For the moment “Us” is Theo Armour

Theo Armour was born in Boston MA and grew up in Paris and the United States. He is an architect educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He practiced architecture in London and Hong Kong before becoming a computer-aided design consultant at CAD-Asia. He was a founder of PC Plus, an IBM PC dealership specializing in Computer Aided Design, the Hong Kong Macintosh User Group and the Asian Venture Capital Journal.

In the 1990’s he was Program Manager at Autodesk for AutoCAD Releases 13, 14 and the beginning of Release 2000. Subsequently he has implemented web sites for a number of artists, start-ups and various worthy organizations and has been an angel to a number of start-ups.

Theo was awarded the English Channel Swimming Association’s Van Audernaerde Prize for Best Disabled Swim in 1980. In 2006 he was awarded First Place for fastest swim in the annual “Escape from Alcatraz” competition.

He is a former member of the Board of Advisers of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and was designer and webmaster of their web site from 2001 to 2004. Theo lives in San Francisco and Paris and has three daughters currently studying in Paris, Santa Cruz and Long Beach.

Theo is a collector of web sites that are works of art. He firmly believes that the great art of the future will be the art of the Internet and would be pleased to hear from artists, curators and galleries with similar intentions.

theo at artofthenet dot com