Ronald Rael is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the department Art Practice. Prior to joining the faculty at Berkeley he was the co-director of Clemson University’s Charles E. Daniel Center for Building Research and Urban Studies in Genova, Italy, and coordinator of Clemson’s Core […]
Steve Johnson’s career in user-centered design started as a Skills Trainer with autistic children. By redesigning and tweaking everyday objects for children with mild to severe autism, he developed a design philosophy focused on observing behaviors, mapping patterns, identifying goals and testing key assumptions. After Pacific Autism, Steve worked in interactive gaming with Electronic Arts, […]
Hito Steyerl is one of the most critically acclaimed artists working in the field of video today. Holding a PhD in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and teaching at the Universität der Künste Berlin, she is also a frequent contributer to E-Flux magazine, a lecturer, and an engaged thinker on the topics […]
Nicholas de Monchaux is an architect, urban designer, and theorist. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo (MIT Press, 2011), an architectural and urban history of the Apollo Spacesuit. This book was the winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize. The work of […]
Lawrence Rinder has been director of BAMPFA since 2008. His previous positions include Dean of California College of the Arts, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator of Contemporary Art at the Whitney Museum, founding director at CCA Wattis, and Assistant Director and Curator for Twentieth Century Art at BAMPFA. He received his B.A. in art from […]
Nicholas Mathew has been awarded degrees from Oxford University and Cornell University. Before joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he returned to Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow in Music at Jesus College. His published work has focused on four issues: relationships between music and politics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the place of […]
Sarah Thornton is a writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture. Described by the Washington Post as “the Jane Goodall of the art world” and by the Financial Times as a “skillfully nuanced” writer whose prose is characterized by “verve, insight and authenticity,” Thornton is the author of three books and hundreds of articles. Her narrative […]