Visiting Artists-in-Residence


Each year ARC is joined by prominent artists who are invited to campus for extended visits to pursue their own creative work (original research), collaborate with students and faculty, and participate in ARC associated campus seminars. In cooperation with other units on campus, these visitors also teach on campus and present their work to the general public in various forums.

Residencies of three days to three months give visiting artists space and time to pursue their work; allow students to work with leading practitioners in their fields; stimulate and challenge faculty artists and scholars; and give local community members the opportunity to engage with important artists (and vice versa). Artists visiting Berkeley find particularly valuable the opportunity to interact not only with other artists, but with the University’s critics and curators, and with scholars from the humanities and sciences. Over the past 22 years, ARC has been honored welcome 26+ artists, writers, composers, directors, playwrights, filmmakers, musicians, and choreographers to campus.

Fall 2023: Tanya Lukin Linklater (Artist/Choreographer)
Spring 2023: Dillon Chitto (Playwright)
Spring 2022: Dario Robleto (Artist & materialist poet)
2018-2019: Susannah Sayler & Edward Morris (Art+Science)
2017: Bull.Miletic – Synne T. Bull & Dragan Miletic (Art+Science)
2014 : Rick Lowe (Artist/Community Organizer)
2012-2013: Stan Lai (Playwright, director)
2009-2010: Sean San José & Erika Chong Shuch (Campo Santo Co) 
2008-2009 : Alex Harvey (Writer/director) & John Gromada (composer)
2008-2009: Pauline Malefane (opera singer, film actress and writer)
2008-2009: Philip Kan Gotanda (Playwright, filmmaker)
2008-2009: Joan Jeanrenaud (Composer and cellist)
2007-2008: Marianne Weems (Artistic Director)
2006-2007: Shannon Flattery (Artistic Director)
2005-2006: Reggie Wilson (Choreographer)
2004-2005: Ignacio Rábago (Artist)
2003-2004: Helen Mirra (Artist)
2002-2003: Fred Wilson (Artist)
2002-2003: David Rabinowitch (Artist)
2001-2002: Komar & Melamid (Artists)
2002-2003: Henry Threadgill (Musician/composer)
2001: Tim Miller (performance artist/activist )


Fall 2023 ARC Artist in Residence

Tanya Lukin Linklater

Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth.

November 1 – 4, 2023

OPEN REHEARSALS AT BAMPFA

Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, and co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanitiesthe Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, Native American Student Development, the Department of Canadian Studies, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Native American Studies Program

Tanya Lukin Linklater, This moment an endurance to the end forever, 2020 (video still)

Artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performances, works for camera, installations, and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. Tanya Lukin Linklater will be the Arts Research Center’s Fall 2023 Artist-in Residence, from October 31st – Nov 4, 2023. She will be performing Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. at BAMPFA Nov 1 – 4pm, a cyclical series of dance rehearsals with Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, in response to the Duane Linklater exhibition mymotherside. The public is invited to view the in-situ, unfolding processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation.

Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth.

Open rehearsals at BAMPFA:
Wed Nov 1: 3 – 7pm
Thu Nov 2:  3 – 7pm 
Fri Nov 3:  2 – 5pm 
Sat Nov 4:  2 – 5pm 

Artist/choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater will lead a series of open rehearsals with dance artists, Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert, entitled Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth. These sessions respond to the cyclical, seasonal, affective, and formal qualities of selected works in Duane Linklater: mymothersside, at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The public is invited to view the in-situ, unfolding processes of embodiment, gesture, and sensation.

Tanya Lukin Linklater is compelled by audiences viewing open rehearsals, or the process of making dances. Through experimentation, structured improvisation, prompts from objects in exhibition, place, and writings, she facilitates a choreographic process. In 2022 and 2023 Lukin Linklater is staying with this slow unfolding of making dances, refusing to culminate these processes in finished performances. In this way, she centres the intellectual, affective, and physical labor—and relational aspects—of making dances.

Through collaboration, her work reckons with histories that affect Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences, (home)lands, and ideas. She continues to write in relation to what she has come to call felt structures. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. In summer 2024 her iterative solo exhibition, My mind is with the weather, will be presented at the Wexner Centre for the Arts. Tanya Lukin Linklater is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. She is the recipient of the Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award and The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Slow Scrape, her first collection of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, Montréal (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks, Vancouver (2022). Her Sugpiaq homelands, Afognak and Port Lions, are in southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg aki in Ontario. Visit her website: https://www.tanyalukinlinklater.com/

In addition to a series of four open rehearsal performances, Tanya Lukin Linklater will be speaking with students on campus, and mentoring a Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies graduate student.

Free & open to all Berkeley students, staff and faculty with your Cal1 Card, and to the public with your entrance to BAMPFA


More info here!

 


Spring 2023 Visiting Artist-in-Residence: Dillon Chitto


Award-winning playwright Dillon Chitto
will be ARC’s visiting Artist-in-Residence for spring 2023. His February 6 – 9 visit to Berkeley coincides with the world premiere of his play Pueblo Revolt, produced by AlterTheater on site at ARC from Feb 2-12. 

Chitto is Native American from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Pueblos of Laguna and Isleta. Very much a product of his environment he grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he learned the importance of art, culture, and traditions from his family and members of his community. In his playwriting, he connects these ideas using storytelling techniques learned throughout his life. Dillon is presently in Chicago, Illinois and is currently a company member of BoHo Theatre where he is the Literary Manager.

His first play Bingo Hall, developed by Native Voices at The Autry and presented during their 2017 Festival of New Plays, was given a world premiere at Native Voices in March 2018 in Los Angeles. He was selected as Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s 2017 winning playwright. Bingo Hall had a reading presented by the Global Voices theatre project as part of 2019 Origins Festival of First Nations at the British Library in London. He was also featured in the 2019 Adaptation Festival at Theater Above the Law in Chicago, Illinois. Dillon was also awarded Sundance Institute’s Uprise Grant in 2022, and Theatre Bay Area’s Rella Lossy award for best new script. 

During his stay, Dillon Chitto will have a conversation with Indigenous scholar Laurie Arnold and ARC Director Director Beth Piatote on Theater as a Site of Public History. He will also meet with students at the Native Community Center on campus, as well as with Philip Gotanda’s Playrighting class. 


IF YOU MISSED IT, YOU CAN STILL SEE

Pueblo Revolt, by Dillon Chitto

World Premiere of Rella Lossy Award Winning Play

Feb 16th – 26th, 2023

Production by AlterTheater
at Arts Research Center

More info here!

Production co-sponsors: Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and Art Works Downtown, with special thanks to production supporters: Horizons, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, California Arts Council, Zellerbach Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Art, UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies

Review in SF CHRONICLE!


 

VISITING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Each year ARC affiliated faculty are joined by prominent or emerging artists who are invited to campus for extended visits to pursue their own creative work (original research), collaborate with students and faculty, and participate in the ARC faculty seminar. In cooperation with other units on campus, these visitors also teach on campus and present their work to the general public in various forums. 

Residencies of one to three months give visiting artists space and time to pursue their work; allow students to work with leading practitioners in their fields; stimulate and challenge faculty artists and scholars; and give local community members the opportunity to engage with important artists (and vice versa). Artists visiting Berkeley find particularly valuable the opportunity to interact not only with other artists, but with the University’s critics and curators, and with scholars from the humanities and sciences. Over the past 20 years, ARC has been honored to welcome the following 26 practitioners:

2023                Playwright Dillon Chitto, with staging of Pueblo Revolt

2022                Artist and materialist poet Dario Robleto

2018-2019      Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris)

2017                Inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Bull.Miletic  (Synne T. Bull and Dragan Miletic)

2014                Artist and community organizer Rick Lowe

2012-2013       Playwright, director and Berkeley alum Stan Lai

2009-2010       Campo Santo company members Sean San José and Erika Chong Shuch of Campo Santo 

2008-2009       Writer/director Alex Harvey and composer John Gromada

2008-2009       South African opera singer, film actress and writer Pauline Malefane

2008-2009       Playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda

2008-2009       Composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud

2007-2008       The Builders Association Artistic director Marianne Weems

2006-2007       Touchable Stories Artistic director Shannon Flattery

2005-2006       New York-based choreographer Reggie Wilson

2004-2005       Spanish-born, Denmark-based artist Ignacio Rábago

2003-2004       Fine artist Helen Mirra

2002-2003       Fine artist Fred Wilson

2002-2003       Sculptor David Rabinowitch

2001-2002       New York-based, Russian-born conceptual artists Komar & Melamid

2002-2003       Pioneering New York musician/composer Henry Threadgill

2001                “Pilot” ARC residency with Los Angeles-based performance artist/activist Tim Miller


Past ARC Residencies

Spring 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence: Dario Robleto


Dario Robleto
is an artist, researcher, writer, and teacher based in Houston, Texas. Throughout his twenty-five career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences. Tapping into multiple creative traditions ranging from astrophysics to cardiology to poetry to DJ culture, his work has focused with particular intensity on theories and practices of recording and on the material and emotional structures of intergenerational relay and memory. Robleto has exhibited his work extensively since 1997 at museums such as the Menil Collection, Houston, TX, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab, Krista Tippet’s On Being, and the New York Times. He has been a visiting scholar and artist-in-residence at institutions such as the Smithsonian Museum of American History; the SETI Institute; the Robert Rauschenberg Residency; and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2015 he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant to “Breakthrough Message”—a multi-national effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate if the current search for intelligent life beyond Earth is successful. In 2016 he was appointed as the Texas State Artist Laureate. In 2020, he was a research consultant to the popular science television series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which aired on National Geographic and Fox. He is currently serving as Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and the Block Museum of Art and is working on his first book, Life Signs: The Tender Science of the Pulsewave, published through the University of Chicago Press and co-authored with art historian Jennifer Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard.

During his stay, Dario Robleto will give an artist’s talk in conversation with ARC Director Julia Bryan-Wilson, meet with students in the seminar, Feminist and Queer Theory in Art, as well as conduct studio visits with MFA students in the Department of Art Practice.

Image: Kevin Frady


Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

Tuesday, March 15th 2022
4:00 – 5:30pm PST

In-Person, Maude Fife Rm 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Video of lecture here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory


Image: Dario Robleto,
Elegies of Proxima b, 2009. Various cut and polished seashells, urchin spines, green tusks, squilla claws, butterfly wings, cut paper, colored powder pigments, colored plastic beads, acrylic domes, brass rod, colored and mirrored Plexiglas, glue, acrylic on wood. 48” x 18” x 18” overall with base and vitrine

Studio Visits with MFA Students

Dario Robleto had the opportunity to do on-site studio and project visits with MFA Art Practice candidates (from left) Juniper Harrower and Samuel Wildman, as well as Fei Pan –– our first since the pandemic began.  (images: Fred Dewitt)

2018-2019 Art + Science Residency: Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris

Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris) work with photography, video, writing, installation and open source projects. A primary concern of their work is to engage both contemporary efforts to develop ecological consciousness and the opportunities that art offers for social movements. In 2006 they co-founded The Canary Project – a studio that produces visual media and artwork that deepen public understanding of climate change and other ecological issues. Sayler/Morris have exhibited internationally at many venues, including both science and art museums. Some past exhibitions have featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. They have been awarded the David Brower Center’s Art / Act Award (2016), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2015), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2014) the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2009). They are currently teaching in the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University, where they co-founded The Canary Lab. Their archives are collected by the Nevada Museum of Art / Reno, Center for Art and Environment.

The Project: Water Gold Soil: The American River

Water Gold Soil: The American River tells the story of a single flow of water in present-day California, from origin point to end-use. The project is both a form of historiography and a form of allegory – using this swath of geography to investigate our present Age of Extraction. With Water Gold Soil, the artists examine this less visible, technological reality of California rivers by following a single flow of water – the South Fork of the American River – from its origin near Echo Summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains to its end use in the agricultural economy in California’s Central Valley. This is the flow of water where gold was first discovered in California, and the project explores how the state of California remains haunted by its violent and colonial beginnings of the state of California.

The project consists of an ongoing assembly of original photographic and video works, archival images, writing, maps and other media. All of the elements are combined to produce installations that take the viewer through a series of conceptual frameworks. The diversity of form and materials in the project stems from an appreciation for the challenges of representing the nexus of relationships–ecological, political, and historical–that make up a river. A book of the project will be published in spring 2019.

While at Berkeley, the artists will continue to investigate the way ideology informs the use of technology in water management and allocation.  They will research current technological innovations that help prepare California for future water shortages, particularly in light of climate change and increased demand. They will also research what ways of seeing the world might lead to a more equitable and sustainable use of existing and emerging water technologies (e.g. the commons, indigenous philosophies, critiques of neo-liberalism, history of water law). They are preparing additional exhibitions of the work to follow the book, as well as a related made-for-TV documentary series that they are producing along with Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and director Stefan Schaefer.

About the Art + Science Program:

The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), in partnership with the Arts Research Center (ARC), hosts an artist-in-residence program that will focus on nurturing exchanges between art, design, technology, science, and engineering at UC Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and across the region. More information can be found here.


2017 Visiting Artists: Bull.Miletic

Bull.Miletic were the inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence at University of California, Berkeley, co-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. While on campus, they worked on a joint artistic research project on the aerial view in motion at the Department for Media and Communication, University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Learn about their project here.

For the last two years, Bull.Miletic has been engaged in The Aerial View in Motion, an artistic research project facilitated by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. The project focuses on the emergence of a new visual paradigm caused by the recent surge of aerial imaging technologies such as satellites and drones. At UC Berkeley, Bull.Miletic will be working on the concluding segment of this project, which will focus on exploring a variety of scientific, cultural, and historic visualizations of earth in a new media installation. Taking the Pale Blue Dot and Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Spaceship Earth as a starting point, their intention during their residency is to explore the relationships between the “objective” ortophotomapped representation of the earth through visualized data sets and the affective volume-image of our planet as a vibrant ecosystem that “spins in space traveling 60,000 miles an hour, in the midst of rich non-human life as well as the intensive relations to other planets and the Sun”. The resulting artwork is scheduled to premiere at the 2018 Meta.Morf Biennial for Art & Technology.

About the Art + Science Residency Program: The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), in partnership with the Arts Research Center (ARC), is initiating an artist-in-residence program that will focus on nurturing art/technology/science/engineering exchanges at UC Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and across the region. The program opened with a pilot residency in Fall 2017, featuring the artist duo Bull.Miletic: Synne T. Bull (University of Oslo, Norway) and Dragan Miletic (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).


2014 Visiting Artist: Rick Lowe

Rick Lowe. Courtesy of Creative Time.

Rick Lowe. Courtesy of Creative Time.

The Arts Research Center was delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist and community organizer Rick Lowe. Lowe’s Project Row Houses, founded two decades ago, has created a blueprint for using urban renewal practices within an artistic context to enrich lives. Located in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American neighborhoods, Lowe’s Project Row Houses was founded with 22 houses on a block-and-a-half and today occupies six blocks that are home to 40 properties, including exhibition and residency spaces for artists, office spaces, a community gallery, a park, low-income residential and commercial spaces, and houses in which young mothers can live for a year and receive support as they work to finish school and get their bearings.

By committing to what has been called a “politics of staying,” Lowe has been able to develop Project Row Houses into a wide ranging social service center, a center for ideas, and an influential artist residency program. The organization has developed over the past twenty years to become a site of experimentation for new economic models in sustaining social and artistic communities, particularly within the community of socially-engaged art.  Lowe has been honored with the Rudy Bruner Award in Urban Excellence; the AIA Keystone Award; the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Governors Award; Loeb Fellow at Harvard University; Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art Architecture; USA Booth Fellowship; and the Creative Time Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.

During his time on campus, Lowe presented the 2014 Regents Lecture “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial” on Monday, November 17 (as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium) and participated in “Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice” on Friday, November 21, in addition to meeting with students, faculty and community organizers throughout the Bay Area involved in socially-engaged art practices.

For complete information, please visit ARC’s past event page


 

For more information on artist in residence pre-2014, please visit ARC’s past event archives, here.

Spring 2023 Visiting Artist-in-Residence: Dillon Chitto


Award-winning playwright Dillon Chitto
will be ARC’s visiting Artist-in-Residence for spring 2023. His February 6 – 9 visit to Berkeley coincides with the world premiere of his play Pueblo Revolt, produced by AlterTheater on site at ARC from Feb 2-12. 

Chitto is Native American from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Pueblos of Laguna and Isleta. Very much a product of his environment he grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he learned the importance of art, culture, and traditions from his family and members of his community. In his playwriting, he connects these ideas using storytelling techniques learned throughout his life. Dillon is presently in Chicago, Illinois and is currently a company member of BoHo Theatre where he is the Literary Manager.

His first play Bingo Hall, developed by Native Voices at The Autry and presented during their 2017 Festival of New Plays, was given a world premiere at Native Voices in March 2018 in Los Angeles. He was selected as Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program’s 2017 winning playwright. Bingo Hall had a reading presented by the Global Voices theatre project as part of 2019 Origins Festival of First Nations at the British Library in London. He was also featured in the 2019 Adaptation Festival at Theater Above the Law in Chicago, Illinois. Dillon was also awarded Sundance Institute’s Uprise Grant in 2022, and Theatre Bay Area’s Rella Lossy award for best new script. 

During his stay, Dillon Chitto will have a conversation with Indigenous scholar Laurie Arnold and ARC Director Director Beth Piatote on Theater as a Site of Public History. He will also meet with students at the Native Community Center on campus, as well as with Philip Gotanda’s Playrighting class. 


IF YOU MISSED IT, YOU CAN STILL SEE

Pueblo Revolt, by Dillon Chitto

World Premiere of Rella Lossy Award Winning Play

Feb 16th – 26th, 2023

Production by AlterTheater
at Arts Research Center

More info here!

Production co-sponsors: Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley and Art Works Downtown, with special thanks to production supporters: Horizons, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, California Arts Council, Zellerbach Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Art, UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies

Review in SF CHRONICLE!


 

Theater as a Site of Public History: 

Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold

Monday, February 6, 2023

Read more here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of English, Ethnic Studies, History, and Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, the Center for Race & Gender, Native American Student Developmentand AlterTheater Ensemble.


 

 

Dillon Chitto Visits with Playwriting Class

During his stay in Berkeley, Dillon Chitto had the opportunity to visit with students in Philip Gotanda’s playwriting class, in the Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies Dept. 
(image: 2023, ARC)


 

 

VISITING ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM

Each year ARC affiliated faculty are joined by prominent or emerging artists who are invited to campus for extended visits to pursue their own creative work (original research), collaborate with students and faculty, and participate in the ARC faculty seminar. In cooperation with other units on campus, these visitors also teach on campus and present their work to the general public in various forums. 

Residencies of one to three months give visiting artists space and time to pursue their work; allow students to work with leading practitioners in their fields; stimulate and challenge faculty artists and scholars; and give local community members the opportunity to engage with important artists (and vice versa). Artists visiting Berkeley find particularly valuable the opportunity to interact not only with other artists, but with the University’s critics and curators, and with scholars from the humanities and sciences. Over the past 20 years, ARC has been honored to welcome the following 26 practitioners:

2023                Playwright Dillon Chitto, with staging of Pueblo Revolt

2022                Artist and materialist poet Dario Robleto

2018-2019      Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris)

2017                Inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence with Bull.Miletic  (Synne T. Bull and Dragan Miletic)

2014                Artist and community organizer Rick Lowe

2012-2013       Playwright, director and Berkeley alum Stan Lai

2009-2010       Campo Santo company members Sean San José and Erika Chong Shuch of Campo Santo 

2008-2009       Writer/director Alex Harvey and composer John Gromada

2008-2009       South African opera singer, film actress and writer Pauline Malefane

2008-2009       Playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda

2008-2009       Composer and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud

2007-2008       The Builders Association Artistic director Marianne Weems

2006-2007       Touchable Stories Artistic director Shannon Flattery

2005-2006       New York-based choreographer Reggie Wilson

2004-2005       Spanish-born, Denmark-based artist Ignacio Rábago

2003-2004       Fine artist Helen Mirra

2002-2003       Fine artist Fred Wilson

2002-2003       Sculptor David Rabinowitch

2001-2002       New York-based, Russian-born conceptual artists Komar & Melamid

2002-2003       Pioneering New York musician/composer Henry Threadgill

2001                “Pilot” ARC residency with Los Angeles-based performance artist/activist Tim Miller


Past ARC Residencies

Spring 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence: Dario Robleto


Dario Robleto
is an artist, researcher, writer, and teacher based in Houston, Texas. Throughout his twenty-five career, Robleto has sought to cultivate rigorous, mutually transformative interactions between the arts, humanities, and sciences. Tapping into multiple creative traditions ranging from astrophysics to cardiology to poetry to DJ culture, his work has focused with particular intensity on theories and practices of recording and on the material and emotional structures of intergenerational relay and memory. Robleto has exhibited his work extensively since 1997 at museums such as the Menil Collection, Houston, TX, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work has been profiled in numerous publications and media including Radiolab, Krista Tippet’s On Being, and the New York Times. He has been a visiting scholar and artist-in-residence at institutions such as the Smithsonian Museum of American History; the SETI Institute; the Robert Rauschenberg Residency; and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. In 2015 he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant to “Breakthrough Message”—a multi-national effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate if the current search for intelligent life beyond Earth is successful. In 2016 he was appointed as the Texas State Artist Laureate. In 2020, he was a research consultant to the popular science television series, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, which aired on National Geographic and Fox. He is currently serving as Artist-at-Large at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and the Block Museum of Art and is working on his first book, Life Signs: The Tender Science of the Pulsewave, published through the University of Chicago Press and co-authored with art historian Jennifer Roberts, the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard.

During his stay, Dario Robleto will give an artist’s talk in conversation with ARC Director Julia Bryan-Wilson, meet with students in the seminar, Feminist and Queer Theory in Art, as well as conduct studio visits with MFA students in the Department of Art Practice.

Image: Kevin Frady


Artist Talk with Dario Robleto
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson

Tuesday, March 15th 2022
4:00 – 5:30pm PST

In-Person, Maude Fife Rm 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

Video of lecture here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory


Image: Dario Robleto,
Elegies of Proxima b, 2009. Various cut and polished seashells, urchin spines, green tusks, squilla claws, butterfly wings, cut paper, colored powder pigments, colored plastic beads, acrylic domes, brass rod, colored and mirrored Plexiglas, glue, acrylic on wood. 48” x 18” x 18” overall with base and vitrine

Studio Visits with MFA Students

Dario Robleto had the opportunity to do on-site studio and project visits with MFA Art Practice candidates (from left) Juniper Harrower and Samuel Wildman, as well as Fei Pan –– our first since the pandemic began.  (images: Fred Dewitt)

2018-2019 Art + Science Residency: Susannah Sayler and Ed Morris

Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler / Morris) work with photography, video, writing, installation and open source projects. A primary concern of their work is to engage both contemporary efforts to develop ecological consciousness and the opportunities that art offers for social movements. In 2006 they co-founded The Canary Project – a studio that produces visual media and artwork that deepen public understanding of climate change and other ecological issues. Sayler/Morris have exhibited internationally at many venues, including both science and art museums. Some past exhibitions have featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Harvard Museum of Natural History, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. They have been awarded the David Brower Center’s Art / Act Award (2016), the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency (2015), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2014) the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (2009). They are currently teaching in the Transmedia Department at Syracuse University, where they co-founded The Canary Lab. Their archives are collected by the Nevada Museum of Art / Reno, Center for Art and Environment.

The Project: Water Gold Soil: The American River

Water Gold Soil: The American River tells the story of a single flow of water in present-day California, from origin point to end-use. The project is both a form of historiography and a form of allegory – using this swath of geography to investigate our present Age of Extraction. With Water Gold Soil, the artists examine this less visible, technological reality of California rivers by following a single flow of water – the South Fork of the American River – from its origin near Echo Summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains to its end use in the agricultural economy in California’s Central Valley. This is the flow of water where gold was first discovered in California, and the project explores how the state of California remains haunted by its violent and colonial beginnings of the state of California.

The project consists of an ongoing assembly of original photographic and video works, archival images, writing, maps and other media. All of the elements are combined to produce installations that take the viewer through a series of conceptual frameworks. The diversity of form and materials in the project stems from an appreciation for the challenges of representing the nexus of relationships–ecological, political, and historical–that make up a river. A book of the project will be published in spring 2019.

While at Berkeley, the artists will continue to investigate the way ideology informs the use of technology in water management and allocation.  They will research current technological innovations that help prepare California for future water shortages, particularly in light of climate change and increased demand. They will also research what ways of seeing the world might lead to a more equitable and sustainable use of existing and emerging water technologies (e.g. the commons, indigenous philosophies, critiques of neo-liberalism, history of water law). They are preparing additional exhibitions of the work to follow the book, as well as a related made-for-TV documentary series that they are producing along with Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) and director Stefan Schaefer.

About the Art + Science Program:

The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), in partnership with the Arts Research Center (ARC), hosts an artist-in-residence program that will focus on nurturing exchanges between art, design, technology, science, and engineering at UC Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and across the region. More information can be found here.


2017 Visiting Artists: Bull.Miletic

Bull.Miletic were the inaugural Art + Science Artists-in-Residence at University of California, Berkeley, co-sponsored by Arts Research Center and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society. While on campus, they worked on a joint artistic research project on the aerial view in motion at the Department for Media and Communication, University of Oslo and Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Learn about their project here.

For the last two years, Bull.Miletic has been engaged in The Aerial View in Motion, an artistic research project facilitated by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. The project focuses on the emergence of a new visual paradigm caused by the recent surge of aerial imaging technologies such as satellites and drones. At UC Berkeley, Bull.Miletic will be working on the concluding segment of this project, which will focus on exploring a variety of scientific, cultural, and historic visualizations of earth in a new media installation. Taking the Pale Blue Dot and Buckminster Fuller’s notion of Spaceship Earth as a starting point, their intention during their residency is to explore the relationships between the “objective” ortophotomapped representation of the earth through visualized data sets and the affective volume-image of our planet as a vibrant ecosystem that “spins in space traveling 60,000 miles an hour, in the midst of rich non-human life as well as the intensive relations to other planets and the Sun”. The resulting artwork is scheduled to premiere at the 2018 Meta.Morf Biennial for Art & Technology.

About the Art + Science Residency Program: The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society (CSTMS), in partnership with the Arts Research Center (ARC), is initiating an artist-in-residence program that will focus on nurturing art/technology/science/engineering exchanges at UC Berkeley, in the Bay Area, and across the region. The program opened with a pilot residency in Fall 2017, featuring the artist duo Bull.Miletic: Synne T. Bull (University of Oslo, Norway) and Dragan Miletic (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).


2014 Visiting Artist: Rick Lowe

Rick Lowe. Courtesy of Creative Time.

Rick Lowe. Courtesy of Creative Time.

The Arts Research Center was delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist and community organizer Rick Lowe. Lowe’s Project Row Houses, founded two decades ago, has created a blueprint for using urban renewal practices within an artistic context to enrich lives. Located in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American neighborhoods, Lowe’s Project Row Houses was founded with 22 houses on a block-and-a-half and today occupies six blocks that are home to 40 properties, including exhibition and residency spaces for artists, office spaces, a community gallery, a park, low-income residential and commercial spaces, and houses in which young mothers can live for a year and receive support as they work to finish school and get their bearings.

By committing to what has been called a “politics of staying,” Lowe has been able to develop Project Row Houses into a wide ranging social service center, a center for ideas, and an influential artist residency program. The organization has developed over the past twenty years to become a site of experimentation for new economic models in sustaining social and artistic communities, particularly within the community of socially-engaged art.  Lowe has been honored with the Rudy Bruner Award in Urban Excellence; the AIA Keystone Award; the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Governors Award; Loeb Fellow at Harvard University; Skandalaris Award for Excellence in Art Architecture; USA Booth Fellowship; and the Creative Time Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.

During his time on campus, Lowe presented the 2014 Regents Lecture “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial” on Monday, November 17 (as part of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium) and participated in “Public Art/Housing Publics: Conversations on Art and Social Justice” on Friday, November 21, in addition to meeting with students, faculty and community organizers throughout the Bay Area involved in socially-engaged art practices.

For complete information, please visit ARC’s past event page


 

For more information on artist in residence pre-2014, please visit ARC’s past event archives, here.