BREANNA BROWNING-WILSON
Breanna Browning-Wilson is a designer, strategist, educator, and creative technical leader based in Los Angeles, California.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a postgraduate Master of Science from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc).
Her interdisciplinary practice explores how we construct and inhabit meaning in the age of synthetic systems - using emerging technologies and spatial media to create new conditions that challenge how we tell stories and navigate complexity. Her approach integrates digital and physical materials through hybrid workflows, speculative design, and systems thinking. She is interested in the misuse of technological tools to reveal new modes of authorship, perception, and representation.
Professionally, she is an expert in leading complex projects and interdisciplinary teams working with state-of-the-art technologies. Her expertise spans strategy, foresight, and the translation of emerging tools (including 3D/AI/ML) into applications across art, games, tech, education, and culture.
CURRENTLY:
Faculty at
SCI-Arc Synthetic Landscapes
Lecturer at
UCLA Design Media Arts
Creative Technical Director Emergentic.ai /
The Garden in the Machine
© Breanna Browning-Wilson 2026
GEOLOGIES OF TECHNOLOGY
2023-2025
High Resolution Digital Images
Geologies of Technology is a series of image-making experiments exploring the decomposition and unwrapping of landscapes, treating data as material and entropy as a methodology. Using digital workflows originally developed for environmental capture, physical and geological conditions are reorganized into computational representations of terrains, challenging how landscapes are seen and how optical processes structure perception.
EXHIBITION + PUBLICATIONS
+ Gazelli May 2023 Resident: Gazelli Art House / Gazelli.io, London + Baku. Resident.
+ Cactus Digitale, 10th Anniversary Magazine and Exhibition: Los Angeles, CA. Featured Artist.
SOFT GROUNDS
2022-2023
High Resolution Digital Images + Videos
Soft Grounds investigates the Southern Appalachian landscape as a site of technological and geological entanglement. The cartographic images present bits as matter and landscapes as information through the manipulation of tools engineered to digitize physical conditions. The unearthed and unwrapped visions of the landscape present both a familiar softness and an uncomfortable awareness of geological violence.
EXHIBITION
+ 2022 Next-GEN LA: Digital Artists to Watch: Vellum, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Jesse Damiani and Sinziana Velicescu.
SKIN SUITS (LIVE)
2023
Live Performance + Short Film
Skin Suits (Live) is a real-time motion capture performance that analyzes how sensor-based and 3D scanning technologies encode the human body. Tools engineered for precise measurement are repurposed to generate cartographic textures that are stitched, draped, flattened, and animated.
The performance examines overlap between soft bodies and hard systems, physical movement and computational structure, and the processes of wrapping and unwrapping as form is translated between material and data.
Director of Photography Geffen Shichor
EXHIBITION
Postgraduate Thesis Exhibition: Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA.
SKIN SUITS
2022
High Resolution Digital Images
Skin Suits is a series of self-portraits that explore how machine systems see, interpret, and re-present human bodies. The work examines the overlap between soft, material flesh and hard computational structures, and considers how bodies are increasingly inseparable from the systems that measure, model, and mediate them.
EXHIBITION
+ 2023 Posthuman Vernacular: Galerie Joseph, Paris, France. Curated by Jesse Damiani.
+ 2022 Posthuman Vernacular: Rand Gallery / Decipher, Madinat Jumierah, Dubai, UAE. Curated by Jesse Damiani.
CARTOGRAPHIC QUILTS
2023
3D Knitted Textiles
This project translates spatial datasets from the extractive landscapes of Southern Appalachia into digitally fabricated 3D-knit quilts. Surveying and imaging data are converted into computational knit structures that encode terrain features through material variation. These cartographies are woven and re-inserted as physical models of landscapes as data-driven systems.
Textiles In Collaboration with ByBorre Netherlands
Photos by Geffen Shichor
SCANNING
2022+ (ongoing)
High Resolution Digital Images
Fragments of digital geologies.