Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky)
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Born: Washington, DC
Lives: and works in New York, NY
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Recent Select Career Highlights
2009
North/South, Solo Show, Robert Miller Galery, new York
2008
Regime Change Start at Home (with Shepard Fairey and Al Farrow), Irvine Contemporary
New York is Now, Irvine Contemporary
Sundance Film Festival, New Frontiers, Preview and Discussion of Terra Nova:
The Antarctic Suite
2007
New York is Now, Irvine Contemporary, Scope Art Fair and Rubell Collection Screening,
Miami, FL, December, 2007
Decked Out: A History of the Turntable, Art/Basel/Miami Beach, Art Sound Lounge,
included in curated program, selected and compiled by David Weinstein,
Managing Director of Art Radio, PS1 NY, WPS1.org.
Link City-Chicago, Seven-Screen Video and Music composition, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, and Subliminal Strings: Link City, music performance, November, 2007
Light and Sound sculpture installation with original digital music composition, Watermill
Center, Watermill, NY
New York is Now, African Pavilion, Venice Biennale
Africa Remix: Ghost World. Remix and compilation of African music for the Venice
Biennale
2006
Performance and video, New York is Now, first Luanda Triennial of Art, Luanda, Angola
Music/film performance in the Royal Palace Courtyard, Naples, Italy
Guest columnist, The Nation, July 3, 2006, �Digital Music Revolution�
Tribeca Film Festival, NYC, performance
Artist Talks at the Tate Modern Gallery (London) and Rubin Museum (NYC)
Performance of Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Tate Modern Gallery (London)
Rebirth of a Nation at the New Zealand International Arts Festival
Lectures at Cooper Union, Columbia University, NY
2005
Honorary Chairman, Robert Wilson's 12th Annual Watermill Summer Benefit
Rebirth of a Nation outdoor screening at the King Herod Amphitheater, Athens, Greece
and in London, British Film Institute
Performance, Carnegie�s Zankel Hall, tributes to Pierre Boulez and Meredith Monk
Rebirth of a Nation at Harvard, with Q&A; by Elvis Mitchell
Tour of Australia, Rebirth of a Nation
2004
Performances of �Lost Objects� with Bang on A Can Orchestra, BAM Next Wave Festival
Performance with Bill T. Jones at Mass MOCA
Lectures at Yale, Georgetown, Cranbrook Museum, NC School of the Art
The Guardian UK selects Rhythm Science as a book of the year
Premiere performances of DJ Spooky�s Rebirth of A Nation: Lincoln Center Festival (NYC),
Spoleto Festival USA (Charleston, SC), The Vienna Festival, Festival d�Automne
(Paris), Festival Romaeuropa
Touring of Rebirth of A Nation in US and abroad
Talk at Cool People in the Hot Desert Conference in Israel, sponsored by Herman Burda
Media, Germany
Annual teaching stint at European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
Opening of Path is Prologue, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Performance with Seattle Chamber Players
Rhythm Science, MIT Press
Talks at Columbia University, Cooper Union, Indiana IDEAS Festival, NYU
Soloist on Anthony DeRitis� DJ Concerto, Oakland East Bay Symphony
Brooklyn Academy of Music with Bill T. Jones
Participation in Microsoft Summit, Seattle
Keynote at Digital Independence Festival, SF
Performances at Sundance Festival
Panel discussion at Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC
2003
Performance at Art Basel - Miami
Performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto at Commes des Garcons, NYC
Performance at Berlin Jazz Festival with Matthew Shipp and Optometry band
�White Nights� concert at the Forum in Rome, with films of Harry Smith
Richard Avedon portrait in the New Yorker Magazine, June 23rd issue
Appearance at Bonnaroo Music Festival
New Museum of Contemporary Art group show: �Black President: The Art and Legacy of
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti�
Panel discussions in Chicago with Lawrence Lessig, Chuck D., and others
Two week residency of Rebirth of a Nation at Mass MOCA
Score for 2003 Sundance Festival award winning film �Quattro Noza�
Lecture at the National Arts Club on �The Art of the DJ�
2002
Performance with Gaetan Morletti, principal dancer of Ballet de Monte Carlo, in Monaco
Marcel Duchamp remix, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Performance at Art Basel, Miami Beach
Performances w/ Optometry band at London Jazz Festival & with Medeski, Martin &
Wood, NYC
Installation at Culture Cache Gallery, San Francisco
Performance at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC for 9/11tribute
Remix performance of Pierre Boulez� Pli Selon Pli, Lucerne, Switzerland
Optometry/Modern Mantra tours of US and Europe
DJ Set at PS 1, Queens, NY, sponsored by agn�s b.
Collaboration with Joan Jonas at Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Faculty residence at European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzlerand
Lecture at Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NYC
Lecture/demonstration for MusicWeek, Glasgow based music industry event
Residency at Dartington College of Art, UK, with talks in Plymouth and Bath (March 2002)
Artist-in-residence at Web Lab/White Oak Plantation (Feb. 2002)
Talk at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Keynote speaker at MIDEM-NET, Cannes, France (Jan. 2002)
2001
Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, September 2001
Guest editor/curator �Black Book� magazine, Summer 2001 issue
Speaking events at opening of Andy Warhol Exhibit, US Embassy, Moscow
Commencement address: School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Recording and performing with German chamber orchestra and choir for Teldec
Keynote speech at SXSW Interactive Festival with Ian Clarke of Freenet
Exhibit at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Exhibit in �Bitstreams� at the Whitney Museum, NYC
Installation for Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2000
Performance at the Louvre Museum, Paris, under the glass pyramid
Talk at National Academy of Sciences
Panelist at MIT Media Lab/Harvard event with Isaac Hayes
Two week residence and multi-artist conference at Lit Lab, Bore Place, Kent, UK
Performance at J&B; Dance & Techno Festival, Istanbul Turkey
Collaborative performance with choreographer Francesca Harper and writer Margo
Jefferson, Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue, Harvard University
Performance at Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Release of Diego Cortez�s Stuzzicadentti, first production for another artist
Performance at Battery Park with Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore
Inclusion in "Dark Matter" anthology
Becomes regular correspondent for Brill�s �Contentville�
Performance with Freight Elevator Quartet & silent film, Porto 2001 Festival, Portugal
Guest lecturer at Columbia U. School of Architecture with Dean, Bernard Tschumi
Guest lecturer at NYU
Artist in residence at Djerassi Colony, Other Minds Festival, San Francisco
Art Installation at Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, UK
Versace fashion show, Milan
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