Christopher Michael Hansen
PhD Candidate
University at Buffalo, Department of Media Study
Education
PhD Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, September 2023 - Current
MA Visual/Media Anthropology, Media University Berlin (formerly HMKW Berlin), September 2021-
August 2023
BA English/Film, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 2015-2018
Peer Reviewed Articles
Documenting Spirits: On the Ouija Board as a Media Technology, Thresholds, Issue 54, April 2026
Cooperative Spirits: The Seth Material as Creative-Spiritual Practice, Implicit Religion, Vol. 26 Issue 4,
February 2026
In the End We Become Our Avatars: An Exploration of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Afterlives,
Journal of Visual and Media Anthropology, Issue 7, 2023
Popular Articles
Shipwrecks and Psychic Archaeology, Shipwreck Archetype Exhibition Catalog, Forthcoming 2026
Curating Belief at the Lily Dale Museum, Cornelia, Issue 19, October 2025
The Indulgent Confessionals of Cyberpunk 2077, Seven Story Hotel (Subtle Body Press), Issue 2,
November 2024
Embracing the Fool, Six Minutes Past Nine Substack, January 2024
Virtually Dead, Neo-Metabolism, October 2022
The Artist is an Oculus, Mnemozine.lu, November 2021
MYSPACE Writing Collaboration w/ Veera Gontsugova, VENT Space, March 2021
Who are You on the Dancefloor? Soft Eis, March 2021
A History of Violence: Revisiting ‘The Cars that Ate Paris’, 1974, Public Parking, January 2021
Animating the Queer Future: A Review of Arca and Jesse Kanda:Live at the Roundhouse, Synoptique,
May 2020
Cinema Quarantino: Meantime, Boston Hassle, April 2020
Review: Lin May Saeed and Max Brand @ What Pipeline, Journal.fyi, October 2019
Considering Empty Space: Nari Ward’s Happy Smilers and the Contemporary City, Northwestern Arts
Review, March 2019
Exhibition/Screening History
AI Creation and Conundrum, Tower Art Gallery (Brockport, NY), January-March 2026
GOD CAR (curated by Pop Gun), Miguel Abreu Gallery, (NYC), July 2024
…and the word was God, Seneca One (Buffalo, NY/Digital), May 2024
Selections from the Collection: On the Road Again, H&R Block Art Space, (Kansas City, MO),
November 2023
HMKW VMA Graduate Film Screenings, Kino Movimento (Berlin), October 2023
Faculty Appreciation Week, Pop Gun (NYC), April 2023
House Warming, Loop Project (Berlin), April 2023
Blind Legions, Millennium Film Workshop (NYC), January 2023
Tomb of my Youthful Heart’s Desire, Mery Gate (NYC), November 2022
Hypnagogic Highways, 6 Minutes Past 9 (Digital), July/August 2022
re:present, New Media Art Space (Digital/NYC), July 2022
From Ether to Eden, Casino Display (Digital/Luxembourg), July 2022
Spring 2022 Update, Do Not Research (Digital), February 2022
Digitally Mediated Daydreams, Oma’s Garten @ PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia), January 2022
Experiments, Asbury Park Avant Garde (Lakewood, NJ), January 2022
Baba Clew, Rudimento (Quito, Ecuador), August 2021
DOORBUSTER, Pop Gun (NYC), June 2021
States of Desire:Tom of Finland in the Queer Imagination, Philly Fringe Fest (Digital/Philadelphia)
September 2020
Digital Screening Room, Murmurs (Digital/Los Angeles), May 2020
Garden Party, Follain Art Projects/Pallas Project Studios (Dublin, Ireland), August 2019
Residencies
Six Minutes Past Nine Virtual Pilot Residency (Digital), June/July 2022
Nave Proyecto Residency (Quito, Ecuador), July 2021
VENT Space Writing Collaboration (Tallinn, Estonia/Remote), March 2021
Talks/Conferences/Podcasts
Technospiritualism: On AI and the Rhetoric of Spirits, Panelist, Sponsored by the University at Buffalo
Department of Media Study as part of the conference Methodologies of Re-Creation and Remediation, March 2026
Omnidimensional Authors & Bodiless Voices: A Conversation with Christopher Michael Hansen, Podcast
Guest, The Academic Oracle Podcast, December 2025
Transcending Mediums: Spirit Channeling, Creative Practice, and Media in The Seth Material, Panelist,
Sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School as part of the conference Spirituality and the Arts, April 2025
Conjuring Seth: On Posthuman Creative practice in the Seth Material, Panelist, Sponsored by the
University of Bloomington Indiana as part of the conference Common Grounds, March 2025
Towards Transcendental Gaming: On ‘LSD: Dream Emulator’ and Designing Spiritual Games, Panelist,
Sponsored by the University at Buffalo as part of the conference Replaying Japan, August 2024
ON REALISM: Virtual Spaces Between Realism and Abstraction, Panelist, Sponsored by Institution Under
Construction (IT), April 2024
Keynote Speaker, Malady Conference, Invited Speaker, Sponsored by the Graduate students of
Georgetown University’s English Department, October 2023
AI: A Modest Proposal (W/ Christopher Michael), Podcast guest, Casement’s Leftovers, June 2023
WVFP Ep48 Mixed Media Artist Christopher Michael, Podcast guest, WVFP NYC , May 2023
Resident’s Talk (as part of the Virtual Pilot Residency), Panelist, Sponsored by 6 Minutes Past 9, August 2022
“Life in a Cyberdelic Meadow”, From Ether to Eden, Panelist, Sponsored by Casino Display,
Luxembourg July 2022
“Highway Hypnotic: Considering Transcendental Moments in the Truck Simulator Video Games”,
Traveling to Other Worlds and Altered States of Consciousness: Human-Artificial relational interactions and living worlds in the Age of Aquarius, Panelist, Sponsored by the Royal Anthropological Institute as part of the conference: Anthropology, AI, and the Future of Human Society, Digital, June 2022
Curatorial
ANGELIC EYES ARE WATCHING!, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (Buffalo, NY),
October-November 2025
Another Night Out, Another Dance Floor, Secret Location (Buffalo, NY), August 2025
Worldmaking at the World’s End: A Graduate Conference on Research-Based Creative Practices, Buffalo
Institute for Contemporary Art (Buffalo, NY), February 2025
…and the word was God, Seneca One (Buffalo, NY), May 2024
Faculty Appreciation Week, Pop Gun Art (NYC), April 2023
Life.Afterlife (A Special Performance by Emmett Palaima), Oma’s Garten @ Grays Ferry Warehouse
(Philadelphia), December 2022
Digitally Mediated Daydreams, Oma’s Garten @ PhilaMOCA (Philadelphia), February 2022
Quit Picking the Marigolds! (Works by Dillon Gray), Oma’s Garten (Philadelphia), September 2021
Do Nothing. Watch Films. (Film Screening Series), Lucky’s Bar (Dublin, IRE), September 2018 - June
2019
Relevant Experience
Co-Director + Program Lead, Six Minutes Past Nine, September 2022 - 2026
Junior Contributing Writer, CLOT Magazine, January 2022 - 2025
Teaching
Instructor, “Writing About Film”, University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, May 2025 - July
2025
Instructor, “AI for Spirituality and After-Life Technology”, Media University Berlin, October 2024 -
March 2025
Instructor, “Intermediate Post Production”, University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, August
2024 - December 2024
Instructor, “Social Media and Networks”, University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, June 2024 -
July 2024
Teaching Assistant, University at Buffalo Department of Media Study, August 2023 - Current