Steve Bradley

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Steve Bradley’s art practice engages time-based media; sound performance/installation, and material culture. He explores the boundaries of urban and suburban culture by collecting debris, sound, and images from the consumed and littered landscape. 

Bradley has received commissions from ISEA, San Jose, California; Blauschimmel Atelier, Oldenberg, Germany; Wave Hill, Bronx, New York; Hull Time Based Media, Hull; TRAIL magazine, Petersburg, England; and from Sonic Circuits VII, International Festival Electronic Music and Art in St. Paul, Minnesota.  He recently performed live in the InterAizoni Festival in Sardinia, Italy, remotely with Kunstradio ORF1 in Vienna, Austria, (((NOMUSIC))) in Strasbourg, France and participated in Transmission 003.3 sound art festival in Chicago, Baltimore Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., and the Red Room and the Vine, Baltimore, Maryland. His sound works have been published with various compilations and projects, such as Errant Bodies Press, Copenhagen, Denmark and most recently his sound work, "Oblique Scatter" was included in Digital Art Week 06 Soundscape event held in Zürich, Switzerland.

Since 1998, he has curated art@radio, a net.radio broadcast of sound art and experimental music. Bradley is an active member of the collective, URBANtells made up of two other artists whose work focuses on the intricacies between the architecture, cityscape and the human and cultural geography found within any city. URBANtells’ art practice involves the use of various forms of low and high technology to engage the residents, transients and lost inhabitants of the city.  The underlying concern of the collective is to use the various forms of technology in ways that foster, collect and redistribute urban culture in or as close to real time, to classify experiences, and to encode and communicate them symbolically through wireless transmissions.

Bradley received his B.F.A. from the University of South Florida in drawing and painting and a Masters of Fine Arts from Florida State University in painting and electronic media. He is an Associate Professor, Visual Arts at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, where he teaches foundations, digital video, and sound.