Barbara Ann Rosenthal (born 1948) is an American

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and conceptual artist, writer, and performer.Rijs, Cassandra. "Barbara Rosenthal: Hoarder of Life to Yield Art", Interface, Sept. 2013, retrieved Nov. 9, 2013 http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/3824777Kray, Pamela. "Provocative Barbara Rosenthal Existentially Grows Up" ''Book Arts Newsletter'' No. 84 Sept.-Oct 2013, pgs 40-42. ISSN 1754-9086, retrieved Nov. 9, 2013 Rosenthal uses

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, physical or textual elements from her journals, and clothing in her work. Her

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themes have contributed to contemporary art and philosophy.

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acquired her archives in 2021. Rosenthal uses the

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"Homo Futurus," which was taken from the title of one of her books, and "Cassandra-on-the-Hudson'',''" which alludes to "the dangerous world she envisions"Le, Ngan. "The Secret of Life in Art: Barbara Rosenthal's Surreality in Berlin", Berlin Art Link, March 28, 2013, retrieved Nov. 9, 2013 http://www.berlinartlink.com/2013/03/28/the-secret-of-life-in-art-barbara-rosenthal/ while creating art. She trademarked the term "Homo Futurus" in 2022. She lives in her studio and residence in the

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neighborhood of

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Early life

Rosenthal was born in

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in 1948. At the age of 11, Rosenthal was a weekly columnist for her town newspaper, ''The Franklin Square Bulletin''.

Education and early career

Rosenthal attended the

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Art School, where she studied figure drawing and painting with instructor Isaac Soyer. In 1964-66, she attended the

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. She later attended

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, where she earned her BFA in painting. During her sophomore and senior years, she was also the editor of the literary art magazine ''Patterns.'' In 1968-69, she spent her junior year at

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, studying art and art history. She received her MFA in painting at

in 1974. During her years as an art student and teacher, Rosenthal supplemented her earnings as an assembly-line painting artist. She was also a photojournalist stringer for ''

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'', '' East Village Eye'', and ''

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.'' Rosenthal also worked as a go-go dancer at clubs, including

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and Club Mardi Gras in

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, New York City. From 1972 to 1974, she taught

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and was director, set designer, and lighting technician for several performances at the Lakeside School, a private high school in

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Teaching positions and other employment

Rosenthal's first college teaching position was as a sabbatical replacement instructor of painting at

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, in 1976-77. In 1982, with video pioneer Bill Creston, she founded the Museum of Modern Media (eMediaLoft). Since 1990, Rosenthal has taught writing as an adjunct lecturer at the

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(CUNY/CSI). Rosenthal has also taught

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, painting, drawing, design, crafts, and art history at other colleges, including, among those in

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(SVA) and

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. She was the editor and producer of ''The College Council Faculty Affairs Newsletter'' at Parsons. She also taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography at

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in 1994. She co-founded the Outrageous Consortium with filmmaker Margot Niederland in 2005 and founded The Museum of Modern Media in New York City in 2006.

Writing

As a writer, Barbara Rosenthal produces aphorisms, slogans, quips, poetry, stories, novels, text-based art, artist's books, pamphlets, art criticism, reviews, and essays.Kostelanetz, Richard
"Barbara Rosenthal" "Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes"
retrieved September 22, 2009 Most of her aphorisms concern the nature of time and reality. They are issued as "Provocation Cards", which she hands out free in performance or on the street. Her fiction, like her visual art, presents a grim worldview, depicting surreal surroundings in which a lone individual faces incomprehensible situations. Rosenthal is a regular contributor to ''NY Arts Magazine'' and is known for her principled stand against art as advocacy, which she labels "retrogarde." This sets her in opposition to many prevailing political, cultural and feminist trends in contemporary art. In 1982, Rosenthal became an associate member of the

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Performance

Rosenthal's performances frequently combine image, text, and video. It is in the medium of Performance Art where Rosenthal's themes of individuality, human identity, and time are shared with her viewers most directly. Her performances usually mix installation, projected photographic images, text, video, mediated voice, music, and abstract sound. Her first performance/installation, "Self-Portrait Room," was performed in 1968. From 1976 to 1984, she performed in videos by placing a stationary camera in front of a single-action life situation. In 1984, she began staging such actions, although still for video, sometimes with other performers and sometimes cutting segments together, such as the 1984 piece ''Colors and Auras'', with poet Hannah Weiner and Sena Clara Creston. Rosenthal's famous ventriloquism video, ''How Much Does The Monkey Count'', was made in 1988 and was reprised at

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in 1991 and the Living Theater in 1992. From 1976 to 1996, she was the principal female actor in the Super-8 films by Bill Creston. She would also produce several others, including seven that were screened at The Museum of Modern Art in 1989. In 2005, Rosenthal crashed the Performa05 Festival in NY with ''Existential Interact'' wearing her image-text "Button Pin Shirts" and handing out ''Provocation Cards'' in front of the Guggenheim Museum and White Box Gallery in New York.Fletcher, Milton
"Taboo or Not Taboo", "NY Arts magazine, March-April, 2006
/ref> This interaction (often also incorporating ''Identity Theft Masks'') was performed at various iconic street locations in

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and

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. She represented the United States in both performance and text-based art at the Tina B. Prague Contemporary Art Festival in 2009 and 2010. The 2011 annual performance arts gathering ''Emergency Index'' contains a spread about this project. In 2013, Rosenthal began including video morphs in her work, beginning in ''I’m Growing Up, which was'' performed at Grace Exhibition Space in

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and at AudioPollen in Brisbane, Australia. This project utilizes the ''Identity Theft Masks'', but Rosenthal herself stands immobile as a white screen on which photographs of her own changing image are projected.

Photography

Rosenthal is noted for her unique take on photography.Zayne, Natalie. "Looking Inside: The Uncanny World of Barbara Rosenthal's Photographs", The Belgo Report, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 9, 2012, retrieved Nov 10, 2013 http://www.thebelgoreport.com/2012/11/looking-inside-the-uncanny-world-of-barbara-rosenthals-photographs/ Particularly in her ''Surreal Photography'', ongoing since 1976, she "depicts original perceptions that imply psychological narrative" as explained by berlinartlink.com. Until 2005, she shot only in black and white, which she hand-processed and printed in her darkroom. Since 2006, she has also shot color film. She has continued to hand-process black and white film, sending the color film to a commercial lab, but scans and digitally prints both types of negatives.Hawker, Phillippa. "In The Moment, With Originality," ''The Age'', Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 18, 2013 http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/in-the-moment-with-originality-20130917-2tx2q.html Retrieved Nov. 14, 2013Hawker, Phillippa. "In The Moment, With Originality," ''Sydney Morning Herald'', Sydney, Australia, Sept. 18, 2013 Of all her working styles and genres, her photographs are most readily shown in art galleries. In the past few years, she has had solo or two-person photography shows in Peanut Underground, NYC (2013); Studio Baustelle, Berlin (2013); Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal (2012); and Galerie Glass, Berlin (2011). As with all her media, she works in several forms. Her ''Surreal Photography'' retains its full-frame rectangle. It comprises categories she calls ''Free Birds'', ''Renegade Horses'', ''Trapped Figures'', ''Tiny Houses'', ''Strange Neighborhoods'', ''Aberrant Trees'', ''Dangerous Forests'', ''Sinister Landscapes'', ''Eerie Locations'', and ''Dark Continents''. About 200 of her ''Surreal Photographs'' have been published by

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Press in her offset books. From 1978 to 1988, she also worked as a photojournalist at New York newspapers including ''The New York Post'' and the ''Village Voice''.

Video

Since 1976, Rosenthal has made over 100 videos. She has worked in different formats as the technology has changed. These include 1/2" open reel, 3/4-Umatic, VHS, mini-DV and HD.Videography
emedialoft.org Rosenthal's work uses devices such as disruption, rhythm, repetition, manipulation of sequencing and audio tracks, decrease of interval, divisions on the screen, presentations of tension and release, relentlessness and endurance, which Australian art historian Barb Bolt refers to as Rosenthal's "choreography." The first works, ''The Haircut'' and ''The Bath,'' began with 1/2" open reel portapak partnering with Bill Creston. In 1982, she won a Festival Prize for ''Helen Webster: Cancer and Self-Discovery'' at the Global Village Video Festival in New York. In 1988, her videos ''Leah Gluck: Victim of the Twins Experiments'' and ''Women in the Camps'' were shown in installation at The Jewish Museum, New York.Russell, John

"New York Times" July 29, 1988, retrieved September 22, 2009 Besides partnering in New York and Missouri with Bill Creston in her early videos, as well as his films, she has partnered in Berlin, Germany with DJ RoBeat for several of her videos and live performances since 2008.

Art philosophy

In a videotaped 1992 panel discussion with critic Ellen Handy about art-making at The Gallery Of Contemporary Art in

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, she enumerated many "dictums that guide erproduction: that pattern serve as color; that as few materials are used as possible; that as little space is used as possible; that there be no embellishment or superfluous element of design; that a work be visible and present new elements at every distance; that it engage a viewer differently from separate vantages; that it reach several centers of the psyche simultaneously; so a viewer is left room to freely associate; that mystery is always present; that it does not advocate; that it does not mimic past successes; that it can maintain its veracity in an imaginary room of great works; that it be available to everyone and that it be both produced and priced at lowest possible cost."

Recent solo exhibitions

Recent solo exhibitions include the following: *''"Barbara Rosenthal: Authenticity in Art"'',

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, Oct. 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal: The Medium is NOT the Message"'', Art Forum/

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, Sept. 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal: Existential Interact with Provocation Cards"'' and "''The Secret of Life and Other Shorts"'', Peanut Underground Art Projects,

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, Aug. 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact, Paris"'', Esplenade du Trocadéro,

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, Feb. 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Word Play"'', Studio Baustelle,

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, Feb. 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal – Mini Video Retrospective: Existential Word Play"'', Millennium Film Workshop,

, Jan 2013 *''"Barbara Rosenthal – Surreal Photography: Trapped Figures and Tiny Houses"'', Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 2012 *''"Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Word Play"'', Montreal Art Centre,

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, Nov. 2012* *''Decade Of Madness: Barbara Rosenthal'' – Photo Projections & Reading", Fourth Street Photo Gallery,

, 2012 *"''Barbara Rosenthal With DJ RoBeat On Stage"'', Joe's Bar,

, 2011 *"''Barbara Rosenthal Filmabend"'', Galerie Glass,

, Aug. 2012 *"''Journal Into Art: Barbara Rosenthal – Reading With Projections''", Central Booking Artspace,

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, 2012 *"''Barbara Rosenthal – Das Tagebuch gibt mir Ideen'', Lettrétage: Das junge Literaturhaus,

, 2011 *"''Barbara Rosenthal – Flying Objects'', Photographs & Videos, Morgenvogel Gallery,

, 2011 *"''Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact'',

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, 2010 *"''Barbara Rosenthal –

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Mask Performance'',

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, UK, 2010 *"''Barbara Rosenthal – Video Poetry'', Lettrétage: Das junge Literaturhaus,

, 2010 *''"Barbara Rosenthal: Existential Wall Works, Photography, Drawing and Performance"'', Lucas Carrieri Gallery,

, June 26, 2009Eisenlohr, Klau
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/ref> *''"Barbara Rosenthal - 33 Existential Videos"'', Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany, June 25, 2009 *''"Existential Interact"'', a series of street performances in front of KW

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during the Wooloo Berlin New Life Festival in Berlin, Germany, June, 2008 *"''Existential Cartoons"'', an exhibition of digital prints, DVD projections and animated cartoons at the L-Gallery of Contemporary Art,

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, June, 2007 *''"Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide,"'' a Bathroom Installation of printed and sewn objects, button pins, and video at the Pool Art Fair,

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, NYC, Oct. 2006http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/b/barbararosenthal/artist_exhibitions.html retrieved September 11, 2009 *''"Devolution of Self"'', an exhibition of digital prints on mylar, roped to ceiling, floor and each other, at the Pickled Art Centre,

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, June, 2006 Rosenthal's group shows include venues such as

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and the Stenersenmuseet Museum,

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Major collections

The largest holdings of Rosenthal's works in Europe are at Artpool Art Research Center and the

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Britain Library,

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. The largest American holdings of her work are in The Dadabase Collection of The Museum of Modern Art and The

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. Her archives, including over one hundred volumes of workbooks and ''Journals'' and fifty drafts of her unpublished novel, ''"Wish For Amnesia"'', are currently housed at eMediaLoft.org, NYC and bequeathed to the Special Collections of the Hunt Library at

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upon her death.

Grants, honors, and awards

In 2013, Barbara Rosenthal received participation in the

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's XFR-STN Transfer Station media archiving project.Jovanovic, Rozalia. "A Day at the New Museum's Rescue Center for Endangered Media", Blouin Art Info, New York, August 5, 2013 http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/935564/a-day-at-the-new-museums-rescue-center-for-endangered-media In 2006, Rosenthal received an Artist's Residency from the Red Gate Gallery, Beijing. Other residencies include:

Press, Rochester, NY in 2000;

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Computer Video Imaging Residency Grant at Adaptors/Brooklyn, NY, in 1996; Electronic Arts Grant Video Residency, Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY in 1989, 1990 and 1991;

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Audio-Video Residency, NYC in 1988; and Video Arts Residency at

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in 1988. Rosenthal's monetary awards have included a Media Presentation Grant from Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY in 2000; Finishing Funds from Film Bureau in NYC 1991; a New York State Council on the Arts Video Facility Subsidy Grant at Margolis/Brown Adaptors, Brooklyn, NY in 1998; a Finishing Funds Grant from Media Bureau/ The Kitchen in NYC, in 1988; three

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/Artists Grants in NYC 1986, 89 and 90; and a Creative Arts for Public Service C.A.P.S. Grant in Video, New York State, in 1984. Rosenthal received a Medal of Honor from the Brussels Ministry of Culture,

, in 1990. Rosenthal received a Global Village Documentary Festival Award in NYC in 1983. She has been listed as a Fiction Writer, Poet, and Spoken Word Artist by

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, NYC, since 1986. She was elected membership in Pi Delta Epsilon National Publications Honor Society, USA, in 1970.

Selected works

Books

*''Clues to Myself'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY, 1981 *''Homo Futurus'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY, 1986 *''Sensations'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY, 1984 *''Soul & Psyche'', Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY, 1998 *''Weeks'' (collaboration with poet Hannah Weiner), Xexoxial Endarchy, Madison, WI, 1990

Pamphlets and saddle-stitched books

*''Existential Cartoons'', L-Gallery of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, 2007 *''Catalogue Raisonné'', The Museum of Modern Media, NYC, 2007 *''Children's Shoes'', eMediaLoft.org, NYC, 1992 *''Introduction to the Trilogy'', eMediaLoft.org, NYC, 1985 *''Names/Lives'', eMediaLoft.org, NYC, 2001 *''Old Address Book'', eMediaLoft.org, N.Y.C., 1984 *''Structure And Meaning'', eMediaLoft.org, NYC, 1981

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