Chris Csikszentmihályi

Chris Csikszentmihályi directs the Media Lab's Computing Culture research group, which creates unique media technologies for cultural applications. He has worked in the intersection of new technologies, media, and the arts for 13 years, lecturing, showing new media work, and presenting installations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Csikszentmihályi is a 2005 Rockefeller New Media Fellow, author of Skin | Control (2005), and recently finished a solo exhibition at the Location One Gallery in New York's Soho. He developed the world’s first robot journalist for battlefield reporting, the Afghan eXplorer, and the first robotic hip-hop dj, the DJ I, Robot Sound System. He is currently at work on an inexpensive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for journalists doing war reporting, and a set of robots to explore and report information from Guantanamo.