Paul Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky, that Subliminal Kid

Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. He is a co-Publisher along with the legendary African American downtown poet Steve Canon of the magazine "A Gathering of the Tribes" - a periodical dedicated to new works by writers from a multi-cultural context, and he was the first Editor-At-Large of Artbyte: the Magazine of Digital Culture. Currently, he is in the middle of starting another magazine with many of the more progressive aspects of the Artbyte project. The new magazine is 21C - stay tuned for further developments.

Rhythm Science is a "live" multi-media presentation of the history of digital art and media from the viewpoint of an artist who uses "found objects" like a DJ, i.e.  it's a subjective selection where old video material will be remixed and combined with new... history itself will be the material for the mix, and the lecture presentation will focus on how DJ culture has evolved out of the same technologies that are used for digital media and art.

His work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture (year 2000), the prestigious Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries.

Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid," a character from his upcoming novel "Flow My Blood the Dj Said" that uses a wide variety of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture. Miller has recorded a huge volume of music as "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid" and has collaborated a wide variety of pre-eminent musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth amongst many others. He also did the music score for the Cannes and Sundance award winning film "Slam" starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams.

Booking Info

To inquire about booking Paul Miller at your college, please contact his management at musicandart.net or mail@musicandart.net.

Posted January 14, 2005