Steinke holds an MFA in Art and Technology Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He received The Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for Interdisciplinary/Computer Art. He was a finalist and Seed Grant recipient for ArtPrize 2016 and a 2015 New Music USA Project Grant recipient. He won an award at the 2018 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition for his “Stepper Rattle”. His commissioned works have been funded through the NEA, Texas Commission on the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Mid-America Arts Alliance. He was a founding member of post-punk-noise ensembles Mocket, Satisfact, and Octant, writing and recording over ten albums for Kill Rockstars, K Records, and Up records.
Born in Durham, NC, he grew up in Friendswood, Dallas, and Austin, Texas. He spent twenty of his adult years living in Seattle, Chicago, and New York. He now lives in Austin, TX where he teaches online courses in time-based media and creative technology through the Maryland Institute College of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, and the Dadageek School for Expressive Technology.
