Eric Millikin

Somnambulistic Autonomous Land-roving Enlightenment Machine

Artificial Intelligence, robotic rove, laser video projection

About the artist

Eric Millikin

Eric Millikin is an American artist currently based in Richmond, Virginia, (previously in Detroit, Michigan) with over 30 years of experience creating computer, internet, video, biological, and artificial intelligence artwork. Millikin comes from a working-class family, growing up in a mobile home in the woods of rural Michigan. He is a first-generation college student and National Merit Scholar who earned his BFA from Michigan State University where he created interactive video installation art and computer-generated postmodern poetry, and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University where he created live-generated computer art installation and political protest art. His artwork has been featured by WIRED, USA Today, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and The New York Times Sunday Arts section.

His work has been included in recent exhibitions at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Charles University in Prague, and the Festival and Congress Centre in Varna, Bulgaria. His experimental visuals have won well over 50 international, national and regional visual journalism awards, which includes interactive data visualizations for Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations, motion graphics for Emmy-winning documentaries, and a Society for News Design medal for newspaper front page illustration.

Millikin has been awarded international residencies at Cow House Studios in County Wexford, Ireland, the Ayatana Biophilium Artists' Research Program “Symbiosis,” hosted from Ottawa, Canada, and the virtual reality residency “Artist is Absent” hosted by Nazar Voitovich Art Residence (NVAIR) in Travneve, Ukraine as the Russian military invaded. He currently teaches topics like 3D Computer Art, Creative Code & Electronics, Augmented Reality, and Video Projection Mapping in the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts’ Kinetic Imaging program.