Roddy Schrock
Roderick Schrock is an arts executive and curator. He has been the Executive Director at Eyebeam since July, 2015. Biography
Schrock received an MFA in electronic music and recording media from Mills College, and a certificate in sonology from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague as well as a certificate in Non-Profit Management from Harvard University. He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at STEIM (Amsterdam), California College of the Arts, and New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is a founding board member of Art+Feminism. Schrock's essays have been published by MIT Press and appears regularly in Hyperallergic. He has also written for New Music Box, Fucking Good Art, and e/i magazine. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, the Netherlands, and Northern California and is now based in New York. Arts organizer and curator, 2010-present
As an arts organizer and curator, he focuses on building support, financially and culturally, for artists whose work directly confronts complex societal issues, particular in relationship to technology and society. This takes the form of executive leadership of Eyebeam, as a freelance curator, an educator, and as a general arts advocate. Arts organizer
 co-organizer of Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism, an experimental program that melds journalistic practice with the arts
lead organizer, Refiguring the Future exhibition and conference
building conditions for creativity: Confessions of a Failed Artist
 vision at Eyebeam: Tech Meets Poetry

Curator
 A Becoming Resemblance, solo exhibition of Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Fridman Gallery, 2017
Eyebeam In Objects, Upfor Gallery, 2015
 Slipped Gears, Usdan Gallery, 2014
 Three Pieces, apartment events, 2007-2010

Artist, 1999-2009
As a digital musician and composer, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others. Events, performances, and discography (partial list)
 For Freddie: Freddie Herko Memorial Evocation] (in collaboration with Deric Carner), 2007
 Kunsole, 2008
 Duotone, 2009
 Ostrava Days Festival, 2001
 POP!!! snap, crackle... Tour (as Tog), 2002
 Performance with Seamus Cater, 2005
 Performance with Pamela Z and STEIM, 2005
 "Crumpled Stream" on The September 11 Tragedy: A Musical Gallery, 2002
 An Unacceptable Color, 2003 (as Tog)
 The Tokyo Cowboy Meets His Maker Under The Neon Stars, 2004
 "Water Song" on Otto Spooky by Momus, 2005
 "If You Make Your Bed in Heaven" on Our Lives in the Bush of Disquiet, a 2005 remix album of David Byrne and Brian Eno's album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Other collaborations
Sound engineering for Stefani Bardin's M2A™: The Fantastic Voyage, 2011

References

External links
 Official personal site

American sound artists
American art curators
1976 births
Mills College alumni
Living people
California College of the Arts faculty
School of Visual Arts faculty
Royal Conservatory of The Hague alumni