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Paul DeMarinis has been working in the arts for several decades and subsequently has produced numerous performance works, sound and computer installations, as well as interactive electronic inventions. DeMarinis’s subtle and magical works display an intersection of tradition and progress, often motivated to cover an expanse of subjects and themes. Today we hear the term multidisciplinary! It is indeed an accurate one to describe Paul DeMarinis. Although the majority of his productions fall within the realm of art, he is also a historian, an experimenter, a chemist, a physicist, an engineer, a programmer, an inventor, a computer scientist and an archaeologist. His cross-disciplinary approach affords him an aptitude to condense the many facets of technology into his art constructions that aspire to be concurrently comprehensible and philosophical.

DeMarinis’ art frequently tackles obscure associations among physics, aesthetics and social history of the media. His pieces are multi-dimensional and can be viewed as work that simultaneously straddles critical conceptual reflection and the humorous. His artwork address points of contact between technology and culture, and evince the underlying contradictions of precise science and superstition, acknowledging that technology’s usefulness and wickedness are profoundly linked. Throughout much of his practice one finds interplay between new and obsolete technology since he recognizes the importance of understanding the past and how it influences the here and now and as well as the future. It is this realistic perspective about technology that prompts him to probe and explore new relationships between science and art.