About
Eric Medine is a Los Angeles area artist working in multimedia and video art. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and his Masters degree at the the Otis School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, California in 2006. While in Chicago he ran Drivethru Studios, a not-for-profit art gallery a dedicated to emerging artists working in painting, video, and sculpture.
Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2004, he has shown work in galleries and museums such as the Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica, the SuperSonic Exhibition at the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Angeles, Walled Cities Gallery in San Pedro, Andrew Shire Gallery in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the KunstVlaai Exhibition in Amsterdam. He has given numerous lectures, workshops, and presentations on topics such as curating electronic art, hacking video game hardware, and software programming for live video exhibitions. Most recently he gave a lecture at the LPM festival in Rome, Italy, on the subject of YouTube hacking for live video mixing, at FAB LAB in San Diego on the subject of programming Processing applications for Android mobile devices, and at MOCA in Los Angeles on hacking video game controllers for video installation applications.
He has done live visuals for events and venues as varied as Nocturnal Wonderland, Abstract Festival, San Diego Sports Arena, Levi’s Film and Video Workshop, FunRazr at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Sonatheque, Chicago Motion Graphics Festival, Faites de la Lumieres, and Soul Station.
Currently he runs La-Va.org (Los Angeles Video Artists), a loosely organized communtiy of video artists working primarily in the field of live video mixing and improvised visuals, with the goal of promoting and nurturing the movement of video mixing and improvisational video art in the greater Los Angeles area. He is also the co-founder and director of EMAQ Design, a multimedia design company specializing in flash video loops for video mixing software such as Resolume.
He is also a fearless zombie killer.
