Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator. Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, ethics, and social infrastructure within digital technologies. Using maps, data, sound, performance, and video, their installations center Black diasporic technologies that challenge the demands of an increasingly quantified world—reducing land into property, people into digits, and knowledge into data.
Romi has exhibited work and given talks at numerous exhibitions, conferences, and workshops around the world including Transmediale (Berlin), ALT_CPH Biennial (Copenhagen), the American Institute of Architects (New York), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Queens Museum (New York), and the Walker Museum of Art. They have been in residence at Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology, New York University (ITP), The Joan Mitchell Foundation, and FemTechNet. Their writing has appeared in publications by MIT Press, University of California Press, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Logic Magazine.
They have taught courses at Parsons School of Design and the University of Southern California (USC). They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Design Media Arts program at UCLA in Los Angeles.
Recent Awards + Residencies
The Kitchen L.A.B. Residency x Simons Foundation x School for Poetic Computation
Freie Universität Berlin Mercator Fellow 2022
Center for Advanced Internet Studies Working Group Fellowship 2022
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth Arts Integration Fellowship 2021-2022
Recent Exhibitions + Presentations
“Spilling The Tea/Stilling the Ocean,” Penn State University, Spring 2023, University Park, PA. Invited Speaker (forthcoming)
“The Urban Technical and the Politics of Inhabitation,” Urban Institute, Spring 2023, University of Sheffield, UK. Invited Panel Talk (forthcoming)
“Endured Listening: Pattern Making and Shared Risk Taking”, Decolonial Working Group, Freie Universität, Fall 2022. Berlin, DE
“Digitlal Humanities Caucus Panel: On Unmeasurability and Vitality: Disrupting Spatial Order with Digital Practice,”American Studies Association Annual Conference 2022, Fall 2022. New Orleans, LA. Invited Panel Talk