Fatimah Tuggar: Bill & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor

Fatimah Tuggar, Light Cream Pods (animatronic sculptures), 2024, calabashes, flat screens, architectural façades, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, animatronic sculptures, animations, video. Courtesy of BintaZarah Studios

Join us for a lecture by artist Fatimah Tuggar followed by an audience Q & A.

Doors open at 5:45 p.m. Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Explore the Visiting Artists Program homepage for visitor information, recordings of past events, and more.

Interdisciplinary artist Fatimah Tuggar uses dialogue and discovery among disciplines and cultures as a central artmaking approach. In her work, technology is a medium and subject that serves as a metaphor for power dynamics combining objects, images, and sounds from diverse geographies and histories to comment on how technology impacts local and global realities. Her work has been exhibited in more than 25 countries. She has received accolades including the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts and an A. W. Mellon Research Fellowship. Her ideas and artworks have been featured in publications including Hirmer Publishers’ monograph Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons. Tuggar has contributed to the global discourse on contemporary art through talks, workshops, and publications such as 72 Assignments: The Foundation Course in Art and Design Today, and the Visual Communications Journal issue on "The Ethics of Images." She is an associate professor of AI in the Arts: Art & Global Equity at the University of Florida. 

Established in 2006 by a generous gift from Bill and Stephanie Sick, this distinguished visiting professorship enables internationally renowned artists and designers to visit and teach at SAIC.

This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. The auditorium is wheelchair accessible and hearing assisted devices are available. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access.