AR:
What is important to you in your art production? What are you aspiring to/striving for in/with your art production?

JH:
Hmmm…. Community and Autonomy (as odd as that may sound) are extremely important to me. I first planned and studied to be a scientist, then a writer, then a graphic designer, then an artist, and theorist. There were many figures along the way that were discouraging and that emphasized the maxim ” do one thing and do it well” to the point where I felt deeply alien in many ways and in many circles. It was hard to keep going with so many voices saying that hybridity equaled dilettante or just nothing of substance. The community that I have now through the new media and locative media world ( mostly online) and a bit in the regular art world have a community of like minded and kind souls that inspire me deeply and buoy me in ways that make it seem like the nice people and the multi-talented can help and support each other with kindness and mutual support.

I aspire to keep challenging myself, to always be learning, searching, working more and more with the similarities and nuances of science and art, art and technology, hybridity and unified works and how experimental can also be rich in ways of content and subtext in ways seen by some as the pantheon of the “traditional”.