Designer-in-Residence
rasim bayramov (b. 2000, Baku) is a designer who explores how detachment manifests through bureaucratic systems. Incorporating post-post-soviet ephemera and banal rituals, they use a variety of media to represent how these systems can transform the human body into a connective interface. They received their BSc in Industrial Design from the Middle East Technical University and their MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Their work has been exhibited/published in Richmond, New York, Istanbul, Ankara, Baku, London, Amsterdam and Hangzhou. So far, their work has included 10 webcams, 6 ethernet and power cables, 12 screens, 17 laptops, 20 phones, 4 red cups, 8 QR codes, 1 old TV, 14 kilograms of paper, 5 pears, 3 keyboards, 1 mouse, 1 document camera, 8 transparent acrylics, 64 carpet tiles, 1 thermal printer, 1 receipt spike, 1 cash exchange window, and 3 flowers…