JAIMEY HAMILTON
Assistant Professor

Jaimey Hamilton received her Ph.D. from Boston University in the field contemporary art, visual culture, and theory in 2006 and holds a B.A. in the History of Art and Visual Culture from University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research concerns the intersection of subjectivity, commodity culture, mass media, and the visual arts in a global context. She has written and given lectures on feature films, video, media arts, installation and performance art, as well on the recent historical origins of contemporary multi-media art. To view “The Way We Loop ‘Now’: Eddying in the Flows of Media,” In_Visible Culture, no.8 (2004) go to:
http://www.rochester.edu/in_visible_culture/
Issue_8/hamilton.html

Her current book project examines various strategic uses of commodity excess (including its trash) in the postwar assemblage practices of Alberto Burri, Robert Rauschenberg, and Arman. This project is both an historical contextualization of contemporary tendencies towards mixed media as contemporary consumer culture becomes international, and an examination of consumer subjectivity in current art practice. She is also currently working on a project about the recent history of appropriation as it becomes a widespread strategy for artists concerned with globalization.

She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the following topics: survey of global art and visual culture since 1945, contemporary theory and criticism, representing identity in contemporary art, mixed media in contemporary art, installation art, and avant-garde film and video.