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My interdisciplinary work explores how technology affects human beings as individuals and as a society. Technology allows people to mediate interaction with the external world. This mediation has had a profound affect on humankind. As new technologies flourish, it is often hard to see their implications. Much of my work attempts to educate its audience on the need to be informed technology users.

Homo Indicium is an installation based on my exploration of data collection and the digital identities that emerge. I began by exploring the nature of data collected about people. In a society where technology assists in every aspect of life, most people have accumulated a digital identity. It is an identity based on bits and pieces of information stored in fragments over a vast network of computers. Buying habits, means of identification, medical histories, personal histories are all stored in some way. This data influence countless decisions made by both humans and machines. Homo Indicium allows its audience to interact with data collection as a way of exploring questions raised by this process.

The name, Homo Indicium, is derived from the Latin words, homo, which means man, and indicium, which means data or information. Together, they form the scientific name of the species of humans which exists purely as information.