Triton Mobley is a new media artist and researcher 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 a PhD in Media Arts + Practice—as an Annenberg Fellow—from the University of Southern California.

Triton’s research is framed within economies of digital perceptions + cultural optics—problematizing notions of being situated between the discontinuities of emergent technologies and communities of marginality. His latest artworks, Coded #000000 [Black] and Volumetric Black, uncover the literal en/coding of anti-blackness into digital imaging technologies. These installations are a reimagining of obfuscation tactics for working class resistance within the digital delay—fabricated through art hacktivist [jugaad] outputs. This research has been presented at the African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities’ conference: Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black in Maryland, City University of Hong Kong’s Art Machines: International Symposium on Computational Media Art, the (IM)POSSIBILITY conference at Harvard, Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence conference in Vienna, AMPS—Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, AD•ReC Limit/No Limit Conference at Sorbonne Université, and most recently at Intermedial Connections: Impurity in the Arts Conference at Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. Triton’s Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness essay will be published in the media studies anthology Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Vision and Sound [Toija Cinque and Jordan Beth Vincent, Eds.] His latest essays, DEEP.FAKE.BLACKNESS. and Infrastructural Architectures: Land [Dis]Trust, will be featured in the semiannual publication series Pounds Per Image [PPI] by Pratt Institute. [Shannon Ebner, Barbara Schroeder and Karen Kelly, Eds.] and Techniques Journal [Tyson Lewis and Nasrin Tork, Eds.] respectively. 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.

Triton Mobley is Assistant Professor of New Media & Computational Art Practices + Film & Media Studies in the Departments of Studio Arts & English at the University of Pittsburgh.