Patrick Millard was a photographer from the small West Michigan town of Lamont and an alum of Grand Valley State University. His work in photography, new media, and sound addressed ideas about media, digital culture, technology, and the interactions that human beings have within their own synthetic environment. In 2008, Millard began to show his work inside the virtual simulation world Second Life, giving his artwork the ability to advance beyond two-dimensional work and expand his ideas of simulation and virtual reality.

In his photographic series titled “Formatting Gaia”, Millard explores an alternative version of human existence. While nature and technology are often perceived as independent of one another, Millard seeks to discover an evolutionary path where Earth is no longer just nature and biology but a more complex system that employs digital signals to those that exist within it. Investigations into this world leave one with a visual depiction of the possibilities that we've already begun to travel toward along our evolutionary path.

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