[-empyre-] introducing Christiane Robbins

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

dear list,

I am very late in introducing a person who's already a frequent  
writer with us, and a guest for this month.


Christiane Robbins (US) is a cross-disciplinary director and scholar  
working within the mutable environment of studio practice, digital  
media and critical theory components of Media and Visual Arts  
production. Based in LA and San Francisco, Robbins' studio practice  
focuses primarily on digital video, installation, digital imaging,  
digital media and database aesthetics. It has also included  
installation, site-specific, and public art projects as well as work  
in architectural, object-oriented, and publication projects.  
Thematically, much of her studio practice, research and scholarly  
interests revolve around issues of media analysis, identity and  
displacement through an examination of the way in which concepts and  
perceptions of reception, inscription, spectacle, memory, space/ 
place, and time shape the articulation of subjectivities.

Robbins' work has been widely exhibited including one-person shows in  
Canada, the U.S. and Europe. She has also participated in numerous  
international film and video festivals in the U.S., Canada,  
Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, and in Europe. As a curator, she was a  
co-organizer of the USC/MIT bi-annual conference Race in Digital  
Space, October 2002 and as Executive Producer for the AIM Festival  
for Time-based Media, Los Angeles.

-cm