hi all,
sorry to be sitting on the sidelines for the last couple weeks/months as
This discussion began. here's a brief intro:
my name is paul vanouse. I've been working in emerging technological forms
since 1990. Interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism have guided my
art practice.
I'm currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo,
NY. My most recent solo work "The Relative Velocity Inscription Device" is
a live scientific experiment, in the form of an automated electronic
installation, in which i literally race skin color genes from my
Jamaican-American family against one another.
while my mature practice has always been computer-based, for the past few
years I've spent much more energy and found it more interesting to work in
electronics and micro-computers and experiment with genes and chemicals
than software. thus, i've avoided the increasingly unpleasant trends in
commercial software. now as i'm re-engaging "multi-media" again (i.e. the
web, etc.), installing software that is relatively "legal" yet made
increasingly unpleasant to install, i'm trying to deal with integrating
more open source tools into my own practice and the infrastructure of the
art department here at UB.
anyway, looking forward to the continuing discussion,
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~pv28/
Pv