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Personal meaning is often a derivative of the processes we create for ourselves and our work. The methodologies that we define ourselves by, whether instinctual or learned, become starting points for our acceptance and/or rejection of beliefs and ideas. I began this project with the intent of visually interpreting the properties of instinctual memory and in contrast, the systematic formulation of identity based on individual experience and procedural memory - essentially, trying to conceptually represent for myself what it is that makes us individuals. The contrast led to the development of two pieces and a third as a derivative of the first two. The three pieces are listed below; please follow the links to read about an individual piece.

1. latent contagion (instinctual/generational)
2. relational stimulus (procedural)
3. relational stimulus outputs
4. p’u: pages from coloring book (derivative)

The show installation itself was a collaboration between myself and artist Tim Elek. We divided our allotted space in half with a 16 x 10 in. black cube. The cube had cutouts at specific points to allow for outward facing projections and televisions. Equipment was hidden inside. The entire show was four computers running relational stimulus II, a computer running latent contagion, two computers running a portfolio piece and one running websites. This was along with one large print, the twelve printed relational stimulus outputs, and the three drawings of p’u: pages from a coloring book.