Paul DeMarinis

Paul DeMarinis has been making noises with wires, batteries and household appliances since the age of four. He studied film with Paul Sharits at Antioch College and electronic music with Robert Ashley at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College and worked with David Tudor. DeMarinis was one of the first artists to use microcomputers, and has worked in the areas of interactive software, synthetic speech, noise and obsolete or impossible media. He has presented his installations, performances and public artworks widely. He teaches art at Stanford University in California.