Artist Rachel Rossin on the Journey to Self-Creation | Louisiana Channel

“All art is like timekeeping.” Meet the multi-talented Rachel Rossin from New York, whose practice spans from painting to programming.
“My childhood was pretty turbulent. You can see that in a lot of my drawings. There is an expression of violence. There was an aspect to making art that really saved my autonomy and my ability to keep myself safe. I do feel that art saved my life.”
Rachel Rossin started working with computers at the age of four and taught herself programming at five. Today, she reflects upon AI and developments beyond, for example, new ways of connecting humans to machines. At the same time, she sees art as one of the oldest and noblest expressions of being human.
“It’s making traces of our time here. It’s like timekeeping. It’s a record of the artist’s time. Especially paintings and paintings with their expressionistic marks where you stand in the same place the artist stood. You are looking at a core sample of evidence of the trace the artist’s body made through time and space. I think we will have that as long as we exist. It’s just so precious and perfect.”
Rachel Rossin, formed by her readings of the Bible during childhood, sees life as an ongoing journey to self-creation, a type of distilling over and over again:
“I think that people that love life the most are the ones that are the most aware of death. It’s so brief. I want to be engaged and as present as I can. It feels like there is a spiritual calling to making art.”
Rachel Rossin (b. 1987, Florida, USA) is an internationally recognised artist whose multidisciplinary practice synthesises painting, computer programming, video, built electronics, sculpture, installation, and new media to create works that address the phenomenological effects of technology on daily life. She currently lives and works in New York City, New York, USA. The New York Times has stated, “Ms. Rossin has achieved something, forging a connection between abstract painting and augmented perception that opens up a fourth dimension that existed only in theory for earlier painters.” She is widely considered a pioneer in Virtual and Mixed Realities for her innovative research. Rossin’s work has been screened at The Sundance Film Festival, and she received a 2020 Prix Ars Electronica for developing new AI animation methods. Rachel Rossin received a solo commission from the KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art for her large-scale installation: ‘THE MAW OF,’ shown at both institutions 2022-2023. Her works are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Borusan Contemporary of Istanbul, The Norton Museum of Art, and The Zabludowicz Collection. She has been exhibited at prestigious institutions around the world, including the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, HEK of Münchenstein Basel Switzerland, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Hyundai Museum, The New Museum of New York City, K11 of Shanghai, Rhizome, The Frist Art Museum, GAMeC Museum of Bergamo, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Cleveland Institute of Art, The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Akron Art Museum, and the Hyundai Museum.
Rossin has also lectured at Stäedelschule, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The New Museum, The National Arts Club, and Carnegie Mellon, among many others. Her work has been published in several notable publications, such as 'Video/Art: The First Fifty Years' published by Phaidon, 'Chimeras, Inventory of Synthetic Cognition' by the Onassis Foundation, and 'Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century' by MIT Press.
Rachel Rossin was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in June 2023. The interview took place in New York at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Rachel Rossin’s studio in Manhattan.
Camera: Sean Hanley
Edited by: Signe Boe Pedersen
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2023
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This is one of the best channels on KZbin.

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I swear

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agreeeeeee

[@aleksandramisikaite2771]

So lovely to listen to this! Amazing artist and human being!

[@user-tl8zp2vs3e]

What an amazing, refreshing and articulate creative thinker and maker. A young artist tapped into the true origins of creation: doing the right thing at the right time. ‘There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens’ Ecclesiastes 3: 1.

[@nealpeterson]

"You are looking at a trace the artist's body made through time and space." 🖤

[@sharonrussell7799]

wow, I'm happy to have stumbled upon this talk... Rachel Rossin says so many things that feel are profound in her own questioning, exploring within her work. Great artists, like scientists have the best questions, the best spirit for searching. I need to watch this again and write down some of what she said.... wow.

[@markmckeowntheehyperstation]

Refreshing. Inspiring. Thank you.

[@Demention94]

I dont think her philosophy is so obvious in her works, but an interesting and honest artist.

[@trahapace150]

because she is an artist who is 90% thought and 10% execution

[@julieisthatart]

What an incredibly interesting person. Thank you for revealing her, her philosophy, her amazing early computer breaking and making, the art, her presentation of selfhood. Golly!

[@sharonrussell7799]

Agreed! I haven't been inspired by a new artist in a while.... she, though, is quite interesting... may she keep her "childlike wonder" and not be eaten up by the art market.

[@sitahsinrva]

ive said the same thing Rossin, on the topic of explaining how weird the act of painting is, fats, lipids, hair on a stick guided by ya best dexterity.This video makes me feel less alone as a painter.

[@armandogavilan1815]

Her narrative is 10 times better than the actual works

[@alejandromolinac]

Huh? Love the cliched “muh small town background”….. geez the father was a computer person so she obviously didn’t grow up poor…. Also Georgia O’Keeffe live in the desert in New Mexico and managed to still be relevant until her death….. heck…. I lived in Oklahoma and went to art shows all the freaking time…. 25 year ago!!!!!! Culture my ass!

[@PeterMaxLawrence77]

Well stated on all fronts.

[@oli7457]

I could listen to her talk all day, she's so brilliant

[@trahapace150]

ehhh you would get tired of her after about an hour, i have coworkers like this who just have thought, and thought, and thought....it becomes draining after a while

[@TD-qi2rw]

Excellent !! Face to Face has a very important place in my practice too and will be forever.

[@robertspies4695]

Bright and determined young painter. Not sure we should be as accepting of fusion of man and machines.

[@slysquadq]

Great episode 🏆

[@jamieluce5808]

I wish this video showed more of her actual work.

[@jcwt_pdx]

Beautiful 😍 😊

[@nathanieldeclarador1466]

Respect

[@olivierbolton8683]

Amazing i get you!

[@testemunhosdeconversao]

She has definitely mastered in storytelling. In art, time will judge.

[@Doppe1ganger]

Too good

[@dalanium98]

Awesome

[@mamumonkan]

when will you give us the >>Jens Haaning

[@user-pq7eh1cw1e]

+1

[@elation0x]

Is there any reason you didn't show this artists artwork?

[@stacym5135]

The Bible says in both OT and NT that divination is not permissible and is detestable in God's sight. Her explanation of first Corinthians scripture about seeing through a glass darkly has nothing to do with scrying or divination . The mirror glass in the time when that scripture was written didn't allow for seeing one's face in it clearly. Mirrors manufactured back then were not as clear as the ones we have today. The scripture she mentioned was talking about one day being able to see God face to face, and to be able to see things from His perspective clearly.

[@mamumonkan]

one day soon Ai (Ki) will eat into the profits of this kind of art

[@trahapace150]

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. Alan Watts she reminds me a lot of my friend, she seems to engage in a tremendous amount of mental masturbation just for the sake of thought, they always have thought, and thought, and thought.

[@robertalenrichter]

What does she mean, when she says that "nothing is being sold"? The paintings, for example?

[@endingmirage]

You create for introspection, not for any profit. It can be sold eventually, but that's not a point. You are out of the system when you creating. It is like a light that goes through you. Nothing is being sold, only light passing

[@robertalenrichter]

@@endingmirage I paint daily. It's hard work, frustrating and rewarding at the same time. Ultimately, it doesn't matter what I think or feel about it because the painting will go on anyway. But, I also have a degree from an art school and know how the system works. Professional artists operate in a highly competitive marketplace. They can't afford to take their time. Galleries want things to sell. I believe that this inevitably affects the work, consciously and unconsciously. My choice was to renounce selling so that I really could be introspective. In any case, I was always too slow and obsessive to ever be a "professional".

[@Demention94]

​@robertalenrichter Regardless, art may find its way into a monetary system but comes from a far less tangible place.

[@user-pq7eh1cw1e]

ohh @@endingmirage

[@GarnetLynne]

Lucky kid, not all of us make it.

[@gregtronica3569]

persistence is your most powerful asset

[@mamumonkan]

hahaha ... where are you from !?! @@gregtronica3569

[@fatherburning358]

Luck does have a hand in it.

[@nelliehugh]

And who you know

[@alejandromolinac]

When it comes to making in Art…. It’s arbitrary luck…. Highly talented people never get discovered…. Some strike gold with a gimmick of fashionable “persona”…. Some just follow the fads….

[@jamieluce5808]

Shouldn't the work speak for itself? We expect artists to lecture now?

[@Maxwellfranklinbeck]

Art destroyed mine

[@dislocational]

there's something about her.... not relatable. Also, "art is not being sold to us"?? Seriously? Everything is right now a product marketed for people's consumption.

[@SkywalkerPaul]

Art is not for consumption. It's for...🤔...

[@ignasiusiu]

art is for experiencing. if something is made to be sold, it’s a product, not art.

[@harperwelch5147]

To survive as humans we do consume. Food. Comfort. Shelter. Friendship. Learning. Seeking inspiration. It’s all consuming to nourish ourselves.

[@pedrorocha9722]

Why on the likes on a grown woman discourse?

[@originalcachou1306]

THIS young woman and artist is the most pretentious person i never have seen on screen. I mean the worst is she seems to believe what she saying, no prouves, no experiences of life besides, her hurtfull childwood. She trying to to make us believe that she knowing what suffering means ... she is just a not interresting artist who's try to get heself somewhere, where, she is not already inviting. poor contemporary art ! #PEACE AND LOVE

[@alejandromolinac]

OMG! She grew up in a small town! THE TRAGEDY!!!!!!! Whiny liberals yappibg about religious is so tiresome.

[@adrianobastardi]

Yeah, its always "the journey" never the work itself.

[@mamumonkan]

seems Louisiana is turning into some kind of Ted talk - video channel

[@mamumonkan]

or the work is just not interesting enough by itself ?