Rob Duarte
Associate Professor
MFA Program Director
Department of Art
Rob Duarte is an artist and educator, whose practice draws attention to the politics embedded in all technology. Through sculptures and installations, Rob focuses on how technology often creates more problems than it solves, reinforces existing social hierarchies, and disguises its political ideology through slick interfaces. His work evolves from topical research and has included themes related to technology & culture, technology as a mediator, and the relationship between capitalism and waste.
Rob earned an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California San Diego, a BFA in Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art & Design, and BS in Business Information Systems with a minor in Computer & Information Science from the University of Massachusetts. At UCSD, Rob was an Ujima Scholar and a San Diego Fellow.
Rob has exhibited his work in venues as diverse as the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the New Children’s Museum, and the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. He has also participated in exhibitions for the Florida Art Prize in Contemporary Art, the San Diego Art Prize, and the southXeast Triennial.
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Education
2011 MFA Visual Art, University of California San Diego (San Diego Fellow, UJIMA Graduate Scholar)
2004 BFA Sculpture, Massachusetts College of Art & Design
Areas of Responsibility
Co-director of the Facility for Arts Research. Director of REBOOT Laboratory. Area head for Digital Media. Instructor for graduate and undergraduate courses, including Digital Fabrication, Mechatronic Art, and Physical Computing: Wearable and Electronic Art.