You no longer remember where you were born, nor the incident resulting in the partial loss of vision in your right eye.
This doesn’t stop you from being a nature guy, through and through. You live in Brooklyn but your warmest thoughts hearken for the Flatirons of Boulder, Colorado, where you used to reside.
You are not necessarily interested in exploring the intersection of art and technology, perhaps because its the wrong question: a painter doesn’t describe his artistic process discussing what type of paint brush he uses. This same attitude should be analogous to you as a new media artist. And yet, you are interested in how people view nature and their relation to it and now their boundaries beyond it: sometimes technology comes into play, but it’s not imperative to your artistic process.
These tendencies of environmental beneficence first emerged as a child; where you sketched a hypothetical submarine that subsumed and filtered trash, oil spills and other oceanic toxins into clean water and energy. Surprisingly, the idea failed to capture the attention of your 3rd grade classmates.
This obsession carried into your undergraduate years at the University of California, San Diego, where you studied new media and environmental philosophy. You built huge labyrinthine earth sculptures in an artificial forest, dove into freeganism and documented the immigrant diasporas of environmental disaster.
Now, you are a Master’s Candidate at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). You are very happy to be surrounded by this community of brilliant, creative artists,engineers & poets at the “Center for the Recently Possible” which perhaps can be more aptly put as the Center for the Recently Working. You current work involves developing digitally fabricated objects inspired by biomimetic design, DIY 3D printers that make food, Moss Graffiti camouflaging air quality sensors and mobile apps that visualize the near term effects of phytoremediation.
Yes, you are blind in one eye. Yet somehow, you see things more clearly than ever before.
[please excuse any typos. I must sternly chide my cat Lily who invariably demands (and receives) my closest attention whenever I sit down to seriously write something coherent]