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NEW MEDIA

CARLOS ROSAS
Associate Professor of Art

Born: Brooklyn, New York
Live: State College, PA and Los Angeles, CA

Bio
Carlos Rosas, has been creating, exhibiting, and publishing new media based work since the mid 90’s during his graduate studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Much of the recent interactive and networked installation work incorporates a range of performative elements, print, video, sound art and multimedia based web publishing. His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, internationally, and throughout the Internet.

Currently, much of the work seeks to mediate experiences that traverse both digital and analog worlds in an attempt to reflect upon transactions and/or distortions that are being ‘digitally filtered’ and how one identifies with these continually evolving conditions. The intent is to formulate a constructive discourse involving the ethos that governs our con temporal existence. The interest in using new media, networks, databases and visualization strategies stems from a continual fascination with localizing these digital and analogue experiences, the blurring of boundaries between their dual-existence and how our lives, environments and cultures are continually being shaped and redefined by the use of technology.
An ongoing internet project he has been developing since 2002, at http://www.emitto.net, functions as an online cultural arts resource, archival database, and collaborative publishing network. Carlos Rosas is currently a Professor of New Media Art at Penn State University where he has taught since 2001, previously he spent 6 years on the Art School Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.

Artist Statement
Much of my recent New Media based work uses techniques, mechanisms, and systems related to or implied by technology to comment upon the effects that our increasingly consumed, digitally driven, new media, speed culture has on society and culture at large. Through the past decade, a recurring theme in much of the work is that efficiency and expediency do not necessarily translate into better conditions, at least not without something being lost or forsaken in translation. In the prevailing immediacy and global framework of the digital age, I feel that the artist's role in identifying with culture and society is more crucial than ever. Art has the unique ability to mirror life and in turn reflects a sense of humanity's future. I find this human relevance to be among my strongest convictions; it is what most compels me to educate and to create art.
The research has been involved in creating and critically investigating installation, new media and technology-driven work for over a decade in a wide range of media forms, on and off-line content, authoring and publishing projects. In new media practice, and in much of my own work, there is a conscious move to liberate work from relying solely on physical space and traditional venues; the publishing of art content for mass viewing via the Internet and consumer-media like the CD, DVD, etc, is commonplace. While much of these works are ephemeral, due to lack of physicality, many others remain archival. Collaboration and cross-discipline, media based productions are also at the core of much of my work and a fixture in my new media art and design practice.

Websites:
Rosas Studio: http://www.overtheedge.net
The Emitto Project: http://www.emitto.net

GALLERY OF ARTWORK