Art, research, cultural work

Christopher Bratton is an artist, educator, and co-founder of the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR), based in Boston, Massachusetts, US and Helsinki, Finland, with national and international programs. CAD+SR is founded on the principle that speculative creative work is an essential foundation for building sustainable, interdependent, and planetary cultures. The resulting projects are experiments in form that address issues of wide significance, linked to specific social and political contexts.

Christopher is a former Deputy Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, President of the San Francisco Art Institute, and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His video and installation work, addressing questions of global media cultures, have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and international film festivals, including Seoul, Berlin and Havana. Christopher was, most recently, Professor and Director of the interdisciplinary Foundation and General Studies Program in the School of Arts, Design, and Architecture at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.