bio/interest

When I started my grad degree I came to an MFA program because of the concern for where our society was headed, we were at war in Iraq and in a general war on terror, the current administration seemed to always be hiding somethign, or was always on the defensive. From their mannerisms to language, they seemed paranoid that the public was going to figure out the complete control they were beginning to take on the public. As long as our gov't kept pointing out our freedoms, they culd slowly take them away or create an environment for conservative thinking and filtering of liberal ideas, or even creative ones for that matter. If they punch you, you punch back, no questions asked. And with a 'take no shit' president at the helm or on the reigns we could only expect a shoot first ask questions later approach to policy and relations with friends and foes.

The kind of work I wanted to explore was wokring with technology and design to problem solve by commenting on the truth about the present world that we are situated in. we've scene unprecedented technological development in the past 10 years and have placed a lot of this networked technology into all of our hands. From personal computers to mobile cell phones...