BIO self portrait I am a computer artist, with software featured internationally in theaters, galleries and on the web for 15 years now. Recently my interests have become more academic. I've had several papers published, primarily on issues of Cognitive Science and music. Like many of you, I was born. Soon after, I grew up. In about 1995, I started poking the buttons on computers. 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. It ends up, the best method for creating these systems is interactivity. The best method for creating advanced interactivity is code. And the best tool for executing custom code efficiently, by far, is the computer. So that's what I do. In 2007, judsoN completed a Faculty Fellowship at ITP (Interactive Telecommunications [MPA] Program) at New York University/Tisch. There, he wrote his thesis on neurology, shamanism, psychoacoustics and the effects of sensory stimuli on brain waves. In 1992 (back when he, like most of us, hadn't given computers much thought), graduated from Brown University majoring in Visual Art. As an undergrad, he 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, his work has been featured under circus tents in the Czech Republic and Poland, the Public Theater and St. Ann's with avant garde theatrical legends Mabou Mines, at the Kitchen with multi-cultural group Shadow Casters, at IMEB (the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges), with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and composer Eve Beglarian at the Brooklyn Museum, and at the Judson Church (quite an honor!). Judson's 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 and Smithsonian International Gallery (Washington DC), for the Arts Council of Mildura Australia. Net art pieces include work a survey of 9 internet artists at DC's Union Station, Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, the Liverpool Biennial, Turbulence, as well as the (web celeb) guest "reBlogger" at Eyebeam. Fellowships and residencies include 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 published papers, interviews, books and articles mentioning his work, he wrote a chapter in The Handbook on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics, presented at ICMC (the International Computer Music Conference, on a panel called 'Language, Neurology and Acoustics'), LISA (Leaders in Software Art), and has an essay in a time capsule for the National Library of Spain. In 2010 my wife received the NY Art Teacher of the Year Award. I'm pretty proud of that, so wanted to tell folks. -judsoN (new york)