Carrie Hott: Lecturer
Carrie Hott, “Sunset on the Polygon,” 2018, site specific installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
Carrie Hott, “Summer Night Forever,” 2017, site specific installation at Recology, San Francisco.
Carrie Hott, “The Key Room,” 2016, site specific installation at Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, CA.
Carrie Hott
Lecturer
email: carriehott@berkeley.edu
website: www.carriehott.com
Instagram: @carriehott
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12-2pm: Zoom Link here
Carrie Hott (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland, California. She is invested in documenting and disentangling the technological systems that deeply shape our lives. Specifically, she is captivated by what provides a sense of comfort and security, or keeps us working and productive, or entertained, all while quietly mediating all of our surroundings and experiences, often in very subtle and insidious ways. Some broad examples of these systems include artificial lighting, the electrical grid, the internet, and Internet of Things devices. She is not only interested in dissecting the history and impacts of these structures, but through her projects she makes visible the inherently political nature of these systems and how they influence us both privately and collectively.
Her research based art practice materializes as multimedia installations that incorporate sound or video into sculptural settings. She also regularly makes books and prints, or puts together free form group classes. Frequently, all of these forms are present in one project, providing multiple layers of experience or entry points into a subject. She has presented her work as part of exhibitions and projects across the country, most recently at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Recology San Francisco, the Museum of Capitalism in Oakland, as well as a permanent project, The Key Room, at the Headlands Center for the Arts. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, a Cultural Humanities grant, and has had residencies at Mills College in Oakland and Beta-Local in Puerto Rico, among others. She currently teaches in USF’s department of Art + Architecture and UC Berkeley’s department of Art Practice. She received her BFA from Arizona State University in 2003 and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007.
Courses taught:
ART 160 Interdisciplinary Studio Intensive, Summer 2019
ART 160 Advanced Digital Media: The Lights That See Us, Spring 2020
ART 138 Advanced Sculpture: Installation Art, Spring 2021
Recent Highlights:
Upcoming group exhibition at University of San Francisco, Thacher Gallery: Pulled Apart, March 1 - April 25, 2021
Contributed essay and photo project in the latest Living Room Light Exchange publication: Rare Earth The Ground is Not Digital, released October 2020
Upcoming residency project at the Internet Archive in 2022