Bob Paris is an electronic artist who frequently investigates mass media, social duplicity, and our culture of violence. His work has screened at venues around the world including the Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, the Whitney Biennial, and the Sara...More
Bob Paris is an electronic artist who frequently investigates mass media, social duplicity, and our culture of violence. His work has screened at venues around the world including the Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, the Whitney Biennial, and the Sarajevo Winter Festival. He currently directs The Cluster Project, an ongoing series of collaborative, multimedia artworks exploring weapon, war, civilian casualties, and pop culture. In Spring 2017, he launched Disturbance Cycle, a series of web works that resurrect scenes from the TV coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots to explore spectacle, social disaster, and historical amnesia. Paris was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and received a master's degree from its Graduate School of Journalism. He is currently an associate professor in Kinetic Imaging at VCU's School of the Arts in Richmond, Virginia, where he teaches media literacy, socially engaged media, and video production. In 2017, he was awarded a Professional Arts Fellowship by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
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