Egenhoefer received her BFA from the Fiber department with a concentration in Digital Video from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Rachel Beth was an MFA fellow at the University of California, San Diego where she also was a graduate researcher at UCSD's Center for Research and Computing in the Arts (CRCA). The self-proclaimed digital arts nerd formerly worked on the editorial staff of Artbyte Magazine in New York City, and continues freelance writing on art, modern society, and media culture. Her work has been exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, New York, the Netherlands, the Options 2002 Biennial in Washington DC, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London, the 2003 Boston Cyber Arts Festival, the Banff Centre for the Arts, ISEA 2004 in Tallinn Estonia, the Curtain University of Technology in Perth Australia, and others. Rachel Beth was the interim BFA adviser and a Lecturer at the CADRE Laboratory for New Media in the Department of Art & Design at San Jose State University. In her 3 years there she restructured the 'Intro to Digital Media' curriculum, obtained a sponsorship with Wired Magazine for her seminar class, organized a variety of field trips and student shows, helped oversee SWITCH - SJSU's online graduate art journal of new media, and served as the program coordinator for the ISEA/ ZeroOne 2006 International Symposium of Art & Technology. As a designer Egenhoefer's work can be seen on Regina Spektor's Begin To Hope Album (Warner Brothers, 2006), as well as in both local and international publications such as Art Forum, the San Francisco Chronicle, and others. Rachel Beth worked for two consecutive seasons as the Program and Web Manager at Yerba Buena Arts & Events/ Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco. Currently Rachel Beth is focusing on new projects. She was an artist in residence at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China (November & December 2007) and is currently working as an Artist Residency in the UK at the University of Brighton, Lighthouse Brighton, and Furtherfield (January-May 2008). Egenhoefer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When not traveling, she lives and works in San Francisco, California. She bakes banana bread, collects snow globes, and likes to swim.
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Projects by Rachel Beth
 kniittiing (beta) | |
 created 14/4/08  | Modeled after games such as DDR and Guitar Hero, users follow knits and purls on the screen challenging the player to knit in rhythm with the game, and without dropping a stitch! |
| body, game culture, hacking, interactive, participation | |
| prototypes for virtual knitting | |
 created 27/3/08 | Knit cloth is tangibly constructed from series of knit and purl stitches. Code is constructed from intangible sets of zeros and ones. Here users are able to knit in both physical and virtual space at the same time. |
| body, Code Art, installation, interactive, video | |
| loop | |
 created 21/3/08 | Zoetrope showing the motion of knitting constructed from cloth made on a computerized knitting machine (each pixel is a stitch). When spun and viewed through the slits viewers see the circular movement of hands looping knit stitches. |
| animation, conceptual, interactive, object | |
| space between | |
 created 20/3/08 | Resin cast of the space between body and machine as a place for architectural investigation. |
| behaviour, body, conceptual, object | |
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