AR:
Which function/s would you ascribe to yourself as an artist in the society you live in?

JH:
Overall … outside of the one I have in new media and locative media …. This is really hard to answer …. I wouldn’t want to ascribe a “purpose” … That sounds forced and marginalizing somehow …. There really doesn’t feel like there is any chosen purpose … at the risk of sounding naive it is to me really playing like a kid in a sandbox … This is true in all the things I do and even when I lectured on a panel at M.I.T. it was like we are a bunch of kids sharing what we made in the park at play …. That purity I never want to lose ….