Rob Duarte conducts research, through visual art, into the social and cultural components of technology. At the moment, he is focused on how specific historical and contemporary technologies both drive and are driven by politics, fear and power. His installations and sculptures reflect on these ideas by way of subversion, intervention and sarcasm. Rob's recent and current projects include several exhibitions centered around a machine that semi-automatically over-inflates balloons to bursting pressure, the evolution of a mechanism for inserting razor blades into apples, and the transposition of our techno-identities into an underground neighborhood TV broadcast. Rob has degrees in Information Systems, Computer Science, and Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts College of Art. He is currently studying in the Visual Art MFA program at UC San Diego. Visit his portfolio at robduarte.com