Christina is a British-born interdisciplinary artist and media scholar. She has published her work in the online journal Media Fields, as well as The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture and has presented at many international media conferences. Christina has exhibited in Europe and across the US, most recently with a solo show at the Western New York Book Arts Center, and at Johansson Projects in Oakland, CA. Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on media history, exploring the role of technology in modern life and how the value of technologies is negotiated by the stories we tell about them.
Education
PhD, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz.
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute.
BA, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2023 Programmed Paper, Western New York Book Arts Center, NY. 2012 Follies of the Digital Arcade, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA. 2008 Guest in Show, Fridge Gallery, South Side Studios, Glasgow, UK.
EXHIBITED WORK 2021 A Spirit of Disruption, Walter & McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 The Archive to Come, Telematic Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 Dreams and Delusions: Images of America, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2020 Culturehub ReFest 2020, LaMaMa, New York & The Vortex, LA, CA 2018 Expanded Cinemas, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA 2018 Interpretation/Clarification, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH 2017 NY Art Book Fair at MOMA PS1, NY 2017 SF Art Book Fair at Minnesota Street Projects, media space, CA 2012 Wormhole Pirates, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, NY 2011 Optic Nerve XIII, MOCA North Miami, FL 2010 Emerging Video, Big Screen Project, NY 2010 The Velveteen Order, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA 2010 Moves’10: International Festival of Movement on Screen, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK 2009 Introductions ‘09, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 2009 New Short Film, Evergold Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 The Sprezzatura Maze, Co-curator & exhibitor, +44141 Gallery, Glasgow, UK
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS 2023 Artist in residence, Western New York Book Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, Jan-March Peepbox workshop, Western New York Book Arts Center, March 18 2021 Artist in residence, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA, Oct-Dec 2021 Paperology Reading and Activity Group, Peepbox making workshop, March 11 2018 Artist in residence, Little Paper Planes, San Francisco, CA
Publications
Artist Projects and Online Scholarship
2019
A Brief History of Computers, Artists book printed by Colpa Press, San Francisco, CA 2017
Petticoat Nation, (video) Civic TV, vol.3, Colpa Press. 2016
“Make Your Own Magic Lantern Slides,” Living Room Light Exchange Publication One, May. 2011
“Flexible by Nature: Video and the Cultural Production of Concrete Fact,” Media Fields Journal: Critical Explorations in Media and Space 3, Santa Barbara, CA : University of California, Santa Barbara, Dept. of Film and Media Studies.
Conferences & Artist Talks
2023 Artist Talk, PLASMA, University of Buffalo Center for the Arts, March 13 2023 Cardboard as Intermedial Site. 111th College Art Association Conference, February 16 2022 DIY Methods Conference. Zine-based conference with discussion on Twitter, Sept 19 2022 Cardboard as Adaptable Infrastructure. Paperology Symposium. Canadian Center of Architecture. May 6-8 2021 Working Against the Grain: Making and Telling Anomalous Histories. College Art Association Conference, February 13 2019 Instant Messenger: The Pony Express, Media, and Modern Virtuality. Society of Cinema and Media Studies, March 16 2019 Artist Talk, Living Room Light Exchange, Art and Technology Salon, January, Oakland, CA 2018 Artist Talk, Little Paper Planes Residency, Minnesota Street Project Studios, San Francisco, July 2018 The Peep Box’s Expanded View as Virtual Reality. Domitor, The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema conference. Rochester, NY
2018 Technological Anachronism and Craft as Media Historiography. Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, Toronto, Canada 2017 Home is Where Tomorrow Is: The Pony Express, Technology and the Maintenance of American Modernity. Film and History conference, Milwaukee. 2016 Instant Messenger: The Pony Express, Media, and Infrastructures of American Modernity. &Media…, Graduate Student Conference, UC Berkeley.
2016 Instant Messenger: The Pony Express, Media, and Modern Virtuality Before the Age of the Internet. What is Media? University of Oregon, Portland, OR 2009 Artists Talk. Prospectives ’09: Digital Arts Festival, University of Nevada, Reno.
PRESS
2020 KQED Critic’s Picks. Oct 26. “Christina Corfield Tells Stories of Past Technologies Through Analog Means.” Dorothy R. Santos. 2012 ArtSlant.com. February 7th. “Vaporous Subjugations.” Kara Q. Smith.
Huffington Post. February 8th. “Christina Corfield Explores the Hysteric Effects of Electricity.”
KQED. February 28th. “The Mysteries of Electricity Revealed.” Marion Anthonisen.
BreakThru Radio.com. January 24th. “Art Uncovered”. Thomas Seeley. 2011
Miami New Times. September 1st. “Optic Nerve XIII: MOCA’s short film fest goes national”. Carlos Suarez De Jesu 2007
The Sunday Times. Pick of the Week. December 16th. “It Takes a Lot of Effort to Look this Careless.” Jennifer Campbell. 2006
Shining Magazine, shiningmagazine.over-blog.net 2003
The Glasgow Herald. June 22nd. “When Dreams are put at Risk.” Moira Jeffrey.