Nationality American Name Michael Demers | Known for New media art | |
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Born March 19, 1975 Fort Lauderdale, Florida Notable work Color Field Paintings (Browser), The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server, The Sky is Falling (A Day in the Life) Education Florida Atlantic University, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Ohio University | ||
Michael Demers (born 1975) is a new media artist and educator. His work "incorporates culture and cultural identity in a synthesis of critical investigation and his own adolescent preoccupation with toys and other weird ephemera." He has taught college-level digital art and new media courses since 2007.
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Background
Michael Demers was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He attended Florida Atlantic University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking. Afterward he attended the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München in Munich, Germany where he studied under the printmaker Gerd Winner and earned his Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom. He later attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where he studied under the New York-based painter Guy Goodwin and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. Between 2007 and 2010 he taught Digital Art and New Media courses at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 2010 he has taught Fine and Digital Art as an Associate Professor at Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut, where he is the Program Coordinator for Fine, Performing and Digital Arts.
Work
Michael Demers is best known for his web-based Color Field Paintings (Browser) (2009), in which a website visitor generates a series of browser windows, each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece; The Sky Is Falling: A Day in the Life (2010), which incorporates captured PlayStation 3 video from "Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion," edited to reflect the seamless passing of game time and real time; and The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server (2009), which displays a randomly appearing binary code portrait of the famous computer pioneer.
His work has been accepted into the Rhizome at the New Museum (New York, NY) Curated ArtBase, an archive of digital art selected for inclusion by the museum curatorial staff and the White Columns (New York, NY) Curated Artist Registry, a highly selective database of artists selected by the White Columns curatorial staff.