Tylers Interview Questions
Full Interview (MP3, 25MB)
Preliminary 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
- 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
- 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."