About

Rebecca Bray’s work incorporates installation, animation, video, electronics, performance and participation, involving the audience as participants in meaningful interactions with questions about technology, data, science and the natural world. She was an artist-in-residence at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center where she co-created WindowFarms, a crowdsourced design project. Her installation and workshop kit experience DrinkPeeDrinkPeeDrinkPee was shown at MoMA and Eyebeam and featured in ArtNews in 2008. Her collaboration Botanicalls, a system allowing plants to talk, was installed in the MoMA show Talk to Me and is in their permanent collection. Her interactive 3D animation “H20=Life” was commissioned by the American Museum of Natural History and on exhibition there. She also produced The Meatrix, an award-winning animation that went viral in 2003 and has been viewed by millions. She was co-founder of Glassbead Collective, through which she created and produced large-scale live projected visuals. She co-founded a multimedia production company, Submersible Design, through which she created multimedia projects for museums including the Whitney, AMNH, NMNH, among others. Her work has also been in the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, and the Conflux and Megopolis Festivals, and featured on the BBC, NPR, Discovery Channel, as well as in the New York Times, ArtNews, and Wired. She holds a masters degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she studied and taught interactive technology. She was the Chief of Experience Design at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History where she led interactive exhibits and experiences. She is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Artistic Activism, where she leads a team in training and researching the intersections of art and social and environmental justice.