Tylers Interview Questions

What did you learn through readings, discussions and writing assignments in 202 that will support and or influence the further development of your art practice?
What are your motivations? Give an example.
What is the motivation for your art practice – what influences do you draw on?
Discuss the theoretical connection(s) between the different aspects of your art practice?
- based on sharing of ideas and free information. this theme shows up in doodler and my music as well
- even programming that i do is free
What is your definition of Community?
- no longer only have simple communities based on physical location.
- communication mediated through a common system, such as neighborhood, interests, website, etc...
How does your art practice situate you in relation to community thus defined?
- I am creating a new community, or a framework to spin off many new communities with the hope that they will stay intact as one entity united through a single interface.
What or who do you consider your community?
- I belong to many communities, often sepearate
  - physical: school, work, home/neighborhood
  - virtual: livejournal (connected to a physically fragmented community of friends), myspace, SLUGLUG, freeculture
  - both: virtual references the physical occasionally.

Is that the same as audience?
How do you identify your audience?
How do you engage your audience? (interpretation, interaction, collaboration, participation, etc.)
- collaboration
- uniqueness and customization
- easy communication
- they engage each other (social network model: Reed’s Law... shows how the value of social networks grows exponentially through interconnectivity)
What is the relationship between research and your art practice?
- implementation, technologies
- similar ideas and previous frameworks
How does your work operate in the social realm?
- cliques: helps address sub-communities in social spaces
How do you identify?
How do you identify in relation to your art practice?
- implementor: the devil's hands. i am only a conduit for creative energy to flow
What is your sound byte?
- "I am an information crusader: searching for the best way to connect the world into a single creative unit."