Christopher Manzione

Newburgh

Christopher Manzione is an American artist who founded and ran the Virtual Public Art Project (10’), an organization that used augmented reality to produce original artist works in public space. His Activatar app (18’) hosted a range of new media artists projects through monthly shows via a mobile app. His most recent film project A Universe within Itself (23’) explored the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in the realm of creative arts. The aim of this project was to allow AI to generate as much of the film as possible, minimizing human intervention and truly showcasing the capabilities of these advanced tools. Manzione’s work also includes sculpture, installation, virtual reality, 3D printing and performance; World and Place Evaporating as part of the Moving Image Art Fair (17) along with curating and showing in Space Between the Skies at Apex Art (16). In addition he has received a 2014 Fellowship through Franconia Sculpture, he was a 2013 Fellow for New Jersey State Council on the Arts, artist-in-residence at William Paterson University’s Center for Computer Art and Animation (11), Socrates Sculpture Park (Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2010). He has shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Boston ICA, Abington Arts Center, Kim? Art Center in Riga, Alt Art Space in Istanbul, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the Surry Hills Festival in Melbourne, and Gurzenich Koln Museum in Cologne. He is currently an Associate Professor in Visual Arts and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.