rywebber@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Ryan Webber
Who are you?
Ryan Webber. A researcher of culture and an engineer of conversations between people, places, technology, and myself.
Why are you?
I was born in Jamaica to two parents who loved learning as much as they loved people. I've been surrounded by books and computers for as long as I can remember, and there has never been a distinction between the physical and digital. After 27 years of absorbing the work of others, I decided to start creating things myself.
What were you before?
I was previously a Vice President at Morgan Stanley within Wealth Management Data Security and have held software engineering, application security engineering, and product ownership roles over my career. Cybersecurity was, and still is, my professional bread and butter. It taught me all the technology and research skills I employ in my practice and experiments today, but also that things can be broken, rewritten, and appropriated, no matter how permanent they seem. Everything made can be remade and remixed, and my previous roles involved researching how that can be weaponized against financial institions and their clients, and then how to prevent it.
What are you up to now?
I am currently pursuing my Master's in Interactive Technology at New York University. Ongoing projects include developing a local archive of Jamaican visual art and music history using Collective Access, creating video-sculptures and installations that tells archived stories, and learning about sound.
On this site you'll find my learning artifacts as I explore video-making,
audio-inspired works, and
select projects that found a life outside the screen.
What inspires you?