Hello all,
I am a media artist living in Los Angeles. I use my skills as a programmer
and video artist to create interactive installations and web-based works.
Much of my work focuses on interactivity -- audience interaction,
participation, or contribution. I want my work to create connections
between the audience and the artist, amongst the audience itself, and
between artists. I am interested in how technology can be used to
facilitate, shape, influence, catalyze, destroy or impede connections
between people.
The topics for the SUNY-Buffalo conference seem to fit well with my areas of
interest. I look forward to the discussions surrounding them!
-- D. Jean Hester
www.divestudio.org
Interviewer: "Must an artist be a programmer to make truly original online
art?"
John Simon: "Truly original? You Modernist! Whether you make art or not,
understanding programming is an amazing understanding."
from "Code as Creative Writing: An Interview with John Simon"