tess elliot

tess elliot is a studio artist and creative technologist investigating natural phenomena and human artifice. She builds diagnostic representations of systemic failure alongside tools to imagine alternate ontologies, resulting in projects bound as moving images, installations, virtual worlds, and simulations. Through strategies of mimicry, spectacle, subversion, and invention, her work engages audiences in critical realities and speculative possibilities, aiming for broad public legibility and accessibility.

Her work has been exhibited at the 8 Fest, QiPo Art Fair, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Vinegar Contemporary, Oklahoma Contemporary, Aggregate Space Gallery and MOTOR among others. She is a 2024 Rhizome microgrant recipient for her climate game Ultimate Sim. Tess holds a BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and an MFA in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University. She lives between Norman, OK and Queens, NY with her daughter Violet, as an Associate Professor of Art, Technology, & Culture at the University of Oklahoma