Conscious consideration of how the digital age has affected us as humans and artists threw my own relationship with technology into the spotlight, essentially locating it both as process and subject matter for this project. Concurrently engaged in another project that required me to generate images at much larger file sizes than ever before, I was growing acutely aware of the limitations of my apparati.

At the time I generated my HomeoStatic piece, my external storage devices seemed to be going bad in a chain reaction, and I can no longer find CD-Roms that the CD burner to which I have access will recognize. Struggling against memory and speed limitations as well as device incompatability in a world perhaps best described as scuzzy obsolescence, I began to feel much like gerbils I knew as a child who spent their days on an exercise wheel that got them nowhere fast despite all that work. The pared-down result reflects a hankering I felt for simpler days when finding a pencil sharpener was the extent of my technical difficulties.

Adriane Herman received a BA in English and Art History from Smith College and a MFA from the University of Wisconsin. Herman's numerous exhibitions include: A la carte, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York; Steal This Art, Acme Art Co., Columbus, OH and the Florida Printmakers Society 10th Annual National Print Exhibition, Jacksonville, FL. Herman has lectured at "The Forum on Digital Printmaking," Omaha State University and "Visual Journals," Visual Arts Center of Northwest FL, Panama City, FL.

Herman's awards include: Purchase Award from the Wisconsin Union Directorate; The Edith L. Gilbertson Scholarship, University of Wisconsin; and The Annual Purchase Award, Madison Print Club. Her work is included in the permanent collections of Adobe Systems, American Century, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City, FL. Herman is currently program head in the printmaking department of the Kansas City Art Institute.