Chris Hill
Media curator, artist – Hill is currently on the faculty at CalArts where she served for six years as Associate Dean in the Film/Video School. She received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo, and was video curator for ten years at Hallwalls, a multidisciplinary artists-run space in Buffalo. She published interviews with artists involved with the Czech parallel culture before 1989 (Walking Trips in Czech Lands, 1997), and curated Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the U.S. (1996). She taught at Antioch College where she co-curated Documentary Institutes (1997–2001) including surveys on Latin America and East Central Europe. Her research and publications have investigated contemporary artists’ work that re-embodies experimental film and grassroots video projects of the early 1970s, the U.S. incarceration crisis, tactical media initiatives in response to an educational community emergency, and beekeeping. In 2019 she was an artist-in-residence at the Agosto Foundation in Prague.