GEEX Talks: Britt Ransom | March 18, 2024
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This GEEX Talk is sponsored by Wet Dog Glass.
Britt Ransom (b. Lima, Ohio 1987) is an artist and educator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of the Hopper Prize, Formlabs User Impact Award, Joan Mitchell Center Residency, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator (LACI) Residency, ZERO1
American Arts Incubator Fellowship, Santa Monica Camera Obscura Residency, Workshop Residence-San Francisco, The Arctic Circle Residency, and the College Art Association Professional Development Award. Her work has been shown most recently at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans), Contemporary Art Center (New Orleans), Pitzer College Art Galleries (Claremont, CA), Honor Fraser (Los Angeles), Royale Projects (Los Angeles), Torrance Art Museum (Torrance, CA), Schering Stiftung (Transmediale, Berlin), Missouri State University, Texas Women’s University, The University of Dallas, and the Chicago Artists Coalition.
Ransom received her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago (2011) and her BFA from The Ohio State University (2008). Ransom is the great-granddaughter of civil rights activist Reverdy C. Ransom and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Emma S. and Reverdy C. Ransom Foundation and also on the Board of Directors for the New Media Caucus. Britt is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University in the Sculpture, Installation, and Site Work Area. Prior to that she was the Associate Director of the School of Art and Associate Professor of Sculpture/4D at California State University Long Beach.
Britt Ransom’s work explores human, animal, and environmental relationships through sculptures and installations created using digital fabrication processes. Using 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, and CNC Milling, her work questions our shared environment, climate change, and our relationships with other species. Translating data gathered from the environment, Ransom’s work travels through various levels of software mediation while often originating through the phones that we carrying our pockets. Regularly examining other species and landscapes in relation to ourselves, Ransom question humans’ analogous existence as the largest and most complex pest-network on the planet. Her work is systematic both in construction and in concept, often a direct reflection of observed microcosms found at our feet, in the web of a digital mesh, and born out of the braided entanglements between ourselves and the other species of plants and animals with whom we share our world.
Britt’s practice has recently shifted to create work that focuses on the restoration and historical significance of the Tawawa Chimney Corner House (TCC), a national historic landmark for civil rights activism. TCC is the former home of Ransom’s ancestors who were significant agents were founders of the Niagara Movement and significant agents of the early civil rights movement.
