{"id":388,"date":"2004-03-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqed2.wsmtechs.net\/spark\/paul-demarinis\/"},"modified":"2015-08-06T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T04:17:59","slug":"paul-demarinis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/paul-demarinis\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul DeMarinis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"kqed-jwplayer\"> <\/div>\n<p><script>\njwplayer(\"kqed-jwplayer\").setup({\nfile: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/pauldemari.m4v\",\nimage: \"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/spark\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2015\/06\/pauldemari-headshot.jpg\",\naspectratio: \"16:9\",\nwidth: \"100%\",\nprimary: \"flash\",\ntracks: [{ file: \"http:\/\/od1.kqed.org\/anon.kqed\/spark\/pauldemari.vtt\", label: \"English\", kind: \"captions\", \"default\": false }]\n});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<style>\n.single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer_wrapper, .single-post .entry-content > #kqed-jwplayer  {\n    margin-left: 8.33333% !important;\n    padding-left: 0.625rem;\n    padding-right: 0.625rem;\n    width: 56% !important;\n}\n<\/style>\n<aside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">&#8220;Having a new kind of technology, when you experiment around with it, sparks new connections and new possibilities.&#8221;<\/aside>\n<p>In the <b>Spark<\/b> episode &#8220;Technophiles,&#8221; viewers encounter <b>Paul DeMarinis<\/b>&#8216;s art which is filled with things both simple and magical. People experiencing his art might be standing outside, listening to the music created by a sound-modulated water jet against the fabric of an open umbrella, or they might be seeing a gas flame, flicking in lockstep to the breaths of dictators&#8217; recorded radio addresses. <\/p>\n<p>Ever since watching atomic tests light up the Nevada sky as a young boy, DeMarinis has been fascinated by the human relationship with technology. In 1971, he began working as a multimedia electronic artist, becoming one of the first to use a personal computer as an art-producing tool. He has since created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations, and interactive electronic inventions. His art has taken him around the world &#8212; DeMarinis has performed and displayed his art in galleries from New York to Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and at the 1998 World Expo in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p>DeMarinis works in the intersection of tradition and progress, striving to cover modern knowledge&#8217;s bases. He is a Renaissance man in the tradition of Benjamin Franklin, a person comfortable in both the arts and the sciences, whose kind is slowly disappearing as society becomes increasingly specialized. Aside from being an artist, he is a historian, an experimenter, a chemist, a physicist, an engineer, a programmer, an inventor, a computer scientist and an archaeologist. A multidisciplinary approach helps him distill technology&#8217;s many facets into art installations that aim to be at once comprehensible and profound. <\/p>\n<p>The interplay between current and &#8220;orphaned&#8221; technologies is of particular interest to DeMarinis as he looks back in time and sees forward to our present state, achieving a perspective that unlocks secrets otherwise lost in the zeal for progress. 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