Q.  Real Name?
A.   Nutter, Jesse Nutter.


Q.  Where were you born?
A.   Montreal, Quebec, Canada eh.


Q.  Where do you live now?
A.   Earth eh. In a wee spot we call Victoria on the west coast of Canada.


Q.  How old are you?
A.   32


Q.  What does nutter mean?
A.   What do you think it means ya looney?


Q.  Do you consider yourself an artist?
A.   Yes.


Q.  What got you interested in art?
A.   My parents, both of whom are artists in many different forms. My father is a writer / philosopher / filmmaker / musician / video collage artist (ie. post-neo-renaissance guy). My mother is a painter, a teacher, and has a degree in art history from McGill University.

Growing up in an environment such as that it is impossible to not have a very healthy respect for the power of art to inform, educate, and inspire.


Q.  Did you go to school as a child?
A.   Leading question *wink* ... No, actually I did not attend regular school until age 13. I was self taught up until grade 9 (still am for the most part).


Q.  Did you graduate High School?
A.   Yes. I went to a wonderful school called M.I.N.D. in Montreal and graduated with honours in 1992.


Q.  Did you go to College?
A.   I spent a year at Dawson College studying business and economics, then moved to Victoria and began my studies at the University of Victoria.


Q.  How long were you at UVic?
A.   5 years.


Q.  What did you study?
A.   I started off in creative writing then decided to broaden my studies after the first year. I took a liberal arts path, studying a lot of history (modern europe, the middle ages, ancient greece and rome, the modern middle east, russian culture, canadian history). Most of these courses were focused on intellectual history and reading masses of primary source materials, which led me to philosophy courses, politics courses, a psychology course, and in my final two years I made it in to some very stimulating higher level media studies, film studies, and arts and technology courses.

In short, I studied people and their ideas.


Q.  Who was your greatest influence at UVic?
A.   Dr. M.C. Schraefel. She taught arts and technology i and ii - the first being a theory class that challenged us to think critically about the ways in which technology can radically alter the existing paradigm; the second was a year-long lab-centered group-oriented professional web development class which changed my life.

Thanks dr. s. You were (and still are I am sure) an inspiration to so many.


Q.  Where did you learn all this computer stuff?
A.   My hands-on computer skills are almost entirely self-taught (with the help of friends and colleagues of course). I got my first computer when I was nine (a classic Apple IIE with a colour monitor even!) and was programming basic games and GUIs in machine language by age 12. A year later I got my first IBM XT Compatible and started writing calender software and text-based games in QBasic. After that came a 286, 486, Pentium, K6-2, and finally my present PIII (which I'm quite happy with)...

I was fortunate enough to have a job working as the computer lab supervisor in the fine arts department at UVic for four years. This job exposed me to a great deal of software and design projects, a better hands-on computer education could not be had in any of the classes taught there.

After that, on to a few contract jobs doing web design and development, some teaching work here and there, an office job working for a rather large development/hosting company as database developer/technical consultant/web developer, and then founding (with three partners) the number 41 media corporation. The rest, as they say, is history ;)


Q.  What computer stuff do you know?
A.   I have experience with a vast range of software and hardware (about 20 years worth of wrestling with these machines).

As far as specific technologies go I would consider myself an expert in: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and Photoshop.

I have experience with and have built/created things using: Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion, Flash, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Acrobat, Macromedia Fireworks, Bryce 3D, Poser 4, Lightwave 3D, Homesite, Deck II, Rebirth, and SoundForge.