* HOME * SAMPLES * BIO * STATEMENT * CONTACT STATEMENT Music for 12 Jackhammers I make mental exercises. Art, and the compulsive need to create it in all cultures, is one of the brain's strategies for continually updating itself to the environment. These specific artworks are examples of borrowed intelligence, systems that include both the audience and the computer, in order to elicit implicit meanings. Traditionally, art has been considered a concrete object on display. Even in conceptual art, the piece is assumed to exist independently of the minds of the audience. Alternatively, the artwork here only exists within the individual experiences of each distinct audience member. While there has seldom been any pressing need to distinguish between these two senses of art, a very particular facet of interactive computing has brought new issues to light. My interest lies on a tiny sliver where the cognition of participants becomes the sole focus. This constructivist approach, that centers on neurology, takes an anthropological view of the "art world". From this perspective, this world is an organization of cultural ritual behaviors toi be studied in galleries and on stages.