April 21, 2004

This provocative and multi-talented artist, who will open the 2004-2005 season at Location One in September with an exhibition entitled Skin and Control, will give a talk on Wednesday, April 21st as part of our new Open House series of lectures/presentations by artists and curators.

Chris Csikszentmihalyi is the Fukutake Assistant Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab, a group that creates unique media technologies for cultural applications. For the past 10 years, he has lectured and shown new media work in both Europe and North America. Interested in cultural narratives, Csikszentmihalyi’s work typically creates a new technology to embody a particular social agenda. For instance, his most recent piece, “Afghan Explorer,” is a tele-operated robot reporter. His “Natural Language Processor” was commissioned by the KIASMA Museum in Helsinki, Finland. He is also one of the creators of DJ I, Robot.

His website is http://web.media.mit.edu/~csik/