Research Interests
Interface Aesthetics and Theory, Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament, History of Technology, History of Photography & Film, Air Force, Critical Geography, Practice-Based Research
Research Description
Working in collaborative and cross-disciplinary modes, Kevin produces artworks, archives, and scholarship on such subjects as race and space, public memory, history of technology, and state violence. Recognition for his work has included grants from the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities, presentation at conferences across Europe and North America (ISEA/ DEAF/CAA/NCA/ACM-SIGCHI), publication in edited journals and anthologies (Routledge/CCCS/Palm Press/UCLA), and invited residencies (Banff/USC-IML/Bratislava).
As an educator, administrator, and researcher, Kevin is focused on integration of practice-based, historical and theoretical approaches to learning about technological mediation. This work has included the development of several interdisciplinary project-based courses, workshops, and initiatives for students and faculty from the sciences, arts and humanities, with emphases on prototyping, reflection, and methodologies of collaboration.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visual Arts Program. S.M. Visual Studies '00
Rhode Island School of Design. BFA Painting '96
Courses Taught
Digital Imaging, Time-based and Interactive Media; Critical Theory and History of Media; Collaboration
Additional Campus Affiliations
Dean, College of Fine and Applied Arts
Professor, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Humanities Research Institute, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation
External Links
Recent Publications
Hamilton, K. (2021). Humus and the Humble Leader. In R. Modrak, & J. Vander Broek (Eds.), Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary Acts (pp. 95). Belt Publishing.
Hamilton, K., & O'Gorman, N. (2021). Seeing Experimental Imperialism in the Nuclear Pacific. Media+Environment, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.1525/001c.18496
Hamilton, K., Cardenas, E., & Rodegher, S. (2021). The Future of Arts Integrative Work: Creating New Avenues for Advancing and Expanding the Field. In Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies Routledge.
Hamilton, K., & O'Gorman, N. (2021). Where Is the Nuclear Sovereign? In M. Bernard-Donals, & K. Jensen (Eds.), Responding to the Sacred: An Inquiry into the Limits of Rhetoric (pp. 172-198). Penn State University Press. https://doi.org/10.5325/j.ctv1g80933.12
Hamilton, K., & O’Gorman, N. (2019). Engineering Geographies: The Arctic in the Cold War Air Defense Films of the US Air Force. In L. Kaganovsky, S. MacKenzie, & A. W. Stenport (Eds.), Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos (pp. 133-154). Indiana University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcj2wqq.11