Christina McPhee

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Born: Los Angeles
Lives: San Francisco / central coast

Education
MFA Boston University School for the Arts 1979, painting, student of Philip Guston
BFA Kansas City Art Institute 1976, painting and printmaking, valedictorian
Twelve Political Film Practices, Macmillan/Palgrave-Macmillan, US/UK, November 2009. I am a contributing
author to Critical Digital Studies : A Reader, A and M Kroker, eds., University of Toronto Press, 2008.
http://www.christinamcphee.net
http://naxsmash.net
http://vimeo.com/christinamcphee/videos
http://youtube.com/slipstreamandromeda
http://pharmakonlibrary.blogspot.com
recent curated projects
http://version.org/videos/show/1
http://turbulence.org/Works/plazaville/
selected theory/writing
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=485
http://subtle.net/empyre
http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/index.php?IdMagazine=59
gallery representation
http://www.silverman-gallery.com/artist/view/1615
http://silverman-gallery.com/artist/view/1615



Solo Exhibitions
Cara and Cabezas Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri March-May 2011
"tesserae of Venus," Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, October-November 2009
La Conchita N=Amour, 22 screen, 3 channel video installation, with custom scripting for Threshold Wave, Threshold Artspace, Horsecross. Commission for Threshold Wave. Curated by Illiyana Nedkova. Perth, Scotland, October 2007 - April 2008

Latency Structures: Bonneville Salt Flats, interactive video installation with remote and local latency delays, HD/SD with Max/MSP/Jitter processing and remote cam at Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah; with assistance from Scripps Institution Scientific Visualization Lab, La Jolla, California. Invitational exhibition, Split Film Festival, Croatia, September 15-22, 2007


Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, solo exhibition, large format photomontage installation, HD/SD video installation, American University Museum-Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, June 5 - July 29, 2007

2006 La Conchita mon amour, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, October 19 to November 22, 2006, multimedia installation with two channel standard and hd video, digital print, drawing

2006 Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, Cartes Centre for Art and Technology, Tapiola, Espoo, Finland

2005 Carrizo Quartet, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden

2005 Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, Transport Gallery, Los Angeles

2003 Naxsmash, Kino/social space, Lounge|lab, Deutsches Nationaltheatre, Weimar

2002 Smashlounge/Memoires of a Cyborg, Digital Studio, California Museum of Photography

2001 NAX: suite, Laumont Editions, New York City

NAX: suite, Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City

2000 Quivira/Barrier Landscapes, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City




Group Exhibitions
"Domains/Parameters/Wanderings," Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana, January -February 2011
Cinephemere, FIAC, Tuileries Gardens, Paris, October 2010
"OpenWater" SFMOMA/OpenRestaurant, Oakland/Alameda, 2010
OpenSpace Art Cologne/Vernissage.tv, Cologne, April 2010
"Hurricane Season," Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, September 2010
"Plazaville," with GH Hovagimyan, PACE Digital Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, April 2010
Bad Moon Rising, Boots Contemporary, Saint Louis, Missouri January 2009
War as a Way of LIfe, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, California, September-October 2008
Bucharest Biennial 2008, curated by Jan-Erik Lindstrom and Johan Solstrom, May-June 2008
La Conchita N+Amour, HD installation, Intervene/Interrupt: Rethinking Art as Social Practice,, UC-Santa Cruz, May 2008

Carrizoprime, theatre premiere, First Sight Scene, LA Film Forum, Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, January 27, 2008

The Space of Europe: Autonomy, photomontage drawing, participation in project created by Markus Miessen, The Violence of Participation, for the Lyon Biennial, September 17, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Rhodes Racer,video screening for program NY Exchange 2007, Amsterdam Film Experience, Het Ketelhuis, Westerpark, November 2-4, 2007


La Conchita N=Amour, three channel version, in group exhibition, Video Art in the Age of the Internet, curated by Nina Colosi and PAM (Perpetual Art Machine), Chelsea Art Museum, August 11 - September 7, 2007


-empyrean- -empyre-, video installation and display, Documenta Magazine Project, Documenta Halle installation, documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, summer 2007

Response Spectra, photomontage installation, curated by Raul Ferrera-Balanquet. Interactiva 07 Biennial of New Media Art, Merida, Mexico, June 15-July 15 2007

Rhodes Racer, Bonneville Salt Flats, invitational, FutureVisual, curated by Tullis Rennie, for FutureSonic Manchester Festival, Manchester, England, May 8-12, 2007

Liste Koln Art Fair, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, April 18-22, 2007

SALT, SilkyVRML422, screening, Noise: In Language, Culture, Body, and Nature, curated by Marcus Bastos, Ita� Cultural Centre, Bela Horizonte, Brazil, April 2007

Glasgow City, interpretive photomontage installation, commission, Barclays Wealth, Glasgow, Scotland, installation June 2007










Bibliography
�Is Modernity our Antiquity?� -empyre- soft-skinned space (listserv for digital media arts and culture, Sydney, Australia) in collaboration with Documenta 12 magazine project. (forthcoming December 2006). Curated, moderated, and edited by Christina McPhee. With guests Christophe Bruno (FR), Christiane Paul (US), Dirk Vekemans (BE). Eric Kluitenberg (NL), and international -empyre- lists readers.

�What is Bare Life?�-empyre- soft-skinned space (listserv for digital media arts and culture, Sydney, Australia) in collaboration with Documenta 12 magazine project. (forthcoming February 2007). Curated, moderated, and edited by Christina McPhee. With guests Michelle White (US), Connor McGarrigle (IR), Tina Gonsalves (AU), Susan Mendes Silva (PT), GH Hovagimyan (US), and Jordan Crandall (US), and international-empyre- lists readers.

Christina McPhee in conversation with Amy Wiley, �La Conchita and Bare Life,� on La Conchita mon Amour , traumatic memory and landscapes of bare life, after Agamben, for VIROSE issue #5, Locative Media,
edited by Miguel Leal, http://virose.pt , August 2006

Ryan Griffis, Christina McPhee, artUS, issue 9, July-September, 2005

Hiya Swanhuyser, The Opera of Jurassic Technology, SF Weekly, September 7-15, 2005

John Haber, Fault-finding I : Christina McPhee�s Digital Landscapes, http://www.haberarts.com/cyborg.htm, 2005

John Haber, Fault-finding II : Christina McPhee�s Digital Landscapes, http://www.haberarts.com/cyborg2.htm 2005

Mark Gordon, Interview with Christina McPhee, Center Stage with Mark Gordon, KXLU-FM, Los Angeles, March 1, 2005

Holly Willis, Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries, Signal to Noise, LA Weekly, March 4-10, 2005


Agnese Benassi, Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries: Notes from the Underground, Noema, http://www.noemalab.org/, Italy, March 2005


catalog, Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art, with essays by new media curator Patrick Deegan and chief curator Grant Kester, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Christina McPhee, �Slipstreaming the Cyborg,� interview with Francesca de Nicola, CTHEORY, http://www.ctheory.net/text_file.asp?pick=453, Victoria, BC, online opening May 6, 2005

�Letter to NAR: Christina McPhee responds to...Raul Ferrera-Balanquet�, http://www.netartreview.net/logs/031505.html

�Aphasia and Parrhesia� in Aphasia and the Arts, , January 2005, edited by Ravi Shankar, New York

�Net Baroque�, in Life in the Wires: The CTHEORY Reader, edited by Marilouise and Arthur Kroker, Victoria, BC: CTheory Books NWP, 2004. ISBN 0-920393-21-7 http://www.lifeinthewires.net

�Towards a Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape�, in Big Data, essays curated by Brett Stalbaum, for SCALE, vol.1, issue 6+7, edited by Mike Podolak, http://scale.ucsd.edu/volumes/2004/07/index.php, La Jolla: University of California-San Diego, 2004

�Sense of Place and Sonic Topologies: Towards a Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape�, San Francisco: YLEM Journal, volume 24, number 6, May-June 2004 http://www.ylem.org/Journal/2004Iss06vol24.pdf

Christina McPhee, �Aphasia/Parrhesia: Code and Speech in the Neural Topographies of the Net,� at neural.it, Italian magazine of digital culture, in print and online, edited by Allessandro Ludovico, Bari, Italia, www.neural.it/english/aphasiaparrhesia.htm,fall 2002

�Dark Space, Black Box, Dream Body: The Sense of Place in New Media Installation,� and �Architecture of the Invisible: Naxsmash,� www.arch.virose.pt,
Terry Hargrave and Christina McPhee, �Tactical Space and the Poetics of Hyperrrealilty in Architecture: Naxsmash,� Imagining Realms/Remaking Worlds: Proceedings of the 2002 Western Region ACSA Conference, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, November 2002

Sonicpersephone, in FILE, catalog (print) edited by Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinoto, Paco das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002




GH Hovagimyan, �Interview with Christina McPhee� ArtDirt Redux. online
http://spaghtti.nujus.net/artDirt/archives/2006_03.html
John Stanley, �Quake, Rattle and Roll on the Screen,�San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, 2006

Ryan Griffis, �Christina McPhee,� ArtUS, July-September 2005 http://www.yougenics.net/griffis/mcphee.php, http://www.artext.org/backissues/artUS_9-contents.html

John Haber, �Christina McPhee�s Digital Landscape,� www.haberarts.com/cyborg2.htm 2005

Holly Willis, �Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries,� Signal to Noise, LA Weekly, Los Angeles, March 4-10, 2005, p. 64

Mark Gordon, �Christina McPhee,� radio interview, Centerstage, KXLU, Los Angeles, March 1, 2005
�Christina McPhee�, Mind Candy, LA Alternative Weekly, Los Angeles, April 16, 2005
Agnese Benassi, �Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries: Notes from the Underground,� Noema, online at
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/gallery/carrizo_parkfield_diaries/diaries_2.html, Italy, March 2005

Ryan Griffis, �Tragic Travelogue: A Consideration Around Christina McPhee�s �Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries,� Rhizome Digest,New York, April 19, 2005, http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=17056&text;=32511#3251

Carol Sill, �Extreme Medicine, Intimate Abstractions: Constructing Digitalis 2,: HIVE: Canadian Art Music Culture, issue 00, 2003 http://www.ddas.ca/DigitalisExtremeMedicine.pdf
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Interview: Christina McPhee, with Stanza,� Soundtoys Journal, London, http://www.soundtoys.net/a/journal/index.html, February 2002




Grants/Awards
Turbulence Commission, New York 2010
THresholds New Media Commission, Scotland 2008-9
American Scandinavian Foundation 2006
Visiting Artist, HUMlab, Universitat Umea, Sweden, 2005
Experimental Television Center, New York, 2005
Interactive Media, Falmouth College of Arts, Cornwall, UK 2004
backup festival/lounge|lab residency, Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Germany 2003
Media and Visual Arts, residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta 1999
State Foundation for Culture and the Arts, Hawaii 1999


Projects
pharmakon library / proposal Sharjah Biennial 2009

flaming debt
tesserae of venus
salton station
slipstreamkonza
carrizo-parkfield diaries
la conchita mon amour

for details see http://christinamcphee.net

Publications
�Processual Editing and -empyre- soft-skinned space,� for MagNet Reader 3, edited by Nat Muller and Alessandro Ludovico, forthcoming in print 2008

�Slipstreaming the Cyborg,� in Digital Critical Theory, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2008
�The Space of Europe: Autonomy�, in The Violence of Participation, edited by Markus Miessen, Berlin and New York: Sternberg Press, December 2007 ISBN 978-1-933128-34-4
� �Bare LIfe� and the Traumatic Landscape,� documenta 12 Magazine Project online journal, 2007
�Bare Life as Editorial Subject: on �bare life� in the network -empyre- soft-skinned space, documenta 12 Magazine Project online journal, 2007
�Is modernity our antiquity?�, Christina McPhee, moderator/editor, -empyre- discussion, hypertext, documenta 12 Magazine Project online journal, 2007, conversation conducted in March 2006. With Christiane Paul, Christophe Bruno, Dirk Vekemans, and Erik Kluitenberg.
�what is bare life?� Christina McPhee, moderator/editor, -empyre- discussion, hypertext, documenta 12 Magazine Project online journal, 2007. Conversation conducted in July 2006. With GH Hovagimyan, Michele White, Conor McGarrigle, Jordan Crandall,Tina Gonsalves, and Susan Mendes Silva.
�what is to be done? (education), Christina McPhee, moderator/editor, -empyre- discussion, hypertext, documenta 12 Magazine Project online journal, 2007. Conversation conducted in January 2007. With Ricardo Rosas, Melinda Rackham, Sharon Daniel, Chris Molinski, Claudia Reiche, Ollivier Dyens, Iliyana Nedkova, and Christiane Robbins.
� �Bare LIfe� and the Traumatic Landscape,� virose.pt, July 2006
�Aphasia Parrhesia: Code and Speech in the Neural Topologies of the Net,� Drunkenboat 7, edited by Ravi Shankar, Spring 2005
�Net Baroque,� in Life in the WIres, a CTHEORY Reader, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Pacific Center for Technology and Culture, Victoria: New World Perspectives Books (August 2004) ISBN 10 0920393217 ISBN-13: 978-0920393215
�Sense of Place and Sonic Topologies: Towards a Telemimetic Sublime in the Data Landscape�, San Francisco: YLEM Journal, volume 24, number 6, May-June 2004