Kevin Roark Jr is an artist and programmer living in New York City. He was born in 1993 in Louisiana and lived near the Honey Island Swamp. He uses combinations of virtual space, video, software, text, sound, and images to deal with repetitive emotions/themes of simulation, replication, desire, disgust, and restraint. Roark has collaborated under the names Carmichael Payamps and Mister Shane, and has recently made visual work for the composer David Bird and various other musicians. He has led programming workshops at POWRPLNT and DCTV, and presented work with Babycastles, DIS Magazine, The Rutgers Digital Studies Center, Postcrypt Gallery, and Gaudeamus Muziekweek.
