Rebecca’s bio
My name is Rebecca Brooks. Born in Texas, but my family moved around a lot so I’m used to living semi-nomadically. I am a Sculpture major at Texas Woman’s University, and will hopefully be graduating with a BFA this semester. I taking this class, for several reasons, first to check out UTD’s ATEC program, but mostly to catch up on, and see how technology can influence my art making. I tend to resist mass technology with the idea, similar to Andrew Keen’s, that if every average Jo/e can access it, the result will be average ideas. However, my faith in humanity is on the rise, and I’m reinterpreting the internet, and digital technologies as an endless well of inspiration. That said, I hope learn in this class how to better understand and use web technologies as a tool. In the technological sense, I have limited experience with Social Networks, and until this class I hadn’t heard the term New Media, and Social Media. I don’t participate in many online communities. I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, only general goals. I’d like make a living by employing my creative ideas. I’d love to work with video and sound, but my blue collar side would love to construct with metal and wood. My interest are broad ranging from construction of real materials to a forays into the conceptual realm. Most of my work, however, deals with perception and emotion; following the idea that man is the measure of all things. I tend to think that talent is less important than passion, and professional experience is less important than professionalism. Knowing that there is someone more experienced and more talented then me, I try to determine what I can add. I’m considered an amateur, and I would say, yes I’m less talented, but that doesn’t mean I have less potential, less drive, or any less of a contribution.
