ACCLAIMED VIDEO ARTIST ANDREW DEMIRJIAN COLLABORATES WITH STUDENTS ON NEW PROJECT FOR TRICITY ARTS TOUR
Unique Video Installation Will Create a Television Forest on Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park on Saturday, May 16, 2009.
Acclaimed video artist and Monmouth University specialist professor Andrew Demirjian and students from his course “Out of the Box” will present a unique video installation at the TriCity Arts Tour on May 16 from 5 to 10 p.m. They will create a television forest in the vacant “stump” lot on Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park.
The interactive media installation will include dozens of vintage, retro televisions with colorfully designed synchronized audiovisual imagery which will be placed on top of the “stumps” in the vacant lot. Viewers will experience a striking visual, sonic, and sculptural experience as they walk between the Boardwalk and Cookman Avenue.
In addition, visitors will be encouraged to participate in the final outcome of the media project. The piece will use the World Wide Web and Twitter in the production and distribution of the work.
Demirjian is a media artist whose work focuses on creating alternative relationships between audio, video, and text that take the form of single-channel videos and multi-channel installations. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and galleries in the United States, Korea, Belgium, Poland, and England.
He has received many awards and grants, including a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Puffin Foundation grant, and an Artslink grant. He has been awarded artist-in-residencies all over the world, including Newark Museum, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, and the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.
He received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and teaches courses in video production, visual culture, and film history at Monmouth University.
The “Out of the Box” course at Monmouth University is a hands-on production class where students learn to become visual storytellers outside of the box of the television set. Students create media narratives through multiple channels such as video for mobile phones, Web, and large-scale video wall installations.
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