Toro Castaño
Intern

When I was 5 my mom asked me what I would like to be when I grew up. I told her emphatically a horse.

Bio: May Taurus. Articulate, non-homonormative, and intelligent. Zen Buddhist (atheist by proxy). I am a recent transfer in my junior year. I’m studying the History of Art and Visual Culture with no specific focus but I’m leaning towards the digital contemporary. I began attending community college in Santa Ana, Southern California but spent most of my adult life in glorious San Francisco. Currently I reside in the dorms at Porter College.

Ethnicity: Japanese, Mexican, Portuguese

Aesthetic: Japanese Minimalism and Mid Century Modern Scandinavian

Communication Style: Emotive, Direct, ABC (accurate, brief, clear)

Driving Forces: Compassion, Curiosity, Inexhaustible Quest for Knowledge, and Self Awareness/Actualization, Electronic Music.

Gerundive Keywords: Grounded, laid back, mellow,sensual, earthy, and resilient.

Influences: Cleveland Artist Scott Miller, Gilbert & George,Terry Richardson, Anthony Goicolea, design, culture, pop-culture, art history, iconography, hellenism, hatha Yoga, Zen meditation, pit bulls, Photography, playing w/ perception, fine/modern/contemporary art, Billboard Liberation Front, deconstruction and culture jamming, Extra Action Marching Band, Academy Men Films, Joe Oppedisano, Butt Magazine, Francis Bacon, Picasso, Jiro Takamatsu, McQueen, Noam Chomsky, Ben Watt, John Digweed, Hernan Cattaneo, Sander Kleinenberg, Dave Seaman, Cindy Sherman, and Enrique Chagoya, House music, Trance festivals, and dancing for hours to slammin house music, NPR, PBS, museums, travel, trance festivals, superb DJ sets, John Lilly, Albert Hoffman, London, A'dam, and SF, country western, trance, proggresive house, tech house, breaks and beats, DJ sets, and most electronic music.