Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
Christopher Csíkszentmihályi[1] is an artist and technologist. He is the European Research Area Chair of Human-Computer Interaction and Design Innovation at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.[2] With Jude Mukundane, he is the co-founder of RootIO,[3] a civic media project developing wide-reaching, small-scale, peer-oriented radio networks, currently operating in Uganda. From 2001-2011, 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.[4]
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.[5] These artwork/technologies include, but are not limited to:
- Hunter Hunter (1991), a freestanding robotic technology that could detect the sound of a gunshot and return fire, which was a precursor to applied Gunfire locator technologies[6]
- DJ I, Robot (2000), a robotic disk jockey that could play and scratch vinyl records[7][8][9][10][11]
- Afghan eXplorer (2001), a solar-powered, four-wheeled robot designed to report news from warzones[12][13][14][15][16][17]
- Freedom Flies (2005), an Unmanned aerial vehicle designed to observe militia activity in the Southwestern United States[18]
- RoBoat (2006), a robotic kayak designed to protest at island prisons[19]
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]
His current project, RootIO,[22] is not a work of art, but rather a technological service organization that turns cell phones into standalone radio stations with village-sized catchment areas, providing highly localized media that requires little in terms of physical infrastructure and user literacy.[23]
Personal background
He is the son of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who created the psychological concept of flow. After leaving Reed College in 1988, he earned a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego.[24] 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.[25] [26]
References
- ↑ http://edgyproduct.org/pm/pmwiki.php?n=Main.Index/
- ↑ http://www.m-iti.org/node/2451
- ↑ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630232-100-new-ugandan-radio-stations-run-on-sun-smartphones-and-buckets/
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://web.media.mit.edu/~csik/dj-i-robot/
- ↑ https://books.google.pt/books?id=8Pl4AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=%22dj+i,+robot%22&source=bl&ots=fMLbDEKrxS&sig=ZotsqvN33zqvr5mKDvPsTefH-7k&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dj%20i%2C%20robot%22&f=false
- ↑ Webber, Stephen. DJ Skills: The Essential Guide to Mixing and Scratching. 1 edition. Oxford: Focal Press, 2007. p192-201 http://www.amazon.com/DJ-Skills-essential-Mixing-Scratching/dp/0240520696
- ↑ Maeda, John, Casey Reas, and Ben Fry. Processing A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007. p507 https://books.google.pt/books?id=tqW75bfJkxIC&pg=PA507&lpg=PA507&dq=%22dj+i,+robot%22&source=bl&ots=SmZSTLKJVb&sig=ngwBl_cPr0fVzuBPrAUfyVHfr0Y&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22dj%20i%2C%20robot%22&f=false
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2002/boston_2002/1822822.stm
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/26/arts/26ARTS.html
- ↑ https://www.wnyc.org/radio/#/ondemand/131719
- ↑ http://www.onthemedia.org/story/131725-robot-reporter/transcript/
- ↑ http://www.salon.com/2002/02/25/afghan_robot/
- ↑ http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney/2002-03-20-maney.htm
- ↑ http://ajrarchive.org/Article.asp?id=2531
- ↑ http://ttt.media.mit.edu/research/freedom.html
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://www.location1.org/chris-csikszentmihalyi-skin-control/
- ↑ http://edgyproduct.org/pm/pmwiki.php?n=Projects.Projects
- ↑ http://www.dignited.com/14107/an-entire-radio-station-on-phone-the-inspiring-story-behind-rootio-community-radio-in-uganda/
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/
- ↑ http://edgyproduct.org/pm/pmwiki.php?n=About.AboutCsik
- ↑ http://www.thebigroundtable.com/stories/the-robots-of-resistance/