About: Born in Pittsburgh in 1975, artist/musician Jeremy Boyle received his BFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and MFA from The Ohio State University. He was a founding member of the Chicago group Joan of Arc and has performed music (both solo and collaborative) extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Japan and his recordings are internationally distributed.  He has exhibited artwork, most of which is sound and technology based, in major cities across the U.S. including Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Sacramento, Seattle, Miami, and Pittsburgh.  He was awarded the PA Council on the Arts Fellowship in 2003, received the Heinz Creative Heights Award and completed a residency at the Mattress Factory in 2004, and received a Sprout Fund Seed Award in 2005-6. Recent projects include the completion of a public artwork commissioned by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership and the Heinz Endowment in collaboration with architect Gerard Damiani and a solo exhibition at the Hudson Franklin Gallery in New York City. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. More information can be found at www.jeremyboyle.com.

Music: Trio 1 by Jeremy Boyle
A trio of self-playing MIDI-controlled pneumatic instruments--guitar, bass and drums--performs original compositions.