Deborah Stratman, born in 1967, is an american artist and filmmaker. Her work oscillates between experimental and documentary. She works with multiple media, including sculpture, photography, installation, drawing, video and sound, and is interested in landscapes and systems. Much of her work focuses on the relationship between physical environments and human struggles for power and control and is shown all around the world. Stratman teaches at the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois in Chicago. A retrospective of her mid-career work was presented at MoMA in 2013: The Thing Unnamed.
An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our co...
An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our co...