FACULTY
Ryan Griffis
rgriffis@illinois.edu | website | CV
Teaching areas:
Time-based and interactive art forms, new genre public art, research-based art practices
Research areas:
Tourism as an art form; critical responses to urban planning, architecture and other mechanisms that shape environments.
Ryan Griffis often works under the name of the Temporary Travel Office, a semi-functional travel agency that attempts to investigate the potential of tourism as a critical activity. Towards these ends, he produces guided, and self-guided tours as well as research documents and proposals for rethinking monuments, parks and other contested spaces.
He has written reviews and conducted interviews for publications such as New Art Examiner, ArtUS, Rhizome.org, Furtherfield, Soundtoys, and curated shows for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois' I-Space Gallery, and Turbulence.org. Ryan was born and raised in Florida.
Classes: Image Practice, Interactivity (I & II), Time Arts I, Art & Tourism
