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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 delicate
balance between humans and nature.
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