Morgan Green (they/them) explores the relationship between technology and knowledge – especially those forms of knowledge that are easier to feel than to describe. Green repurposes logic-driven tools and methods from science and engineering, paradoxically, to explore those ways of knowing that push logic’s boundaries. For example, they build drawing machines that involve their body, so that mechanical marks bend in tension with organic gestures. They emphasize empty spaces in the content of language by using typographical algorithms that respond only to form. Most recently, they have been using quantum physics principles to create abstract photographs.
These works operate on the hope that what cannot be easily named can nonetheless be honored and respected. To respect the unnamable, unknowable, and uncategorizable represents a deeply personal value. On many levels, Green has dealt with the consequences of living on a blurred boundary. They are multi-racial, queer, and non-binary. These impositions of identity demand unique articulations of self-determination. Even Green’s love of both art and science feels like a split that requires artful mending.
Green has shown art internationally and online, including solo and two-person exhibitions with The New Media Caucus’s online Header/Footer Gallery, Mana Contemporary Chicago, Currents 826 in Santa Fe, and Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco. They currently work as an Assistant Professor of Creative Technologies and Design at The University of Regina. Previous academic appointments include Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science at Allegheny College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of New Media Arts at the University of Illinois Chicago. Their writing has appeared in publications including Art 21 Magazine, The Critical Coding Cookbook: Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Teaching and Learning, and Sixty Inches from Center. Green has presented work at conferences and festivals including ISEA (International Symposium for Emerging and Electronic Arts), Currents New Media Festival, DOC NYC, and the New Media Caucus Future Bodies Symposium. They hold a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. Their work occupies public collections including the Amherst Special Collections and Archives and The Riverside Public Library.