Based on the discoveries and writings of Lee De Forest, radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, an installation that explores how technologies and new media grow out of dreams.

Paul DeMarinis has been working as a multimedia electronic artist since 1971 and has created numerous performance works, sound and computer installations and interactive electronic inventions. He has performed internationally, including at The Kitchen, New York; Festival d’Automne à Paris; Het Apollohuis, Holland; and Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. His interactive audio artworks have been shown at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, the Musee d’Art Contemporain in Lyon, France, De Ijsbreker in Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Exploratorium and at Xerox PARC. DeMarinis has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among others. Recent public artworks include large scale interactive installations at Park Tower Hall in Tokyo, at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Expo 1998 in Lisbon.

1973 MFA, Electronic Music and the Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1971 BA, Music and Filmmaking, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH