Christopher Csíkszentmihályi Explained

Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma Mater:School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
University of California, San Diego
Occupation:Artist, designer, professor
Father:Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Employer:Cornell University

Christopher Csíkszentmihályi (born June 1968)[1] is an American artist and technologist.[2] He is an Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University.[3]

Life

Csíkszentmihályi was born June 1968 in Chicago, Illinois.[4] His father, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, was a psychologist who coined the concept of psychological flow. After leaving Reed College in 1988, Csíkszentmihályi earned a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SIAC) and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1998.

Academic career

Csíkszentmihályi is an Associate Professor in the Information Science department at Cornell University.[5]

Csíkszentmihályi is the former director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and the Computing Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab.[6] In addition to MIT and at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, he has served as Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art and Design Research at Parsons The New School for Design, was a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, a 2007–2008 fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and has taught at the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Art Center College of Design, and Turku University.[7]

Work

Much of Csíkszentmihályi's art consists of working technologies of his own invention, which function as tools while also providing comment on technology and its implications for social power dynamics. These artwork/technologies include, but are not limited to:

Other, more traditional artworks include 2005's Skin/Control, parallel installations that explore the tenuous nature of human influence over technology;[20] and 2007's First Airborne, an installation consisting of hanging maple seedlings the size of the United States Air Force's Joint Direct Attack Munition bombs.[21]

With Jude Mukundane, he is the co-founder of RootIO,[22] a civic media project developing wide-reaching, small-scale, peer-oriented radio networks, currently operating in Uganda. By turning cell phones into standalone radio stations with village-sized catchment areas, RootIO provides a platform for localized media that requires little in terms of physical infrastructure and user literacy.[23]

From 2001 to 2011, he was an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he founded the Computing Culture Research Group, and, with Henry Jenkins and Mitchel Resnick, co-founded the Center for Civic Media, which he directed until 2011.[24] From 2015 to 2020 he was Professor and European Research Area Chair of Human-Computer Interaction and Design Innovation at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.[25]

References

  1. Web site: Langhart. Dieter. Radio Pfyn geht auf Sendung. June 12, 2021. St.Galler Tagblatt. July 26, 2019 . de.
  2. Book: National Research Council. Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity. April 2, 2003. National Academies Press. 978-0-309-16817-5. 239–.
  3. Web site: Csíkszentmihályi | Cornell Information Science. July 17, 2020 .
  4. Book: Chris Csikszentmihályi. Caroline A. Jones. Chris Csikszentmihalyi: Skin Control. 2005. Charta. 978-88-8158-517-5.
  5. Web site: July 17, 2020. Csíkszentmihályi. live. Cornell Information Science. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127175916/https://infosci.cornell.edu/content/csikszentmihalyi . November 27, 2020 .
  6. Book: James Elkins. What Do Artists Know?. November 16, 2012. Penn State Press. 978-0-271-06062-0. 219–.
  7. Web site: EdgyPRODUCT | About / About Csik. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160123130400/http://edgyproduct.org/pm/pmwiki.php?n=About.AboutCsik. January 23, 2016. December 29, 2015. edgyproduct.org.
  8. Book: Webber, Stephen. DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing and Scratching. August 21, 2012. CRC Press. 9781136123108. Google Books.
  9. Book: Webber, Stephen . DJ Skills: The essential guide to Mixing and Scratching . 2007-11-14 . Routledge . 978-0-240-52069-8 . New York; London . English.
  10. Book: Reas . Casey . Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists . Fry . Ben . 2007 . MIT Press . 978-0-262-18262-1 . en.
  11. News: BBC NEWS-In Depth-Boston 2002-The rockin' robot. February 15, 2002.
  12. News: ARTS ONLINE; A War Game (Sort of), but You Can't Control the Action. The New York Times. November 26, 2001. Mirapaul. Matthew.
  13. Web site: New York Public Radio Popup Player.
  14. Web site: Robot Reporter.
  15. Web site: Do androids dream of First Amendment rights? Salon.com. February 26, 2002.
  16. Web site: USATODAY.com - Roving reporter on battlefields could be a robot.
  17. Web site: American Journalism Review.
  18. Web site: Things That Think: Freedom Flies.
  19. Web site: Operate a Human-sized protest robot. Creative Interruptions Festival 2019.
  20. Web site: Location One » Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Skin & Control.
  21. Web site: EdgyPRODUCT | Projects / Projects . December 29, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305050252/http://edgyproduct.org/pm/pmwiki.php?n=Projects.Projects . March 5, 2016 . dead .
  22. Web site: New Ugandan radio stations run on sun, smartphones and buckets.
  23. Web site: An entire Radio Station on Phone: The inspiring story behind RootIO community Radio in Uganda - Dignited. June 22, 2015.
  24. Web site: The Robots of Resistance | the Big Roundtable. dead. The Big Roundtable. December 29, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151220070651/http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/. December 20, 2015.
  25. Web site: Christopher Csikszentmihályi is the new ERAChair of HCI & Design Innovation - M-ITI. December 29, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160124194100/http://www.m-iti.org/node/2451. January 24, 2016. dead.

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