Andrew Demirjian is a media artist whose practice is inspired by traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture but reinterpreted through computer processing. He is interested in how technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking and data gathering can be used to create portraits that simultaneously display interior and exterior states, the psychological and the physical. The work employs a deep sense of irony and subversive humor to explore the rich textures of the psyche and critically examine relationships between the self and society. Andrew takes an interdisciplinary approach to his practice drawing upon his experience as a musician and filmmaker to create responsive interactions between the aural and visual. In the work, conceptual systems of juxtaposition, categorization and randomness replace conventional narrative arcs and character development.
His work has been featured in exhibitions at the White Box gallery, The Center for Book Arts, LMAK Projects and Harvestworks in Manhattan. Over the last year he has had multiple international exhibitions including the Garden of Earthly Delights in Korea, Küf/Mold in Rotterdam and Analogue/Digital in England. Andrew Demirjian received a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant and has been awarded artist in residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Newark Museum, the Experimental Television Center, the CYLAND Media Laboratory and the Visual Studies Workshop. Mr. Demirjian received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and he is a Professor at Monmouth University teaching courses in video production, visual culture and film history.
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS: |
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| 2009 | Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Artist in Residence, Grand Canyon South Rim Program, Grand Canyon, AZ Artist in Residence, CYLAND Media Laboratory, Kronstadt, Russia |
| 2008 | Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY |
| 2007 | Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY |
| 2006 | NJ State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship Puffin Foundation Grant, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Emerge 8, Creative Capital program at the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art Artist in Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
| 2005 | First Prize, Overall Video Portfolio, CUNY Arts Gala |
| 2003 | Artslink Grant, Laznia Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk, Poland Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY |
| 2002 | Artist in Residence, Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art |
SOLO EHIBITIONS: |
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| 2009 | Nitrogen Cycles, Gallery Aferro, New Media Room, Newark, NJ March – May 2009 |
| 2008 | Maybe, Almost, Always, Video Wall @ Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ, twenty-one screen digital art installation, October 2008 |
| 2006 | M/M, City Without Walls, New Media Project Room, Newark, NJ May – June 2006 |
| 2005 | Indulge and Deny, LMAK Projects, Brooklyn, NY May - June 2005 |
| 2004 | Splintered Self, Video Re:Wind, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ September – December 2004 |
| 2003 | Gdansk: Talk Back, Laznia Contemporary Center of Art, Gdansk, Poland,
January – February 2004 |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCE: |
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| 2009 | Borderline, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY November - December 2009
Küf/Mold Rotterdam, public art installation, Rotterdam, Netherlands, September - October 2009 Flow: art/text/new media, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY April - June 2009 Desire/Intent,Live audiovisual performance with Sabir Mateen and Rob Brown, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY January 2009 |
| 2008 | Red Badge of Courage: Revisited, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ October – November 2008 Westinghouse Project, New Jersey School of Architecture, Newark, NJ October – November 2008 Küf/Mold, Gallery Jancolle, Gent, Belgium, September – October 2008 Music For Planning, Live audiovisual performance, The Stone, New York, NY, October, 2008 Garden of Delights, Yeosu Cultural Center, Yeosu, Korea, September, 2008 Sprawl, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, March – August 2008 Stories We Tell, New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Art in General, New York, NY, March 2008 |
| 2007 | Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery, London, England, November – December 2007 Artist in Wonderland, Baltic Sea Cultural Center, Gdansk, Poland, October – November 2007 Emerge 8, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, June – July 2007 Innovations in Jazz and Film, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Live video performance and panel discussion, New York, NY May 16, 2007 Flickering Self: Video Portraits by Andrew Demirjian, Orlan, Martin C. de Waal, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ, March – April 2007 |
| 2006 | Switch’d on Video, SEAMUS Electro Acoustic Music Festival, Screening presented by IMMArtsSet, Chicago, IL, November 2006 New American Talent 21, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, Curated by Aimee Chang, June – August 2006. 3+3 = Artists in Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, May – July 2006 Daymare: New Documentary Terrain, The LAB, San Francisco, CA March 2006 |
| 2005 | Shoot, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 2005 International Media Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, Auguast 2005 Six Degrees of Separation, Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA June 2005 1800 Frames 2005, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ June 2005 Political Videos From New York, ObjectNotFound, Monterey, Mexico, May 2005 |
| 2004 | Anthro/Socio, the:artist:network, New York, NY November – December 2004 The Phantom Limb, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL September 2004 Six Feet Under Make Nice, White Box Gallery, New York, NY August 2004 Stay Tuned: Hypnotic Videos by Contemporary Artists, The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art, Armonk, NY, May – June 2004 Whiz Bang, Harvestworks, New York, NY, May 2004 Tactile Action, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, NY, April – May 2004 Video:1800frames:1min, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ, March – April 2004 Personal Landscapes, Artist talk and screening, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland January 2004 |
| 2003 | Short Circuit, Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA
November 2003 The Education Channel, 10th Annual Independents’ Film Festival, Tampa, FL July 2003 |
| 2002 | National Conference of the Academy of Moving Image Archive, Boston, MA November 2002 Media{Less}Medium, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA November 2002 Twenty-First Annual Metro Show, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, November – December 2002 Third Annual Gyumri Biennial, Gyumri, Armenia, August – September 2002 Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, July 2002 The Senses, Digital Media Exhibition, InMedia, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 2002 |
| 2001 | Subterfuge, Space 07 Gallery, Miami, FL December 2001 Tent, Locust Projects, Miami, FL October - November 2001 |
EDUCATION |
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| 2005 | MFA Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College, New York, NY |
| 1988 | BA, Clark University, Worcester, MA |
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