Edgy Product

This is the Edgy Product, homepage of Chris Csíkszentmihályi, an artist, occasional scholar, technology critic, and technologist. I am an Associate Professor at Cornell University, in Information Science.

My current projects include ProBots, robots for protestors who don’t wish to be clubbed by the police, and the RootIO project, which seeks to blend the best of radio with the best of the internet.

I am a board member at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, where I was previously the European Research Area Chair, and a professor, and where I created the Critical Technical Practice Lab. I served for three years as its Scientific Head, focusing on trying to increase transparency in operations, evenly distributing opportunities, and instituting best practices in scientific research.

I coordinated two major grants: 1) Grassroot Wavelengths, which introduces the RootIO project to Europe through an Horizon 2020 CAPs action, and 2) Civic Media and Science, an INTERREG Macaronesia grant that is introducing RootIO stations in Cabo Verde. I was also involved in MAST, a Creative Europe grant to develop master’s degree modules in digital media, with a focus on progressive digital products and services for social Europe.

Prior to that, I was very proud to be the first Distinguished Visiting Professor of Art and Design Research at Parsons School of Art and Design. I have been a Radcliffe Fellow, a Rockefeller New Media Fellow, and I serve on the boards of the Centre for Doctoral Training for Digital Civics and DataActive.

I directed research groups at MIT for ten years, where I cofounded and directed the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, and was a professor and ran the (in)famous Computing Culture Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Welcome to the world of @csik.