DB Amorin

5/5-7/27 Floor 2, room 1 + Communal room

DB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an interdisciplinary media artist and arts organizer who explores audio-visual non-linearity as a container for intersectional experience. He frequently emphasizes the generative role of error as an opportunity for creation, resulting in media-centered projects driven by DIY methodologies, lo-fi translations, and persistent, inquisitive experimentation with available materials. In 2005, he founded deepwhitesound, an online platform for emergent experimental audio, featuring over 150 projects by international artists, currently in hiatus. In 2016, he co-founded Public Annex, an arts non-profit in Portland, Oregon facilitating public programming, workshops, exhibitions and residencies for artists all along the disability spectrum. He previously served as co-director of Paragon Arts Gallery in Portland, Oregon, a non-commercial gallery space focused on presenting work from regional and national artists with an emphasis on socially engaged, didactic and interdisciplinary contemporary practices. In 2023, he co-founded Ninth Planet, a curatorial collective focused on exhibition-making and public programming centering non-human intelligence as a framework for non-materialist future-building. His work has garnered awards from esteemed organizations including New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2024 Digital & Electronic Arts Fellowship, Jersey City Arts Council 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation and administered by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Currents New Media Festival; Onassis Foundation; ICA at MECA&D; Luggage Store Gallery; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.