Christopher Csikszentmihályi

Christopher Csíkszentmihályi
Born	1968 Chicago
Nationality	American
Occupation	Artist, Professor

Christopher Csíkszentmihályi is an American artist and technologist. He is the European Research Area Chair of Human-Computer Interaction and Design Innovation at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute.

Csíkszentmihályi was born June 1968 in Chicago, Illinois. His father is Mihaly is a reputed psychologist who coined the concept of psychological 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 in 1998.

Csíkszentmihályi is the former director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and the Computing Culture research group at the MIT Media Lab. 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.

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; 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.

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