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Andy Deck is an American media artist specializing
in Internet art. His work addresses the politics
and aesthetics of collaboration, interactivity,
software, and independent media. Deck started making
what he has called "public art for the Internet" in 1994.
Since then he has been at the forefront of aesthetic
research into the creative possibilities of the Internet
as a medium. In addition to being an image producer, he
now acts as a collaborator, cyberspace architect, and
programmer. His aesthetic program seeks a cultural break
from the modernization of passive consumerism. Using the
site ARTCONTEXT.NET, he combines code, text, and image,
demonstrating new patterns of participation and control
that distinguish online presence and representation
from previous artistic practices.
Deck collaborates with the Athens-based arts organization,
Personal Cinema, and with the environmentalist
arts collective Transnational Temps. In addition to
numerous online exhibitions, his work has been exhibited
at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), PS1-MoMA (NYC),
Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), and the Moving Image
Gallery (NYC). Further recognition and awards include
Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), a Webby Award nomination
in Net.Art, Art Futura (Spain), and VIDA LIFE 4.0 (Spain). Deck
received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts (NYC) and he
completed post-graduate studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure
des Arts Décoratifs (Paris). He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College,
the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Hunter College, and
New York University. Currently, he teaches at the
School of Visual Arts in New York City.
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