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Biography
Mike Wirth is a designer, exhibiting artist and educator, who utilizes technology as his central medium. Mike holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Long Island University in Digital Art and Design. Mike is currently pursuing a PhD from the Software and Information Systems department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Mike’s professional and academic experience with a range of new media applications brings a multi-faceted perspective into his classroom. Mike has taught new media in higher education for the past seven years, beginning in New York at the Parsons School of Design and the Sage College of Albany. Now a resident of North Carolina, Mike is faculty of Web Design and Interactive Media at the Art Institute of Charlotte, adjunct faculty at Queens University of Charlotte and a research artist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
As an exhibiting artist, Mike has an ever-expanding record of fine art, film and interactive installations. A few notable exhibition spaces include: Rockefeller Center and the Chelsea Art Gallery in New York, NY, Split New Media and Film Fest in Split, Croatia, The WRO Wroclaw Media Art Biennale in Wroclaw, Poland, The Lightfactory in Charlotte,NC and The Institute of History and Art in Albany, New York. Mike has won two awards for his historical documentary about the language of gesture, including “Best Short” and “Official Selection” at the Ed Wood film festival (2004 Albany, NY) as well as “Official Selection” at the DigIt New Media Fest (2005 Narrowsburg, NY).
Professionally, Mike has operated his own freelance design business for ten years, during which time he has worked on unique projects with notable clients, including: Siemens Building Technologies,John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Interactive Knowledge, Museum of York County, Tom Miranda: ESPN-Outdoors, Anheuser Bush, and Columbia University Teachers College.
Mike lives in Charlotte with his wife, Brittany, his daughter Addie, and their Great Dane, Winston.