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Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in New York. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. Miller's first collection of essays, Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in April 2004, and was included in several year-end lists of the best books of 2004, including the Guardian (UK) and Publishers Weekly. Sound Unbound, a collection of writing about sound art, digital media, and contemporary composition with writings from Brian Eno, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck D, Steve Reich, Cory Doctorow, Saul Williams, Pierre Boulez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jaron Lanier, Moby, and many others, edited by Miller, came out on MIT Press early 2008. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (year 2000); The Venice Biennial of Art 2007 (Africa Pavilion), the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. His 2004 solo show at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, Path Is Prologue, echoed his live music/theater/film performance, DJ Spooky's Rebirth of A Nation, which ran simultaneously at the Lincoln Center Festival after premieres in Vienna and at Spoleto USA in Charleston, SC and continues to tour globally. 2007 finds him working with internationally acclaimed stage director and playwright Robert Wilson, and preparing to travel to Antarctica to being research and production on his next large scale multimedia performance piece The Antarctic Suite.
 

Hometown:
Washington, DC 

Press Contact:
djspooky@musicandart.net 

Members:
Paul D. Miller 

Influences:
Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Marcel Duchamp, Bad Brains, Metallica, Slayer, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, Sly and the Family Stone, Outkast, Black Eye Peas, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Dj Krush, RjD2, Dj Cam, RZA, Wu Tang Clan, Public Enemy, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Michel Basquiat, The Hives, K-Os, Mad Professor, Lee Scratch Perry, MC5, Sun Ra Arkestra, Todd Terry, Carl Craig, MadLib, Bill Laswell, Arto Lindsay, Kut Masta Kurt, Angela Davis, Robert Farris Thompson, David Byrne, Meredith Monk  

Website:
http://www.djspooky.com