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Christina McPhee interprets the remote landscape in multimedia streams. She contemplates the beautiful-and-dangerous in possible futures. She creates topologic site explorations in layered suites involving on-site photographs, video, drawing, and interactive new media. She is involved with the poetics of traumatic memory in landscape performance. Her current work in photography and media involves geothermal and other new energy producing sites in California. In her drawings she explores psychotropic and topologic mapping. Combining drawing, photography and video, she is currently making time and still images visualizing future environmental conditions during the rise of atmospheric carbon saturation.

A native of Los Angeles, Christina grew up in Nebraska. She attended Scripps College, Claremont and later earned the BFA in painting from Kansas City Art Institute, followed by the MFA in painting from Boston University School for the Arts, where she was a student of Philip Guston.During the eighties and nineties she worked in large scale drawings from medium format and 35 mm photographs she shot at archaeological and geologic sites in the American West. Since the mid nineties her practice expanded into new media arts, retaining a deep involvement in direct observation through drawing and photography. She lives and works in the central coast of California and in San Francisco.

Drawing and photographic group exhibitions in 2008-9 have included “War as a Way of Life” at the 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; Bucharest Biennial 3: “Being There: Mapping the Contemporary” in Bucharest and "The Map: Navigating the Present," Bildmuseet, Umea (Sweden), “Bad Moon Rising” at Boots Contemporary, Saint Louis, 2009; and "twice upon a time," at Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, 2008-9. A new collaborative graphic project "Pharmakon Library" premiered in October 2008 with Silverman Gallery at the New York Art Book Fair, . Upcoming in 2009 : an interactive cinema installation "Tesserae of Venus(beta)" at ISEA Festival Belfast, Ireland; and drawings/photomontage and video for a solo exhibition, "Tesserae of Venus" at Silverman Gallery, San Francisco in the autumn of 2009.

Recent projects include participation in “Violence of Participation” curated by Markus Miessen for the Lyon Biennial 2007; and the Documenta 12 Magazine Project (for -empyre- , Sydney) Kassel, Germany, 2007. Her ongoing photomontage and film/performance project on ‘seismic memory,’“Carrizo Parkfield Diaries” was the subject of a solo show at American University Museum in 2007; videos from the Diaries have also screened at Los Angeles Film Forum at the Egyptian Theatre Studio 27 (San Francisco), Pacific Film Archive, and Itau Cultural Center Bela Horizonte (Brazil). Photomontage from the Carrizo DIaries has also been part of the InteractivA 07 and 09 Festival in Merida, Mexico. She is currently working on a new media screen work, 'Latency Structures Parkfield" in association with DV Rogers' performance/installation PIEQF (http://allshookup.org) Her photomontage site study, "La Conchita mon amour," opened at Sara Tecchia Roma New York in 2006 and continued with a multiscreen video commission for Thresholds Artspace, Perth, Scotland in 2007-8.

Her films have most recently screened at Videoformes 09 Clermont-Ferrand, San Francisco Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and for “Drift/In Transitions, Russia 2008” at the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow and Ekaterinaberg, Russia. She has created video suites for the variable cinema project "Plazaville", a remake of Godard's "Alphaville" with GH Hovagimyan, which premiered at Pace Digital Gallery in New York City in April 2009, as a turbulence.org commission.

Her media work is archived at the Rose Goldsen Archive for New Media Art, Cornell University; Rhizome Artbase/ New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Whitney Artport/ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Thresholds Artspace, Scotland; Experimental Television Center, New York; and the Pandora Archive, National Library of Australia. Museum collections of her monotype and photographic prints, paintings and drawings include Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery-University of Nebraska, Taylor Museum/Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is represented by Silverman Gallery, San Francisco.