Christopher Vitale

Christopher Vitale is Associate Professor of Media Studies, and a founding member of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has a Ph.D. from NYU, spent a summer in residence at the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems Science in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and earlier in life, spent two years training to be a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has taught at NYU, UC Berkeley, Pace University, and Hunter College before coming to Pratt. He has also done extensive field research on the relations between the philosophy of networks and Buddhist philosophy in Kathmandu, Nepal. For more of Chris' writings on networks and many other related topics in media and beyond, including drafts of works in progress as part of the larger networkologies proejct, see his website, http://www.networkologies.wordpress.com. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and produces experimental music in his spare time.