Eric Dickson (born 1975 in Los Angeles) is an installation artist, researcher, and writer who teaches politics and psychology at New York University. Originally trained as a theoretical physicist, his academic work explores the strategic and psychological foundations of identity and power in contemporary societies. His artistic practice probes related questions and explores the frontier between storytelling and installation art, embracing literary, technical, and site-specific challenges. His work has broadcast fragmentary tales of an epic overland journey from antique wardrobes dispersed around a square mile of Nevada desert; scattered monologues from an uncertain collapse, ambiguously describing the end of a relationship or the fall of a republic, around an abandoned military base; installed commuters’ monologues into a deserted trolley tunnel in Washington DC, as a haunting meditation on the dangers of social divides; and created an interactive conspiracy theory environment surrounding the swans in Berlin’s Landwehrkanal, spanning publicly-posted materials, voicemail messages, audio installation elements, live performances, and bespoke interactions with individual members of the public. His installations often involve interactive components and transform visitors’ perceptions of spaces around them: galleries, neighborhoods, and open and abandoned spaces. He lives and works in Greenwich Village, New York City.