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Creative Assembly Assembling on Mondays
Creative Assembly Assembling on Mondays Laura Belik on the Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | Public (Re)Assembly talk series On Public (Re)Assembly with Shannon Jackson (Arts + Design and TDPS, Rhetoric), joined by Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art, ARC), Stephen Best (English), Ken Goldberg (Industrial Engineering), Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture, BCNM), and Deirdre English (Journalism) As I […]
Curator, researcher, producer and story-teller
Curator, researcher, producer and story-teller Laura Belik on the Arts + Design Wednesdays @ BAMPFA | Curation Across Disciplines talk Curating Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos with Apsara DiQuinzio It is always a great pleasure to have the opportunity to participate in a lecture with a curator that has a show on view. This week’s “Curation Across […]
“Collaborations, Co-operatives, Coalition-building” Working Group
“Collaborations, Co-operatives, Coalition-building” Working Group About The 2017-18 Critical Theory Working Group “Collaborations, Co-Operatives, Coalition-Building”: Composer, historian, and civil rights activist Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon once asserted, “if you’re in a coalition and you’re comfortable, you know it’s not a broad enough coalition.” Echoing Reagon’s sentiment, Judith Butler asserted in a recent public discussion […]
Reflections on a vibrant year with our arts and design community
Reflections on a vibrant year with our arts and design community By Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts + Design Jun 1, 2017 It’s been quite a year—for our country, for UC Berkeley, and for the Arts + Design Initiative. We have navigated changes in our political landscape and confronted the challenge of maintaining […]
Future of Cultural Criticism | Technology, Race, Popular Culture
Future of Cultural Criticism | Technology, Race, Popular Culture Art + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Feb. 27, 2017 By: Tonika Sealy-Thompson Through this series my peers and I have been given chance to think together with some of the sharpest commentators on contemporary culture. We glimpsed the dizzying possibilities […]
Gender Identity and Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in conversation
Gender Identity and Memoir: Judith Butler and Maggie Nelson in conversation Art + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Jan 30, 2017 By: Tonika Sealy-Thompson It was January 30th. By 6:30 pm the queue was already wrapped around the railing of the Berkeley Arts Museum and Pacific Film Archive. It […]
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA Video Archvie
This semester the Arts + Design Initiative presented a Spring 2017 season of lectures as part of our program Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA. Lectures were organized with multiple units on campus including the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, Arts Research Center, and The Future of Cultural Criticism. Leaders and educators in arts and design […]
California Countercultures Video Archive
This spring 2017 semester at UC Berkeley featured an engaging and informative lecture series Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures, organized by Big Ideas Courses and the Arts + Design Initiative. The course and embedded lecture series, which will occur again in Fall 2017, is open to the public each Wednesday at noon in BAMPFA’s Theater. […]
ARC Fellows: The Role of Visual Experience in Pictorial Representation
The Role of Visual Experience in Pictorial Representation Submitted by our 2017 ARC Fellow Team: Caitlin Dolan (Philosophy) and Whitney Davis (History of Art) Why do pictures made in different places and at different times look different? This question might sound so naïve as to not be worth addressing – after all, why wouldn’t our […]