Paul DeMarinis

Paul DeMarinis is an American artist and educator whose long career in media art has produced installations, performances, and interactive works that investigate the history and politics of communication technologies. Based in San Francisco and teaching at Stanford University, he has explored the telephone, the phonograph, the telegraph, and other communication media as subjects for artistic investigation and cultural critique.

His installations frequently use obsolete or misappropriated technology to create unexpected communicative situations — works that expose the assumptions embedded in familiar technologies by using them in unfamiliar ways.