Eric Dyer
Film/Video
Fall 2023
Artist and filmmaker, Professor of Animation & Interactive Media, University of Maryland Baltimore County – United States
Eric Dyer is a leading practitioner in the animated arts avant-garde. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Grantee, and Guggenheim Fellow. Exhibition venues include the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Ars Electronica (Austria), Tabakalera (Spain), ARoS Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and the Cairo and Venice Biennales. Dyer’s TED talk has been viewed over 1.1 million times. He teaches animation at UMBC (USA).
Dyer plans to further develop his visual turntablism art practice in which he spins disks of animated sequences live. He will also experiment with creating new sequential images in the studio and in the field: including searching nearby towns for found-sequences in architecture and objects, photographing his discoveries, and capturing interesting subjects-in-motion on video.