It is perhaps a bit too facile to discuss Paul Slocum's multifarious, multifaceted work in terms of "new media." True, even a cursory browse of Slocum's website reveals an artist incredibly adept at manipulating digital textures, whether they be musical, visual, kinetic, or, more complicatedly, self-consciously virtual. And certain of Slocum's projects—ongoing as well as completed—are characterized by the sort of antic, DIY conceptualism one associates with hacker culture. Yet Slocum's primary training is as a programmer, not in provocation.