If you find yourself asking this question - and many do - you can easily answer quite officially - and nebulously - by visiting our website at http://www.vongogo.org/.  That said, I'll share a personal angle - a version of a story that will soon adorn the website's 'about' area.  In 2004 I left a purely technical job that I was very passionate -- and good -- at, in a bit of a huff, and with a bit of a twisted arm.  I thusly decided that I should branch out and learn to do other things which relate to my work, like visual design, and drifted a bit into learning about a great, long-time interest of mine: Visual Effects.  As I've explained to many people on many days, I absolutely hated my art school, felt it was a sham, and that I should stand up high on my ten years of professional experience, say so, and move on with life, which I did.

While in school, however, myself and some fellow disgruntled students decided from on high that we are so abso-fucking-lotely amazing, both individually, and as a group - mostly individually - that we needed to really get to thinking about like, yanno, when we change the world, what is that art movement going to be called?  The last thing we need is some Art History geek coming along in 5,000 years and deciding we are the "bling" movement or something.  No, Fuck You, it's VonGogo.  Got it?  good.

So that's it, we don't actually do anything except mostly whatever we did before art school, because our art school sucked, but at least I know what a split-complementary color scheme is.  The VonGogo Foundation itself owns an APC Back-UPS, an SGI O2, and a nice SGI Digital Flat Panel from the late 90s which doesn't really talk to the O2.  D'oh.

As explained on our website, we hope one day to own a large, shared live / work space where we can provide some artist in residence opportunities.  For two years, between three funding sources, I was provided with a place to stay by the Foundation as its' first artist in residence, albeit transient, and thusly have some great ideas about what sort of amenities should be provided therein.