Christine Finn

I am a journalist and new media enthusiast, working on retro tech and material culture. Author of "Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley" (MIT Press, 2001/2) and, after 30,000 miles of Amtrak and Greyhound travel to research, completing a sequel, and launching a website and blog.

Nomadic in spirit, I work between academia, media and the arts - digital storytelling to sculpture and all points inbetween. I have lived in the UK, Italy, Ireland and Silicon Valley. I love the possibilities of virtual geographies, and working with temporal shifts.

Essentially, change-over-time inspires me; I have 30 years of print and broadcast experience - from hot metal to wiki - and have worked for most media. In 1989, I was a Reuter Journalist Fellow at Oxford, returning as a mature undergrad in Archaeology and Anthropology. I wrote my doctorate there on archaeological artifacts and landscapes as inspiration for poetry ("Past Poetic", Duckworth, 2004).

My writing has apppeared most recently in the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited artsblogs, the Sunday Times newspaper and magazine, New Scientist, Readymade, the Slow Food journal, and I have contributed to John Brockman's Annual Question at edge.org. I have co-edited two books on archaeology and the arts, and have contributed to several others, plus academic papers on subjects from film to food. I am also exploring the links between art and innovation and dyslexia.

I lecture widely to audiences ranging from the Cheltenham Science Festival to science educators in New York, computer collectors in California, and Amish farmers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

I was involved with the BBC TV's digitalstorytelling initiative and now present for BBC Radio 3, while continuing to make film, sometimes on my cellphone.

For a decade I taught arch/anth and journalism to US High School students at Oxford. I have lectured on Archaeology for Screen Media at Bristol University, and in 2005 I was Bladin Visiting Professor of Art at Oberlin College, US. I am also Hon.Writer Fellow at Bradford University, as biographer of the mid 20thC cross media archaeologist, Jacquetta Hawkes, and an Hon Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeological Science.

Just recently I have upped my art practice after studying on the Alternative Foundation at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. This led to an installation project called Leave-Home-Stay, an Arts Council funded work for RIBA's Architecture Week, 2007. blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2007/06/want_to_snoop_around_my_house.html

I am now developing this work further as a gallery piece.

See archived resume at traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/ChristineFinn/home

www.edge.org/q2003/q03_finn.html

www.geocities.com/sonyasoffice

www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling (Family Histories - Fragments)

www.geocities.com/sonyasoffice

www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling (see Family Histories - Fragments)