Christopher Carruth

Christopher M. Carruth is an educator and artist with an interdisciplinary background spanning information science, media theory, digital humanities, and digital arts. Chris teaches creative coding alongside the ethical, philosophical, cultural, and societal impacts of computation. His teaching brings innovative pedagogy, critical thinking and technical practice into conversation, approaching coding and data as both technical materials and means of questioning and participating in computational culture.

In his research and artistic practice, the complexities emerging from digital cultures and our technologized landscapes become both subjects and materials of inquiry. Working across creative coding, data, time-based media, installation, poetics, and performance, his work considers the tensions between computational systems and embodied experience. The body becomes a site of inquiry and resistance - a means of questioning how technologies measure, represent, discipline, and mediate human experience. While conducted through and with technologies, the work is always/all ways a decidedly humanistic inquiry.

His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, and the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in Barcelona.

Chris received his MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where he focused on digital arts, electronic literature, and contemplative computation. He holds an MS in Technology, Media, and Society from the University of Colorado Boulder, where his work explored STEM engagement and digital literacy through creative expression, and a BS in Information Systems from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.