"DJ Spooky" to Present Multimedia Presentation on History of Digital Art and Media
September 19, 2005
Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. “DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid,” will give a public lecture at 6 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 26, in the first-floor jury space in the Stuckeman Family Building, Penn State University Park campus. His presentation, “Rhythm Science,” will be a “live” multimedia presentation on the history of digital art and media from the viewpoint of an artist who uses “found objects” in the same way a DJ selects (“finds”) old music and then combines or remixes it with new material. The presentation will focus on how DJ culture has evolved out of the same technologies that are used for digital media and art, and will feature Miller selecting old video material and remixing and combining it with new material.
Miller is a conceptual artist, writer and musician. He has written for the Village Voice, Artforum, and Artbyte. His artwork has appeared in a wide variety of contexts, including the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennial for Architecture and the Kunsthalle, Vienna. He is a faculty member at the European Graduate Institute. Under the guise of his constructed persona, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, he has performed around the world, recorded a huge volume of music and has collaborated with musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono, and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth. His records include Riddim Warfare, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Optometry (a collaborative CD, featuring jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and his band) and Dubtometry (a remix of the same, with collaborators Lee “Scratch” Perry and Mad Professor). Miller’s transmedia spectacle, “Rebirth of a Nation,” is scheduled for the Lincoln Center Festival, the Spoleto Festival, the Vienna Festival and the Festival d’Automne in Paris. For more information on Miller, visit http://www.djspooky.com.
This presentation is sponsored by the Penn State School of Visual Arts Anderson Endowment Lecture Series.
Contact: Sarah Schwartz, ses32@psu.edu