Rosemary Lee
About
Rosemary Lee is an artist and researcher whose work addresses the cultural influence of technology. Lee completed her PhD at the IT-University of Copenhagen in the Department of Digital Design at the end of 2020. Her PhD thesis, Machine Learning and Notions of the Image, examines how the increasing importance of machine learning in visual media connects to historical tendencies in contemporary art and discourse on the image. She is currently working on several publishing projects including adapting her thesis into a book for general audiences, as well as producing commissioned artworks for two other books.
Rosemary Lee (US, 1986) lives and works in Porto, Portugal. Lee gained her PhD from the IT-University of Copenhagen (Denmark) in the Department of Digital Design. Rosemary Lee has received several grants and honours including the transmediale Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research (2014), the Statens Kunstfond Working Grant (2015 & 2017), Nordic Culture Point Mobility Funding (2017) and Art & Technology Project Support from the Arts Council Norway (2017).
Her work has been shown among others at: Kunsthall Trondheim (Trondheim, NO); Nikolaj Kunsthal (Copenhagen, DK); Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen, DK); Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, USA); Phaiz (Chicago, USA); Victoria Art Center (Bucharest, RO); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, transmediale (Berlin); Luis Adelantado (Valencia, ES); Palais des Beaux Arts (Vienna, A); Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago, USA); Heaven Gallery (Chicago, USA); The Holden Gallery (Manchester, UK); Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art (Berlin).
Works
Rosemary Lee, process==structure139, 2022
Inkjet print on watercolor paper
50 x 50cm
Edition of 1
Photo/Copyright: Rosemary Lee
Rosemary Lee, process==structure200, 2022
Inkjet print on watercolor paper
50 x 50cm
Edition of 1
Photo / Copyright: Rosemary Lee
Rosemary Lee, process==structure44, 2022
Inkjet print on watercolor paper
50 x 50cm
Edition of 1
Photo/Copyright: Rosemary Lee
„Misuse of Media“, 2012-2013
Installation / Edition 1/7,
7 supernovas, 7 black wholes,
7 boards, chalk, paint on wood
50 x 50 cm each
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Installation: Drawing machine a.k.a. “Misuse of Media. The sublime in the machine”
Record player, wood, nylon
125 x 60 cm
(dimensions variable)
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
„Two Black Holes“, 2013 und „Invention or Discovery of the Square”, 2013
2 motors, 2 rubber loops
Unique
220 x 50 x 50 cm
Mixed Media
Unique
195 x 60,5 x 32 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
„Invention or Discovery of the Square”, 2013
Mixed Media
Unique
195 x 60,5 x 32 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
“im/possible”, 2013
Drawing on wall, acrylyc
Unlimited edition
135 x 53 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch
Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch
Copper, 2015
Printed circuit board: copper-clad epoxy
20 x 30 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch
Silicon, 2015
Graphite on Paper
60 x 80 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch
The Typesetter's Ruminations on Space, 2015
lead type
3 x 44 x 2,4 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
The Typesetter's Ruminations on Space, 2015
lead type
3 x 44 x 2,4 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist
Graphite, 2015
Lead / Blei
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Graphite, 2015
Lead / Blei
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher
Diamond, 2015
Graphite on mylar
70 x 70 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch
eReader, 2015
eReader screen
Silicon/Gold, 2015
Gold leaf, silicon wafer
40 x 40 cm
Photo: Cordia Schlegelmilch, courtesy Galerie Gilla Loercher and the artist
Image determined by tossing a coin, from the series: The image is a machine, 2019
ink on paper
30 x 30 cm
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
Rosemary Lee. Image determined by roll of a dice, from the series: The image is a machine, 2019
ink on paper
30 x 30 cm, framed
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
Rosemary Lee. Image determined by computer-generated random numbers From the series: The image is a machine, 2019
ink on paper
30 x 30 cm, framed
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
The Square as a Machine, Proliferating 2, 2019
silicone and wood
50 x 50 cm
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
The Square as a Machine, Proliferating 4, 2019
rubber and aluminum
50 x 50 cm
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
(Photo on the left) The Square as a Machine, 2019
Proliferating Proliferating 3 ink on felt
50 x 50 cm
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
Pixel Grid, 2019
Pencil, needles. Dimensions variable
Photo: Gilla Loercher, courtesy the artist
Exhibitions
Biography
Born 1986 in Providence, US.
Lives and works in Porto, PT.
2017 - 2020
PhD, Digital Design, IT-University of Copenhagen, DK
2018
Research Stay, Goldsmiths University of London
2012
M.A., Media & Communications, The European Graduate School,
Saas Fee, CH
2008
Bachelor of Fine Art. Emphasis in Fiber & Material Studies. The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), US
Publications
2018
Lee, Rosemary. “Seeing with Machines: Decipherability and Obfuscation in Adversarial Images.” ISEA 2018 Academic Proceedings, Durban University of Technology, pp. 321–24, https://pure.itu.dk/portal/en/publications/seeing-with-machines(5d5112e3-5117-4ed1-9370-3e8e999be3c0).html
Lee, Rosemary. “The Limits of Algorithmic Perception: Technological Umwelt.” Politics of Machines- Art and After, https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/56792/56793
Lee, Rosemary and Manuel Minch. “Art on the Moon?” Continent., no. 7.1, pp. 82–85.
2015
Lee, Rosemary. “Crystallization as a Research Process.” Journal for Research Cultures: Epistemic Practices, Dec.
“The Sand Timer” Continent. 4.2.
2014
Molten Media, Berlin: transmediale
“Interiority/Exteriority and Techno-Clubs.” Flusser Studies 17
2011
“Communal Bodies.” The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review 6. Champaign: Common Ground Publishing. pp. 265-70
Awards and Honors
2017
Statens Kunstfond Production Grant
Art & Technology Project Support, Arts Council Norway
Nordic Culture Point Mobility Funding
Kulturhavn 365 Project Support
Statens Kunstfond Open Residency Pool Grant
Statens Kunstfond Arbejdslegat
2016
Statens Kunstfond Open Residency Pool Grant
Statens Kunstfond Production Grant
2015
Statens Kunstfond Arbejdslegat
2012
Bezirkskulturfond Mitte Berlin, Project Funding
2008
SAIC Graduation Fellowship
2007
Ike and Florence Sewell Scholarship
Residencies
2017
Nocturne, Ayatana Biophilia Artists' Research Programme, Ottawa, Canada
2016
rural_scapes Laboratory in Residence, São José do Barreiro, Brazil
2014
transmediale, Vilém Flusser Residency for Artistic Research, UDK, Berlin, DE
2013
Burning Athens, Residency for Art and Critical Theory, Athens, GR
2009
Harold Arts Residency, Chesterfield, US
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2019
image machine / machine image, Galerie Gilla Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2015
The Typesetter's Ruminations, Galerie Gilla Lörcher Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Artifacts, Palais des Beaux Arts, Vienna, AT
2013
Stepping into the Impossible. Galerie Gilla Lörcher I Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2009
It happens that the stage sets break down. LivingRoom Gallery, Chicago, US
2008
Natural Deviations, Phaiz, Chicago, US
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
Becoming Geological, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2021
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2020
Small Wonders, Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, DE
Reprogramming Earth, NeMe, Limassol, CYP
2019
Perpetual Interpreter, LOKALE, Copenhagen
SCREENSHOTS, Galleri Image, Aarhus, DK
2018
Ubiquitous Futures, CATCH Space, Kulturværftet, Helsingør, DK
machines will watch us die, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK
2017
A New We, Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, NO
2016
Hybrid Matters, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen, DK
2015
TRANSART, Dome of Visions, Copenhagen, DK
Forårsudstillingen 2015, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
2014
Lovelace, C4 Projects, Copenhagen, DK
Obsessive Sensing, LEAP, Berlin, DE
Interactor, Victoria Art Center, Bucharest, RO
Art Video Screening, Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
Transmediale: Afterglow, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
The Inhabited Interface, bb15, Linz, AT
2013
Pitch Drop, Science Friction, Copenhagen, DK
"Going Dark", Art Hack Day/LEAP/transmediale, Berlin, DE
XV Call, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, ES
2011
YOLK, Panke, Berlin, DE
2010
Body Implement, Soundsuit Shop, Chicago, US
Mischief Night, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
2009
The Yeild, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, US
70 Days for 70 Years, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
2008
Wind-Up, collaborative performance with Anne Wilson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US
2007
Objects, Actions, Participation. Messhall, Chicago, US
