Hometown: Carmel, Ind.

Age: 34

Medium: Sculpture/installation

Finest hour: SIMPARCH (an artists collaborative Lynch organized and maintains. It creates large-scale interactive artworks that examine building practices) in Documenta 11, summer 2002.

Day job: Assistant professor, University of Cincinnati.

Secret ambition: To live off the grid.

What's next? Clean Livin,' alternative energy project by SIMPARCH in Wendover, Utah.