STANDING IN THE CRACKS OF MULTIPLE HISTORIES 

We are deeply excited to welcome Romi Ron Morrison as a resident  artist, scholar, and writer at SAVVY Contemporary. Romi's residency is the fifth within our  project Standing in the Cracks of Multiple Histories, which investigates the contours of the history of the United States as well as the hegemonic narratives that form and uphold it. Inviting a constellation of voices that emerge from its ruptures, Romi will join us to exchange around their practice.

Romi Ron Morrison is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and writer.  Their work investigates the personal, political, ideological, and spatial boundaries of race, gender, and social infrastructures 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. Their current projects explore theories of Black Computational Thought, entropy, and forms of kinship that thrive in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability.  

Romi has exhibited work and given talks at numerous exhibitions, conferences, and workshops around the world including Transmediale (Berlin), The Kitchen (New York), 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, The School for Poetic Computation, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Their writing has appeared in publications by MIT Press, University of California Press, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, and Logic(s) 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 and a 2024–2026 Just Tech Fellow.