Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
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Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.