"Joseph Conrad once said that it is necessary to immerse yourself
in the most destructive elements of the times, and then attempt
to swim . . ." JG Ballard, from a 1976 interview
Chris Todd is an interdisciplinary artist and educator.
Broadcasting from "the world's least sustainable city,"
he makes work that responds poetically to
the ways in which technology, media, commerce, power, and "entertainment" engulf
mind, body, and place.
Whether fragmentary, provisional, dialectical or resolved, Todd's art
trades in polyvalent distortions of consumer grade experiential reality.
Todd's art has been shown in a variety of exhibition
spaces, museums, public/commercial sites, and publications.
He is currently a Professor of Media Arts at Mesa
Community College in Phoenix, Arizona.
