Stephen Vitiello
Stephen Vitiello (born November 5, 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 who 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, the 2006 Sydney Biennale and Ce qui arrive (Unknown Quantity) curated by Paul Virilio at the Cartier Foundation in Paris.
CD and LP releases include Captiva with Taylor Deupree (12k), The Sound of Red Earth (Kaldor Public Art Projects), Box Music with Machinefabriek (12k), Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa), The Gorilla Variations (12k), Buffalo Bass Delay (Hallwalls) and Second, with Brendan Canty and Hahn Rowe (Balmat).
Vitiello is currently a professor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Similar Artists