Ryan Griffis is an artist currently teaching in the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Under the name Temporary Travel Office, Ryan has created work and publications that attempt to use tourism as an opportunity for critical public encounters. Ryan’s writing on art and culture has appeared in international print and online journals and in the edited volumes Cities and Inequalities (Routledge, 2015) and Support Networks (Chicago Social Practice History Series, SAIC/University of Chicago Press, 2014). For the last ten years, his work has focused on regional political ecologies in the US Midwest, and has taken the form of curatorial projects, documentary video, and creative writing. He is a member of Deep Time Chicago—a collective that organizes public events focused on understanding the local manifestations of global ecological change—and is the coordinator for Art In These Times, a space for cultural programming focused on social justice in the Chicago headquarters of In These Times magazine.