Kevin Frost, Artist and Internet Technologist

Welcome!

Thanks for stopping by my mini-site.    Here you will find general information on my technological and artistic activities.

I am a visual artist, an internet technologist, a writer, a gourmand and bon vivant.    By day I work as a lead software engineer fighting spam for a major multinational corporation.    By night I paint, and occasionally cook up a crazy little project for the Web.

I live in the Mission District of San Francisco, where you can always find your thinking cap.    In the past I’ve lived in Hungary, Germany, and various parts of Northern California.

Current Projects

I’m currently tinkering with a travel-writing site called Migratorium, and posting some crazy iPhone application ideas on iPhonesque.

I hope to launch at least one serious Web project in mid-2009.    Some additional, minor projects can be found to the right.

Professional Profile

I work as a team- and thought-leader on complex mission-critical systems that have a direct positive influence on customers’ lives and, by natural extension, on profitability.    Most of my work involves Perl, databases, and contemporary web-application technologies.

I’m happily employed and not looking for a new job, but I always like to hear about great ideas that can change society for the better and make money doing it.

Specialization

Industries

Please refer to my plain-text CV/résumé for more details.

Artistic Activities

I studied studio art at university and have been active as a painter, graphic artist, and conceptual/internet artist since 1991.

My style is internally consistent.    It contains multitudes: from the rigorously abstract to the messily figurative, from flat to round, from here to there, from then to now and back again.

Some of my art relates directly to my work as an engineer; most of it does not.

Art FAQ

Q: What do you paint?
A: Pictures, not houses.
Q: What media?
A: Anything and everything, with a bias towards oils when I have the ventilation and synthetic gouache when I don't.
Q: Influences?
A: Max Beckmann, Edward Gorey, Josef Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Wong Kar-Wai, Tivadar Csontváry, Josef Sudek, Ilia Kabakov, Irving Penn, Marcel Duchamp, Andrei Tarkovsky, Horst Jannsen, and Werner Herzog, to name just a few.
Q: Where can I see more?
A: Alas, the Eternal Online Portfolio Project is still on the back burner. I am happy to show my work on request, digitally or otherwise, and I have shows on an irregular basis (about once every two years or so). I hope to have a better answer to this question sometime in 2009.

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