Et al. presents Carrie Hott - Years Ago opening January 16th.

Carrie Hott is an artist, designer, and educator who works in multiple mediums, ranging from installation and video to websites and publications. Her work focuses on opaque technological systems and how these impact on our sense of self, time, and agency. Through her work she sets up shared experiences that question how technological infrastructure is made legible, and by whom.

She collaborates widely and values multiple perspectives, voices, and entry points in her work in order to best reflect systems that are larger than all of us, and impact each of us in unique ways. She currently co-stewards the project How To Slow Internet, which is focused on collaborative experimentation with small scale communication technology in order to better consider the large scale communications infrastructure on which we increasingly depend.

Carrie is currently assistant professor of Graphic Design in the Studio Art department in the Eskenazi School of Art, Design, and Architecture at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, after previous teaching appointments at the University of San Francisco, University of California, Berkeley and San Jose State University, among others. In addition to her work as an educator, she is a frequent curator and organizer. She is a co-founder of the artist run spaces Royal NoneSuch Gallery in Oakland, California (2009-2019) and Ortega y Gasset in Brooklyn, New York (2011-present). From 2018-2024 she was on the Board of Directors at Headlands Center for the Arts.