In Person:
Paul D. Miller – DJ Spooky
May 6, 2026
Paul D. Miller, widely known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is many things in one dazzling person: musician, composer, music producer, multi-media artist, journalist, book author, professor. His wide-ranging, global activities brought him increasing popularity from the mid-1990s onward. He has collaborated with greats like Chuck D of Public Enemy, Yoko Ono, Slayer, Arto Lindsay, and Sun Ra, remixed albums by Metallica and Nick Cave, and improvised with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Lee Ranaldo as well as Ornette Coleman. DJ Spooky is a pioneer of "Illbient," a style of electronic music with origins in ambient. His parallel interest in cinema can be seen in his own film scores as well as his releases of early works by African American directors. Currently, he is writing two new books on algorithms and artificial intelligence.
For two decades, Spooky's genre-crossing work has explored global culture, social development processes, and ecological transformation, and been presented in galleries, exhibition spaces, museums, festivals, and biennales, including most recently at Venice. His month-long residency as TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien's Fulbright Specialist encompasses public lectures at arts universities in Linz, Graz, and Salzburg, the sound work "Democracy: A Composition" for the TONSPUR_passage at the Museums Quartier, an episode of Ö1 Diagonal on "250 Years of US Independence" and, last but not least, the presentation of Christine Turner's new film Sun Ra: Do the Impossible, as the exclusive Austrian premiere at the Film Museum. The grand finale is a get-together at the legendary Viennese music store Rave Up Records. (Georg Weckwerth / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with Fulbright Austria and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
Paul D. Miller, widely known as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is many things in one dazzling person: musician, composer, music producer, multi-media artist, journalist, book author, professor. His wide-ranging, global activities brought him increasing popularity from the mid-1990s onward. He has collaborated with greats like Chuck D of Public Enemy, Yoko Ono, Slayer, Arto Lindsay, and Sun Ra, remixed albums by Metallica and Nick Cave, and improvised with Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Lee Ranaldo as well as Ornette Coleman. DJ Spooky is a pioneer of "Illbient," a style of electronic music with origins in ambient. His parallel interest in cinema can be seen in his own film scores as well as his releases of early works by African American directors. Currently, he is writing two new books on algorithms and artificial intelligence.
For two decades, Spooky's genre-crossing work has explored global culture, social development processes, and ecological transformation, and been presented in galleries, exhibition spaces, museums, festivals, and biennales, including most recently at Venice. His month-long residency as TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien's Fulbright Specialist encompasses public lectures at arts universities in Linz, Graz, and Salzburg, the sound work "Democracy: A Composition" for the TONSPUR_passage at the Museums Quartier, an episode of Ö1 Diagonal on "250 Years of US Independence" and, last but not least, the presentation of Christine Turner's new film Sun Ra: Do the Impossible, as the exclusive Austrian premiere at the Film Museum. The grand finale is a get-together at the legendary Viennese music store Rave Up Records. (Georg Weckwerth / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with Fulbright Austria and TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien