"Andrew Bucksbarg's projects epitomize the way great sounds and images can work together."
-Holly Willis, L.A. Weekly
"The soundtrack could have come from '60s submarine sci-fi fantasy flick or the B side of a single from a space age bachelor pad."
-ArtForum
N_DREW
N_DREW (aka Andrew Bucksbarg) creates audio-visual/VJ performances and interactive works, exploring organic and abstract forms, live A/V processes and participatory techno-culture, enthralling audiences with images, beats, ambient sounds and pixilated atmospheres.
N_DREW is a media artist, experimental interaction designer, audio-visual performer and a professor in the Department of Telecommunications at Indiana University. N_DREW 's work and interests reverberate in the space of new interactive technology/media practices and theory. As an experimental interaction artist, N_DREW concerns himself with technologies and social systems that support tactics of ambiguous, autonomous social creativity and exchange.
N_DREW's work appears in museums, galleries and festivals internationally, including recent installations or performances in the Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway; Cast Gallery in Tasmania, Sea and Space Gallery in Los Angeles; SoundWalk in Long Beach; Around the Coyote Gallery in Chicago; Come Out & Play Festival in New York; Sonorities Festival in Belfast; and the Signal To Noise Festival in Vancouver, Canada.
N_DREW's work is linked online through Athica.org, Hz Journal, Rhizome.org, Soundtoys.net, Mediahexa.org, Pixelartnyc.com, PoppingPixels.org, Stunned.org and the Whitneybiennial.com.
N_DREW's curatorial work includes Perform.Media, Mediatopia.net, Videacy.org and other projects. He received an M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts in New Media and Integrated Media in 1999.
