Eric Parren

Eric Parren (NL/US) is an interdisciplinary artist operating out of Shanghai. His practice includes the combined use of new and traditional digital and analog media, through which he investigates our understanding of the ideas and technologies that shape the future. Eric's works are often visceral, sensory experiences exploring modes of perception and the physics of light and sound. Informed by a deep knowledge of the histories of media arts, electronic music composition, and expanded cinema, his work makes links between the past, the present, and what is to come. Eric is a founding member of the art collective Macular, is on the organizing committee of the annual Conflux Festival,  and runs the experimental music show La Force Sauvage. His works have been shown at galleries and festivals across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Select Exhibitions, Screenings, and Performances:

• 15 Years of Macular, Conflux Festival 2023, Rotterdam, NL
• Open Codes, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, DE
• Houghton Festival 2017, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, UK
• Prix Russolo, CNMAS, Mexico City, MX
• Sphaerae, Ars Electronica Festival 2013, Linz, AT

Education

• MFA, Design Media Arts
  University of California, Los Angeles
• ArtScience BFA
  Royal Academy of Art & Royal Conservatory, The Hague