Bio
 Molly Morin is a  sculptor, fiber artist and educator based in Western Massachusetts. Her object making practice considers and critiques technology-enabled systems that amplify and extend power imbalances already present in social, political and art-world contexts. Morin has given invited lectures at the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame, The Society for Science, Literature and the Arts, and the National Academy of Science. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions at The Collaboratory at UC Santa Barbara, Wittenberg University, Lamar University, the University of Dallas, and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at Hampshire College.

Methods
Machine Knitting
CNC Cutting
Parametric Drawing
Needle Felting
Creative Coding
Experimental Weaving
Machine Drawing
Sewing
Soft Sculpture
Processing
Exhibitions
Solo unless noted
Made en Mass
South Gallery, Greenfield CC
Greenfield, MA
2026

1055113200
with Nikko Stevens
HASTAC 2023 at Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY 
2023

Bradford Butterflies,
The Space on Main
Bradford, VT
2023

Information Density
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
Salt Lake City, UT
2018

Flying Machines
Patrajas Contemporary
Ogden UT
2018

A Short-Lived Escape from Gravity
The Collaboratory at UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
2018

Invisible Things
with Stephen  Wolochowicz
Whitespace Gallery
Ogden, UT
2015

Red Balloons
with Stephen  Wolochowicz
Clemson University Center for Visual Arts Greenville, SC 
2014

Comma nd Plus
with Nia Davies
&/ (andorproject.com) 
curated online space 
2014

Traces of Awe, 
Whittenberg University
Springfield, OH 
2013

Labs, Research and Working Groups
The Center for Lagging Technology
founding member

The Three Fates textile design game
consulting member

Liberation + AI Think Tank
member

Black Sound Lab
lead fabricator
Press
A Cohort not a Curriculum, Processing Community Day (2019)

Role/Play: Collaborative Creativity & Creative Collaborations, Studio International (2018)

Review: Heavy Lifting: Works by Molly Morin, Kia McGinnis Wray, Slug Magazine (2018)

Molly Morin



Joy Collector
2019
 This work offers an interruption - of the ideas of scholarship as knowledge production, of the unidirectional format of many sessions - inviting attendees to join us in creating an entangled, embodied, collective experience of joy.  Joy as institutional concern now resides mainly in the entertainment sector and the research on joy is most often used in service of capitalism and enterprise (Wall Street sentiment analysis, Facebook quiz/online games as thinly veiled surveillance apparatus, etc.) We ask what knowledges may come when we center joy as necessary to the human inquiry the academy seeks to foster.  As boundary objects, works like this might allow us to reflect on the multivalent experience of joy and begin to structure a theory of joy as integral to scholarship. We invite you to contribute to this initial inquiry through an accessible, participatory, feminist, and ultimately human(e) co-production of joy.
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