The Poetry Project

Andrew Demirjian

A bald person wearing black-framed glasses and a colorful striped jacket over a denim shirt stands before a patterned, vibrant background, smiling.
© Sarah Stadtmiller

Andrew Demirjian builds linguistic, sonic and visual environments that disrupt habituated ways of reading, hearing and seeing. His interdisciplinary artistic practice examines structures that shape consciousness and perception, questioning frameworks that support the status quo and limit thought. In his experimental writing practice, Andrew merges OULIPIAN rule systems, conceptual writing techniques, and combinatorial poetics to create video poems, installations, Audio AR poems, and browser-based generative texts.

Andrew has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, two MacDowell Fellowships and three New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grants. His work has been exhibited at The Museum of the Moving Image, The New Museum – First Look: New Art Online, Fridman Gallery, Eyebeam, The Arab American National Museum, the Ford Foundation Gallery, REDCAT, Transformer Gallery, the Center for Book Arts, Locust Projects, The Newark Museum and many other galleries, festivals and museums. His work has been supported by the MIT Open Documentary Lab, Nokia Bell Labs, Puffin Foundation, Artslink, Harvestworks, Rhizozme, Diapason, LMCC, and The Bemis Center. Andrew teaches theory and production courses in emerging media in the Film and Media Department and the Integrated Media Arts MFA program at Hunter College.