2011 ARC FELLOWS
In 2011, the following faculty-graduate student teams were named ARC Fellows:
Rebecca Gaydos, a third-year PhD student in the English department, studies modernist and contemporary American poetry. She is interested in how non-sub-
jective accounts of expression recast our understanding of poetry's materiality. Professor Charles Altieri teaches English literature, was a previous director of the Arts Research Center, and does much of his work at the intersection between visual and verbal art.
Christopher Patrick Miller is a second-year graduate student in the English department. His research is based primarily in the poetry and poetics of the 19th and 20th centuries and draws upon various philosophic and critical traditions to understand the relationship between artistic practice, experience, history, and materiality. Lyn Hejinian is a poet, essayist, and translator. Her best known published books include My Life, Saga/Circus, and a collection of essays titled The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press). From 1982 to 1998 she was co-editor (with Barrett Watten) of Poetics Journal. Hejinian is a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets and a Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley.
Chris E. Vargas is an MFA candidate in UC Berkeley's Art Practice department. With collaborator Greg Youmans he creates the video sitcom series Falling In Love... with Chris and Greg, and with Eric Stanley he is the co-director of the movie Homotopia (2006), as well as its forthcoming feature-length sequel Criminal Queers (2010). Professor Anne Walsh is a visual artist whose conceptually-driven works most often take the form of video, works on paper, sound installations
and spoken word audio CDs. From 2001 to 2005, her collaborative audio project Art After Death centered on the overlaps of metaphysics and art history. From
2004-2007, she produced works from a massive commercial sound effects library, exploring the rhetorical and sculptural dimensions of these complex cultural archives. In recent video projects, she continues to work with specialist performers and craftspeople to focus on the residue of fantasy left behind at "historical" sites and monuments.
Marisha Farnsworth explores the intersection between art and architecture. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from The Cooper Union and is currently
pursuing a Master of Architecture Degree from the College of Environmental Design at UCBerkeley. Ronald Rael is an architect, author, and Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. He earned his Master of Architecture degree at Columbia University in the City of New York.
Kris Fallon is a PhD Student in the Department of Film and Media as well as a Designated Emphasis student at the Berkeley Center for New Media. His dissertation analyzes the convergence of political documentary film and interactive digital media in the post-9/11 era. Ken Goldberg is an artist and professor in the College of Engineering and the School of Information.
Robert Glass is pursuing a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the College of Environmental Design, where he is a graduate student instructor for
Introduction to Visual Representation and Fundamentals of Landscape Design studios. His interest of people's perception of built and natural environments inspires
art that engages society with their surroundings. Professor Chip Sullivan is an artist and landscape architect who maintains a lifelong commitment to exploring the potential of the garden to create sustainable environments. Sullivan has devoted his career to promoting landscape architecture as an art form illustrating the delicatebalance between humans and nature.