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Douglas Rosenberg
Born(1956-12-21)December 21, 1956
San Rafel, CA, United States
EducationSir Francis Drake High School (Archie Williams High School); San Francisco Art Institute, MFA, 1985
Occupation(s)Artist, Author, and Professor
Websitehttps://www.douglas-rosenberg.com/

Douglas Rosenberg (born December 21, 1956) is an interdisciplinary American Artist and Theorist who has been working in the field and exhibiting his work for over 30 years.[1] He creates with performance, video, dance, and installation. Rosenberg is based in Madison, WI, working as a professor of 4D Art[2] at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[3]

Early life and education

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Rosenberg grew up in San Anselmo, CA, a town over from the city he was born in, San Rafael. There he attended Sir Francis Drake High School (now known as Archie Williams High School) where he was first introduced to the idea of living a creative life by two of his teachers. Upon graduating from high school, Rosenberg took a job as a house painter and later worked as a carpenter.

In 1983 Rosenberg returned to school to attend San Francisco Art Institute, at which he received a MFA in Performance and Video (New Genres).[4] There, he studied with Doug Hall, Paul Kos, Howard Fried, Linda Frye Burnham et al.[5]

Life and work

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In Madison, Rosenberg lives in a farmhouse with his (wife?) Li Chiao-Ping. The home has multiple additions built by Rosenberg including a studio space for his and Li's practices. Their inspiration for this home and studio space comes from Black Mountain College.

Rosenberg's work has been tied to location, changing as he has moved. While in San Francisco his work found itself to be hard-edged. But, for the last 20+ years, he has resided in Wisconsin. The space has become a sanctuary for peace of mind and Rosenberg's work has shifted to explore the intersection of art and meditation. Practices such as the ancient ceramics technique of Raku style tea bowls and writing essays to connect to the present.

Rosenberg is also a big advocate of Jewish arts.

Art style

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Performance/Video

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Screendance

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Screendance is a type of interdisciplinary art which combines dance and video. But not to be confused with “video-dance” or “dance for camera” which are sub-genres of screendance. Screendance is unique in its process of creation and what it captures. Screendance requires a director and/or choreographer, as well as typical film set equipment such as lighting and cameras. A unique quality of screendance is that the camera is independent of the dancers. The camera may follow a certain dancer or may zoom in to seclude another; it does not need to always see the whole of the group. Screendance comes together a lot in postproduction and editing, as it is in a sense malleable. Malleable in that there’s much room for interpretation and improvisation. Screendance has roots tied to films by artists such as Maya Deren, Norman McLaren, and Amy Greenfield.[6]

Rosenberg frequents art making in this genre. He has written The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies as well as Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image A book on the theory, history, and practice of Screendance. His most recent work ____ practices screendance.

Selected Publications

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Books

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  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2012). Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image A book on the theory, history, and practice of Screendance. Oxford University Press (published April 2012). ISBN 978-0199772629.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas, ed. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies (Illustrated ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199981601.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2024). Staring at the Sky: Essays on Art and Culture. Korpen Press. ISBN 9789189401938.

Articles, Chapters or Essays in Books and Journals

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  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2000), "Video Space: A Site for Choreography", Leonardo, vol. 33 No. 4, The MIT Press, pp. 275–280, ISSN 1530-9282.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2009), "Curating the practice/the practice of curating", International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, pp. 75–87
  • Rosenberg, Douglas, ed. (2010), "Excavating Genres", The International Journal of Screendance, vol. 1, Parallel Press/UW Madison, pp. 63–73, ISSN 2154-6878
  • Dolan, Jill; Wolf, Stacy, eds. (2011), Jewish American Performance, TDR Journal, vol. 55, No. 3, The MIT Press, photo essay and cover image by Douglas Rosenberg, eISSN 1531-4715, ISSN 1054-2043
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2015), "Video Space: A Site For Choreography", in Hunter, Victoria (ed.), Moving Cites, Routledge Press, ISBN 978-0415710176
  • Rosenberg, Douglas; et al. (Susana Temperley) (2019), Casanova, Magdalena (ed.), "Witnessing Dance", LOÏE Magazine of Dance
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2022), "It Was There All Along: Theorizing a Jewish Narrative of Dance and [Post-] Modernism", in Jackson, Naomi M. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance, Oxford University Press, pp. 404–429, ISBN 9780197519516. [1]

Selected (Notable?) Exhibitions

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Video, Installation, and 2D Art

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  • Of the Heart, Dance Camera West, Redcat Theater, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 5, 2009.
  • San Souci Festival, Boulder, CO, USA, September 20, 2013.
  • Numeridanse, Maison de la Danse, Lyon, France, February 6, 2013.
  • Dance on Camera Festival, Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center (Film at Lincoln Center), New York, NY, February 4, 2013.
  • Agite y Sirva, Festival Itinerante de Video Danza, Puebla, Mexico Nov. 4, 2013.
  • O.N.L.Y. Festival, in Birr, Ireland, Birr Theatre & Arts Centre, November 8th and 9th, 2013.
  • Circuit-Est, screening curated by Priscilla Guy, Montreal, Canada, 2013.
  • Screening of Here Now With Sally Gross, Cinedans, curated by Marion Poeth, Lumière Maastricht, Netherlands, 2013.
  • Screening of Here Now With Sally Gross and Circling, Lightmoves Festival of Screendance, Limerick, Ireland, Nov. 19-22, 2014.
  • Screening of Here Now With Sally Gross, Performance and Technologies, InShadow - International Festival of Video, Lisbon, Portugal, April 20-24, 2014.
  • Public/Private Space, curated by Douglas Rosenberg, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, USA, March 21-22, 2014.
  • Light on Sally Gross and Musee de la Civilization, Cinédanse, Montreal, Quebec, September 27, 2015.
  • Screening of Here Now With Sally Gross, screening, Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Canyon Theater, Boulder, Colorado, November 9 & 16, 2015.
  • Lift/Carry/Hold, video installation, Lightmoves Festival of Screendance, Limerick Museum of Art, Ireland, November 2016.
  • Screening of A Very Small Cinematic Gesture, Cine-Corps Film Festival, Paris, France, curated by Priscilla Guy, January 30-February 4, 2018.

Broadcast Television

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  • Three Dance Films About Place, Aroma and Terrain, Wisconsin Public Television, July 21, 2007.
  • Aroma, BravoFACT Presents, Citytv Toronto, A-Channel Barrie in London and Ottawa, A-Channel Victoria, 2007.
  • Seven Solos, Documentary, Wisconsin Public Television, numerous broadcasts, 2011-2012.
  • Director’s Cut, interview, Wisconsin Public Television, August 3, 2011 and subsequent re-broadcasts, 2011-2012.

Notable lectures and panels

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  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2008, April 9). Under the Skin [keynote speaker with Hope Mohr]. Medical Humanities Initiative, Susquehanna University.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2012, October). Witnessing dance: mediation and the technologies of representation [keynote speaker]. International Conference on Dance, LOCATION?CANADA?.
  • Rosenberg Douglas (2014). _____ [workshop and keynote speaker]. Lightmoves Festival of Screendance, Limerick, Ireland.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2014, March 16). Inscribing the Ephemeral Image [lecture]. Cinedans festival, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2017). Surface Tensions: Screenic Bodies and the Sequential Moment [lecture as a visiting artist]. Yale School of Art.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2017). Hiding in Plain Site: Screendance Histories and the Expanded Imagination [inaugural lecture]. Stanford Colloquium on Dance Studies, Stanford University.
  • Rosenberg, Douglas (2018, October 13-15). ____ [keynote speaker]. Jews and the Jewishness in the Dance World conference, Arizona State University.

Selected Awards and Grants

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  • 1985 - SONY American Film Institute Award, National Video Festival.
  • 1994 - National Endowment for the Arts/Southeast Media Fellowship.
  • 1998 - Soros Foundation, Project on Death in America Fellowship, (co-recipient Ellen Bromberg).
  • 1998 - Isadora Duncan Award (IZZY) for Singing Myself a Lullaby, San Francisco Bay Area Dance Coalition.
  • 1999 - Director’s Prize, International Jewish Video Festival, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA.
  • 2001 - National Endowment for the Arts Creation Grant, for support of Venous Flow, with choreographer Li Chiao-Ping.
  • 2002 - James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, sponsored by The San Francisco Foundation and funded by the James D. Phelan Trust.
  • 2003 - EMMY Nomination: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Outstanding Achievement for Entertainment Program, Single Entertainment Program of Series.
  • 2005/2006 - BravoFACT (Canadian Television) production grant, in collaboration with Allen Kaeja, for new dance film, AROMA.
  • 2016/2017 - MAP Fund Grant, with choreographer Li Chiao-Ping, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, MAP is an affiliate program of Creative Capital, New York, NY.
  • 2018 - Brocket Book Prize for Dance Research, awarded by the Dance Studies Association for “The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies.”
  • 2023 - Creative Arts Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of the Arts.

References

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  1. ^ "Douglas Rosenberg". Academia. Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  2. ^ "Art Faculty Colloquium: Professor Douglas Rosenberg". UW ART. January 11, 2023. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  3. ^ Dickinson, Kari. "'Staring at the Sky': A Q&A with author Douglas Rosenberg". University of Wisconsin-Madison (School of Education). Retrieved June 25, 2024.
  4. ^ "Douglas Rosenberg". Wisconsin Academy. September 12, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  5. ^ "The San Francisco Art Institute: Its History and Future | Gagosian Quarterly". Gagosian. May 30, 2023. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
  6. ^ Rosenberg, Douglas (July 5, 2012). Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image. Oxford University Press. pp. xiv - 7. ISBN 978-0-19-977262-9.
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