Eric Milikin

Speaker at the Teaching the Arts in the Age of A.I. Symposium

Eric Millikin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland, (previously in Detroit, Michigan, and Richmond, Virginia) with decades of experience creating artificial intelligence, biological, emerging media, and occult artwork to investigate and experiment with the often invisible ways technology can shape humanity. 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 and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. His artwork has been featured by WIRED, USA Today, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, and The New York Times Sunday Arts section. He is an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts, Animation and Interactive Media at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.