Christa Erickson is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the politics, pleasures, and pains of spaces mediated by electronic technologies. She weaves together combinations of video, tactile materials, programming, physical cinematic devices, and live data in interactive installations. She is currently developing an interactive installation about debt and overconsumption titled the Debt Reducer. She is also still working on the genetic body-memory installation titled Dis-ease.

Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited widely both within the United States and abroad. Sites within the United States where her work has been shown include the PPOW (NY), Jamaica Center for the Arts (NY), SVA Visual Arts Museum (NY); the Walker Art Center (MN); the Institute for Studies in the Arts at ASU (AZ); the California Museum of Photography; Maryland Art Place; and Firehouse Gallery (VT) as well as numerous university galleries and museums. Internationally, she has had exhibits at the Banff Center for the Arts, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, several art museums in Argentina, and at international media arts festivals like CYNETart (Germany), HTMLLES (Canada), FILE (Brazil), Medi@terra (Greece and Eastern Europe), and Ciber@rt (Spain). Her work has been cited in many publications including Leonardo, New York Times, Village Voice, Wired, Parachute, South China Post, San Diego Union Tribune, Newsday, Arizona Republic, Baltimore Sun and City Paper, and "Coolsite of the Day." She was Artist-in-Residence at the Hong Kong Arts Centre for Digital Now 2003 and an Artist-in-Residence at Sculpture Space in 2007.

She also writes, curates, and regularly speaks about new media. Her essay "Networked Interventions: Debugging the Electronic Frontier" appears in the anthology Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change, and the Urban Metropolis (Routledge, 2002). She has curated the exhibition FEEDBACK: Female Artists Respond to Technoculture, a video screening for the conference Queer Visualities, and was co-curator for the Sonic Residues Festival and Sculpture Space's exhibiton collaboration with the Elizabeth Foundation.

At Stony Brook she is the Director for the interdisciplinary Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology; Digital Studios Director; and Associate Professor of Art. She teaches digital arts courses and has received a Presidential Mini-Grant for Innovative Teaching. Her background includes commercial design, media and animation production, and software engineering experience (user interfaces) at Bellcore as well as an MFA from UC, San Diego and degrees in sculpture and computer science from UT, Austin. She also taught at UC, San Diego and at Indiana University, where she founded their Digital Media program.