Dirk Adams creates work in a variety of media including performance, sound, installation and web-art.

Adams' work is concerned with language, memory, and culture, and frequently investigates current events, popular culture, and politics. In his live work, different modes of performance - including physical actions, explorations of social roles, casual interactions, and theatrical personas - are frequently intertwined, as is the relationship of artist-performer to audience-participant.

In much of his audio work, the collision of physical and auditory experience remains a central area of fascination. Adams' sound work takes many shapes including: audio walks, multi-channel work, sound installations, and as a supporting element in his art performances.  In multi-channel and installation work, he explores the possibilities of spatializing sound to activate the architecture of the exhibition space. Through sound walks, he creates a participatory role for the solitary listener. These experiential works urge the participant into a location where he or she follows an auditory map of narration, navigation, and imagined phenomena that activate and mark the path of the walk. 

Adams has exhibited sound, performance, and video work in Boston at various venues including Mobius, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Sound & Noise Festival, Vancouver, BC; 3rd Encuentro Internacional de Performance CHOCOPOP - in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic; and Tremor Bogota at Mapa Teatro in Bogota, Colombia. Adams earned a BA in sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1994 and an MFA from Tufts University in 2002.