Triton Mobley is a new media practice-led researcher using critical-making methodologies, archives and applications of computational practice to visualize and mediate matters of labor, class, technology, and working poor experiences.

Triton’s interventionist installations have been exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, CURRENTS Virtual Festival, Geidai Games Online at Tokyo University of the Arts, Art Basel Miami, and Microtonal Music Festival.

His research has been presented at the International Symposium on Computational Media Art at City University of Hong Kong, the (IM)POSSIBILITY conference at Harvard, Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data at University of Hertfordshire, Limit/No Limit Conference at Sorbonne Université, Intermedial Connections: Impurity in the Arts Conference at Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, and most recently at the conference on Sustainable Inside & Outside at SOCB in Vienna.
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Triton Mobley’s published works include Volumetric Black: Post-Cinematic Blackness, a book chapter in Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Vision and Sound [T. Cinque and J. B. Vincent, Eds.], DEEP. FAKE. BLACKNESS. included in the photo journal series Pounds Per Image. [S. Ebner, B. Schroeder and K. Kelly, Eds.], and Infrastructural Architectures: Land [Dis]Trust, featured in the latest issue of Techniques Journal [T. Lewis and N. Tork, Eds.]. Triton’s forthcoming essay Radical Play: Speculative Imaginaries for Post-Highway Expansionism will be published in School of Collectively Building Journal in the fall.

Triton is a 2023-24 Rhode Island Foundation’s MacColl-Johnson Fellowship finalist and was awarded a Surf Point residency in Maine and a 2025 Mozilla Research Fellow for the Impossible Project’s Building a Multiethnic Democracy in the Age of Generative AI at Pitt.

Triton holds a MFA in Digital+Media from the Rhode Island School of Design and a PhD in Media Arts + Practice from the University of Southern California. He is Assistant Professor of Computational Art Practices [Studio Arts] + Expanded Cinema [Film & Media Studies] at the University of Pittsburgh.