Teleplasm Hotline

An exhibition by Jazmyn Crosby

Author

Big Ramp
June 06, 2026

June 13 - July 25, 2026

6/13, 6-9pm: Opening Reception  

7/16, 6:30-9:30pm: Book Launch and Performance w/ Media Archaeology Lab  

7/25, 6-9pm: Closing Reception

BIG RAMP is buzzing to announce Teleplasm Hotline, an exhibition by Jazmyn Crosby, curated by William Schwaller. Crosby’s works will be broadcast inside and outside of Big Ramp’s gallery space and across its airwaves throughout the exhibition, including her newly published book Other Networks: Interspecies Communication Operations Manual. Please join us on Thursday, July 16 for a special book launch and performance with the artist and the Media Archeology Lab, who will participate virtually from Colorado.

Teleplasm Hotline presents a field of new and reimagined works that engage with Crosby’s continued experimentation with forms of communication and attunement with the more-than-human world.

Like many artists who seek to productively, not just aesthetically, concern their work with the anthropogenic climate crisis, Crosby selects materials thoughtfully and examines their ecological and social entanglements without reducing the work to didacticism. Sea water, salt, carbon, copper, and zinc echo throughout and beyond the gallery in assemblages with antennae, radio receivers and transmitters, projectors, and tablets.

Across diverse media, Crosby asks viewers to tune in (via radio), call in, touch, listen, and look. We’re reminded that we perceive our earthly companions with more than just our eyes, and that communication is also a physical act and a technology that all species employ. In a range of technologies from low to high tech, Crosby’s work guides visitors to perceive imperceptible systems and networks. Ultimately, Teleplasm Hotline, with its pseudo-scientific reference to spiritualism, seances, and the occult, suggests that communication is what we (humans) do - in art, in times of a climate crisis. We talk, we exchange ideas, we listen, we broadcast, we receive, but we also question, and we think. And in the overflow of communicable data (materials, feelings, figures, artworks, measurements) we might find that appearances can be deceiving, there are phenomena that we do not have words for, and our words often do not fit the more-than-human world that we can and cannot perceive or comprehend.

Jazmyn Crosby is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work investigates communication, technology and ecology. Born and raised in New Mexico, Jazmyn lives in Philadelphia where she received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. She got her BFA from the University of New Mexico. She is a founding member of Graft Gallery/Collective and is a current member of the Bio Materials Working Group. She is an adjunct instructor at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, The University of Delaware, Moore College of Art and Design, and teaches courses at Fleisher Art Memorial.

Jazmyn has exhibited her work extensively through group and solo exhibitions in many cities including; Albuquerque, Montreal, Long Beach, Philadelphia, Prague, and New York. Exhibition venues include the Anderson Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Santa Fe Center for the Contemporary Arts, 516 Arts, Icebox Project Space, Amos Eno Gallery and The Cherry Street Pier. Awards and residencies include; Artist and residency through Conversations in Contemporary Art sponsored by Concordia University, Artist in residence at Pine Meadows Ranch, The Media Archeology Lab at CU Boulder, and grants obtained through the Fulcrum Fund, and Creative Philadelphia.

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