Patrick W. Deegan is getting back to business. He is a PhD candidate in the Art History, Theory and Criticism program at the University of California, San Diego, Patrick commuted his candidacy in January, 2010, to general purgatory. While at UCSD his research focused on new media art practice, sociology, and ethics, examined network communities and aesthetics as they intersected with, contributed to, subverted and paralleled national and global technology trends. Patrick completed fieldwork in Russia россия and China 中国 on the role and effect of information technologies in communities, academies, and corporations, as well as their impact on numerous international art scenes. Patrick received his BA from the University of Iowa in Religion, and his MA from the University of California at Riverside in Art History. He has been an adjunct instructor at San Diego State University, and a guest instructor at Peking University, Beijing; Zhongshan University, Guangzhou; and Shanghai University, Shanghai. Deegan has also served as a curatorial consultant at the California Museum of Photography and the Sweeney Art Gallery, and media curator for Groundworks at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is co-founder of Scale Journal, and English style editor for Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History and Nationalism in the Post-Soviet Space, a journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. He was a visiting scholar at Cornell University's East Asia Program during 2007-08, and Assistant Director of Cornell's China Asia-Pacific Studies Program from 2008-2009. He is currently working at the University of Oregon as a research specialist, when he is not playing with Sasha or riding his bicycle.