BIO self portrait Like many of you, I was born. Soon after, I grew up. In about 1995, I started poking the buttons on my computer. It became such a compulsion that I decided to call it art. Galleries and theaters around the world heartily agreed. In 1996 I programmed interactive artwork with one of the first online galleries, Ädaweb. Years later, I've begun to figure out what I have been doing all this time. I make “Behavioral art”. Art that requires live engagement and is programmed for a playful interactive experience. Objects, or sensory properties of objects, serve only as vehicles or catalysts for some action, whether involving muscles and movement or a neurological phenomenon that occurs only in our heads. It ends up, the best method for creating these systems is interactivity. And the best method for creating advanced interactivity is code. And the best tool for executing custom code efficiently, by far, is the computer. In 2007, I completed a Faculty Fellowship at ITP (Interactive Telecommunications [MPA] Program) at New York University/Tisch. There I wrote my thesis on neurology, shamanism, psychoacoustics and the effects of sensory stimuli on brain waves. In 1992 (back when I, like most of us, hadn't given computers much thought), graduated from Brown University majoring in Visual Art. As an undergrad, I took classes at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), studied music under a former student of Stockhausen, studied acting, the history of the circus, and created some music for the Computer Science people there. On stages, my work has been featured under circus tents in the Czech Republic and Poland, and at St. Ann's with avant garde theatrical legends Mabou Mines, at the Kitchen theater, IMEB (the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges), with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and composer Eve Beglarian at the Brooklyn Museum, the Judson Church (what an honor!). Installation works have appeared at the Armory Show (New York), the 809 Art District (China), the Chang Mai ICECA Museum of Art (Thailand), the Kennedy Center (Washington DC), for the Arts Council of Mildura Australia. Network specific pieces include work in the web art collection of the MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art), Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, Turbulence.   I've done fellowships/artist residencies including the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, for dance with the Field in the Chelsea art district (New York), and choreography under Doug Elkins with Atlantic Center for the Arts. Among several published papers, interviews, books and articles mentioning my work, a chapter I wrote is included in The Handbook on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics and a essay is kept in a time capsule for the National Library of Spain. I also have a thing for working with kids. We are all vehicles of developing brains at various stages. So some of that appears here too. -judsoN (new york)