I think it was 1999. I was living in San Francisco. The dot-com boom was happening. And I think I had a month in between jobs. And I went to Burning Man for a week. And I think I wrote the first version of Electric Sheep.
Scott Draves, 1990s Net Art: Auriea Harvey, Joshua Davis, LIA, Draves
I'd been working for about a year in a studio in San Francisco doing analog video synthesis. And so the idea of artists and machines working together was very much something I was pursuing.
David Em, 1980s Computer Art: Mark Wilson, David Em, Dan Sandin