Leah Beeferman

Critic

Leah Beeferman works with digital image-making, video, text and sound. Her work explores and abstracts the shifting relationships between measurement and uncertainty as they relate to landscape and weather at a variety of scales. She has had solo exhibitions at Rawson Projects, New York; Sorbus, Helsinki; CO-OPt, Texas; and Arcade on Stadium, Utah. Recent two-person or group exhibitions include Helsinki Art Museum, Finland; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Fiskars Village Biennial, Finland; Sirius Arts Centre, Ireland; SOLU, Helsinki; The Anderson, Richmond. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Penumbra, New York; and Peeler Art Center, Indiana (both 2024).  

Beeferman has participated in many residencies including LMCC Workspace, New York; The Arctic Circle, Svalbard; Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station, Ecuador; Climate Whirl/Hyytiälä Forest Research Station, Finland; ArsBioarctica, Finland; Mustarinda, Finland; Digital Painting Atelier, OCAD, Toronto; and Sirius, Ireland. Her work has been discussed in publications such as BOMB, Objektiv, Temporary Art Review, Art in Print, Rhizome and ArtPulse. She has written artist texts for Contemporary Art Stavanger and Taupe Magazine. In 2022, Rooftop Press (Helsinki) published a written conversation between Beeferman and artist Tuukka Kaila: If you show me what you know, can I tell you what I see? In 2016 she published Triple Point, an artist book, with Lodret Vandret (Copenhagen).  

Beeferman received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (2010) and a BA from Brown University (2004) and was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Grant to Finland (2016–17). She is now based in Providence.

Courses

Fall 2024 Courses

DM 7100-01 - DM GRADUATE STUDIO/SEMINAR 1
Level Graduate
Unit Digital + Media
Subject Digital + Media
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
Format Combination
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

DM 7100-01

DM GRADUATE STUDIO/SEMINAR 1

Level Graduate
Unit Digital + Media
Subject Digital + Media
Period Fall 2024
Credits 9
Format Combination
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: TH | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; T | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Leah Beeferman, Mattia Casalegno, Stephen Cooke Location(s): Center for Integrative Technologies, Room 402 Enrolled / Capacity: 15 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This combined studio and seminar forum for Digital + Media first year students supports the exploration of theoretical, social, material, technical and contextual research and concerns in new media arts practices during the first semester of the D+M MFA program at RISD. Students are introduced to a core set of methodologies and technologies from basic electronics, programming and interaction design to installation, and are encouraged to break comfort zones through experimentation. Students conceptualize and discuss their work and ongoing practice. The course is a mix of group discussions, individual meetings, required lecture and workshop series, and group critiques. The technical workshops are opportunities for students to experiment and test out aspects of their research in order to develop a sound practice. Guest lecturers and visiting critics may join during other portions of the class time on occasion.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $100.00 - $300.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Digital + Media Students.


Major Requirement | MFA Digital + Media