Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

About Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

Chris Csikszentmihályi has joined Information Science at Cornell University. Previously, he was Board Member and European Research Area Chair at the Madeira Interactive Technology Institute, where he helped to start a new research unit, and was Scientific Head. He used these positions to attempt to introduce a variety of transparency-oriented reforms; preferential voting systems, corruption reduction, etc. He was also Director of the Rootio Radio Project, which sought to match the warmth of great radio with the bottom-up peer parallelism of the Internet. Before that, he was proud to be the first Visiting Distinguished Professor of Art and Design Research at Parsons. He spent ten years at MIT, co-founding and directing the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, dedicated to developing technologies that strengthen communities. He was also a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he founded and directed the Computing Culture group, which worked to create unique media technologies for cultural applications. He has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media, politics, and the arts for 20 years, lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations on five continents and one subcontinent. He was a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and a 20••••08 fellow at Harvard\'s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, served on the National Academies’ IT and Creativity Committee, and has taught at MIT, the University of California at San Diego, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at Turku University.Specialties: Technology for social changePolitical economics of new mediaArt that revolves around control panels

Experience

1. Board Member

   Interactive Technologies Institute

   May 2017 — Present · Funchal, PT

Education

• Cornish College of the Arts

  PhD(hc), Fine and Studio Arts

  2012 — 2012

• UC San Diego

  MFA, Conceptual Art, Technology & Computation, STS

  1995 — 2000

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago

  BFA, Art & Technology

  1991 — 1994

Skills

• Arts Administration
• Activism
• Theory
• Museums
• Nonprofits
• Copy Editing
• Volunteer Management
• Politics
• Research Design
• Curriculum Development
• Event Planning
• Art
• Social Media
• Curating
• History
• Strategic Communications
• Creative Writing
• Community Outreach
• Policy Analysis
• Graphic Design
• Social Networking
• Event Management
• Fundraising
• Qualitative Research
• Curriculum Design
• Non-Profits
• New Media
• Blogging
• Public Speaking
• Research
• Teaching
• Grant Writing
• Entrepreneurship
• Program Development
• Editing
• Lecturing
• University Teaching
• Higher Education