Britt Ransom
Britt Ransom’s creative work probes the lines between human, animal, and environmental relations while exploring emergent digital fabrication technologies. She specifically focuses on work that addresses metaphors between insect pest-based systems and human society.
Britt Ransom is a half Black queer artist and educator who is primarily based in New Orleans, Louisiana and Long Beach, California during the academic year. Ransom is currently serving as the Associate Director of the School of Art and Associate Professor of Sculpture/4D at California State University Long Beach specializing in digital fabrication technologies (on sabbatical through May 2022). Ransom is the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the ZERO1 American Arts Incubator Fellowship, the Arctic Circle Research Residency, and the CAA Professional Development Fellowship.
Investigating the paradoxical bond between human-made urban landscapes and natural ecological systems, Britt Ransom’s evolving practice questions human contributions to our rapidly changing planet. Regularly examining other species in relation to ourselves, her work questions humans’ analogous existence as the largest and most complex pest-network on the planet. Through the use of emergent technologies and data transformation, complex sculptures and installations probe lines between human, animal, and environmental relations.
