Selected Available Works
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Hypnica (3/5), 2008
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Paul DeMarinis
Tongues of Fire #2, 2004
Photograph in light box
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Paul DeMarinis
Biography
Born
Cleveland, OH
Education
1973 Mills College, Oakland, CA
Antioch, Yellow Springs, OH
Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
2008 Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Works,
Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Branching Out, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Firebirds, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2009 Instruments, Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Coming Attractions: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sound & Motion: Recent Sculpture and Installation, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA
2006 re-Titled, ScoreCologne, Köln, Germany
Firebirds, Arts Centre Voorhuit, Ghent, Belgium
2005 Firebirds, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition, Linz, Austria
Moondust Memories, Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, Baltimore
2004 A Light Rain (in collaboration with Rebecca Cummins), Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Tongues of Fire, Singuhr Horgalerie, Berlin
Firebirds, Singuhr Horgalerie, Berlin
Firebirds, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Firebirds, Garage Media Festival Stralsund, Germany
2003 Branching Out, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
(Tommy Franks) Dérive Quebec, Avatar, Quebec
2002 According to Scripture, Stadtgalerie Saarbrucken, Germany
Moondust Memories, T.W.Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University
Moondust Memories, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, March 2002
2001 Moondust Memories, New Langton Arts , San Francisco, CA
Walls in the Air, The Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA
2000 The Messenger, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Lecture of Comrade Stalin…/The Edison Effect, Ecole d'art de Aix-en-Provence, France
The Edison Effect, Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon, France
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; traveled to
Groninger Museum, Groninger, The Netherlands
The Edison Effect, De Ijsbreker, Amsterdam & Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
RainDance/Musica Acuatica, Swatch Pavillion, Expo ‘98, Lisbon, Portugal; ICA, London, England
The Messenger, Metronom Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Grind Snaxe Blind Apes (A Study for Pomeroy's Tomb), San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1997 Eureka Fellowship Award Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Grind Snaxe Blind Apes (A Study for Pomeroy's Tomb), San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
ICC Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chaotic Jumpropes, Computing Commons, Arizona State University, AZ
Artists from Mills: Paul DeMarinis & Barbara Crane, Main Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA
The Edison Effect, Oberosterreichisches Landesmuseum, Lintz, Austria
1996 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SECA Electronic Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Gray Matter, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Sonambiente, Akademie der Kununste, Berlin, Germany
The Edison Effect, Bravin Post Gallery, New York, NY
Swatch Olympic Pavilion, Atlanta, GA
1995 Gray Matter/Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, Obscure, Quebec, Canada
Gray Matter, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto; CA Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Chaotic Jumpropes, Obscure, Quebec, Canada; Park Tower Hall, Tokyo, Japan
The Edison Effect, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, Obscure, Quebec, Canada
1994 Chaotic Jumpropes, Narodni Technicke Muzeum, Prague, Czechoslovakia
The Edison Effect, I.S.E.A. Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Klingende
1994 Dinge, Schloss Ottenstein, Austria; Teatro Juarez Guanajuato, Mexico
Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, Museum City Tenjin,Fukuoka, Japan
Alien Voices, Electronic Carnival, Lollapalooza Tour
The Edison Effect, Obscure, Quebec, Canada; San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Palm Beach C.C. Art Museum, FL
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1992 The Edison Effect, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
An Unsettling Matter, Yellow Spring Institute, PA
Music Room / Faultless Jamming, Museo Interactivo Infantil, Mexico City (permanent)
The Edison Effect, Sound Culture, Sydney, Australia; Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland
An Unsettling Matter, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Alien Voices, Multimediale II, Karlsruhe, Germany Technorama, Winerthur, Switzerland
Music Room / Faultless Jamming, Technorama, Winterthur, Switzerland
1990 The Edison Effect, C.O.C.A., Seattle, WA
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, Kunstverein Gianozzo, Berlin, Germany
Alien Voices, World Financial Center, New York, NY; Technorama, Winterthur,
Switzerland
The Edison Effect, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Fireflies Alight on the Abacus of Al-Farabi, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA;
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Alien Voices, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA (permanent); Kanagawa
Science Park, Kawasakishi, Japan (permanent)
Voice Creatures, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Voice Creatures, Soundwaves Show at NYC Gallery; Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, New York, NY
Music Room / Faultless Jamming, The Boston Childrens Museum, MA (permanent)
Music Room / Faultless Jamming, Touch the Universe, Winnipeg, Manitoba
(permanent), The Pittsburgh Childrens Museum (permanent)
1984 Music Room / Faultless Jamming, The Ontario Science Centre, Canada (permanent);
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1982 Music Room / Faultless Jamming, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Sound Fountain, in collaboration with D. Behrman, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1980 Sounds and the Shadows of Sounds, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
The Pygmy Gamelan, P.S. 1, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1979 Sounds and the Shadows of Sounds, Media Studies, Buffalo, NY
The Pygmy Gamelan, L.A.I.C.A., Los Angeles, CA
The Pygmy Gamelan, Musee Gallera, Paris, France; Galerie Shandar, Paris, France
Commissions and Installations
Rebus, 2003, Stanford Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
Wavescape, 2003, Ft. Lauderdale Int'l Airport, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Selected Performances
2004 Redcat Theater, Los Angeles
2003 Galerie Metronom, Barcelona, Spain
Teatro CAM, Alicant, Spain
De Puddingfabriek, Groningen, Holland
Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City
Activating the Medium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles
2001 Mills College CCM, Oakland, CA.
Merce Cunningham Dance Co.Perth, New York, Berkeley, Madrid, London
2000 Merce Cunningham Dance Co. Glendale, CA., Ba'albek, Lebanon, Barcelona, Vienna, London, Madrid
1999 Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
Merce Cunningham Dance Co. Los Angeles
Musiques 1999 / GMEM Marseille, France
1998 Merce Cunningham Dance Co. Berkeley, CA, Tempe, AZ
1997 Open Systems Festival Dortmund, Germany
1996 “Events” with Merce Cunningham, New York, NY
1995 The Interaction ‘95, Ohgaki City, Japan
1994 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1993 Obscure, Quebec, Canada
Laboratorio de Informatica Musical, Guanajuato, Mexico
Escuela de Musica, University de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Theater X, Tokyo, Japan
1992 T.I.S.E.A., Sydney, Australia
1991 Arts Electronica, Linz, Austria
1991 Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, NL
The Kitchen, New York, NY
New Langton Arts/Opcode Systems, San Francisco, CA
Electronic Music + 19 Festival, Oakland, CA
1991 Studio P.A.S.S., New York, NY
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1990 Sonic Disturbance, Cleveland, Ohio
ArtWare, Hannover, Germany
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY
The Lab, San Francisco, CA
1989 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Composers Forum, New York, NY
Logos,Gent, Belgium
Apollohuis, Eindhoven, NL
1988 Composer-to-Composer, Telluride, CO
Intersection, San Francisco, CA
The Lab, San Francisco, CA
1987 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Speaking of Music, San Francisco, CA
1986 Eiszeit Kino, Berlin, Germany
Shaffy Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, NL
1985 Roulette, New York, NY
New Music America, Los Angeles, CA
Samaya Foundation, New York, NY
1984 Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY
1983 Lovely Music Live, New York, NY
P.A.S.S., New York, NY
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Axiom Axiom, San Francisco, CA
1982 Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
NHK Television, Tokyo, Japan
Danceteria, New York, NY
New Music America, San Francisco, CA
1981 New Performance Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
1980 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
P.A.S.S., New York, NY
Experimental Intermedia, New York, NY
The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Festival d’Automne, Paris, France
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Media Studies, Buffalo, NY
1978 UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
The Kitchen, New York, NY
L.A.I.C.A., Los Angeles, CA
80 Langton St., San Francisco, CA
1977 The Kitchen, New York, NY
1976 Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Festival d’Automne, Paris, France
Conservatory of Music, San Francisco, CA
1975 Margaret Jenkins Studio, San Francisco, CA
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
1974 WBAI Free Music Store, New York, NY
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
South of the Slot, San Francisco, CA
1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA
1973 Cabrillo Music Festival, Aptos, CA
1972 Mills College, Oakland, CA
Major Awards and Grants
2006 Prix Ars Electronica, Golden Nica Interactive Art, Linz, Austria
2002 Rockefeller New Media Award
Research Grant, Office of Technology Licensing, Stanford University
2001 Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, Interactive Art category
U.S. Patent Office, Patent number 6,095,889 “Interactive Entertainment Device”
1999 Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
1997 Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts
1996 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
1996 S.E.C.A. Media Award , S.F Museum of Modern Art
1994 P.A.I.R. Fellowship, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, California
1994 Exploratorium/Prague National Technical Museum Exchange
1993 N.E.A. U.S.A./Mexico Exchange Residency Fellowship
1992 Fellowship in New Genres California Arts Council
1991 Artist Fellowship, N.E.A. Visual Arts Program
1989 Composer's Fellowship, N.E.A. Music Program
1987 Project Grant, N.E.A. Interarts Program
1987 Project Grant, N.Y.S.C.A. Media Program
1987 Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
1985 Project Grant, N.Y.S.C.A. Media Program
1983 Artist's Fellowship, N.E.A. Visual Arts Program
Artist's Fellowship, N.E.A. Visual Arts Program
Selected Bibliography
Willis, Barry, "US: Barry Willis", Stereophile, November 1996
Willis, Barry, "Making Beautiful Noise", Limn #4, p. 24 - 29
Kahn, Douglas, “Surface Noise on the DeMarinis Effect”, Apollo Record Booklet, 1995
Huhtamo, Erkki, “Excavation Area - A Virtual Gallery of Archaeological Art”,
InterCommunication Journal #14, N.T.T. Publishing, Tokyo, Japan, ISBN T1001771102008, October 1995
Baker, Kenneth, “Paul DeMarinis at Center for the Arts”, San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 1995
Baker, Kenneth, “Paul DeMarinis”, ARTnews, September 1993
Boone, Charles, “The Edison Effect”, Pform, Fall 1993
Baker, Kenneth, “Edison’s High Tech High”, San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 1993
Fisher, Barbara, “Wired for Sound”, Artweek, March 18, 1993
Kuivila, Ron, “Paul DeMarinis”, San Francisco Art Institute exhibition catalogue,1993
-----, “Foolproof Gesture”, Macworld, August 1992
Davies, Shaun, “The Melodic Voice Box” (interview), Essays In Sound contemporary Sound Arts, Sydney, Australia, 1992, ISBN 0 646 129244
Silverton, Mike, “Review of Music as a Second Language”, Fanfare, March/April 1992
Penley, Constance, Andrew Ross, eds, “Black Box S-Thetix”, Technoculture, U. Minnesota Press, 1991, pp. 238 - 288 ISBN 0-8166-1932-8
Johnson, Tom, “Paul DeMarinis’ Pygmy Gamelan”, The Voice of New Music Apollo Art About, Eindenhoven NL, 1989, ISBN 90-71638-09-x
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