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  • Rachel Stevens

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    stevensr@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Rachel Stevens

    Profile

    I'm an artist, designer and educator. My art practice is research-driven and interdisciplinary, operating at the intersection of media, ecology, geography and social space. I approach artmaking as a method of inquiry—one that combines material experimentation, critical theory, archival research and collaboration to examine how environments, infrastructures, and cultural narratives inform lived experience. Working across moving image, experimental media, sculpture, social practice, and writing, I use form as a way to think through layered ecological and political relationships, such as how land, water, and infrastructure encode histories of power, extraction and care. 

    My writing has appeared in Afterimage, World Records (documentary studies), Millennium Film Journal—where I was an editor from 2018-2022—and various art journals and magazines. I've worked on collaborative curatorial projects, taught in the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA program and at Brown University and worked as an art director and designer. My work has appeared at Socrates Scupture Park, Brown University, Penn Program in the Environmental Humanies and in the Ex Church of San Francesco in Como, Italy, among other venues. Residencies have included the Lower Manhattan Cutural Council, iLand, Works on Water, Signal Culture and Fondazioni Antonio Ratti.

    Degrees Held

    MFA, University of California, San Diego (Visual Art: Sculpture and New Media)

    BFA, Rhode Island School of Design (Photography)

     

    Professional Affiliation

    Member, Temp.Files Video Cooperative

    Advisory Board, Millennium Film Journal

    Recent Publications

    upcoming: “The Wonder, Jenny Perlin at the James Gallery,” Millennium Film Journal #83, Spring 2026   

    “Video After Video: The Critical Media of CAMP,” review of MoMA exhibition, Millennium Film Journal #82, Real Life, Fall 2025  

    “Studio Visit with Jen Liu,” Millennium Film Journal #74, Fact / Artifact, Spring 2021  

    “Our Violent Commons The Territory of Listening,” World Records Vol. 4: In The Presence of Others, Edited by Nicholas Gamso and Jason Fox, Fall 2020

     

    Research Interests

    critical geography, experimental media, media art, artist moving image, documentary, archives, visual art, media archeology, sustainability, ecological justice, infrastructure

    Current Courses

    Sustainable Systems
    PUFY 1100, Spring 2026

    Past Courses

    Sustainable Systems
    PUFY 1100, Fall 2025

    Sustainable Systems: Practices
    PUFY 1101, Fall 2025

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