“I am interested in how the things we do, the ways in which we occupy our time, affects our place in the world and the ways in which we move through time and space. It is the ephemera that I find fascinating — the toys and stories, collections, habits, hopes and beliefs, and the vestiges of those experiences that linger in the ether, that define us both personally and culturally...”

Michael Demers is a new media artist and Professor of Photography and Digital Media whose work interrogates the intersections of culture, identity, and the objects we leave behind. Drawing on the visual language of toys, collections, and cultural detritus, his practice moves fluidly between critical inquiry and a deeply personal fascination with the ephemeral.

Demers has exhibited internationally at venues including the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, the Maryland Institute College of Art, BronxArtSpace, and Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh. His work is held in the Rhizome Curated ArtBase at the New Museum, New York. He has participated in The Wrong Digital Art Biennale and shown across North America, Europe, and South America. He is a contributing author to both Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge Press) and Foundations of Digital Art and Design (Pearson/New Riders). He holds a BFA from Florida Atlantic University, an MFA from Ohio University, and a Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich.

Contact
mail@michaeldemers.com

Select Exhibition Record

  • “Regional Faculty Art Exhibit” Housatonic Community College, Bridgeport, CT
  • “The Art of Teaching Art” Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
  • “Anthropocene” juried exhibition, Fuse Factory, Pearl Conard Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH
  • “Synthetic Zero” curated exhibition, BronxArtSpace, Bronx, NY
  • “Beep Bop Boop” juried exhibition, FATVillage Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • “COLLISION20” juried exhibition, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
  • The Wrong — Digital Art Biennale: Homeostasis Lab, São Paulo, Brazil
  • “PixelPops!2013” juried exhibition, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  • “PAPERWORKS” invitational exhibition, FICTILIS, Oakland, CA
  • “Binaries” juried exhibition, Idea Lab, Athens, GA
  • “Collections” juried exhibition, FICTILIS, Seattle, WA
  • “Sight.Sound [Interaction] 6” invitational exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
  • “#FFFFFF space” juried exhibition, UTAC Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • “Appropriation Art 2” juried exhibition, Zagreb AKC Medika, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Arteria “Internet Livre” invitational exhibition, SESC Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
  • “post_space” solo exhibition, Conant Gallery, Groton, MA
  • “Broadcast Yourself” invitational exhibition, part of No Soul For Sale and in association with Embassy Gallery and Tate Modern, London, UK
  • “You Turn Me On and On and On” invitational exhibition, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
  • “Zeros + Ones: The Digital Era” exhibition, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, NY
  • “HTML Color Codes” curated exhibition, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York, NY
  • “Dual Action” invitational print exhibition, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Publications

  • Visual Communication Quarterly, Volume 24, Issue 1. Taylor and Francis
  • Fundamentos da Linguagem Visual. Adriana Vaz and Rossano Silva, editors. Editoria Intersaberes
  • Foundations of Digital Art and Design. xtine burrough, editor. Pearson/New Riders Press
  • Future Learning Spaces: Conference Proceedings. Owen Kelly and Sonvilla-Weiss Stefan, editors. Aalto Press
  • Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design. xtine burrough, editor. Routledge Press