Michael Barton MillerProfessorStudio ArtPhone: 805.756.6069 Email: mmiller@calpoly.edu Office: Dexter 147 Website: http://www.listeninglass.com Courses taught: Art 101, Art 203, Art 301, Art 353, Art 462 Michael Barton Miller’s diverse investigations in the arts can best be described as a cross-disciplinary. Miller has an educational background in both liberal arts and fine arts. He approaches art like an anthropologist, studying a variety of intersections between cultural behavior and visual works that examined ethnographic photography/racial stereotyping, the relationship of design to psychopharmaceuticlas, and the fortress-like architecture of shopping malls. All of these works share anionic sense humor and uniquely critical vision. Miller’s current works called "aroundsounds" reveal a sobering fact about contemporary life through graphically represented ambient sounds: "we can be simultaneously close and very distant from nearby urban residents."
Miller completed his undergraduate studies in art at UC Irvine in 1986 and received an MFA from USC in 1988. He taught on the college level beginning in 1990 at several institutions in Los Angeles, becoming an Assistant Professor here at Cal Poly in 1997, where he now teaches drawing, intermedia, sculpture, and critical theory.
Solo installation works by Miller include site-specific works for the California Museum of Photography, SF Cameraworks, the Los Angeles Center of Photographic Studies, and POST Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has been enjoyed by a variety of international viewers over the last 10 years in the US. Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Costa Rica, and recently in Thailand.
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