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Christine Tamblyn was a media artist

New media art

New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology...

and feminist. She was born in Waukegan, Illinois

Illinois

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, USA and attended a Catholic

Catholic

The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...

girls' school, Carmel High School for Girls, in Mundelein, IL. She never learned to ride a bike or drive a car. She was very shy as a child. She wrote critical articles and reviews which appeared in art magazines and journals including Afterimage
Afterimage
An afterimage or ghost image or image burn-in is an optical illusion that refers to an image continuing to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased...

, Art News and Leonardo. Her two CDROMs, "She Loves It, She Loves It Not: Women and Technology" (1993 collaboration with Marjorie Franklin

Marjorie Franklin

Marjorie Franklin is a conceptual artist and a Professor of Conceptual Art at University of Minnesota in the U.S.A. She uses digital media in interactive installations...

and Paul Tompkins

Paul Tompkins

Paul Tompkins is the name of:* Paul F. Tompkins , American comedian* Paul Tompkins , digital artist and programmer who collaborated with Marjorie Franklin...

) and "Mistaken Identities" have been shown internationally and featured at museums, galleries and conferences. She was a pioneer of the Artists' CD-ROM

Artists' CD-ROM

The Artists' CD-ROM and DVD-ROM are new forms of the Artist's book. Presentation of work in this format enables artists to put multimedia and Hypertext into Installation art...

, a new form of the Artists' book

Artists' Books

Artists' books are works of art realized in the form of a book. They are often published in small editions, though sometimes they are produced as one-of-a-kind objects referred to as "uniques"....

Christine Tamblyn had also taught at a number of institutions including: Mills College

Mills College

Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...

, Oakland, California

California

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; School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

, NY; University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...

; San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

; Florida International University

Florida International University

Florida International University is an American public research university in metropolitan Miami, Florida, in the United States, with its main campus in University Park...

. At the time of her death she was an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, Irvine

University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine , founded in 1965, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, located in Irvine, California, USA...

.

Christine Tamblyn died on New Year's Day 1998 at her home in San Francisco at the age of 46 of breast cancer

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas...

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