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Ryan Griffis works on large-scale collaborative projects focused on ecology in the Midwest. Combining art, pedagogy, design, and creative writing with documentary field work, his work follows the interdisciplinary field of political ecology, aiming to examine the economic structures and power relations that drive environmental change. As an image maker and writer, he aims to produce works that generate knowledge and advocacy for environmental justice in relation to human and other-than-human communities. He co-organized (with Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown) the "Anthropocene Drift," which involved field stations along the Mississippi River as part of a large-scale interdisciplinary initiative led by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Between 2016 and 2017, he co-led the Humanities Walls project "Global Midwest," culminating in a series of exhibition events at UIC’s Gallery 400. These endeavors included the exhibition titled "The Earth Abide," featuring artists such as duskin drum and Sarah Lewison. Alongside Sarah Ross, he produced the documentary project "A Great Green Desert," visualizing the destructive forces of industrial agriculture in both the Midwest and Brazil. His works have been presented at various institutional forums and have been curated in exhibitions addressing themes such as politics of genetic technologies and energy consumption.
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