August Black
has an awful habit of calling himself an artist. Previously, this has meant making marks on paper and later on canvas. Now, this means almost anything concerning material, concept, and form. His research is based in the overlap of media, focusing mostly on the kinds of audiences that are created and induced by emerging conventions of observation and involvement.
He works in radio, television, software, networks, comics, text, and projected sound/light. Collaborating with others on various free radio stations in Austria, he's devised a technique for performing live radio on a shoestring budget from networked locations outside of the studio, transforming the location at hand into material and subject for conceptual play.
He is currently an IGERT research fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara.
see: http://aug.ment.org