Triton Mobley

Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher, and Assistant Professor of New Media & Computational Art Practices + Film & Media Studies 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, Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence conference in Vienna, and most recently at the AD•ReC Limit/No Limit Conference at Sorbonne Université. 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 is a 2023-24 Rhode Island Foundation’s MacColl-Johnson Fellowship finalist and was awarded a Surf Point residency in Maine to develop his latest practice-based research project Architectural Voids—the byproducts of remaking the urban topographies through 20th-century federal highway expansions.