DB Amorin (b. Honolulu, Hawai'i) is an interdisciplinary media artist and arts organizer who addresses audiovisual nonlinearity as a container for intersectional experience, often focusing on the generative role of error. He creates media-centered installations shaped by DIY methodologies, lo-fi translations, and persistent, inquisitive experimentation with available materials. Through systems of intentional deletion and obfuscation, his work employs noise aesthetics as a form of “dissonant ethnography,” challenging notions of authenticity and chronology in the transmission and preservation of information. These systems are often broken or unstable, producing unintended signals that open additional narrative pathways. His practice examines how generational stories, personal preconceptions, and global perceptions rely on error and falsity to propagate, positioning failure as a site of creative potential.

While Amorin identifies as a media-based artist, the materiality of his work is guided by concept rather than medium. He frequently works with modified analog equipment to downscale or corrupt audiovisual media, and, when resources allow, integrates advanced technologies such as laser cutting and 3D scanning. This oscillation between low- and high-resolution processes produces textures of grain and signal loss that become central to the work’s formal language. The partial, obscured, and withheld qualities of information in his practice reflect inherited gaps within queer, Indigenous, and diasporic histories, reframing absence as a space of possibility.

In 2005, he founded deepwhitesound, an online platform for emergent experimental audio, featuring over 150 projects by international artists, currently in hiatus. In 2016, he co-founded Public Annex, an arts non-profit in Portland, Oregon facilitating public programming, workshops, exhibitions and residencies for artists all along the disability spectrum. He previously served as co-director of Paragon Arts Gallery in Portland, Oregon, a non-commercial gallery space focused on presenting work from regional and national artists with an emphasis on socially engaged, didactic and interdisciplinary contemporary practices. In 2023, he co-founded Ninth Planet, a curatorial collective focused on exhibition-making and public programming centering non-human intelligence as a framework for non-materialist future-building.

His work has garnered awards from esteemed organizations including New Jersey State Council on the Arts 2024 Digital & Electronic Arts Fellowship, Jersey City Arts Council 2023 Individual Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, Regional Arts & Culture Council, the Precipice Fund grant funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Calligram Foundation and administered by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA). His visual art, performances, curatorial & collaborative programming have been presented internationally at A4 Arts Foundation; the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival; Currents New Media Festival; Onassis Foundation; ICA at MECA&D; Luggage Store Gallery; Soundwave ((7)) Biennial; PICA; Portland Art Museum; the Honolulu Museum of Art; Honolulu Biennial 2019.