Music + Art Film Series
Curated and facilitated by Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid
Sponsored by the School for Professional and Continuing Studies
January 28, 2014
DOWNLOADED (2013)
Director. Alex Winter 1 hr 46 min
February 4, 2014
TERMS AND CONDITIONS MAY APPLY (2013)
Director: Cullen Hoback 79 min.
February 11, 2014
WILD STYLE (1983)
Director: Charlie Ahearn 82 min.
February 18, 2014
CHASING ICE (2012)
Director: Jeff Orlowski 75 min
February 25, 2014
HOW TO MAKE MONEY SELLING DRUGS (2012)
Director: Matthew Cooke 96 min
March 4, 2014
SLAM (1998)
Director: Marc Levin 100 min
Creativity and Innovation: an exploration of the roots of the Modernist Creative Impulse.
Required readings are listed week-by-week, with links to where you can purchase the books online.
Please do get yourself a copy of Piracy – The Intellectual Property Wars from Guttenberg to Gates, by Adrian Johns [here] as soon as possible, as that’ll provide the foundation for the class
// DOWNLOAD SYLLABUS [.doc]
THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, as a MICA Artist-in-Residence
“Travel is a component of creativity,” said Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, who is in residency at MICA through spring 2014.
The artist-in-residence program gives Miller an intimate look at what MICA has to offer as a leading art and design school, while providing him space away from his usual environment to cultivate relationships in the Baltimore community, collaborate on projects, and create work.
Working under the School for Professional and Continuing Studies, Miller is teaching classes for the MPS in Information Visualization and MBA/MA in Design Leadership programs, as well as creating a multimedia opera that will be performed for the first time at MICA in fall 2014.
The experimental artist is best known for his music. His most recent recording is Of Water And Ice, an album generated by his residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2012-2013. However, Miller exemplifies the definition of an interdisciplinary artist, working as a composer, developer, editor, and author.
LISTEN: Of Water And Ice album
His latest undertakings with technology include the DJ Spooky app in which users imitate a DJ’s techniques, and contributing music and narration to a Smithsonian Institution app for the traveling exhibition Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey.
Miller ventures into the literary arts as well, as the executive editor of ORIGIN Magazine, a bimonthly publication centered on the conscious lifestyle; co-editor of The Imaginary App Book, featuring writers, artists, and theoreticians who challenge the limits of technological assistance; and author of The Book of Ice, which examines Antarctica in relation to climate change and society’s connection to nature.
READ: ORIGIN Magazine
“When I was in Antarctica, that was one of the most vivid experiences of my adult life and I was just trying to figure out how to communicate that with people,” he said.
Miller has deepened his involvement in the international arts community through a partnership with the Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation to build the Tanna Center for The Arts, an artists’ retreat that will include a digital media lab and center for island-restorative education.
READ: About Tanna Center for The Arts
His projects are part of a creative process, which he explains, “Global culture is about different approaches to what we consider creativity. It’s not about standard, it’s not about one or the other, but about the celebration of many radical points of view.”
