Joshua Rosenstock
website Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Artist Bio
Joshua Pablo Rosenstock is a multimedia artist, musician, and educator currently based in Somerville, MA. He examines the relationship of humans to technology, employing an ever-expanding repertoire of analog, digital, and craft techniques to create dynamic intermedia works that incorporate moving images, sound, sculptural installation, and interactive performance.
He earned a BA in Visual Art & Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Art & Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In between, he worked to launch ZEUM, an art and technology museum in San Francisco, creating interactive exhibits and developing digital art curricula for students and teachers.
As a multimedia artist he has presented work in venues as diverse as the UC Berkeley Art Museum, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, Switzerland, the Dislocate festival in Yokohama, Japan, and the Montreal Anarchist Book Fair. Josh was an Artist in Research at the Berwick Research Institute. Additionally, he is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed in musical ensembles throughout the Bay Area, Midwest, and New England.
He is currently an Associate Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he was the first visual art professor on the faculty, and Associate Director of the Interactive Media & Game Development program. He received WPI’s Romeo L. Moruzzi Young Faculty Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Education in 2008.