Jess Rowland

Lead Audiovisual Coordinator, Film/Video

Jess Rowland is an artist, composer, and educator working with sound, multimedia, and experimental technologies. Her practice explores sound as material—through flexible circuitry, spatial audio, electromagnetic phenomena, and hybrid objects that blur composition, installation, and performance. Her work has been exhibited, presented, and performed internationally, and she is also engaged with education and advocacy for weird music and sound art, including teaching and mentoring positions at Princeton, Cooper Union, and School of Visual Arts in NYC.

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.