Triton Mobley (Gale Memorial Lecture Series)

Gale Memorial Lecture Series: Triton Mobley
Thursday, September 26, 2024, 5:30 pm
131 Pine St. NE (artslab.unm.edu)
Free & Open to the Public

Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher, and professor of graphic computation design whose interventionist works, and guerrilla performances have been exhibited at CURRENTS Virtual Festival, Geidai Games Online at Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Basel Miami and staged in New York, Boston, Providence, and across Japan. Triton’s praxis culls together critical making methodologies across performative installations, programmable fabrications and speculative industrial design—fashioning polemical art object assemblages that engender public reexamination. Triton holds an MFA in Digital Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and earned his PhD in Media Arts Practice—as an Annenberg Fellow—from the University of Southern California. Triton’s doctoral research and praxis has been presented at the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities’ conference Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black in Maryland, Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art at City University of Hong Kong, the (IM)POSSIBILITY conference at Harvard, and most recently at the Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence conference in Vienna. His essay Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness is available in the anthology Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Vision and Sound by Bloomsbury Press. His anthology series of installations titled Keloid Archives debuted in a solo exhibition at Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn in fall 2022. Triton was part of a group exhibition, Crisis of Image at the Museum of Contemporary Art – Arlington in spring 2023, and his latest body of work, Coloured.Aesthetica. debuted in a solo show in February 2024 at the Chazan Gallery in Providence. Triton has two forthcoming essays this fall. The essay Infrastructural Architectures: Land [Dis]Trust will be published in Techniques Journal and the Pratt Institute’s Pounds Per Inch photo journal will publish the essay Deep.Fake.Blackness. Triton recently concluded a Surf Point residency in Maine developing his latest practice-based research project on the remaking of urban topographies via 20th century federal highway expansion creating in its wake, Architectural Voids.

Gale Memorial Lecture Series was established in memory of Dr. David his wife Sylvia whose generosity made the series possible. This is event co-sponsored by the Department Art and ARTSLab. All Gale Memorial Lectures are free and open to public.