Caltech-Huntington Artist in Residence

The Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture was established in 2019 with funding under a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Designed as a collaboration between HSS and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens (The Huntington), the CHVC program includes undergraduate course offerings, postdoctoral instructorships, artists residencies with professional visiting artists, and a wide range of programming activities—with the aim of fostering new conversations not only among humanists but also between humanists and scientists.

As Artist in Residence at Caltech for the Winter term 2022-23, Caitlin Berrigan will conduct research on deep sea imaginaries, hydrothermal vents, rare earth mining, and computational photography. As a Guest Lecturer, she will teach a class on worldbuilding as a method in her own practice, and as a tool of fiction, art-making, statecraft, and activism.