CHRIS STEIN

ARTISTS STATEMENT:

Technology can have both positive and negative impacts on the people and the civilizations that choose to adopt it. Technology coupled with capitalism has reshaped our country and sped up all of our lives. I have spent my entire career teaching about the tradeoffs of Technology and I see tradeoffs wherever I look. Often, these Technological tradeoffs are either invisible (think carbon dioxide, or a dopamine addiction) or hidden from the consumers view like a municipal landfill or tires littering an abandoned lot.

I have struggled with accepting myself as an introvert my whole career as a Technology educator. Daily, I find myself running away, and then running back to our modern technological world. I am constantly traveling between too much or too loud, and not enough. When I run away, I tend to choose quiet liminal or natural spaces for their stillness. When I am feeling confident I choose to engage with the loud, fast-paced wizz- bang of modern life . My work focuses on that journey between the two outposts of humanity: quiet, alone, escape and then loud, active, and frenetic.

Achievements:

2022: Full time Assistant Professor for the Technology Department at SUNY OSWEGO. Teaching: Design and Technology and Civilization

2021: Named top 20 Mamiya Film Photographers you need to know by Analog Forever Magazine. Link Here

2020-2022: Adjunct Professor for Technology Department at SUNY OSWEGO

2019: Large scale photographic installation for Hancock Estabrook LLP as part of a 2 million dollar renovation on the 18th floor of the AXA tower.

2019: Won community foundation “Art in the Windows” grant and long term installation in Syracuse City. (State Tower Building)

2018: Illustrated Wanterlust.EDU book for EdTech Team Press. Link Here

2018: Won community foundation “Art in the Windows” grant and long term installation in Syracuse City.