Stephanie Loveless is a sound and media artist whose research centers on listening, vocal embodiment, and place. Loveless’ sound, video, and performance work has been presented widely in festivals, galleries, museums and artist-run centers in North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East. She was a Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Department of Arts from 2018-2026, and Director of the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer from 2020-2026. In 2025, Loveless published A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros, which brought together a year's worth of daily scores for listening, contributed by over 300 artists. Her co-edited volume,Situated Listening: Attending to the Unheard(2025), is a collection of essays that contribute theories and practices of embedded, contextual, and critical listening to growing literature in the field of sound studies.
