Stephen Vitiello

Stephen Vitiello (born 1964 in New York City ) is an American visual and sound artist who has released numerous ambient minimal noise electronic audio albums throughout the past three decades. Originally a punk guitarist, Vitiello was early on influenced towards art by working for video artist Nam June Paik whom he met in 1991. In order to transform incidental atmospheric noises into mesmerizing soundscapes that alter our perception of the surrounding environment, he frequently works with Moog Music ring modulators, hard disk recorders, Schoeps CMXY stereo [condenser] microphones and Sennheiser MKH short shotgun microphones.

Vitiello has had solo exhibitions of sound installations, photographs and drawings at museums and galleries including The Project in New York City, MASS MoCA, the High Line, Museum 52 in Los Angeles and Galerie Almine Rech in Paris. Group exhibitions include Soundings: A Contemporary Score at the Museum of Modern Art, the 2002 Whitney Biennial,

Vitiello is currently a professor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Richmond, Virginia. as well as photocells and used that material in his Bright and Dusty Things album (New Albion Records) as well as in an installation environment, World Trade Center Recordings: Winds After Hurricane Floyd. and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston.

Collaborations Vitiello has collaborated with Pauline Oliveros, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner), Eighth Blackbird, Andrew Deutsch, Steve Roden and Frances-Marie Uitti; as well as visual artists Julie Mehretu, Tony Oursler and Joan Jonas. Vitiello has also collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously), Nam June Paik, Taylor Deupree, Lawrence English, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brendan Canty and Jem Cohen among others.

Awards Vitiello has received several awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts in 2011 , Creative Capital's Emerging Fields, and an Alpert/Ucross Award for Music.