Born in Detroit, hendrix grew up on radical labor & civil rights politics, blues, jazz, soul, folk, rock, great lakes, and the Diego Rivera dominated DIA (Detroit Institute of Art). He began oil painting at age nine, when his mother realized he wasn't going to stop drawing throughout the school day. She decided formal training might best sublimate this behavior. Acrylic became the medium of choice in the teen years when speed was an issue. College brought the two together in a layered environment of fast and slow.

College continued for several iterations. The fine art iteration concentrated on two dimensional media. Psychedelia and the doorway that light offers to a world superseding language became the focus. The premise being, light is the fabric of our being and hence is a biological material. Having chosen to explore light as the primary medium of sentient life, hendrix also had to be continually vigilant in breaking down light's shielding properties and break further from it's isolating incarceration. Many styles were born and have yet to be fully explored and realized.

Hendrix's second iteration of college concentrated on humanistic psychology. Art therapy and the relationship between self and other was the focus. Working from a grounded place and expanding to a hyperspace where personal and collective entities are encountered, masked, transformed, and allowed to reemerge, art making afforded a way to contain and organize this experience. Eros was understood to be the most powerful force of light while its suppression the source of most discontent and violence.

Finally the third iteration was technology. hendrix saw the malleability of visual computing arising in the late 70s and realized there would be a great leap forward in human visualization. This was going to be more far reaching than color paints, the printing press, or the camera and perspective. At that time extensive resources were required to ride this wave. Only Universities and major corporations could afford the visual computing technologies.

Hendrix was intimately involved with early adaptation of innovations involving public information, public education, information potential, communicating media, web technology, animated & static video, as well as publications. With the analog perspective of a designer/illustrator working with line drawing, design, layout, paste-up and camera work hendrix joined the corporate world.

Hendrix developed and managed the public web site for the Federal Reserve's 12th District, including an extensive rare Currency Exhibit. He developed and managed a computer network that includes SGI workstations, Windows PCs, Macs, and Sun/Linux/BSD servers, running software including ColdFusion, MySQL, BSD Firewall, iPlanet Web Servers, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, Illustrator, PageMaker, Corel, Fractal Painter and Maya, complementing a broadcast quality digital/component video studio.

Hendrix conceptualized and implemented an interactive "ask the expert" online activity that is both conversational and informative called Ask Dr. Econ. He produced a series of 3-7 minute 3D animated videos for economics education. One, "Spending = Q x P", is on the SIGGRAPH '92 Video Review deposited at the UCLA Film Archives. Hendrix developed interactive videodisc based touch-screen kiosks. He art directed, designed, and illustrated many award winning four-color Annual Reports.

Hendrix, experienced on a variety of complex software/hardware configurations, identified and applied cutting edge techniques unique to automated systems as they evolved with constant and rapid change. His expertise encompasses, software technology, broadcast quality video, networking, emergent communicating media, and web based environments.

Hendrix has followed the technology beyond the point where institutions are the sole source of the power to experiment with the digital expansion of the virtual. Today, anyone can publish, create, and experience to the point where the virtual and reality are no longer easily divisible. Digital technology has stretched the bounderies of almost everything. We are becoming one with our images and bringing our future and past closer together. Discovering entry points into, understanding, and mapping this evolving and immersive virtual space is the new frontier, and hendrix is exploring that.

Education

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan: Bachelor of Fine Arts, minor in Philosophy.

Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California: Bachelor of Arts & postgraduate work, Psychology.

University of California Extension, Berkeley, California: Computer Information Systems, Graphic Design

Member: ACM SIGGRAPH since 1986, ASIFA since 1988.