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My work weighs personal and collective histories and memories against the sensibilities of the present. I question the nature of memory and specifically the collective memory as reconfigured by the individual. As such, my practice is a variegated negotiation of interests. By exploring the recent past I attempt to contrast outdated paradigms against the naïve reliance on the feel-good paradigms of our culture. Because each project presents a distinct problem set, I approach the creative process in an interdisciplinary manner--allowing each project the time and space to determine its own outcome. The techniques I employ to construct the arguments made by my work promote conceptual foundations yet include drawing, process art, and new media. At times these investigations lend themselves to the rearrangement of mass media refuse and pop culture detritus into stories of my own making. At other times my work revisits art history through chance methods, conceptual art models, and found objects. Because my process annexes collective memory I scrutinize, and incorporate, the widest variety of source material available—web, video, archive, newspapers, personal narrative, process art, and art historical gestures. The resulting contemporary forms begin an inquiry into the structure of information and its dissemination and are realized through web art, digital collage, drawing, text, or moving image. Lisa Hutton