Jill Miller

Jill Miller

Assistant Professor, since 2018
Public Practice Area Head, Art Practice
Executive Committee, Berkeley Center for New Media 
Founding Director, Platform Artspace 

Email: jillmiller@berkeley.edu
Website: www.jillmiller.net 
Office: Wurster Hall 182
Office Hours by appointment

Jill Miller is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art Practice where she serves as Area Head in Public Practice. She is an interdisciplinary artist with an expanded studio practice that includes experimental new media art, social practice projects, and large-scale community actions. Her work often embraces urgent social issues, using tactics such as humor and playfulness to draw audiences and participants into provocative situations and conversations. Her new media work focuses on the intersection of feminism and technology, exploring the ways that the feminine can disrupt or undermine patriarchal hegemonic structures. Professor Miller is the founding director of Platform Artspace, an experimental art laboratory at UC Berkeley that focuses on collaborative, participatory art projects that are grounded in community building. Her work has been exhibited internationally and collected in private and public institutions worldwide including CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, and the Woods Art Institute in Hamburg.

She is the recipient of many grants and awards, including: C/Change Grant by the Goethe Institut San Francisco and Gray Area Art Center (with Professor Asma Kazmi); Arts Council England Award, California Arts Council ‘Artists in Communities’ Grant; Wikimedia Individual Engagement Grant; STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Grant; Berkeley Center for New Media Seed Award; Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, and several Creative Discovery Grants.

Campus affiliations include: Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media, Affiliate Faculty at the Berkeley Food Institute, and Affiliate Faculty in Global Urban Humanities.