Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work engages audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. He has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Metallica, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono. His large-scale, multimedia performance pieces include Rebirth of a Nation, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Seoul Counterpoint, written during his 2014 residency at Seoul Institute of the Arts. His multimedia project Sonic Web premiered at San Francisco’s Internet Archive in 2019. He was the inaugural artist-in-residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s The Met Reframed (2012-2013).
In 2014, Miller was named National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He produced Pioneers of African American Cinema, a collection of the earliest films made by African-American directors (2015). His artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Miami/Art Basel fair, and museums and galleries.
Miller’s books include the award-winning Rhythm Science; Sound Unbound; The Book of Ice; and The Imaginary App, on how apps changed the world. His writing has been published by the Village Voice, the Source, and Artforum, and he was the first founding Executive Editor of Origin Magazine. He is currently at work on two books, Digital Fiction, about the impact of algorithms on how we think of storytelling, and The Future of Food, about the impact of AI on how we think of the production of food in the 21st century. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (2023-2024).
September 21 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Bernstein Remix! A Benefit for Artful Learning