Artist Talk: Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky
Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Janelle Pietrzak.
In connection with the Zimmerli’s exhibition The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art, Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) will give a multimedia presentation called “Anthropocene Blues – The Peace Symphony.” This presentation draws on several weeks of interviewing and reacting to the stories of some of the last survivors of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Miller made the series of conversations and dialogues into several classical music, hip hop, and electronic music compositions that he calls "acoustic portraits" of the stories.
This presentation will be followed by audience Q&A, moderated by Stephanie Dvareckas, who curated The Body Implied as Dodge Avenir Fellow. There will be a light reception after the event.
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is currently Artist in Residence at Yale University Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (2023-2024, extended). He is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer whose work engages audiences in a blend of genres, global culture, and environmental and social issues. Miller has collaborated with an array of recording artists, including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Metallica, Chuck D from Public Enemy, Steve Reich, and Yoko Ono amongst many others. His 2018 album, DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall, debuted at #3 on Billboard Reggae.
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, he was named National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He produced Pioneers of African American Cinema, a collection of the earliest films made by African American directors, released in 2015. Miller’s artwork has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture, the Miami/Art Basel fair, and many other museums and galleries.
His books include the award-winning Rhythm Science, published by MIT Press in 2004; Sound Unbound, an anthology about digital music and media; The Book of Ice, a visual and acoustic portrait of the Antarctic, 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.
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