Ann Hamilton: Public Lecture (Scott Artist Series 2026)

This public lecture will take place at Griffin Concert Hall in the University Center for the Arts. It is free and open to all. Please reserve your tickets in advance via Eventbrite.

Ann Hamilton is a visual artist internationally acclaimed for her large-scale multimedia installations, public projects, and performance collaborations. Born in Lima, Ohio, she received her MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art. Hamilton is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

In a time when successive generations of technology amplify human presence at distances far greater than the reach of the hand, what becomes the place and form of making at the scale and pace of the individual body? How does making participate in the recuperation and recognition of embodied knowledge? What are the places and forms for live, tactile, visceral, face-to-face experiences in a media saturated world? These concerns have animated the site responsive installations that have formed the bulk of Hamilton's practice over the last 20 years. But where the relations of cloth, sound, touch, motion and human gesture once gave way to dense materiality, Hamilton's work now focuses on the less material acts of reading, speaking and listening. The influence of collaborative processes in ever more complex architectures has shifted her forms of making, wherein the movement of the viewer in time and in space now becomes a central figure of the work.

For more information on Ann Hamilton's work, please visit:

https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/

https://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/projects/we_will_sing.html

https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/ann-hamilton-the-event-of-a-thread-short/

The CSU Department of Art and Art History's Scott Artist Series supports the exchange of ideas among artists from multiple disciplines, various places, and diverse backgrounds. Inspirational speakers and artists are invited to the CSU campus to share creative and innovative ideas aimed at broadening the horizons of art students. Guests artists in the series are art influencers who have national and international exposure. Their involvement with our community is critical to the long-term impact that art has on society. Alumni Shaesby Scott (’97, Art), and his wife, Catherine Scott (’98, History) established the Scott Artist Series fund.