Troy is currently a graduate student in the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UCSC. Since childhood Troy has fostered a fascination with systems. Can online collaboration serve as a catalyst to cohesion of ideas? As a board member of private 401c3 non-profit (The Bike Church), Troy has an intimate knowledge of collaboration within the collective cooperative. His involvement in the Bike Church Project allows Troy to upset systems of corporate influence while inspiring self-empowerment, on a local level. Troy feels, “It is the inspired individual that fortifies the collective.”
The majority of Troy’s high school’s graduating class went on to become un-skilled, union, and factory laborers. His father worked for General Motors in an assembly plant for 18 years before he was laid off. Troy is currently a graduate student in the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UCSC. He uses his abilities and knowledge to accomplish goals that include: revolutionary education reform, deconstructing social dichotomies, and facilitating communal collaboration. Troy views the digital world as an arena for critical discourse about the flatting of the world, a medium for creative exploration of new media.
Since childhood Troy has fostered a fascination with systems. His has a direct interest in exploring restrictive social systems and oppressive governing structures. His work explores methods of collaboration that serve to subvert tyrannical institutions. Can online collaboration serve as a catalyst to cohesion of ideas? This question – sewn throughout his work - brings about discussions of community, activism, and related global concerns.
As a board member of private 401c3 non-profit (The Bike Church), Troy has an intimate knowledge of collaboration within the collective cooperative. His involvement in the Bike Church Project allows Troy to upset systems of corporate influence while inspiring self-empowerment, on a local level. This serves as a testament of his commitment to collaboration and community. Troy feels, “It is the inspired individual that fortifies the collective.”
The connectivity our technology has afforded serves as the catalyst for a global collective. The Internet spans legislative borders, enables global commerce, and empowers the individual in a way past mediums have been unable.
Troy’s work uses technology as a tool, and art as a vessel to upset the influence of major corporate power, while in the same space, inspire resistance to dominant government institution.
To gain an understanding of Troy you should first know a bit about his personal history. He comes from a small industrial town in southeast Michigan. The majority of his high school’s graduating class went on to become un-skilled, union, and factory laborers. His father worked for General Motors in an assembly plant for 18 years before he was laid off. These realities - combined with a distain for the all-too-common assembly line approach to education - influenced his decision to leave high school in the 9th grade.
Troy is currently a graduate student in the Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at UCSC. He uses his abilities and knowledge to accomplish goals that include: revolutionary education reform, deconstructing social dichotomies, and facilitating communal collaboration. Troy views the digital world as an arena for critical discourse about the flatting of the world, a medium for creative exploration of new media.
Since childhood Troy has fostered a fascination with systems. His has a direct interest in exploring restrictive social systems and oppressive governing structures. His work explores methods of collaboration that serve to subvert tyrannical institutions. Can online collaboration serve as a catalyst to cohesion of ideas? This question – sewn throughout his work - brings about discussions of community, activism, and related global concerns.
As a board member of private 401c3 non-profit (The Bike Church), Troy has an intimate knowledge of collaboration within the collective cooperative. His involvement in the Bike Church Project allows Troy to upset systems of corporate influence while inspiring self-empowerment, on a local level. This serves as a testament of his commitment to collaboration and community. It is a do-it-yourself ideology that surrounds the Bike Church project; this philosophy bleeds into his work on every level. Troy feels, “It is the inspired individual that fortifies the collective.”
The connectivity our technology has afforded serves as the catalyst for a global collective. It is up to the individuals to protect, shape, utilize, and explore all of the inherent possibilities. The Internet spans legislative borders, enables global commerce, and empowers the individual in a way past mediums have been unable.
Art has always served as a means to subvert the mechanisms of control. Troy’s work uses technology as a tool, and art as a vessel to upset the influence of major corporate power, while in the same space, inspire resistance to dominant government institution.
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