Russell Ladson
Russell Ladson is an artist and researcher based in Oakland, CA.
His practice uses modes of computation to investigate the relationships and possibilities between the more-than-human world and other living matter that explore space, time, and memory. Working across computational and experimental media, his work often provides an alternative material condition to dominant narratives in traditional science and technology studies to offer new possibilities and phenomenologies.
His current research explores organic interfaces with mycelium. The project, Myco-Interfaces: Exploring Sensor Technologies in Mycelial Networks, examines how mycelium, the root system for fungi, can be used as an agent in designing novel, speculative biological interfaces in human-computer interaction.
He recently was an artist-in-residence at Mara Brock Akil’s Story27 Productions in Los Angeles developing his upcoming exhibition, This Aint About Resiliency. This Is About Regeneration, that engages the aesthetics and politics of fungal displacement and dislocation to non-Earth locations. The project received a grant from the Tisch Initiative for Creative Research.