Artist Statement
I am driven artistically and philosophically by the potentials computers have to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Computers provide novel solutions to many pressing problems, and I am interested in how we can integrate technology into our existence without compromising our greatest asset: our minds. Computers are a tool, and like any other tool, their benefit comes in how they are used. They are also an extension of ourselves, and I am interested in how they enhance our creative thinking, our self-exploration and reflection, and our interpersonal social relationships. This is where art and technology share many of the same purposes.
I have always been interested in art as a technological thing. I like to explore what kind of messages different mediums are suited for, and how to push mediums to illuminate things about our perceptions as humans. Clay, for example, is an amorphous and fickle material. It needs a great deal of care, it will let you down, but it is also formless and therefore limitless in this respect. I have enjoyed greatly the transition from this primitive technology, one so useful it has been around for a great deal of modern human history, to making art using computer code.