ABOUT NAT
Most of my work deals with reflecting current events, politics, and culture. In particular I focus on the way these things are represented through imagery - as image has becomes the more prevalent and dominant form of communication. I am interested in visual literacy and storytelling.
The process of making these works is about reading. I "read" through articles in magazines, newspapers, watch tv and film, listen to the radio like most of us do. But as I sift through, scan, cut up, sample, remix and recompose them into new images, it forces me to pay attention to, absorb, and understand the material in a very different way.
Making my own images allows me to take ownership of those images, and in turn the events,that are always being broadcasted to me.
RESUME
EDUCATION |
1987-1991 |
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH |
1991-1995 |
BA Political Science and Philosophy
Georgetown University, Washington DC. |
1999-2002 |
MFA Visual Communications
School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
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EMPLOYMENT |
2002-present |
Zero One Projects, LLC – Principal Partner
Zero One provides video communication and design services to businesses and non-profit organizations. |
2004-present |
Chicago Art Department, NFP - co-founder
An experimental intermedia artschool/collective |
2002-2006 |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Instructor in Visual Communications and Early College Program |
2002-2004 |
DePaul University
Instructor in Art & Design |
1996-1999 |
interCITIES Inc/Outersound.com. - principal partner
Outersound was one of the first online music communities for the independent music industry. InterCITIES provided web-design and consulting services) |
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