­Christopher Manzione

­Christopher Manzione is an American artist who ran the Virtual Public Art Project (10’), an organization that used augmented reality to produce original artist works in public space. His most recent project Activatar app, will host a range of new media artists' projects through monthly shows via the app and is scheduled to launch in December 2017. Manzione’s work also includes sculpture, installation, virtual reality, 3D printing, and performance; most recently, he presented the virtual reality artwork World and Place Evaporating as part of the Moving Image Art Fair (17), along with curating and showing in Space Between the Skies at Apex Art (16). In addition, he has received a 2014 Fellowship through Franconia Sculpture; he was a 2013 Fellow for New Jersey State Council on the Arts, artist-in-residence at William Paterson University’s Center for Computer Art and Animation (11), Socrates Sculpture Park (Emerging Artist Fellowship, 2010). He has shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Boston ICA, Abington Arts Center, Kim? Art Center in Riga, Alt Art Space in Istanbul, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, the Surry Hills Festival in Melbourne, and Gurzenich Koln Museum in Cologne. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Visual Arts and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.