Bio
Cameron Mankin (b. 1993) makes drawings, prints, artist's books, and games exploring the role of rhetoric in the shape of public space and personal identity. His work takes an archaeological approach, dismantling and retooling scraps from sources like old textbooks and discarded CCTV footage with tongue-in-cheek rigor. Narratives of student-to-teacher-to-student exchanges become primary sources in a search for ways to crack the black box of the increasingly streamlined systems we interact with daily.
Mankin received his BA in Visual Art (Printmaking) from the University of Virginia (2016) and completed his MFA at the University of Chicago (2020). He is currently an Assistant Instructional Professor in Media Arts and Design at the University of Chicago, where he teaches production and theory courses on game design, AI, media archaeology, the history of technology, and creative computing.
E-mail: cfmankin [at] uchicago.edu
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