“Artists participating in the Chicago Video Data Bank inspired and influenced my later work: people like Barbara Sykes, Drew Browning, Jane Veeder, Phil Morton, Annette Barbier, and others. After having received my BFA, I became keenly aware of these communities of artists experimenting with video and computer graphics both at SAIC and at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory [EVL] at the University of Illinois at Chicago [UIC]. Fortunately, this tight-knit community embraced me along with some of my other colleagues like Sally Rosenthal and Kathy Tanaka. It wasn’t competitive; rather it was inclusive, and people encouraged others to get involved.”