Douglas Easterly

email: playfight@mac.com

Douglas Easterly was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Earning a B.A. and M.F.A in painting, he is self-taught in terms of new media skills. His work stems from interests and research regarding genetics, information theory, cybernetics, evolution, procedural art, emergence theory and popular culture. This work ranges from performance art, video, installation, multimedia, web art and programming. Currently he is an Assistant Professor at Victoria University of Wellington where he teaches programming and multimedia in the department of Architecture and Design.

Doug Easterly and Matthew Kenyon collaborated on there first S.W.A.M.P project in 1999 in Louisiana. Some of the projects are performance art, some are computing. What they all share in common is a certain scope of inspection of popular/culture/mass media/social survey.