{ "name": "Roddy Schrock", "url": "https://roddyschrock.net", "email": "r@roddyschrock.net", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/roddyschrock/", "image": "https://roddyschrock.net/media/site/abd19aa5a8-1791724983/portrait.jpg", "updated": "2026-10-11T22:03:07+00:00", "intro": "", "experience": [ { "dates": "2026 → present", "role": "Executive Director", "organization": "New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, New York", "summary": "The Zen Center (https://www.zencare.org/) trains caregivers and meets people where they are at with real presence. My job is to tend the operational ground underneath so the teachers can teach. I found Zen at nineteen, and this role brings more of my life into one place than ever before.", "highlights": [] }, { "dates": "2025 → 2026", "role": "Cultural strategist", "organization": "Independent, Providence and New York", "summary": "Strategic guidance for cultural organizations navigating change: bold programmatic initiatives, ambitious fundraising campaigns, and partnerships that make both possible.", "highlights": [ "Helped a consortium of regional arts publishers turn years of shared conversation into a workable structure: a governance and membership model, a regranting framework, and the case for support to funders. (2026).", "Strategic advisor to Harvestworks (https://www.harvestworks.org/), New York's digital media arts center since 1977: shaped a three-year plan to grow its leadership team, raise artist fees, and preserve its archive, and made the case for multi-year institutional investment (2025–2026)." ] }, { "dates": "2025 → present", "role": "Founder", "organization": "Ultradilute", "summary": "Ultradilute (https://ultradilute.com/) is an intentionally small, online concierge homeopathy practice for people who build creatively: entrepreneurs and founders, artists, spiritual seekers, whose health is often deeply intertwined with their work. Consultations run two hours, with no script and no such thing as too much information; ongoing care is a monthly membership of half-hour sessions every two weeks, with acute care when it is needed.", "highlights": [] }, { "dates": "2015 → 2025", "role": "Executive Director", "organization": "Eyebeam, New York", "summary": "Chief executive and primary frontline fundraiser for New York's center for art and technology, through a decade of growth and a digital-first global pivot.", "highlights": [ "Restructured the financial model around direct philanthropy and led Eyebeam to become the first artist residency certified by W.A.G.E. (https://wageforwork.com/) for fair artist pay.", "Created the Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future fellowship during the pandemic.", "Founding member of the Collaborative Arts Network New York (CANNY)." ] }, { "dates": "2009 → 2015", "role": "Program Director and Fellowship Director", "organization": "Eyebeam, New York", "summary": "Directed artist selection for grants, fellowships and residencies, running national open calls and curatorial review panels. Built a network of more than 500 alumni artists, co-led programmatic fundraising with city, state and federal agencies (DCLA, NYSCA, NEA), and curated the Artists-in-Conversation series with guests including Joan Jonas, Trevor Paglen, McKenzie Wark and Paola Antonelli.", "highlights": [] }, { "dates": "2006 → 2008", "role": "Digital Arts Director", "organization": "Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View, California", "summary": "Built the digital arts program at Silicon Valley's largest community arts center, directing educational programming and outreach, bringing live performance with new technology to students who could not otherwise afford it, and securing a $10,000 Adobe grant to fund the program.", "highlights": [] } ], "sections": [ { "heading": "Curatorial projects and speaking", "items": [ "Curator, Analog: An Antidote to AI Art, New Bedford Art Museum (https://newbedfordart.org/analog-call/): an exhibition asking what makes art unmistakably human (2027)", "Host, Bloomberg × Hyundai Art+Technology global video dialogue series (2022)", "Host and producer, Informer (/informer/) podcast (2021–2023), with guests including Kate Crawford and Stephanie Dinkins", "Curator, A Becoming Resemblance, Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning, Fridman Gallery, New York (2017)", "Curator, Eyebeam in Objects, Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon (2015)", "Curator, Slipped Gears, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College (2014)", "Co-curator, Three Pieces, a quarterly art and performance series in San Francisco and New York (2007–2012), and Kunsole, Grove Street Projects, San Francisco Arts Commission residency (2008)", "Speaker and panelist: Met Breuer (2016), ABIT Conference, Brazil (2016), LabSurLab Symposium, Colombia (2012), Tsinghua University, Beijing (2011)" ], "note": "" }, { "heading": "Teaching", "items": [ "Instructor, Curatorial Practice MA, School of Visual Arts, New York (2017–2022)", "Thesis advisor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2015–2017)", "Instructor in electronic music, Public School New York (2011)", "Lecturer in electronic music and composition, California College of the Arts, Oakland (2006–2008)", "Lecturer in electronic music, STEIM, Amsterdam (2004–2006), with summer workshops on SuperCollider", "Instructor in electronic music, De Anza College, Cupertino (2003–2005)" ], "note": "" }, { "heading": "Art and performance", "items": [ "The Rabbit and His Catcher, with Joon Lee, Apex Art, New York (2012), and Violets, with Joon Lee, Shea Stadium, Brooklyn (2011)", "M2A: The Fantastic Voyage, Medellín Museum of Modern Art and Club M, Tokyo (2009)", "Kunsole, a concept band with portable sound diffusion, Deitch Art Parade, New York (2007), and Fractured Conversation, a sound installation, Art Miami Basel (2007)", "Love's Geography Revisited, live music for a performance by Sara Wookey, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2006)", "Pan Pacific Playground, a real-time network performance linking Tokyo, Oakland, Montreal and Amsterdam (2004)", "Digital instrument design for Escamotage, a chamber opera (VeenFabriek, 2005), and the dance production Face (REDCAT, 2004)", "More than fifty concerts and presentations across Japan as the new-media duo Tog (1999–2001)", "Recordings: Water Song with Momus (2004), Kurashi (r)mix (2003), Lexivexicon (2001), An Unacceptable Color as Tog (2000)" ], "note": "Twenty-five years as a composer and performer, with work commissioned by Meet the Composer and the American Music Center and toured across the United States, Europe and Japan. Selected:" }, { "heading": "Writing", "items": [ "\"How do you trust a mystery? (https://dark.properties/how-do-you-trust-a-mystery/),\" Dark Properties (2026)", "\"Confessions of a Failed Artist,\" The Creative Independent (2019)", "\"A Becoming Resemblance,\" catalogue essay, Fridman Gallery (2017)", "\"The Internet in Our Bones,\" in Moving Image, MIT Press (2016)", "Contributing writer for Hyperallergic (2016–2019), HuffPost (2016–2018), NewMusicBox (2005–2008), e/i magazine (2005–2007) and Fucking Good Art (2004–2006)" ], "note": "" }, { "heading": "Boards and field leadership", "items": [ "Board of directors, Shorinji Zen Association (2023–present)", "Founding board member, Art+Feminism (2019–2023)", "Cultural Committee member and grantmaker, Netherlands-America Foundation (2015–present)", "Founding advisory board member, OPEN Arts, Providence (2023-present)", "Member, Guild of Future Architects (2020–2023), and committee member, Youth Data Literacy Project, Pratt Institute (2020–2023)", "Grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Knight Foundation, Creative Capital, United States Artists, the Heinz Awards, the Hyundai VH Award and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts", "Mentor, Out in Tech (2020) and ArtsConnect (2022)" ], "note": "" }, { "heading": "Education and training", "items": [ "Academy of Homeopathy Education, Philadelphia: two-year professional training program in classical homeopathy (2025)", "Certified Homeopathic Practitioner (CHP), North American Homeopathy Examiners (https://homeopathyexaminers.org/listing/roddy-schrock-chp/) (2025)", "Certificate in Non-Profit Management, Harvard Extension School (2018)", "Certificate in Sonology, Institute of Sonology, Royal Conservatory of The Hague (2004)", "MFA, Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College (2003)", "BA, Sociology, Mississippi State University (1999)", "Continuing education: Consciousness: Science, Spirituality, and Global Impact (Harvard Medical School, 2025); Groundbreaking Science and Global Health (UConn Health, 2025); Collaborative Homeopathic Conference (Sonoran University, 2024); ongoing study with Massimo Mangialavori's group, and training in Resonant Attention with Stella Osojoros Eisenstein" ], "note": "" }, { "heading": "Professional development", "items": [ "Technology and Data Skills for Non-Profit Fundraising, Aspiration (2021)", "Maven Leadership DEI Task Force (2020–2023)", "Anti-Racism Training, The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond (2019)", "Vistage executive coaching and peer group (2016–2018)", "MoMA Peer Learning Group for Art and Process (2013)" ], "note": "" } ], "kindWords": [ { "quote": "The work you've done has meant so much to me and countless other artists, and I'm deeply grateful.", "who": "Lauren Lee McCarthy, artist" }, { "quote": "Your leadership has shaped such an important space for artists, thinkers, and makers, all of which will undoubtedly continue because of the work you've done.", "who": "Jamie Allen, artist-researcher and organizer" }, { "quote": "Eyebeam has been such a force under your leadership.", "who": "Angelo Plessas, artist" }, { "quote": "The opportunities you offered and the doors you opened still mean a lot.", "who": "Laura Welzenbach, Ars Electronica" } ], "formats": { "html": "https://roddyschrock.net/work", "text": "https://roddyschrock.net/work.txt", "json": "https://roddyschrock.net/work.json" } }