Silvia Ruzanka

About

Silvia Ruzanka is a media artist whose projects include video, installation, performance, and virtual environments.  Her work is concerned with the archaeology and memory of technology and media, and their intersections with everyday life.  She has presented her artwork and research internationally at galleries, museums, and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the New Forms Festival (Vancouver), SIGGRAPH, ISEA, the Gosia Koscielak Gallery (Chicago), DeadTech (Chicago), and the Museum of New Art (Detroit), among others. 
Her recent projects span a wide range of digital form and materials, including augmented reality artworks for smartphones; tiny 3D video projections in public spaces; interactive sound compositions from the sounds of dying hard drives for the dance performance Compositions for Bit at Judson Church; a video game about Tai Chi and labor in the food service industry commissioned by the performance group Disorientalism; and Marathon, a single-channel video composite of one entire season of the popular TV show Law and Order. 
Her current research interests include the history of the telegraph as the first cyberspace, Spiritualism, animation, augmented reality, digital glitches, and technological manifestations of the unseen, the overlooked, and the invisible. 

Other affililations: GSAS

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Silvia Ruzanka has 9 indexed publications in the subjects of Computer Science, Engineering, Materials Science.

Silvia Ruzanka
CHI PLAY 2023 - Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
, 2023
, pp.228-230
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Silvia Ruzanka, Daniel Harley
CHI PLAY 2023 - Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
, 2023
, pp.VI-VII
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Rebecca Rouse, Benjamin Chang, Silvia Ruzanka
Proceedings - IEEE Virtual Reality
, 2017
, pp.429-430
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S. Ruzanka
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
, 9012
, 2014
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Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang, Katherine Behar
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
, 8649
, 2013
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Silvia Ruzanka
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
, 8289
, 2012
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Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang, Katherine Behar
Proceedings - 2011 International Conference on Cyberworlds, Cyberworlds 2011
, 2011
, pp.227-231
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Silvia Ruzanka, Katherine Behar
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
, 7525
, 2010
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Silvia Ruzanka, Ben Chang
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
, 7238
, 2009
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