Chris Hill

Chris Hill is a media curator, artist and educator, who is currently teaching and Associate Dean in the Film/Video School at California Institute for the Arts (since 2012).

Hill received an MFA in Media Study from SUNY Buffalo (1984), and from 1984-1996 was Video Curator at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo. Hill taught in the Video/Performance Studio at the Technical University in Brno (1997), and then as an Associate Professor of Media Arts at Antioch College, Ohio (1997-2008), where she co-directed four Summer Documentary Institutes (1998-2001), including one (with Keiko Sei) on Post-1989 Documentaries in East Central Europe (2000). From 2008-2011 Hill served on the Executive Collective of Nonstop Institute, a faculty/alumni collaborative educational initiative (2008-2009) in response to the closure of Antioch College, and subsequently an arts and education non-profit (2009-2011) in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Hill curated a 17-hour video art collection Rewind: Surveying the First Decade (1995) that has been distributed to museums and universities internationally by the Video Data Bank. Her recent publications and media work have investigated documentary media on the U.S. incarceration crisis, contemporary artists’ work that re-embodies experimental film and grassroots video projects of the early 1970s, tactical media initiatives in response to an educational community emergency, and beekeeping. (2018)