Female

45

http://www,cattavery.com
my studio and portfolios and wiki and itscatt blog

www.facebook.com/profile.php
my facebook profile

rtgarden youtube my digital video studio.
www.youtube.com/user/rtgarden

rtgarden.com is my experiemental website,mostly my notes.
rtgarden.com

My livejournal and my regular sustainability oriented blog,with an international audience.
www.livejournal.com/users/foolfaerie420


My Online Multimedia studio. The slammin Street Party.
www.myspace.com/foolfaerie420

Team Fun!
sites.google.com/site/team-fun/Home

My Ning Teahouse
teahouseofthedonkey.ning.com/


This is my play fort where I can hang out with the tribe and connect. Quite a bit of my time is spent in retreat working on my artwork and raising my daughters in
Southern Humboldt in the woods. When it is possible I manage to get out to see friends play or attend events mostly in the San Francisco Bay area here in California.

At first I thought that tribe would just help me keep track of a few pals, now it has grown into a whole other wonderful thing. Some of my closest friends were sort of found here or drawn close again here. Tribe has a multidimensional fun-house quality that I find quite engaging. All sorts of things have started happening since I started finding friends here. This communication interface has added a richness of texture to my interactions with my pals that I am very grateful for.

At the age of eight I became a dancer in the landmark L.A. folkdance troupe AMAN! dancing Flamenco, Armenian wedding dance,traditional Middle Eastern, and singing before huge audiences at the Dorothy Chandler pavilion and Shrine Auditorium as well as my first chance at performing at the yearly Pleasure Faire in Agoura . Music has been a lifelong love;I began playing clarinet at ten; Dumbek at nineteen, then saxaphone and nay, mandolin, guitar, fiddle and ukelaile years later still. IN my early teens I began an Improv acting gig at Renaissance Pleasure Faire performing on the street . Peg Long was my director, close companion Mentor and friend. A year or so later Terry Collier hauled me backstage and taught me the art of vaudeville stage management and together in an ensemble (with many of you) we helped create a show with record breaking attendance numbers that paved the way for Burningman and many many other large scale festive gatherings... It was fun too.

Along the way while living in Hollywood I got together with a group of pals and started an analog social networking service called "The Fools Guild". They still throw amazing parties today.

Science and Art have comprised areas of focus in my studies at Humboldt State University, I was pre-med for eight years. I joined the West Coast school of Black and White Photography studying with Don Anton and the "Furthest West" art movement a decade ago. All the while studying for a career which seems to have a mind of its own...essentially I have been studying and waiting for the internet to grow up. Next up is the "Open Source Art Studio text series", meant to eventually encourage the ecosystem of artists devoted to the development of literacy and schooling materials for children on cell phones.

I am a Conceptual Artist, a neo-futurist and an agitator for Modern Tribal living. I call it "Tribal Glam" in memory of Stonewall. The revitalization of the modern American Hero is my constant pursuit. The rise of open source and the spreading understanding of the importance of sharing ideas gives me great hope.

In preparation for grad school I have begun writing a series of books to use as texts and I have essentially moved my entire studio process online. Recently I became a Google code developer and I have been spending a loot more time lately on Python than I ever imagined I would. Coding is creative. My current projects also involve some event production, DVD and CD production, some web promotion, lots of writing and photography and the development of experimental events integrating web presence with live performance events. Essentially still doing the fly-by-night producer thing. Sustainability is still my favorite word and my personal pet project. Self-education is always basically my primary activity, recently I have become obsessed with Blender 3D and Inkscape.
My art focus has been working with the B.I.G. three art programs in open Source: Blender, Inkscape and GIMP. I really enjoy technical writing and it occupies several hours a day. Since teaching myself video editing a couple of years ago now, I am still making the switch from Premiere to FinalCut Pro and I enjoy time in the edit bay. Ubuntu and GIMP and even eclipse are all part of my ongoing study of new methods for artists to use the media. In my studio I commonly use a windows Xp sony vaio laptop, a Mac OSX G5, and an Ubuntu converted hp compac pentium (I burned it myself) and an OLPC XO. Open Source Artists Studio is my passion, art is a compelling and important form of human communication. My greatest goal is to unleash the potential of the human mind by reaching children trapped in poverty (or neglected) with educational tools on the cellphone.

With descriptive writing I send out a long wriggling worm fishing for the old stories, the new fun and the *tribe*. This is essentially my little Fort or Hootch where I can hang out with this rather enchanting tribe.