Originally from Canton, GA, Nick Hasty is musician, writer, fabricator, programmer, and the Director of Technology for Rhizome.org
Nick received a B.A. in English at the University of Georgia, where he wrote a thesis under poet and scholar Jed Rasula on Modern art and Modernist novels.
In Spring 2008, Nick received his Master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program in the Tisch School of the Arts. His ITP thesis was the EM Brace, a wearable device for translating ambeient electromagentic radiation into physical vibrations
Nick currently plays drums and electronics in the group Source of Yellow, and played in the band Iron Hero, whose album "Safe as Houses" was released throughout Europe on Stagnation records.
He has been a writer for online music journal TinyMixTapes.com, and served as research assistant for media theorist and author Douglas Rushkoff.
The EM Brace is a device for physically engaging with the ambient electromagnetic radiation emitted by common consumer electronics and electrical systems in general. It is a way to experience and make apparant the hidden world of the eletromagnetic spectrum so pervasive in our electronic culture.