Carlos Rosas + Leanna Rosas
rosasstudio@overtheedge.net
Carlos Rosas is a new media artist, designer, and scholar of Chilean descent whose creative works and collaborative explorations engage a range of media, technologies and disciplines. His conceptually layered creative work and research seek to open a critical space to reflect upon digital culture and to chronicle latent technology-impelled impositions, emerging ideologies and ironies at play. Rosas has presented, lectured and exhibited his creative research at notable national and international venues, media festivals and conferences. He is currently Head of New Media and Professor in Charge of the Interdisciplinary Digital Studio Program at Penn State University where he has taught since 2001 after spending 6 years on the Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts. Rosas received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1995.
Leanna Rosas is a new media artist, designer, and composer whose creative work is concerned with issues of identity, digital culture, manipulation, irony, and relationships between visual culture and the human condition. Much of her most recent work focuses on music composition in audio-visual new media environments with partner Carlos Rosas; this collaboration seeks to explore means in which one identifies with the continually evolving conditions within a technology-driven culture. Rosas is currently on the faculty in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University. Before joining Penn State in 2005, she was an instructor and graphic designer at the California Institute of the Arts Community Arts Partnership. She received her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1996.