Ren Loren Britton is a trans*disciplinary artist-designer who reverberates with trans*feminism, technosciences, radical pedagogy and disability justice. Trans*feminist technoscience in their work follows the long wiggle of cyberfeminism; focusing on trans*, as in, transgender and trans*, as in, crossing contexts with feminist concerns. They are interested in the ways that socio technical systems & media makes lives accessible and pleasurable. Departing from the understanding that we live in a deeply ableist white supremacist world, and therefore to be able to follow a justice oriented direction, their work begins from the assumption that we must rethink the terms of who fits into institutions of all scales, with what friction (or not) and why. This set of considerations brings them to their interest in disability justice which upholds and values all non-normative bodies and minds. In this way their artistic research is often collaborative, focuses on reaching their named community (trans*gender and disabled people) and focuses on the critical technologies, narratives and media practices that have connected us in our shared non-linear futures, pasts and presents. This conceptual framework enables their practice often engaging hir-her-historical storytelling looking into under-attended to narratives that tell other stories about technologies, counter-pathologies and community connection.
Ren has shared artistic work within multiple institutions including ALT_CPH Biennale (Copenhagen), Transmediale & Haus der Kulturen der Welt & Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), Constant (Brussels), Sonic Acts (Amsterdam), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Osnabrück), Het Nieuwe Institute & Varia (Rotterdam) & Rupert (Vilnius). Recent academic articles have been published in Catalyst, MATTER and Digital Creativity and within edited volumes by Bloomsbery Academic, Spektor Books and Barbara Budrich.
Working in collaboration, Britton actions MELT with Iz Paehr and Frans Bender Presents with Rosen Eveleigh and other projects with beloved crossers. lorenbritton.com + meltionary.com.
2023
with Iz Paehr, “ACCESS SERVER: Dreaming, practicing and making access”, in First Monday, This Feature has been disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies, Co-edited by Gracen Brilmyer and Crystal Lee, Volume 28, Number 1 - 2 January 2023.
2022
with Helen V. Pritchard, “For Careful Slugs: Caring for Unknowing in CS (Computer Science)”, Catalyst, special issue editors, TL Cowan & Jasmine Rault, Metaphors as Meaning and Method in Technoculture.
with Klumbyte, G., Britton, L., Laiti, O., Prado de O. Martins, L., Snelting, F., Ward, C., “Speculative Materialities, Indigenous Worldings and Decolonial Futures in Computing & Design”, MATTER Journal of New Materialist Research.
2021
with Romi R. Morrison, “How can you spell care with only 1s and 0s?”, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory & Technoscience.
2019
“Doing thinking: revisiting computing with artistic research and technofeminism” with Goda Klumbytė, and Claude Draude, in Digital Creativity, special issue on Hybrid Pedagogies, 30(4): 313-328.
with Iz Paehr, “Con(fuse)ing and Re(fusing) Barriers”, in APRJA (A Peer Reviewed Journal About) edition: Research Refusal, Vol. 10 No. 1, edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen & Geoff Cox.
2025
with Paehr I., Philip P., Kooij H., Groten A., “Steering Crip Time”, in “Nocturnalities Bargaining Beyond Rest”, edited by Agata Bar and Andrea Knezović, Onomatopee, NL, Print.
2024
with Iz Paehr, “Ice, Water, Vapor Computing”, in Digital Gender. De:mapping Politics. Speculating with 30 Objects (AT), edited by Julia Bee, Irina Gradinari and Katrin Köppert, Spector Books, DE, Print.
2023
with Iz Paehr, “The Meltionary”, in More Posthuman Glossary, editors: Goda Klumbytė, Emily Jones and Rosie Braidotti, Bloomsbury Academic, UK, Print.
2022
with Pinar Tuzcu, “Witnessing Fabrics: How Face Masks Change Social Perceptions During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Digital Times” in Covid, Crisis, Care, and Change? International Gender Perspectives on Re/Production, State and Feminist Positions, edited by Antonia Kupfer, Constanze Stutz Barbara Budrich, DE.
with Iz Paehr, “N.N. (Nomen Nomiandum)”, Doing Research, editors: Sandra Hofhues and Konstanze Schütze, Transcript-Verlag, DE, Print.
2019
“Dear Dawn, Can I Hold You?” Queer Objects, Editors: Chris Brickell and Judith Collard, Otago University Press & Rutgers University Press, Print.
2020
“Burn, dream and reboot!: speculating backwards for the missing archive on non-coercive computing” Authors: Helen Pritchard, Eric Snodgrass, Romi Ron Morrison, Loren Britton, Joana Moll. FAT* ‘20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, January 2020, Pages 683. https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3375697
2025
“Shields, Wedges and Supports: hacks on the way towards changing everything”, Koozarch: Platform for Architectural Discourse & Het Nieuwe Instituut.
“Non Foreclosed Access Points: Pluralizing Virtuality” in Driving Design Vol. 3: Reimagining, Reconfiguring, Redistributing Design, Fab Lab Barcelona.
2024
“On Rehearsing Access: Making space for non-normative time with Access Riders”, Futuress: where feminism, design & politics meet.
with Iz Paehr, “Nothing Without Us: Anti-Ableist Cultural Practices Now!”, CCCB Lab.
2021
oracle(s) - (Britton L., Pritchard H. Morrison R., & Snodgrass E.), “stochastic enumeration : we don’t want methods but we do want to practice”, in Nocturnes: Learning Experiments, Exchanging Techniques a speculative manual edited by Julia Bee and Gerko Egert, online.
2020
with Goda Klumbytė, “Said the bot to the computer: 57th collected significant residue transmission between MIT and SliMoSA 3”, 2038, Venice Architecture Biennale, German Pavillion, Arts of the Working Class.
with Helen V. Pritchard, “CS Field Manual”, Arts of the Working Class.
with Helen V. Pritchard, Pritchard, H. “For CS”, Interactions ACM Magazine, Fall, Print + Online.
2017
MFA Painting & Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US
2014
BFA Painting & Drawing, Summa Cum Laude, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, US.
BA, Art History, Summa Cum Laude, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, US.
2025
nominee: 2025-2027 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice Award, Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, New York City, USA.