Christopher M. Carruth is an artist, educator, and technologist working across images, texts, systems, and participatory practice. His work explores memory, place, and institutional power through photography, poetics, data, code, mapping, performance, and installation. Rooted in journalistic observation and contemplative, sustained engagement, his practice responds to the pressures of technological systems as they are lived, embodied, and encountered in everyday life. He is interested in sustained attention to memory, place, power, and the ways these systems condition perception, behavior, and agency, the work takes shape through acts of refusal, misalignment, and slowness. Operating within existing structures, it uses pause not as retreat, but as a method for resistance, reorientation, and action.

Christopher M. Carruth is Teaching Assistant Professor of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where his digital humanities work and pedagogy extend these concerns through ethics, critical systems, and practices of resistance and refusal. Teaching functions as a parallel site of inquiry rather than a separate role, informing and being informed by his artistic practice. His work has been exhibited internationally and is often situated between the gallery, the classroom, and the public sphere. He splits his time between Boulder, Colorado and Vancouver, British Columbia.