olivia mckayla ross is a caribbean american information worker and documentarian from queens, nyc. her work practice in audiovisual and software preservation informs research into the cybernetics of secrecy, power, and despair. she is a death doula in training.

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currently:
black cyberfeminist goosechase with jazmin
writing hypertext literature
scheming piracy/critical technology study group with kelly
DIYing a masters in archival science
semi-anonymous semi-fictional offline-only newsletter
learning to drive from four different people

things i have been thinking about:
how to get to my nearest monastery
getting a boxing gym membership
houdini appropriating black american stage magicians
shadow puppet plays and phantasmagoria
the phrase “we’re losing recipes”

selected residencies, fellowships:
processing teaching fellow, cybernetic opera company with kelly chen, summer 2023
rhizome x new inc incubator, 2023-24
the center for afrofuturist studies x home school, 2020

selected exhibitions/screenings:
sffilm 2024 (best bay area documentary), seeking mavis beacon (2024)
”girl crush: an evening of video and software-based art” presented by heart house at heavy manners library (2024)
sundance NEXT, seeking mavis beacon (2024)
“i gently place my brain in cold rice” presented by oregon contemporary and home school (2022)
“kinetic lullaby” presented by variable terms and new york studio school (2022)
“pieces of me” presented by transfer gallery (2021)
“kiss me i'm asymptomatic” presented by well now WTF (2021)
“the unbody” presented by p.p.o.w gallery (2021)
"bin ends" virtual show presented by gray area festival (2020)

selected teaching experiences:
"drafting neocyberfeminisms for Us" for BUFU's decentralized summer school
guest lecture with neema githere for mindy seu’s class at rutgers
teaching assistant for fei liu’s MFA design and technology studio class at parsons school of design
assistant teacher for melanie hoff’s digital love languages: sensory commons course at the school for poetic computation
experimental photography via PAVE charter academy virtual program with pioneer works
’how to make cooler selfies’ computational photography at anderson ranch