Gary Mackender is a Visual Artist and Musician residing in Tucson, Arizona, USA

Mackender is employed by the University of Arizona where he is the location supervisor of a multimedia lab known as the Virtual Reality Annex. His main focus there is shooting high resolution digital still imagery to create VR content; panorama images, cubic QuickTime movies and object QuickTime movies.

His personal photographic journey goes back to the mid seventies, with over fifteen years of scanned 35mm and 6x7 film negatives. After the turn of the century, his focus turned to digital, which was in its infancy at the time. Today, camera hardware, computer software and ink jet printers have made significant advancements in quality and archival longevity. His recent work draws from a combination of his scanned negatives, current photography and a large collection of scanned objects.

Outside of the digital arena, he also creates works of mixed media, mostly using found objects, ceramic tile parts and an odd assortment of items from over twenty years of collecting. He began experimenting in this realm in the late 1980's. You can see an archive of this earlier work, along with more recent work, in the Mixed Media area.

In his spare time, Mackender just finished recording his third CD under the name of the Carnivaleros, information of which can be found by lurking on the links page.