artist
Stephanie Loveless
Canada
Stephanie Loveless is a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening and vocal embodiment. Loveless’ sound, video, and performance work has been presented widely in festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centers in North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East. She currently lives and works in upstate New York, on the shores of the Mahicannituck, where she is a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Arts, and Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer.
In 2025, Loveless published A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros, which brought together a year’s worth of daily scores for listening, contributed by over 300 artists. Her co-edited volume, Situated Listening (2025), is a collection of essays that contribute theories and practices of embedded, contextual, and critical listening to growing literature in the field of sound studies.
Stephanie Loveless
Spisslønn / Norway Maple, 2025
Three metal horn speakers resonate with vocal compositions created through slow, attentive listening to a single Norway maple tree near the artist’s home in upstate New York. The composition is shared as an offering to the Norway maple trees near the MOMENTUM exhibition site. Acer platanoides—known as “Spisslønn” in Norwegian and “Norway maple” in English—is native to Europe and labeled “invasive” in New York State. Both the Norway maple and the artist are of settler parentage, and both—in different ways—are considered “invasive” in their environment. The piece is offered as an invitation into cross-species attunement and a meditation on the colonial histories and capitalist forces that affect species across landscapes, between worlds, and through time.