Name: Vuokko Artfag

Age: 24

Location: New York City

Occupation: artist, craftsperson, and whatever pays the bills

General Interests: art (see artist's statement), craft, design, sex-positive/ third wave feminism, sex toys, cloth, yarn, tackling taboos, cooking spicy vegetarian food, reading, playing Scrabble, cinema

Favorite Artists/ Designers: Carolee Schneemann, Kiki Smith, Annie Sprinkle, NUNO, David Lachapelle, Cindy Sherman, Anni Albers, Andy Warhol, Jack Lenoir Larson, Christo, Ray Johnson, Robert Rauschenberg, Orlan, Bob Flannigan, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Seyed Alavi, Jason Sho, Enid Crow, Betsy Davis, Twinkie, Leslie Hall/ Leslie and the Lys, Banksy, see links for more

Favorite Books: The Time Traveller's Wife, The Cheese Monkeys, Hitchiker's Guide, NUNO collection, The White Boy Shuffle, Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen, Fight Club, Ways of Seeing, Cunt, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Orxy and Crake, Beauty is Nowhere, Research: Angry Women, Imaging Her Erotics, Art and Feminism, Techno Textiles

Favorite Bands: Air, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Beck, Broken Social Scene, Cibo Matto, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Clash, CocoRosie, David Bowie, FischerSpooner, Ladytron, Le Tigre, Metric, Morphine, Nouvelle Vague, The Pixies, Portishead, Sigur Ros, The Slits, Sufjan Stevens, Talking Heads, Tricky, The Unicorns, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Favorite Films: Harold and Maude, Zoolander, The American Astronaut, The Big Lebowski, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love, Pi, Heathers, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Rejected, Rushmore, Royal Tennenbaums, Adaptation, Beetlejuice, War of the Roses, Bend Over Boyfriend, Me, You, and Everyone We Know, The Yes Men, How to Draw a Bunny, Inside Deep Throat, Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn, Fuses