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; and developed a unique soundscape blending first-person narrations of dreams with scripted stories constructed from recycled dream elements. 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.