Stefani Byrd

Stefani Byrd is an American experimental media artist working in video, new media, and interactive technologies whose work sits at the intersection of immersive media, labor history, and feminist critique. Her current work focuses on creating psychologically charged immersive media environments that examine topics such as digital feminism, gun violence, and how technology impacts empathy in digitally mediated spaces. Her work has been exhibited at OBLIQUO Gallery (Madrid), Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (South Korea), SONIC MATTER New Music Festival (Zurich), Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante (Spain), Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Diego, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, and A.I.R. Gallery (Brooklyn). Byrd’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia and the Columbus Museum of American Art. Byrd is the Founding Director of the Intersectional Feminist Media Lab at University of North Carolina Wilmington.