About
Dan Winter is an experimental artist, designer, music producer, and tinkerer.
Winter is natively a ‘Yinzer’ from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he received his BFA in Photography from Point Park University. He has also graduated from George Washington University with his MFA and is a current professor at Point Park University.
Art: Dan Winter creates art by utilizing tools he designs, hacks, or assembles. By hacking cameras to take glitched photographs, building a cannon disguised as a paint brush to make paintings, 3d printing sculptures from a 3d printer he assembled, and some other projects; he creates art objects that become the imprint from these customized tools. Through his practice, art becomes a mode of alternative engineering through his experimentation with tools, gadgets, and medium. Winter has formed Red Currant, his own tech company, which is the pseudo creator of his art making tools as well as some other wonky projects. On the Red Currant website information and plans for his tools are available.
Design: With a Minor in Multimedia and a BFA in photography, along with 8 years of commercial graphic art making experience, Winter continues to service clients through photography, graphic design, digital illustration, audio production, video production, and motion graphics. Winter has created projects for Restaurants, Construction Companies, IT companies, Country Clubs, Musicians, Realestate companies, as well as motion graphics that have aired on the Pittsburgh Entertainment Channel. View his commercial portfolio here!
Music: Dan produces music and DJ’s under the moniker DJ Danimal. Seeing dance music events as a space for people to release animalistic impulses, Danimal utilizes coarse and primal sounds made from hacked and DIY instruments, sampled animal videos, and other experimental recording techniques to create the instrumentation in his growling Tech-House tracks. Recent mixes and songs can be found here as well as on all major streaming platforms.
Tinkering: Tinkering acts as a research component that fuels his instruments and artistic inventions. Through non-art projects new skills are learned and old ones grow more advanced. Check out what new things are being built in the shop here!
Contact
Phone: 412-390-4606