Andy Deck is an artist and educator in New York City. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University, and presently teaches in the School of Art at Hartford University and in the graduate program at the School of Visual Arts. A serious and committed artist Deck makes media art. On the Internet his public address system is called Artcontext.net. It sounds a critical tone at a time when media mergers are portrayed as the emergence of progress. Deck is also a co-founder of the art collective Transnational Temps, which aims to advance Earth Art for the 21st Century.™