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Tongues of Fire

Paul DeMarinis
Tongues of Fire #2, 2004
Photograph in light box
3 1/2 x 32 x 1 1/2"

Paul DeMarinis
Biography

Born
Cleveland, OH

Education
1973  Mills College, Oakland, CA
            Antioch, Yellow Springs, OH

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions
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

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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