About the Artists
Jess Rowland is an artist, composer, and educator working with sound, multimedia, and experimental technologies. Her work often focuses on exploring concepts of the body’s relation to consumerism and American culture. Her experimental practice aims to find cracks in the pavement to reveal the profound within the absurd and the absurd within the profound, inviting a deeper look at the systems that shape how we experience our strange world.
Jess received her MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and was the 2018 – 2020 Peter B. Lewis Fellow in Art at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Her work has been exhibited, presented, and performed internationally, including the New York Electronic Arts Festival, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Berkeley Art Museum, Spectrum NYC, Eyedrum Atlanta, and the International Print Center NYC. She is also engaged with education and advocacy for new music and sound art, including teaching positions at Princeton University, School of Visual Arts in NYC, and mentoring at the Cooper Union Art School.
Her work also bridges science and sound. She is published in leading peer-reviewed journals in Auditory Neuroscience, Music Psychology, and Perception, and she has worked at The NYU Center for Neural Science on speech and music research.
