Collection: Amanda Dawn Christie

Amanda Dawn Christie is an interdisciplinary new media artist who makes film, installation, performance, and transmission artworks. She completed her MFA at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, and formerly held the position of Assistant Professor in Studio Art: Intermedia (Video, Performance, and Electronic Arts) at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work explores the relationship between the human body and analogue technology in a digital age, and has been presented on five continents including places such as New York, San Francisco, Cannes, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Africa, Australia, and in the Arctic. Christie’s films have screened at numerous major festivals such as the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, and Cannes, and have been presented by prestigious institutions such as the Canadian Film Institute, Cinémathèque Québécoise, MuMa Box at the Musée d’art Moderne in Le Havre, and the Millenium Film Workshop in New York. 

Her transmission artworks have been broadcast by Wave Farm, Radio Web MACBA (Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona), the BBC, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), NAISA (New Adventures in Sound Art), and many other public, community, commercial, non-profit, pirate, AM, FM, and international shortwave stations. Christie’s transmission practice has been profiled by IEEE Spectrum (International Electronic and Electrical Engineering journal), and presented at the Circle of HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) in New York, among other technology-driven institutions. Christie has also worked with US military physicists on a transmission artwork using HAARP—the world’s largest Ionospheric Research Instrument.