DDA Guest Lecture Series Fall 2025: Rachel Rossin

Rachel Rossin is a New York-based transdisciplinary artist, painter, and computer programmer whose work examines the phenomenological impacts of technology on human autonomy and sovereignty. Teaching herself computer programming from the age of five, Rossin has developed a practice that moves fluidly between the virtual and physical, utilizing a diverse array of mediums ranging from DNA programming, virtual reality, custom AI networks, oil paint, and holographic displays. Her work has been exhibited and collected by institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki), the Akron Art Museum, the Norton Museum of Art, the New Museum, Rhizome, and the K11 Art Foundation (Shanghai). Her projects and exhibitions have been covered by The New York Times, The Guardian, The BBC, and Artforum, and has been profiled in films by Art21, the Louisiana Channel, and National Geographic. Across her hybrid practice, Rossin develops new vocabulary for our understanding of volition and control in a technologically mediated age.