I guess I should tell you a little about myself. My name is david green. Born in Kingston and raised in a number of cities and villages in Jamaica, I moved to Canada after finished high school. The transition between what was then called the “Third World” to the “First World” inflicted a minor form of culture shock onto me. I eventually found a venue of expression first in photography then in installation and now in digitally mediated installation work.

I am currently pursuing MFA at OCAD in Toronto, Ontario. I completed a bachelors degree with a concentration in English at St. Mary's University in Halifax before completing a BFA at NSCAD University, also in Halifax.

I have been teaching at the undergraduate level since 1998. Since 2000 I have been a sessional instructor at the School of Image Arts in Ryerson University. I am also a sessional instructor, since 2005, in the department of Computing and Software’s Game Design program at McMaster University.

I bring a varied set of interests, obsessions and attitudes to my work. I follow two broad paths: The first is based on the complex relationships between my life both as a child and as a resident of a small island in the Caribbean and my life as an adult in urban Canada. The installations Home… and A Memory Box and the in progress work tentatively titled Reminiscences in Clay along with a number of book-works are all explorations into the notions of exile, memory and false memory. The second path is related to the first via geography, the ocean and the extremes of climate and is based upon the physical world most recently in the single channel video entitled “[ArtWork newWork:rupture];”. This last work is a data driven dynamic visualization which does not yet have a web component but that is indeed in the works. Perhaps by the end of this summer.

Deadlines. Sigh. I sympathise with the late, much lamented, Douglas Adams when he said of deadlines: “I love the wooshing sound they make as they rush by.”