Eric Millikin
Assistant Professor, Animation & Interactive Media
FA 219B
ericm2@umbc.edu
https://ericmillikin.com/
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Eric Millikin is a new media artist exploring the intersections of advanced technology, American society, dark humor, and occult practices. His research often focuses on the use of fear in mass media and political propaganda. He uses techniques like artificial intelligence, biological art, robotics, creative coding, multichannel sound, video projection mapping, and augmented and virtual reality to investigate and experiment with the often invisible ways technology can shape humanity. He comes from a working-class family, growing up in a mobile home in the woods of rural Michigan. Millikin is a first-generation college student and a National Merit Scholar who earned his BFA from Michigan State University and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University’s Kinetic Imaging program. His artwork has been featured in WIRED, USA Today, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and The New York Times. His work has been included in recent exhibitions and screenings at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Charles University in Prague, and the Festival and Congress Centre in Varna, Bulgaria. Millikin has recently been awarded international residencies at Cow House Studios in County Wexford, Ireland, the Ayatana Biophilium Artists’ Research Program “Symbiosis,” hosted from Ottawa, Canada, and the virtual reality residency “Artist is Absent” hosted by Nazar Voitovich Art Residence (NVAIR) from Travneve, Ukraine as the Russian military invaded.