Michael Wright is a painter who began to explore Digital Media in the mid 1980s on an Amiga computer. His work has appeared in "Computer Graphics World" and was featured in their 25th Anniversary Retrospective issue,Wright most recently contributed to the "Computer
Graphics Companion", 2002, edited by Jeffrey J.McConnell published by Macmillan. Wright's work appears in "The Computer in the Visual Arts",1999, by Anne Morgan Spalter of Brown University, published by Addison Wesley . His digital works are also published in Linda Jacobs' seminal book "Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology", 1992, Wired, Micro Publishing News and Computer Graphics & Applications. He and his work have been featured on Agent X, Television Tokyo.
Wright was a guest artist in the Guerilla Studio at SIGGRAPH 2004 creating the "Portrait Virus" installation. Wright was one of the featured artists at "ACM 1:Beyond Cyberspace" in San Jose in March 2001. He was also featured at "CyberArts X" and "The Impact of YLEM: 20 Years of Art, Science and Technology" both in San Francisco 2001. Wright's digital prints are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London UK, and the State Museumin Novorsibirsk, Russia. The Spectra Digital Arts Gallery in New York City represents Wright's digital work.
Wright is an associate professor in the Digital Media and Liberal Studies Programs at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the Otis Award of Excellence in Arts Education. Wright also instructs on a regular basis for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,and has formally served on the Siggraph Education Committee as a juror and the Siggraph Traveling Exhibition Committee. Wright served as the Art Gallery Chair for Siggraph 2003 in San Diego.