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Christina
McPhee engages a psychogeography of
environmental risk and traumatic memory in layered, baroque
visual and media suites. Her photography and video work is in the
next Bucharest Biennial (BB3), May-June 2008, an interactive
remote landscape/ 3 channel installation, Latency
Structures Bonneville Salt Flats, premiered at the Split Festival
of New Media and Film, in September 2007. La
Conchita mon amour, on shrine building
in the aftermath of a California mudslide, opened at Sara Tecchia
Roma New York in 2006, and continues in 2008 with a 3 channel,
22 screen commissioned video installation for Thresholds Art Space,
Perth (Scotland). Her multi-media and photographic project on
seismic memory, Carrizo
Parkfield Diaries, has shown in solo exhibition
at the American University Museum/Katzen Art Center in 2007; and
in smaller iterations for InteractivA07 Biennial, Cartes
Centre for Art and Technology, Bildmuseet, Itaù Cultural
Centers and the Pacific Film Archive since 2005, when the project
premiered at Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, and online with the
Whitney Museum of American Art (Artport). Her writing and net art
appear with Turbulence, VIROSE, CTheory, Neural, Drunkenboat,
and Soundtoys; and in print for the MagNet Reader 3 (2008). She
created video sets for Pamela Z's electronic solo opera, "Wunderkabinet" which
debuted at the REDCAT Theatre, Los Angeles, in October 2006 after
opening at the Lab, San Francisco in 2005. For -empyre- network,
Sydney (www.subtle.net/empyre)
she has been a
moderator/editor since 2002 and was a participating editor in the
Documenta 12 Magazine Project (2006-2007). She has been a visiting
artist / fellow at Bauhaus University Weimar, Banff Center
for the Arts, and Vermont Studio Center, and has performed
and presented at festivals at the ICA, London, Royal Academy of
Architecture Copenhagen, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
(for DAC), Futuresonic Manchester, and FILE (Sao Paulo).
A native of Los Angeles, she was a student of Philip Guston
at Boston University where she earned the MFA in painting, following
a BFA from Kansas CIty Art Institute and studies at Scripps College,
Claremont. She teaches in the Film and Digital Media Department,
University of California-Santa Cruz.
http://christinamcphee.net
http://strikeslip.tv
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