I started making websites in 1996.  I learned to code and was hooked.

I had taken a year to be an Americorps*VISTA and maintained a website as part of my job. I returned to MSU and the Art Department’s new computer lab, spending as much time with Photoshop and a slide scanner as I did in my painting studio. I built more websites. I started trying to capture my screen on canvases that got bigger and bigger — I used a projector and painted in the dark, which I still do today. I pushed paint through rolls of screen I’d rip off once the oil paint set up to get the pixelated look of computer monitors.

Technology is still my reality. It’s everyone’s reality. Real life has bent to include another persona for each of us, a curated virtual self. I see my algorithmic work as this same kind of digital half-life of my paintings –  exisiting not as art, but as “other”.