DPI:

What were you doing before that and how did you get lead into using media or live performances?

Hal Eagar:

I seem to have always fallen into the theatre tech even in elementary and middle school, it's a bit freaky because it's not like there was any opportunity to do it, I just somehow did. But anyway by the time I was in High school there was opportunity, and I did a lot of design and crew work. So when I went to school at Purchase being a stage hand was what I was doing to pay my way through school. (though not in their theatre design-tech program). Video and Computers were always pretty easy for me, I worked for a AV rental house doing conventions in Hawaii where I went to High School, doing low and high end video for corporate meetings. And I also worked for the Community College on Maui for a while, in their pretty decent video studio doing satellite video teleconferencing classes.
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We are in the process of assembling points of view from as many digital performance practitioners as we can. We thought it only fair that DPI's Director, Hal Eagar, be the first answer the questions he drafted.

The questions:
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