Artists tools and venues, our options for delineating ideas, have risen significantly. There are few techniques which have escaped our repertoire of instruments. Surely psychoanalysis, cinematography, engineering, and architecture have become acceptable modes of discourse. Presently we witness incredible works pertaining to the fields of software engineering, bio-engineering, and the social sciences.
Knowledge and technique and their application are not the aim. Rather discovery, invention and most importantly the search for the proper questions. I like to consider a sentence Joseph Albers wrote: "There is no final solution in form, it demands unending performance and invites constant reconsideration."
The work must resonate and function within the realm of these technical phenomenon. This relationship is twofold: At one time I am aroused by the classic, the chiaroscuro of traditional painting, the immediate tendency of brush against canvas; Another moment is the cerebral stimulation found in the cognitive and computer sciences. Specifically algorithm design and research is applied towards pattern recognition and statistical processes.
This tendency for the artist and the technician to coincide is not new. It runs through our shared memories. It is inherent everywhere. As much in the invention of perspective/development of painting, as it is in the application of computers towards creative endeavors. These developments do not surprise our curiosity. However they do offer an opportunity to come closer to the muse we have all come to admire and pursue.
MIT - Master of Science in Visual Studies - 1991
School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Bachelor of Fine Arts - 1989
ACM SIGGRAPH -- active member
Member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
MIT - Center for Advanced Visual Studies - Research Affiliate 1991 - 1993
Boston Architectural Center - Design and Media Technologies Instructor 1991 - 1994
Ritsuko Taho - On the Right Path, various other projects - 1991 - 1994
Otto Piene - Dialogues de Tetes - Reims, France - light show, inflatable sculpture - 1990
Wellington "Duke" Rieder - ArtPark 1991, 1992 - architectural/sculpture installation
Ellen Driscoll - Underground Railroad interpretations
Harriet Casdin Silver - holography installations
Paul Earls - laser shows and installation
Kevin Maginnis - painting/sculpture
There are a number of working papers reflecting some of my more recent research interests:
• Video compression algorithm optimized for talking heads.
• Production tools for automating lips for animation.
• A new paradigm for drawing tools currently in development.
I.D. Magazine Web Interface Awards - Homicide Life on the Streets - June 1988 - 1998
15RUNE - The MIT Journal of Arts and Letters - Volume 15 - 1994
CENTER POEMS - 1991 Editors Elizabeth Goldring, Christopher Kirwan, Panos Kouros, Zafos Xagoraris