Jason Torchinsky is a Chapel Hill-based artist and writer who focuses on the same things he's liked since he was a kid, which includes cars, obsolete technologies, and early video games, among others. He tries to make work that provides novel and fun experiences for people to interact with, because fun is, after all, fun. By combining unexpected subjects with familiar or even nostalgic media or using technology in unusual ways or at unpredictable scales, often with humorous intent, Torchinsky hopes to give participants a renewed sense of wonder when they think about the world, especially finding wonder in the small and seemingly mundane. Sometimes, he's just trying to have fun. Torchinsky is co-founder of the automotive website The Autopian, and has written two books. His yard is full of cars he needs to fix, already.