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The technological developments of recent years have given everyone with access to a computer the opportunity to navigate on their own with regard to information distribution and human interaction. As a result, the Internet has unquestionably altered the way people interact socially and physically. The existence of ‘Chat Rooms’ on America On-Line, for instance, offer those in search of human interaction or even a date an entirely new dynamic. Unlike the dating services that pair clients up, or classified ads that reduce everything down to sound-bytes and delayed reactions, the Chat Rooms offer an immediate response to those who enter them. You can say what you really think to someone you’ve only just met (written to) without concern for manners or social guidelines. You can enter rooms where everyone has a common interest. You can pretend to be someone else or at least to look like someone else. You can communicate with others in a very public way and still remain completely anonymous. You can remain essentially unaccountable for your actions and thoughts as they are exposed to others. This installation explores issues of sexual nonaccountability, sexual anonymity, flirtation without physical contact, and sexual fulfillment through disguise involving communications between gay men on the Internet.”M.M.

1962	born
1985	B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1993	M.F.A. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
	Senior art director, Doublespace, New York, NY; lives in New York, NY