Born and raised in New York, Clayton Campbell was an early innovator with photo-based technologies including xerox, photostatic printing, and mail art projects. Philosophically he found an affinity with the Pictures Generation, combining social and political critique with contemporary representational narrative styles and languages. After moving to Los Angeles, in 1995 he began working with the first commercially available digital cameras and computer graphics software. He collaborated with the growing digital, video, and technology scene, and was one of the first artists to experiment and use corruption (or glitching) in his digital photo- based art works.