Christa Erickson
Art Dept SUNY Stony Brook
Staller Center 2nd Floor
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5400
Christa.Erickson@sunysb.edu

Christa Erickson is Director of the interdisciplinary Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture, and Technology and Digital Arts Studios Director in Art. She teaches and directs digital arts and curates the collaborative student art space dredge which opened in 1998. She also helped to establish a large multi-media classroom and public computer facility on campus. She is an Associate Professor of Art at the State University New York (SUNY), Stony Brook.

She has taught the following courses:

• ACH 102: Gene Dreams: Biotech in Films and the Arts (Arts, Culture, and Humanities College 1 credit course)
• ACH 102: Digital Dreams (Arts, Culture, and Humanities College 1 credit course)
• ARS 208: Introduction to Art and Technology (team taught with Music)
• ARS 225: Introduction to Digital Art
• ARS 317: Interactive Media, Performance, and Installation (team taught with Music and/or Theatre Arts)
• ARS 318: Movies: Shoot, Edit, Score (team taught with Music)
• ARS 390: Topics: Web Art and Design
• ARS 390: Topics: 2D and 3D Animation
• ARS 425: Advanced Digital Arts
• ARS 491: Topics: Media Art
• ARS 580: Graduate Visual Arts Seminar
• ARS 525: Graduate Digital Arts

As Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at Indiana University in Bloomington (1995-97) she founded the Digital Media Arts area. She directed the collaborative student art site t-h-r-o-b and taught the following courses: Video Art (graduate and undergraduate); Computer Art: Survey and Practice; Computer Art 2: Interactive Media; Graduate Computer Art. She also taught a system wide digital workshop for art faculty summer 1997 and 1998. Christa taught Computing in the Arts courses at the University of California, San Diego (1994-95).