Jeremiah Palecek

Jeremiah Palecek (born January 24 1978) is a blogger, painter and sound artist. He grew up in Bismarck, North Dakota. He attended the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, The Glasgow School of Art and received his BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He performs his blend of hip hop and noise under the pseudonym King Vitaman. He currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic.

Jeremiah's work as a painter is primarily known on the internet as his work tends to focus on painting the digital world. These paintings include but are not limited to paintings of video games, television shows, and film. His work is propelled by the geek community and much of his success can be attributed to large online blogs such as [http://www.boingboing.net/2006/05/24/oil_paintings_inspir.html Boingboing.net] who have featured his work. While much of his work inhabits the digital realm he also recently participated in the Proces Prague festival which was curated by Mark Divo. During the exhibition he installed a room which resembled a teenage boy's where one could sit on a bed, play guitar, and video games. He also collaborated with Travis Jeppesen to produce the book Poems I Wrote While Watching TV for BLATT Books.

Jeremiah has maintained a [http://nerdkore.com/ Painting Blog] since May 2005 where he frequently posts his new works. Jeremiah also blogs about what he calls "the nerd arts" at [http://nerdarts.com/ NerdArts.com] . Through his painting blog and a huge amount of inbound links on the internet Jeremiah became very successful selling works directly through his blog. Thus bypassing traditional ways of marketing and selling artwork.

External links

* [http://kingvitaman.com KingVitaman.com]
* [http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/interviews/interview-jeremiah-palecek/ Interview from expats.cz]
* [http://www.divus.cz/umelec/en/pages/umelec.php?id=1001&roc=2003&cis=3#clanek Article from Umelec]
* [http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2005/Art/0303/calen3.php Article from the Prague Post]
* [http://books.blatt.cz BLATT Books, publisher of "Poems I Wrote While Watching TV"]
* [http://www.3ammagazine.com/buzzwordsblog/2006/06/3am-review-travis-jeppesens-poems-i.html 3am review of "Poems I Wrote While Watching TV"]
* [http://www.bookmunch.co.uk/view.php?id=1738 Ben Myers review of "Poems I Wrote While Watching TV"]
* [http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2006_11_010209.php Bookslut review of "Poems I Wrote While Watching TV"]
* [http://e.cisday.org/2006/05/25/tesadufi-sanat/ Article in Turkish]
* [http://www.internetua.com/article/showbiz/693/ Article in Russian]
* [http://www.lastampa.it/_web/cmstp/tmplrubriche/tecnologia/grubrica.asp?ID_blog=30&ID_articolo=623&ID_sezione=&sezione= Article in Italian]
* [http://wiredvision.jp/news/200708/2007083023.html Article in Japanese via Wired]