Stephanie Owens is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and curator interested in the influence of digital networks on contemporary aesthetics and the production of subjectivity.

Owens exhibits her work internationally including shows at the First Beijing International Media Arts Exhibition (Beijing, China), Dashanzi Art Festival (Beijing, China), 5th Ewha Media Art Exhibition, (Seoul, Korea) and the Machinista International Arts and Technology Festival. Frequently a speaker on art and technology, she recently presented papers at SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles), Mutamorphosis Festival (Prague), and Consciousness Reframed: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation (Lisbon).

She is a founder of Mobile Geographies, a locative-media initiative at Parsons The New School for Design (NYC) and co-founder of the storefront new media art space MediaNoche, the first artist-run gallery for digital art in Upper Manhattan. Some of Owens’s curatorial projects include Technologies of Place, funded by New York Foundation for the Arts and SELF[n]: Art & Distributed Subjectivity, an exhibition and program on contemporary art practices that employ networks as post-representational form.

She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning and Director of the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA). As Director of the CCA, Owens organized Cornell’s first Art Biennial focused on intersections between art, design and nano science. The 2014 CCA Biennial, Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, included a site-specific, 46-foot sculpture by internationally acclaimed artist Kimsooja, which is also the subject of an upcoming documentary by Art21 (Art in the 21st Century) to be featured on PBS in Fall 2015.

Owens has a BFA from Syracuse University and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.