National Center for Contemporary Arts
and MediaLab Cyland
present
Meeting with media-artist Andrew Demirjian (USA)
25 August at 7 pm
Andrew Demirjian is a media artist whose practice is inspired by traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture but reinterpreted through computer processing. He is interested in how technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking and data gathering can be used to create portraits that simultaneously display interior and exterior states, the psychological and the physical. The work employs a deep sense of irony and subversive humor to explore the rich textures of the psyche and critically examine relationships between the self and society. Andrew takes an interdisciplinary approach to his practice drawing upon his experience as a musician and filmmaker to create responsive interactions between the aural and visual. In the work, conceptual systems of juxtaposition, categorization and randomness replace conventional narrative arcs and character development.
His work has been featured in exhibitions at the White Box gallery, The Center for Book Arts, LMAK Projects and Harvestworks in Manhattan. Over the last year he has had multiple international exhibitions including the Garden of Earthly Delights in Korea, Küf/Mold in Rotterdam and Analogue/Digital in England. Andrew Demirjian received a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant and has been awarded artist in residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Newark Museum, the Experimental Television Center, the CYLAND Media Laboratory and the Visual Studies Workshop. Mr. Demirjian received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and he is a Professor at Monmouth University teaching courses in video production, visual culture and film history.
Adress: Emb. of the river of Fontanka, 34, A (a wing of the Sheremetevsky palace).
