Becca Ricks (she/her) is a researcher, creative technologist, and artist. Her work explores how people interact with social technologies, with a focus on user choice, control, agency, and resistance.
Currently, Becca heads up the Public Technology Leadership Collaborative at Data & Society. Previously, she was the Head of Open Source Research & Investigations at Mozilla Foundation, where she directed a lab studying user controls and privacy in relation to online platforms.
Becca was named as one of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics and served on steering committees for the Partnership on AI’s ABOUT ML project and Ford Foundation’s Public Interest Technology network. She completed a 2017-2018 technical fellowship at Human Rights Watch. She holds a master’s degree from NYU-ITP, where her research explored algorithmic categorization.
As a creative technologist and artist, Becca’s practice is rooted in material and digital experimentation. Her projects include textiles knitted on a hacked knitting machine, 3D models made with experimental imaging techniques, and tiny websites and browser extensions. Becca is a co-founder of tendernet, an art/design collective exploring technological futures through speculative exercises.
Becca has spoken at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, MIT, the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, RISD, and a number of other venues. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, and WIRED.
Get in touch ➰ baricks (at) protonmail.com.
CV available upon request.
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As a creative technologist and artist, Becca’s practice is rooted in material and digital experimentation. Her projects include textiles knitted on a hacked knitting machine, 3D models made with experimental imaging techniques, and tiny websites and browser extensions. Becca is a co-founder of tendernet, an art/design collective exploring technological futures through speculative exercises.
Becca has spoken at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, MIT, the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, RISD, and a number of other venues. Her work has been covered by the New York Times, Washington Post, and WIRED.
Get in touch ➰ baricks (at) protonmail.com.
CV available upon request.
linkedin bluesky are.na github