Elizabeth Demaray is a fine artist whose research area is the interface between the built and the natural environment. Working in sculpture, digital media and eco-art, she designs listening stations for birds that play human music, cultures lichen on the sides of skyscrapers in New York City, and manufactures alternative forms of housing for hermit crabs out of man-made materials.
Demaray received a BA in cognitive psychology at UC Berkeley, an MFA in Art Practice at UC Berkeley and studied art at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. She is head of the sculpture concentration at Rutgers – Camden and is a work group advisor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is on the board of the College Art Association’s New Media Caucus and is a member of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum.