Chris Csíkszentmihályi
Associate Professor
Information Science
Biography
Chris Csíkszentmihályi is Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University. Previously, he was a European Research Area Chair in Portugal, and founded the free/libre Rootio Project, a sociotechnical platform for community radio. Csíkszentmihályi has been a professor at universities in the USA and Europe: notably founding and directing the MIT Center for Future Civic Media (C4), dedicated to developing technologies that strengthen communities, and also the MIT Media Lab’s Computing Culture group, creating unique media technologies for cultural and political applications. He has been a Radcliffe Fellow and a Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and has exhibited installations and performed on most continents. He currently sits on the board of the DATACTIVE ERC project at U. Amsterdam and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics at Newcastle University.
Research Interests
Education
- M.F.A. (Visual Arts), University of California, San Diego, 1998
- B.F.A. (Visual Arts), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1994