Background
Michael Demers was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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Michael Demers
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He attended Florida Atlantic University, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking. 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.
Career
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. 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 Assistant Professor at Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut, where he is the Program Coordinator for Fine, Performing and Digital Arts.
Color Field Paintings (Browser) Interactive randomly generated digital paintings.
Exhibited at HyperText Markup Language Color Codes curated exhibition, Rhizome at the New Museum, New York, New New York Zeros + Ones: The Digital Era exhibition, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, New York (Featured Artist Selection).
Arteria "Internet Livre" invitational exhibition, SESC Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil. Participant of the Rhizome Curated ArtBase. The Ghost of Vannevar Bush Hacked My Server Captured binary essence of Vannevar Bush.
Exhibited at Zeroes + Ones: The Digital Era exhibition, Climate Gallery, Long Island City, New New York PixelPops!2013 juried exhibition, Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, New Orleans, Los Los Angeles Appropriation Art 2 juried exhibition, Zagreb American Kennel Club Medika, Zagreb, Croatia.
Sight.Sound 6 invitational exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Doctor of Medicine. Binaries juried exhibition, Idea Laboratory, Athens, Georgia. Participant of the Rhizome Curated ArtBase.
The Sky is Falling (A Day in the Life) Captured footage displayed in real time.
Exhibited at post_space solo exhibition, Conant Gallery, Groton, Master of Arts. Future Learning Spaces, DOEL, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Variations Upon A Theme.
Archival inkjet prints. Exhibited at Dual Action invitational print exhibition, Jewett Art Gallery, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Master of Arts. Arches Print Show, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, Master of Arts.
Remix juried exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
Date Paintings (Twitter) Temporal artworks found in Twitter time stamps.
Participant of the Rhizome Curated ArtBase.
