Introducing Liquidation by Dennis H. Miller

Dennis H. Miller returns to Sedition with Liquidation, the latest collection in his ongoing ANIMATA series, pushing his exploration of animated matter into a more dramatic and unstable territory. A composer, animator, and Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University, Dennis H. Miller has spent more than three decades working at the intersection of music, moving image, and digital technology. His work has been presented internationally, while his visual practice has been featured in publications including Sonic Graphics: Seeing Sound by Rizzoli and Art in the Digital Age by Thames & Hudson. As founder and artistic director of the Visual Music Marathon, Dennis H. Miller has also played a significant role in advancing the relationship between sound and experimental moving image.

In Liquidation, familiar materials are given unfamiliar behaviours. Water, viscous fluid, translucent gel, and substances resembling molten plastic stretch, gather, divide, collapse, and reform as though driven by impulses of their own. Rather than attempting to simulate real-world physics, Dennis H. Miller constructs an invented material environment in which inanimate matter appears active, responsive, and momentarily alive.

Across the collection, saturated colour, reflective surfaces, shifting depth, and controlled asymmetry create an evolving interplay of force, instability, pressure, and release. Music adds a restrained emotional layer, while the pacing and continuous transformation of the material give each work its momentum. More dramatic than previous works in the ANIMATA series, Liquidation deliberately avoids a fixed narrative, leaving space for sensation, unease, pleasure, surprise, and individual interpretation.

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