About
My visual and sound artworks are immersive installations that explore the relationships between art and science, translating inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences. Through this translation I am interested in the mediation of the natural world through data streams and how artworks offer an open-ended approach to how we interface and understand the world around us. In past projects, buildings speak of scientific practice happening within, speakers become small mouths of histories and technological change, embroidery becomes a tangible, visual residue of spatialized sound derived from oceanographic data.
Since 2005 I have been engaged with processes called “sonification” and “visualization” – that is making data patterns audible and visible. This translation of inaudible or invisible phenomena into sensible experiences interests me as it engages new interactions between scientific research and its extension to the public through art. My process of translating data into sound and visual material is usually conducted in collaboration with a scientist who has designed the data collection.
There is a rich history of artists representing the natural world around them – through landscape painting and photography for example – often capturing the already visible. In my work I am asking such questions as: Might such processes of sonification and visualization lead to a deeper experience of the natural world, allowing the public to consider a larger environment or context? Or, to appreciate place as an elaborate network of social and environmental activity?
Bodle received her Master’s of Science in Visual Studies from the MIT Visual Arts Program in 2005. Artist residencies and fellowships include Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, IBM Watson Collaborative User Experience Group in Cambridge, MA, Fallingwater Immersive Design Residency at the Frank Lloyd Wright Fallingwater in Mill Run, PA, and 911 Media Arts Center/Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA. Bodle has exhibited widely at venues including the Location One Gallery NYC, the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, Grunwald Gallery at Indiana University, and CoCA Seattle. She is included on the Oregon State, Washington State, Cambridge Arts Council, and City of Seattle Public Art rosters and is a Teaching Professor in Interdisciplinary Art at the University of Washington Bothell.
2005
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Masters of Science in Visual Studies (SMVS), Visual Arts Program
Thesis Advisors: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Antonio Muntadas
2002
The Ohio State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, Art and Technology Program
2024
Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center Residency
City of Seattle Public Art Roster 2024-26
2022
Washington State Public Art Roster 2022-25
2021
UW Technology Teaching Fellow
City of Seattle Public Art Roster 2021-23
2020
UW Bothell Scholarship, Research, and Creative Practice Seed Grant (with Amaranth Borsuk)
2019
Creative Capital, “On Our Radar”, Featured Artist Project
2018
Immersive Design Residency at Fallingwater
Washington State Public Art Roster 2018-21
2017
City of Seattle Public Art Roster 2017-20
2016
Start Transit (Washington) Public Art Roster
Oregon Art in Public Places Roster 2016-19
Grand Prize Jury award, Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon
Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2014
City of Seattle Public Art Roster 2014-16
2013
SF Arts Commission Public Artist Pool 2013-15
2012
Washington State Public Art Roster 2012-15
City of Cambridge, MA Bike Rack Design Commission
2011
Oregon Public Art Roster 2011-14
City of Seattle Public Art Roster 2011-13
2010
City of Seattle CityArtist
Award 4Culture Individual Artist Grant
Nominated for The Brink Award, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009
4Culture Public Art Roster, “Sites”
4Culture Individual Artist Grant
2008
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship/Residency October 20 - November 20
Washington State Public Art Roster 2008-11
Nominated for The Brink Award, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007
Nominated for Contemporary Northwest Art Award, Portland Art Museum
2006
Henry Art Gallery and 911 Media Arts Center NewWorks artist residency
Commissioned artist for "Walking/Listening/Recording" funded by Friends of Tryon Creek State Park, Portland, OR
2005
Awarded project support for MIT thesis project, "Sonification/Listening Up", by the MIT Office of the Provost, MIT Vice President for Research and Associate Provost, MIT Associate Provost for the Arts, MIT Department of Architecture, MIT Visual Arts Program, and the MIT Council for the Arts grant
2004
MIT Council for the Arts grant for "Oscillations"
IBM Watson Research Center/Boston Cyberarts Residency, Cambridge, MA, artist residency and commission
2023
“Site/Archive/Cite”, Seattle Art Book Fair, Seattle, WA, May 5-7, Collaboration with poet Amaranth Borsuk, group exhibition
2021
“Northeast Pacific Ocean Hovmoller Plots 2002-2010”, City of Portland, OR, Regional Arts & Culture Public Art Purchase
2017
“Science Inspires Art: OCEAN”, NY Hall of Science, New York, NY, September 16, 2017 - February 25 2018, group exhibition organized by Art and Science Collaboration (ASCI)
2016
“Giant Steps: Artist Residency on the Moon”, collaboration with Amaranth Borsuk, King Street Station, Seattle, WA, March 3 - March 28, group exhibition
“The Untuning of the Sky”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, August 18, Collaboration with poet Amaranth Borsuk: Participatory Sound Poetry Performance
“SAM REMIX”, Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA, August 26, Participatory Sound Poetry Performance
2014
“Public Space? Lost & Found”, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, April 11 - October 30, group exhibition
2013
“METHODology”, Method Gallery, Seattle, WA, June 21 - August 3, group exhibition
“Atmospheric Weather”, City of Seattle Muncipal Tower, July 3 - August 13, group exhibition
“Sine Wave Bike Racks”, permanent public artwork installed at MIT Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, commissioned by the City of Cambridge Public Art Program
2012
“Wavelines”, Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA), Seattle, WA, May 18 - July 14, solo exhibition
“Tangible Competitive Intangibles”, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, School of Art, July 24 - August 4, group exhibition
“SPUN: Artist Designed Bike Racks”, Cambridge Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, MA, January 26 - March 9, group exhibition
2011
“Waveforms”, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, October 14 - November 12, 2011, group exhibition
“Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate”, Washington State Convention Center, January 24 - April 9, group exhibition
2010
“Waveforms”, Harborview Eye Institute, Seattle, WA, October 28 - December 28
2009
“Sewing Sonifications”, ArtsSparks Westlake Park Public Art Initiative, City of Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture, Seattle, WA, October 10
2007
“Coupling V: Fifth Annual UW Strange Co. Show coupling UW students with Seattle-based artists”, collaboration with student Elizabeth Buschmann creating wave visualization and sound installation. Ouch My Eye Gallery, Seattle, WA, March 23-31
2006
“Walking/Listening/Recording”, commissioned 10-channel sound installation emerging from a trail in the Tryon Creek State Park. Sound layers form a dialogue between the visual and audible experience. Portland, OR, September 2006 - September 2007
“The Flattening and Opening of Space”, collaboration with painter Margie Livingston to create a sound and video installation. 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA, September - October
2005
“Sonification / Listening Up”, temporary 35 channel speaker installation across the south facade of I.M. Pei’s Green Building on the MIT campus emitting sounds of the ionosphere, realized in collaboration with MIT Haystack Observatory. Cambridge, MA, September 9 - 16
“Sonification: In Progress”, 35 channel speaker installation shown in progress. MIT Visual Arts Program Thesis Show, Cambridge, MA, May 13 - 15
“Wiki Soundscape”, a system of sonic representations of activity on Wikipedia. Boston CyberArts Festival, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA April 5 - 19
“Sounds from Astereoseismology”, international webcast on radioartemobile: transmissione live, February
2004
“Oscillations”, sound installation on MIT building facade, MIT Visual Arts Program Graduate Show, Cambridge, MA May
“Oscillations II”, video/sound piece stemming from sound installation, Creative Intelligence: New Work from the MIT Visual Arts Program, Location One Gallery, NYC May
“Underground•Subterraneo: Under view of the Tijuana-US border”, poster in collaboration with Lissa Martin, Otra/Another Ver 2.04 Academia, San Diego/Tijuana, April
2002
"Boltworks", video/sound site installation in historical bolt factory. Berry Brothers Bolt Works Factory, Columbus, OH, May 16
2001
"Video Performance", video performance piece, Haskett Hall Blackbox, The Ohio State University, visiting artist STELARC’s Art and Technology course, May
2023
Coovi-Sirois, Simon, Guillaume Boutard, and Nicolas Bernier. "La réutilisation de données dans les pratiques artistiques de sonification." eContact! 21, no. 2 (2020). https://econtact.ca/21_2/coovisirois-etal_sonification_fr.html.
2017
Chiragdin, Neil. “Oceans inspire awe and activism in art. “Queens Chronicle (December 21, 2017)
2016
Upchurch, Michael. Art Critic. “Shoot the moon: Exhibit at King Street Station imagines art in space.” The Seattle Times (March 8,2016)
Flock, T.S. Art Critic. “Giant Steps‘ Wants to Put Art on the Moon, But Should We?” Seattle Weekly (March 15, 2016)
“Artists win $10,000 prize with moon ‘Wave Signs’. UWB In the News: Main UWB website (March 9, 2016)
2015
Milutis, Joe. “Transduction, transposition, translation” [Web log post]. Retrieved from Bright arrogance, gallery B (May 8, 2015)
2012
Baumgarten, Mark. “CoCA Settles in the Design Center.” City Arts Magazine (June, 2012) pp.
2011
Stricherz, Vince. Science News and Information. “Scientists, artists collaborate to produce new art exhibition in Seattle.” UW Today (January 24 2011)
2006
Hackett, Regina. P-I Art Critic. "Theater, Fine Arts News." Seattle Post-Intellingencer (October 2006). Farr, Sheila. Art Critic. "New Works Lab experiments mix old and new." The Seattle Times (September 22, 2006)
Interview. "Sonic Artist Fuses Art and Technology". Open Door, MIT School of Architecture and Planning, MIT Alumni Association. (July 2006)
Van Buskirk, Audrey. "Green Living". Portland Tribune (September 12, 2006)
Rossing, Thomas. Editor. "Acoustics in the news". Echoes: Acoustics Today Journal Spring 2006 Volume, quarterly. CCRMA Dept. of Music, Stanford University.
2005
"Discoveries: Sound Construction". The Boston Globe. (September 12, 2005). pp. C3
Gleitzman, Benjamin. "Rarified Air Makes Noise at Building 54". The Tech (September 16, 2005). pp. 1
Lenssen, Anneka. "Sonification/Listening Up @ MIT (Blgd 54)". Big Red and Shiny Online Art Journal. (September 19, 2005)
Heinemann, Lynn. MIT Office of the Arts. "Spotlight: Hear Sounds of the Ionosphere". Spotlight: Main MIT Webpage (September 13-16, 2005)
2024
Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell (present)
2019 -
2024
Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
2010 -
2019
Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
2006 -
2013
Visiting Lecturer, School of Art, University of Washington
2004 -
2005
Teaching assistant with Professor Joe Gibbons, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Video Art
2023
28th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) Paris 2023, Forum des images, Paris, France, "SeaCycles", Artist Talk. May 17
2022
Faculty Research and Creative Practice Community Seminars, University of Washington Bothell, Husky Highlights Seminar Series. Research Talk with collaborator Amaranth Borsuk “Touching an Invisible Archive: Mixed Reality, Art, and Public Documents”. February 15
2018
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Program, University of Washington Bothell, Graduate Class Art, Technology, and Practice Symposium, Bothell, WA. Artist Presentation “The Sensible Experience of Ephemeral Phenomena”. May 1
Fallingwater Immersive Design Program, Artist Presentation. August 14
2017
Sound Art Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Artist Presentation. March 21
2016
Glassbox Gallery, This May Not Work lecturer series, Seattle, WA. Artist Presentation. June 29
2015
Interactive Media Design Program, University of Washington Bothell. Artist Presentation. March 5
2014
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Program, University of Washington Bothell, Liveness Symposium. Moderated panel for artist Ann Hamilton. September 27
2013
DxARTS 200 Digital Art and New Media Course, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Artist Presentation. October 31
Method Gallery, Seattle, WA. Artist Presentation. July 2
BISIA 319 Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts Course, University of Washington Bothell, Bothell, WA. Artist Presentation. April 18
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. Faculty-led tour of Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II, April 17
DxARTS Program, University of Washington, Graduate Studio Class, Seattle, WA. Artist Presentation. April 12
MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics Program, University of Washington Bothell, Graduate Class. Artist Presentation. February 5
2012
Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Sound Art Conference, Artist Presentation, October 21
Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA. Our Creative Society: Beyond Art. Creative Thinking in Contemporary Culture Conferences, “Art of Science”, Panelist and Artist Presentation, October 6
2011
“Sonification.” in B. LaBelle & C. Martinho, eds. Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear, Vol 2, (Errant Bodies Press, 2011)
2010
“Engaged: 20 Years of the MIT Visual Arts Program.” Aspect Magazine: Chronicle of New Media Art, biannual DVD publication. 2010
2009
MIT Visual Arts Program, Artist Presentation to Graduate Studios course
2008
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist Presentation
Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington, Artist Presentation to course on Sound and Visual Art
2006
“Sonification/Listening Up.” Leonardo Music Journal. Volume 16, annual. Noises Off: Sound Beyond Music. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
Design Machine Group Lablunch series at the University of Washington School of Architecture. Artist Talk on ‘Transformations as Representations: Working with sound applications in architectural environments’. Seattle, WA
Visual Codec, Selected artist for “One Shot” Publication, Seattle, WA,
2005
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Sound Art Studio Class, Boston, MA, Artist Presentation
Presenter at IBM Research Headquarters, Artist Talk concerning sound as representation. Yorktown Heights, NY
2010 -
present
Reviewer for The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Fellowship/Residency Program
2013 -
2014
Selection committee panelist for the New Foundation, Seattle, WA
2013
Public art panelist at 4Culture
Panelist for City of Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs
2009
Co-curator with Ingrid Lahti, ArtsSparks Westlake Park Public Art Initiative, City of Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, City of SeattleOffice of Arts and Cultural Affairs, and 4Culture, Seattle, WA, June-October
2007
Communications and Development Director, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA
2003
Artist Assistant, Ann Hamilton Studios, Columbus, OH, 2000-2003
City of Seattle, Seattle Public Utilities, City of Portland Portable Works Public Art Colleciton