Gretchen Bender

Gretchen Bender (1952-2004) was an artist who took to task the proliferation of mass media. Exhibitions of her work and performances of her electronic media theater works have included presentations at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the Menil Collection in Houston. She co-edited, with Timothy Druckrey, Culture on the...See more

Gretchen Bender (1952-2004) was an artist who took to task the proliferation of mass media. Exhibitions of her work and performances of her electronic media theater works have included presentations at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Setagaya Museum, Tokyo; and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the Menil Collection in Houston. She co-edited, with Timothy Druckrey, Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #9 (The New Press). Timothy Druckrey is the director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and also works as a curator, writer, and editor living in New York City. He lectures internationally about the social impact of photography, electronic media, the transformation of representation, and communication in interactive and networked environments. He co-curated the exhibition Iterations: The New Image at the International Center of Photography and edited the book of the same name. He is also the editor of Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation and series editor for Electronic Culture: History, Theory, Practice. He co-organized the international symposium Ideologies of Technology at the Dia Center of the Arts and co-edited, with Gretchen Bender, Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #9 (The New Press). See less