Derek Curry Derek Curry
Derek Curry is an artist-researcher whose work investigates the role of new technologies in society and technological power structures, using an approach that combines academic research with critical art-making. His artworks often reverse-engineers and replicates technologies of control to better understand their implications and where assumptions or ideologies may have played a role in their development. His academic research draws from media theory and the social sciences, while his artistic practice is grounded in tactical media and institutional critique.
Curry holds an MFA in New Genres from UCLA (2010) and a PhD in Media Study from the State University of New York at Buffalo (2018). He is currently an Associate Professor in Art + Design at Northeastern University in Boston. Curry has exhibited at venues including Ars Electronica, ISEA, National Gallery X (London), NeMe (Cypress), and the Athens Digital Arts Festival. His research has been published in Leonardo, Big Data & Society, Digital Culture & Society, Visual Resources, and Leuven University Press. His artwork has been funded by Science Gallery (Dublin, Detroit, Atlanta), NEoN Digital Arts Festival, and MediaFutures. He is the recipient of the 2023 MediaFutures Best Artist(s) in the Artists for Media track award.
Together with Jennifer Gradecki, Derek Curry is a participating artist in the Framer Framed exhibition Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis curated by Mi You and David Garcia.
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