Chris Hackett, is an American

United States

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 artist

Artist

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 and television presenter. He is a co-founder of the Madagascar Institute and the current host of the Science Channel’s television show Stuck with Hackett

Stuck with Hackett

Stuck with Hackett is a television show created and produced by Silver Machine for the Science Channel . It was commissioned as a pilot in 2010 and picked up as a nine-part series which began airing on August 18th, 2011...

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The Madagascar Institute

In 1998, Chris Hackett founded the Madagascar Institute with colleagues Ryan O’Connor and Eric Singer. The Madagascar Institute is an artist cooperative space located off of the Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Canal

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 in Brooklyn, New York. The coop has approximately 20 members and specializes in salvaging abandoned parts and using them in mechanized art pieces.

Junkyard Wars

Between 2002 and 2004, Hackett appeared on TLC

TLC (TV channel)

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's Junkyard Wars. The show, which was the American version of the UK show Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge

Scrapheap Challenge is an engineering game show produced by RDF Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. In the show, teams of contestants have 10 hours in which to build a working machine that can do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The format was exported to the...

, gave teams 12 hours to gather materials from a junkyard, then use the materials to modify their vehicles for a race. Hackett acted as the Red Team Captain.

B.I.K.E.

In 2005, Hackett appeared in the documentary B.I.K.E. The documentary follows filmmaker Anthony Howard as he attempts to join the Black Label Bicycle Club and its tallbike subculture.

Breaking Point

In early 2010, he appeared on the Discovery Channel Canada show "Breaking Point (2010 TV series)

Breaking Point (2010 TV series)

Breaking Point is a Discovery Channel Canada television show, hosted by Jonathan Tippett and Chris Hackett , usually referred to during each episode by just their surnames. Each episode occupies an hour-long programming slot....

" alongside Jonathan Tippett. Each episode, something is selected to be broken, and improved.

Stuck with Hackett

Currently, Hackett is the star and host of the Science Channel’s Stuck with Hackett

Stuck with Hackett

Stuck with Hackett is a television show created and produced by Silver Machine for the Science Channel . It was commissioned as a pilot in 2010 and picked up as a nine-part series which began airing on August 18th, 2011...

. This show follows Hackett as he turns everyday trash into unexpected machines.