About Chris

Chris Wildrick (he/him) is an Associate Professor in the School of Art at Syracuse University where he teaches first year core classes as well as courses on cosplay, Fluxus, and artists who write.

Chris is a conceptual, performance, and systems-based artist, which means he tends to make charts about dinosaurs and dress up like comic book characters. For the last several years he has put on a free comic con at Syracuse, the Geek/Art CONfluence.

Chris is also a former semi-professional comics organizer, a moderately-skilled light saber duelist, and a reasonably effective destroyer of tiny plastic space ships.

While the whole front page of this site is about how Chris mostly spends his time building peer review through “amateur” art fields and other creative contexts, he has also been featured in numerous fancy exhibitions and performance festivals around the world, such as the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC; Encuentro in Santiago, Chile; ITINERANT in Brooklyn; the Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand; Dimanche Rouge in Helsinki, Finland; Visualeyez in Edmonton, Canada; FIMA in Montreal, Canada; the Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago; and the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca. He has presented his work at conferences such as Paradox; SECAC; the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; Ithacon; San Diego Comic Con; FATE; the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment; Stage the Future 2: The Second International Conference on Science Fiction Theater; and Inhabiting Immersive Territories at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France.

You can email Chris here.