Peter Hanley

I live and work in Philadelphia, PA USA; This has been going on for some time.

Some of the time, I find, fix and create instructional technologies for people who teach at Temple University.

Some of the other time, I make art.

I spend the rest of my time with my loved ones, but I get frustrated by how much of that is spent sleeping.

I'm often referred to as a "guru" — this is ridiculous as I am generally neither meditative nor particularly flexible… so I've decided that it's usually shorthand for reflecting the speaker's acknowledgment of me either knowing a little bit about a lot of things, or a lot about little things.

Mostly it's the former foremost with the latter mixed in here-and-there. I have a good memory, which helps a lot.

I produce work in media co-opted from industrial/corporate/institutional settings—often letterpress, photography, and/or software & electronics (sometimes referred to as "physical computing" or "creative code").

I favor oblique references, artifacts that support multiple avenues of decoding, privileging tactics over strategies, détournement to design.

Visually, I am concerned more with the sets of images which contain every image everyone has ever seen, but not so much a particular one here or there.

Although I do like nice pictures, and by "nice" I mean either "of value," "interesting," "funny," or "naughty."

Recent works have included Electrocology and Bloom (two collaborations with Marisha Simons), a shadow puppet interpretation of Treasure by Katie Baldwin (a collaboration with Katie Baldwin), and various letterpress works, an example of which was included in the exhibition Pulling from History: Letterpress at the Print Center in Philadelphia.

I believe I am largely regarded as friendly, although I could be wrong.