Cameron Mankin

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Lecturer in Media Arts and Design
Mankin received his BA in Visual Art (Printmaking) from the University of Virginia (2016) and completed his MFA at the University of Chicago (2020).

Biography

Cameron Mankin makes drawings, prints, artist's books, and games exploring the role of rhetoric in the shape of public space and personal identity. His work takes an archaeological approach, dismantling and retooling scraps from sources like old textbooks and discarded CCTV footage with tongue-in-cheek rigor. Narratives of student-to-teacher-to-student exchanges become primary sources in a search for ways to crack the black box of the increasingly streamlined systems we interact with daily.

Teaching

Autumn Quarter 2025
MADD 26210 Media Arts and Design Practice [Arts Core]
MADD 24820 AI & The Archive

Winter Quarter 2026
MADD 14503 History of Creative Computing
MADD 20041 Digital Media I: Game Design with Unity

Spring Quarter 2026
MADD 26210 Media Arts and Design Practice [Arts Core]
MADD 22322 Introduction to Game Design