Born 1974, Jacksonville, FL; Derek Lerner is a New York City-based artist with a BFA degree from the Atlanta College of Art. His work explores systems: the creation, control, and use of them. architectonic. power, media, information, misinformation, semantics, sociology, culture: counter-culture/over the counter culture, chaos, order, law, code, organized crime, databases, marketing, consumerism, transportation, etc.

Lerner has shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada, 31GRAND gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and Tomoya Saito Gallery in Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan.
He is a co-founder of GH avisualagency an artist collective working in design, direction and strategy. He co-authored the GH avisualagency monograph published by Booth-Clibborn Editions.

Lerner is also a co-founder and director of Art Center, a virtual exhibition space showing the work of selective contemporary artists, based in the metaverse Second Life.

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GHava{Press}
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Recent Entries
“My Life as An Avatar” 06-08 by Annie Ok
Graffiti Research Lab: L.A.S.E.R. TAG @ BAM Thu, May 29 & Sat, May…
Who is Bozo Texino? by Bill Daniel
MUTO
Norwayweb by Bjorn Magnhildoen
Johnny Lee demos Wii Remote hacks
I CAN HAZ FLICKR VIDEOZ
Orwellian self-surveillance by Hasan Elahi
charity: water PSA
Hurling Earth into parallel universe?
David Lynch on iPhone
Beautiful Losers
Derek Lerner in “Connected Unconscious” group exhibition @ BAM
listen @ Art Center in Second Life
Nokia “Simple Machines” In-Store AV content

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