Week 1: 1/2 Technology Artist - Michael Demers

Michael Demers was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1975, he is a new media artist and educator. He received his BFA at Florida Atlantic University majoring in Printmaking and his MFA at Ohio University. From 2007 to 2010 he taught Digital Art and New Media courses at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 2010 he is an Assistant Professor of Fine and Digital Art at Asnuntuck Community College in Connecticut. He has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and Arteira "Internet Livre" (Sao Paulo, Brazil). He is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York), and the Rhizome Curated ArtBase (New Museum, New York). He is interested in how the things people do, the ways in which people occupy time, affects place in the world and the ways in which people move through time and space. Michael Demers is best known for his web-based Color Field Paintings (2009), in which a website visitor generates a series of browser windows, each with a randomly assigned color based upon parameters established for each piece.

Reference:
Color Field Paintings http://www.michaeldemers.com/colorfield.htm