Christine Tamblyn was an American feminist media artist, critic, and educator.
17 Facts About Christine Tamblyn
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Christine Tamblyn was very shy as a child and never learned to ride a bike or drive a car.
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Christine Tamblyn moved to Chicago in 1968 or 1969 and began to audit courses at the University of Chicago while working as an administrative assistant for an insurance company.
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Christine Tamblyn taught graduate-level courses in video while still an undergraduate.
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On graduating from SAIC in 1979, Christine Tamblyn moved to New York and pursued her performance work in East Village spaces.
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Christine Tamblyn taught for a while at the School of Visual Arts and held some clerical jobs.
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Christine Tamblyn decided to go to graduate school at the University of California, San Diego, where she was able to study with Kaprow as well as with the conceptual and performance artists Eleanor Antin and David Antin.
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Christine Tamblyn died there of breast cancer on New Year's Day 1998.
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Christine Tamblyn's archive is held by the University of California, Irvine.
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Indeed, along with artists such as Timothy Binkley, Christine Tamblyn argued that the emergence of computer art represented the apogee of the 20th century's conceptual art movement.
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Christine Tamblyn's work was exhibited during her lifetime at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Pacific Film Archives, San Francisco Exploratorium, Wexner Center for Contemporary Art ; Walter Phillips Gallery in the Banff Centre, and numerous other international venues.
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Christine Tamblyn liked to work with other artists, and She Loves It, She Loves It Not was a collaboration with two of her SFSU students, Marjorie Franklin and Paul Tompkins.
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In 1997 Christine Tamblyn was commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts to produce a new CD-ROM, Archival Quality.
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In 1984 Christine Tamblyn moved to San Francisco and began teaching at San Francisco State University as lecturer and coordinator of their graduate program, a position she held until 1996.
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Christine Tamblyn was a prolific critic, going on to write dozens of reviews and a number of essays for Afterimage, High Performance, and Leonardo in addition to the above publications.
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Christine Tamblyn's writing often addressed issues of gender exclusion in new media, censorship of artists, and declining arts funding.
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Christine Tamblyn was known for producing finished articles from a first draft, without the need for revisions, an ability she attributed to her lifelong habit of daily journal writing.