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 Deck 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, Deck 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 environmentalist arts organization Transnational Temps, which he co-founded in 2001. Transnational Temps produces Earth Art for the 21st century, including work in the exhibition Eco-Media. Additionally, Deck's works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona), Art on the Net (Machida City Museum, Tokyo), PS1-MoMA (NYC), Net_Condition (ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), Moving Image Gallery (NYC), Whitney Museum (NYC), Postmaster's Gallery (NYC), Art Entertainment Network (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis), and Prix Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria). He studied for a Post-diplôme, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; and received his MFA in Computer Art at School of Visual Arts, NYC. He has taught at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College and New York University. Currently, he teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
