He currently teaches in the Curatorial Practice MA Program at the School of Visual Arts and has taught at
STEIM (Amsterdam), California College of the Arts, and New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He sits on the Netherlands America Foundation Cultural Committee, is a member of the Guild of Future Architects, and is a founding board member of
Art+Feminism. Schrock's essays have been published by MIT Press and appears regularly in
Hyperallergic.[1] He has also written for New Music Box, Fucking Good Art, and e/i magazine. He has lived and worked in Tokyo, the Netherlands, and Northern California and is now based in New York.
Arts organizer and curator, 2010-present
As an arts organizer and curator, he focuses on building support, financially and culturally, for artists whose work directly confronts complex societal issues, particular in relationship to technology and society. This takes the form of executive leadership of Eyebeam, as a freelance curator, an educator, and as a general arts advocate.
Arts organizer
co-organizer[2] of Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism, an experimental program that melds journalistic practice with the arts
lead organizer,[3] Refiguring the Future exhibition and conference
building conditions for creativity: Confessions of a Failed Artist[4]
As a digital musician and composer, Schrock has been commissioned by Meet the Composer, the American Music Center, The Netherlands America Foundation, and Ostrava New Music Days, among others.
Events, performances, and discography (partial list)
For Freddie: Freddie Herko Memorial Evocation] (in collaboration with Deric Carner), 2007
Kunsole, 2008
Duotone, 2009
Ostrava Days Festival, 2001
POP!!! snap, crackle... Tour (as Tog), 2002
Performance with Seamus Cater, 2005
Performance with Pamela Z and STEIM, 2005
"Crumpled Stream" on The September 11 Tragedy: A Musical Gallery, 2002[9]