, Director-IEAR Program Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Social Simulation In The Digital Domain

1999 MEDIEVAL WORLD MAP CONFERENCE, Hereford Cathedral, UK, Presenter, The Monstrous Races In Sayonara Diorama, The Ideological Mapping Of The World As Theater

1999 THE NEW SCHOOL SPECIAL PROGRAMS, VERA LIST CENTER FOR ART AND POLITICS, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Panel moderated by Robert Atkins, The On-Line Art World: A Work In Progress

1999 ASCI CYBERART99, New York, NY, Panel Participant, Pressing Issues From Field & Industry

1999 5TH PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE99, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK, Artist Presenter, Sayonara Diorama

1997 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Chicago, IL, Panel Participant, Panel organized by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Re-Forming Narrative: Performance, Collaboration, Play

1996 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS (ISEA), Rotterdam, NL, Lecture and Presentation, Medieval Cartography And The Ideological Mapping Of Cyberspace


JUROR & PEER REVIEWER

2006 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF ELECTRONIC ARTISTS SYMPOSIUM (ISEA), San Jose, CA, Juror, Best Emerging Artwork

2005 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT ALBANY, DEPARTMENT OF ART, Albany, NY, Critiques of work of Candidates for the Masters Degree

2004 FIRST PERSON, M.I.T. Press, Respondent Edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan

2004 COMPUTER LIB / DREAM MACHINES: 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION, M.I.T. Press, Peer Reviewer, Author: Ted Nelson, Editor: Noah Wardrip-Fruin


2004–2007 LIVE ART AND SCIENCE ON THE INTERNET LEONARDO, M.I.T. Press, Peer Reviewer, Guest Editor: Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace

2001 MAKING WAVES, Hunter College, City University of New York,
New York, NY, Host and Juror, 3rd National Student Festival for Film, Video and New Media,

2001 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ARTS AND CULTURE CONFEREANCE (DAC2001), Providence, RI, Juror

2000 SIGGRAPH NATIONAL CONFERENCE, New Orleans, LA, Juror, Fiction 2000 – Art + Culture Papers Panel

1999 NYC/ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, NY, Juror and Peer Reviewer, Surfing the Next Wave: Internet and Multimedia

1999 THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART AWARDS, New York, NY, Juror

1999 THE FIRST NYU PRESS PRIZE FOR HYPERFICTION, New York, NY, Co-Juror with Stuart Moulthrop
CATALOGUES

2003 AREALE99, ART IN THE INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, Ein Projekt von Kunstplug e.V. in Kooperation mit der Akademie der Kunste und regionalen Firmen

1997 ARS ELECTRONICA, FLESFHFACTOR: Globe Theater: Robotic Pageant, Act II, Scene 2: Machine Nostalgia

EDUCATION

1995 THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, M.F.A., Computer Art

1967 HUNTER COLLEGE, Varied Painting Courses

1963 BROOKLYN COLLEGE, B.A., Fine Arts with Honors

1956–1963 THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM ART SCHOOL, Scholarship Student, Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Instructors included Tom Doyle, Reuben Kadish, Reuben Tam and Isaac Soyer

TEACHING

2003–2012 THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY, New York, NY, Faculty Member: Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program for PhD Candidates, Co-taught: Theory, Design and Practice

1998–2015 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Professor: Entertainment Technology, Emerging Media Technologies

1997–2006 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, Adjunct Instructor: Mechanical Engineering, Co-creator and co-instructor: Interdisciplinary courses for EID111: Design, Illusion and Reality: Semester Topics included: Inventing the Inventor, Cities, Bridges, Robotic Visions and Theater; Robotic Visions and Theater, Co-taught Michael Schneider; Self-Replicating Habitats Co-taught with Ericson Mar

1996 – 1998 SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York, NY, MFA Photo and Related Media Department, Instructor: The Networked Aesthetic – Art and Telecommunication Projects

1995 – 1998 THE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART, New York, NY, School of Art, Adjunct Instructor: Advanced Computer Techniques

1995–1996 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF ARTS, GRADUATE FILM AND TV, New York, NY, Co-taught with Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Writing Pluralistic Narrative for New Media

1992 NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, New York, NY, Department of Humanities, Adjunct Professor of Art History
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