Christa Erickson Associate Professor and Digital Studios Director Department of Art 4285 Staller Center Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11794-5400 Christa.Erickson@stonybrook.edu (631) 632-9335

Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the politics, pleasures, and pains of spaces mediated by electronic technologies. She weaves together combinations of video, tactile materials, programming, physical cinematic devices, performance, and the Internet in installations. Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited widely, including PPOW (NYC), Walker Art Center (MN), Hong Kong Art Centre (China), Institute for Studies in the Arts/Arizona State University (AZ), School for Visual Arts, Visual Arts Museum (NYC), California Museum of Photography, Banff Center for the Arts (Canada), Jamaica Center for the Arts (NY), Maryland Art Place, various university galleries/museums and at international media arts festivals like CYNETart (Germany), Maid in Cyberspace (Canada), FILE (Brazil), Medi@terra (Greece and Eastern Europe),  LAFreewaves (CA), Ciber@rt (Spain). Her work has been cited in the New York Times, Leonardo, Village Voice, Wired, Parachute, Baltimore Sun, San Diego Union Tribune, Arizona Republic, and "Coolsite of the Day." Recently she was Artist in Residence at the Hong Kong Arts Centre for Digital Now 2003. She also writes, curates, and regularly speaks about new media. Her essay "Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier" appears in the Routledge 2002 anthology Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Urban Metropolis. At Stony Brook she teaches electronic media courses and a collaborative multi-media sequence with a composer from Music. Her background includes commercial design, media production, and programming experience as well as an MFA and degrees in sculpture and computer science from UT, Austin.

MFA University of California at San Diego.