I was born in an elevator and raised in Davenport Iowa (1960), the 7th of 9 children. Davenport was recently named “America's Worst Place to Live”. What a toilet. I was given a chemistry set at the age of 9, started blowing up aerosol cans in fires and experimenting with electricity and fire and fireworks about the same time. Started working at father's construction company once I could hold a hammer all day. I became interested in art and technology and “art that does things” at University of Iowa where I completed BFA in Interdisciplinary Art (1984). In 1989 I graduated from University of Texas at Austin in Media Art, MFA Interdisciplinary Art and got the hell out of there! In 1987 I founded SEEMEN, the collaborative effort of me and some forty technology inventors who enjoy building extreme machines and robots that they allow their audience to operate, who have since their formation presented more than 1000 performances and experiments throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. From 1991 till 1994 I worked with Survival Research Laboratories in Europe and the US. I'm currently exhibiting all over, mostly (still) in underground venues. I'm working with biomorphic inputs to trigger machines that give you a direct experience. I'm teaching at SF State and lecturing at other schools around the US. Among other my work is included in the collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Getty Museum.