I think my interests are located in between both first word and last word art. I'm intrigued by the possibilities that new media art can offer -- first word art -- but the ways I want to use new media have been experimented before and I enjoy being able to use what others have discovered. My interested center around technologies that already exist in our culture and seeing what more we can do with them. Technologies can shape our culture the same way that culture can shape technologies; the perspective that we have towards it affects the possibilities and usages we see that technology offers.
Being able to create / invent a way of thinking that can leave a mark in our culture/society is certainly appealing, but I feel as though, especially in today's world, creating something that is entirely novel is difficult and near impossible. I think that we mostly are able to take what has previously been create and see them in new lights, give them new perspectives. It's this sort of reasoning that makes me feel like I am in the middle of the spectrum between first and last word art because I want to be able to use what has already be discovered and experimented with before but give it a twist, make it my own.