My interests rest mainly on interaction between objects, people, and culture. Regarding those elements I enjoy the process of analyzing, simulating, exploring, and understanding their subtle inter-dependent lives.

Dual degree, B.S. Computer Science, B.F.A. Fine Art at Carnegie Mellon University. Have always felt it necessary to exercise both halves of the brain. Past work includes intern at IBM CUE, and current work is full time at Yahoo! Design Innovation Team. Work ranges from robotic art installation in Japan, to full figured bronze, to multi-agent asynchronous teams for complex problem solving, to oil painting, to java apps and just about everything else. Strong interest in visualization and cooperation, via flat network hierarchies. In my B.S. degree, my hard science concentration is biology, another interest, lately it has been specifically geared toward genetics. Hobbies are my work, sailing, go, swimming, climbing, biking, and golf.

My art practice is about the in-between spaces, the connections and relationships formed and observed, whether it is in taking notice of an activity or creating a new situation, my work exists out of a desire to understand and comprehend this universe of connections. It is a systems approach to process and involvement, that seeks to provoke play, change, or explore that very nature of interaction. If we believe that art like life is transient, and that something does not become art until it is experienced, then we may presuppose that art is not exclusively the simple raw product, but rather art is the emotional communion created. Art is the subsequent intentional transference of experience, and I take as good art the transference of the unattainable into the immediate, and the immediate into the forever unattainable. To put it another way, I love it when a project takes something immense and difficult to comprehend and makes it simple and familiar or when it takes the simple and familiar and makes you realize you can not possible ever truly understand it in full.

Man this is pretty hokey when I read that all back, and though I write it truthfully, keep in mind that I try not to take myself too seriously. :)

Anyway if you feel like emailing me you can do so at doug at dougfritz.