Newcastle University

Artist, photographer and researcher Steven Rowell, well known for his work with LA-based Center for Land-Use Interpretation (CLUI), will be visiting Newcastle University between June 7th and July 2nd, 2010. As well as undertaking research on North East landscapes and giving lectures and workshops, Steven will be engaging with scholars in four of the Schools in the University’s Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (Architecture, Planning and Landscape; Geography, Politics and Sociology; Arts and Cultures and English Literature, Language and Linguistics). Steve will also be leading two day-long bus tours around sites in the North East.

Steven Rowell is an artist and researcher currently based in Berlin, working with photography as well as with audio and video recordings captured in the field. He examines technology and infrastructure on, beneath, and above the landscape, contextualizing the built and the natural environment, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and cartographer. In addition to his own practice he collaborates with The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), SIMPARCH and The Office of Experiments.

As part of CLUI, Steve's work has been exhibited internationally at a range of galleries and museums including: The 2006 Whitney Biennial; Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York; Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; The Barbican Art Centre, IBID Projects, and Between Bridges, London. With SIMPARCH, his work has exhibited at The Ballroom, Marfa, TX and Year_06 Art Fair in conjunction with Frieze Art Fair 2006, London (among other locations).

For further information, or if you would like to engage with Steve during his stay in Newcastle, please contact: anne.fry@ncl.ac.uk