NAME: Christi Nielsen
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BIRTH DATE: 11.15.68
BIOGRAPHY
Christi Nielsen is a meta media artist with a background in photography and video. Her award-winning blog, I'm Just About to Get Skinny, has reached international viewers in over 98 countries. She writes and creates work extensively on women's issues.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in Arts & Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas with a focus on emerging media that awarded her an international audience. Recent exhibitions include Art4Aid in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Transatlantic in Marseille, France, and Reality Bytes at The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art.
Nielsen is also the creator and curator of the Metaverse Gallery & Performance Space in Second Life, part of the Virtual Worlds Lab at UTD, which develops participatory environments in distributed immersive spaces.
Nielsen also directs inter.sect Art Collective, a group of artists who use mobile devices to create video art live and in real time.
