About

My work looks at structures, both material and immaterial as a way to better understand the dynamics of modern globalization. Looking at buildings, not just how and why they are made but also how they become images to be circulated, offers a way to better understand the interconnected geographies of the world economy.

I have taught digital arts and the moving image for the program of Transmedia at Syracuse University, The UCLA New Genres Program, The Department of Photography at CalState University, Long Beach and am currently teaching in The School of Critical Studies at The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).  My work has exhibited at such venues as FIDMarseille, The European Society for Literature, Science & The Arts, The European Media Arts Festival in Osnäbruck (EMAF), La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris France, The Kyiv Biennial, Ukraine, The Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Human Resources: Climate & Infrastructure in Los Angeles California, The Museum für Fotographie in Berlin, The Transmodern Architecture Forum in Berlin and The Independiente Festival International de Cine in Lima, Peru.

ryansjeffery [at] gmail [dot] com

Education

2012

2011

2000

MFA Film & Video, California Institute of the Arts / CalArts Valencia, CA

Media und Kunst, Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany

BFA Studio Art, Lewis & Clark College Portland, OR

Teaching

current

2016

2015

2014

California Institute of the Arts, School of Critical Studies 

California State University Long Beach, School of Art, Photography Program

University California Los Angeles, New Genres Program

Syracuse University, Film Program, Department of Transmedia,

Exhibitions and Screenings 

Writing + Selected Publications

Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Eds. Frederik Tygstrup, Torsten Andreasen, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nick Huber. Goldsmiths Press (2024)

Ryan S. Jeffery “What Are Your Moves” Boundary 2 Journal (March, 2024)

Ryan S. Jeffery “Jenny Yurshansky: Rinsing the Bones” Prospect Art (December, 2023)

Ryan S. Jeffery “In the Style Of”  X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly The Dash April 4, 2023

Ryan S. Jeffery “Counting Hands: an incomplete guide to working images” Michala Paludan Open Shut exhibition catalog Counting, CC3 Fall 2022

Ryan S. Jeffery “Democracy is a Long Shot” Cabinet Magazine Kiosk February 3, 2021

Ryan S. Jeffery “What Preservation Takes”  X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly The Dash February 26, 2020

Ryan S. Jeffery “The Keys to Observation: To Make a Picture and to Take a Landscape” X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly Summer, 2019

Quinn Slobodian & Ryan S. Jeffery “The Walls of the WTO” Verso Books Blog 2018

De Boever, Arne, Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis Fordham University Press (2017)

Morten Søndergaard "On Para-logic Practices" e-flux Architecture August 2017

Boaz Levin & Ryan S. Jeffery “Video Essay: All That is Solid Melts into Data” Boundary 2 - Bernard Stiegler: Amateur Philosophy Duke University Press January (2017)

Ryan S. Jeffery “The Privacy of The Pleasure Network: The Arroyo Seco Parkway and the American Highway” Overcrossings (2017)

Boaz Levin & Ryan S. Jeffery “Lost in the Cloud: The Representation of Networked Infrastructure and its Discontents Spheres Journal (2016)  

“In conversation: Paul Adler & Ryan S Jeffery” The Distance Plan Issue # 2 (2015)

Micheal Pattison “Medium Lengths Over Fragmented Landscapes” Filmmaker Magazine July 2015

Lectures and Talks

School of The Arts Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Artist Talk SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Artist Talk Department of Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Aarhus University, Denmark

MA Program of Aesthetics & Politics Calarts, Los Angeles

Artist Talk, Wellesley University Wellesley, MA

Artist Talk, California Institute of the Arts, School of Critical Studies Valencia, CA

Artist Talk, University of Irvine California / Media Studies Program Irvine, CA

The Data Center: Public Library Public Utility, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Paneled Discussion: Theory of Film & Architecture Lauba Gallery, Zagreb Croatia

Memories Can’t Wait International Center for Photography / Bard College New York, NY

Artist Talk, Syracuse University / Department Design and Politics of Public Space New York University, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis, New York, NY

Preoccupied Conference, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany