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Sarah Rothberg

Sarah Rothberg creates playful, poetic, usually-a-bit-weird experiences that invite you to reconsider your relationship to the world around you. These take many forms ranging from interactive installation, to performance, video, writing, workshops, and experiments with technology. The artist’s experiences exist in a variety of contexts: at galleries, museums, festivals, on google docs, at the consumer electronics expo, screens in the NYC Subway system, zoom calls, secret twitter accounts, or MoMA. Some hosts have included: bitforms gallery, rhizome, NRW-forum, MTA Arts, Sotheby’s S2, CultureHub, Gray Area Foundation, Apple stores around the world. The artist is a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow.

Rothberg is on the full-time faculty at NYU (interactive media at ITP), a member of ONX Studio, and a mentor/former-member at NEW INC. Rothberg is also part of collaboratives: MORE&MORE UNLIMITED, which facilitates workshops for imagining changed worlds, and IS THIS THING ON? a post-web2 experiment in artist-driven livestreaming.

Exhibitions

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Sarah RothbergFOREVER MEETINGS

March 20 – April 19, 2025

New York City

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Sarah RothbergSUPERPROMPT

June 3 – July 22, 2023

San Francisco

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Wet Logic, Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow

Sarah Rothberg & Marina ZurkowWet Logic

February 6 – March 15, 2020

New York City

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Virtual Memory Burn

Memory Burn

July 10 – August 16, 2015

New York City

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News & Press

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June 7, 2025Museum of the Moving Image

THING+YOU Performance at Museum of the Moving ImageIn conjunction with the exhibition, is this thing on?, the Museum will host a hybrid in-person and livestreamed interactive event with artists Christopher Clary, Sarah Rothberg, Bhavik Singh, and Molly Soda, taking place throughout the Museum’s ground floor and online via thing.tube.

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May 7, 2025The Brooklyn Rail

The State of AI Agents by Charlotte KentWhat is an AI agent and why is one that will call elderly parents on your behalf merely troublesome, where others are legally and ethically dubious?

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December 4, 2024Center For Performance Research

OPEN AiR | Sarah Rothberg: MEETINGS RESEARCH (HUMAN IN THE LOOP)MEETINGS RESEARCH (HUMAN IN THE LOOP) is a performance-experiment by 2024 Artist-in-Residence Sarah Rothberg which uses improvisation, conversation, and AI language models to (literally) reflect the present moment.

Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, <i>Wet Logic</i>, bitforms gallery, 2020.

March 7, 2020Hyperallergic

Wet Logic reviewed by Louis Bury for Hyperallergic From behind bitforms gallery’s glass facade, an artistic toilet bowl (“Toilet Joke I,” 2020) beckons passers-by into Wet Logic, Sarah Rothberg’s and Marina Zurkow’s digitized meditation on water’s unearthliness.

Wet Logic, an exhibition by Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, opens at bitforms gallery

February 6, 2020bitforms gallery

Wet Logic, an exhibition by Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, opens at bitforms galleryWet Logic presents a model of the world organized according to a wet, oceanic ideology rather than a dry, land-based paradigm. This is a world that manifests the circuitous nature of time and the enmeshment of humans to the planet. Rothberg and Zurkow present a series of systems that further human connection to oceans by way of action and imagination.