Brittany Ransom is a developing new media artist living and working in Chicago, Illinois. She creates interactive sculptures, sound devices, and wearable recording units that incorporate the participation of humans and animals to examine the co-evolution between the living and our always evolving techno-culture. She is also an experienced 3D modeler and animator. Brittany was born in Lima, Ohio in 1987. She is proudly from a racially mixed family and is of African American, Italian, and German heritage. Her artistic development began in early childhood, attending children’s art classes at ArtSpace Lima. She immersed herself in photography and later became a photojournalist for The Lima News.
In 2005, she began studying psychology at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. In early 2006 she later rediscovered her love for the process of making and was admitted to the Art and Technology department. During this time she worked closely under Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs. While pursuing her degree, Brittany was awarded several prestigious scholarship and research awards. Brittany also assisted as an undergraduate teaching assistant for both introductory animation and robotics classes. In 2008 she graduated with distinction and received her BFA from The Ohio State University.
While pursuing her degree, Brittany worked at Cosi (Columbus Center of Science and Industry) as an Exhibit Technician. While holding this position, she maintained, repaired, and created various electronic, mechanic, pneumatic, hydraulic, and audio/visual exhibitions. She also assisted with the installation of permanent and temporary exhibitions. Brittany also volunteered with artist Ann Hamilton and was a photographer for both The Lantern and Makio. She showed her work in several prominent galleries while residing in Columbus.
In 2009 Brittany was awarded a full fellowship at The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Electronic Visualization. While working towards her degree, she is studying under the instruction of many well-known faculty artists including Sabrina Raaf and Daniel Sauter. Brittany is continuing to create works that investigate how technology can concurrently invent, destroy, enshroud and expose itself within our shared environmental spaces.