Michelle Rosenberg
2007-2008 Swing Space Resident, 120 Broadway
Michelle Rosenberg is an artist and architect who creates participatory sculpture concerned with the intimacy of sound. In a series of work called "Dynamic Headphones," Michelle modifies and combines portable headphones as well as creates acoustic headphones that reflect and filter sound waves. These devices and installations reinterpret the act of listening and formalize the physical distribution of sound. In other installations, Michelle incorporates game calls and other whistles to animate objects and situations. Several of these public installations allow controlled communication with wildlife. Michelle has exhibited her work at galleries including Exit Art and PS122 in New York; Western Exhibitions in Chicago; and The Portland Building Pubic Art Space in Portland, Oregon. She has created outdoor installations at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens; the Peekskill Project in Peekskill, New York; and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has recently lectured on the history of listening devices for Dorkbot at Location One in New York and participated in a residency at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York. Michelle was born Jan.1 1973 in Manchester, England to Italian and Jewish Parents. She attended The Rhode Island School of Design where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
