Andy Vogt grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He earned his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University concentrating in Intermedia, a program focused on time- based media, performance, and installation. He is a founding member of Operation Re-Information (ORI), a science+information / art performance collective that championed the repurposing of existing information and the resultant product: reinformation. Throughout the 1990s ORI toured nationally, recorded several CDs, and developed its own performance software.