Bio

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

AI NOW Institute Arts Based Research Fellow 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)

“Offbeat Patterns: Uncertainty and Antifragile Technologies”, Poetics of Activism, Freie Universität, Winter 2023. Berlin, DE 

“Common Study: Making Public Humanities,” MLA Annual Conference 2023, Winter 2023, San Francisco, CA. Invited Panel Talk 

“Quiet (as) Intervention,” SAVVY Contemporary: The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Winter 2022, Berlin, DE. Invited Artist Talk + Performance

“Endured Listening: Pattern Making and Shared Risk Taking”, Decolonial Working Group, Freie Universität, Fall 2022. Berlin, DE 

 “Listening for Black Feminism: Conversation as Mixtape w/ Layla Zami”, Minor Cosmopolitanisms Assembly, University of Potsdam, Silent Green. Fall 2022. Berlin, DE. Public Conversation 

“Predictive Anxieties: Stitching Space and Memory”. Summit for Future Sensitivity, Honor Frasier Gallery, Fall 2022. Los Angeles, CA.

“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