MIT Chris Csikszentmihalyi

Technologies of Empathy

Chris Csikszentmihalyi is an artist and a scientist at the MIT Media Lab.

He directs the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, which develops new technologies and techniques to strengthen local communities. His mechanical hip hop device, DJ-I, Robot, was nominated for the Best Artistic Software award at Berlin's Transmediale. He has also exhibited at the Location One Gallery in New York's SoHo district.

Csikszentmihályi received an MFA from the University of California at San Diego, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and 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, and at Turku University. He founded the MIT Media Lab's Computing Culture group, which works to create unique media technologies for cultural and political applications.

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