Generative Art & Deep Learning AI, with Nettrice Gaskins
Jan 30, 2023 (online)
co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for New Media
Emerging AI technology has the potential to replicate some of the processes used by artists when creating their work. Dr. Nettrice Gaskins uses AI-driven software such as deep learning to train machines to identify and process images.
Voro’pi: An Encounter with Naine Terena, Gustavo Caboco, & Jamille Pinheiro Dias
Feb 17, 2023 at 1pm
102 Anthropology and Art Practice Building, UC Berkeley
co-sponsored with Center for Latin American Studies
The Terena, an Indigenous people living in Brazil, teach us that Voro’pi is an entity that roams the cosmos through groundwater, safeguarding visible and invisible riverbeds. In response to improper human interference with the flow of water, Voro’pi can cause storms, floods, and other water-related events.
Last Hoisin Poets Read Chinese Poetry of Angel Island Inmates
Feb 21, 2023 at 5pm
Tilden Room, MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley
co-sponsored with Arts+Design & Future Histories Lab
The Last Hoisan Poets will read the moving poems that were carved into the walls of the detention barracks by immigrants incarcerated at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
Unwalling Citizenship
Mar 6th, 2023 at 5pm (Online)
co-sponsored with Berkeley Center for New Media
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman will discuss their work on “citizenship culture” at the United States-Mexico border, and the network of civic spaces they have co-developed with border communities to cultivate regional and global solidarities.
Borders and Crossings: Contemporary Arts and Techniques of Migration
March 10-11, 2023
hosted at the Arts Research Center, HFA D23
co-sponsored with Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry
Borders divide and partition spaces, as visible barriers and as invisible techniques of classification and control, yet their thresholds are also routinely breached, renegotiated, or reimagined by unruly subjects, by movements both orchestrated and unpredictable.
Bomba: The Politics of Representation of a Black Movement, with Oxil Febles
March 16, 2023 at 6pm
hosted at the Arts Research Center, HFA D23
co-sponsored with Theater, Dance & Performance Studies
Oxil Febles discusses Bomba as a means for visibility, revision, and the re-articulation of Puerto Rican Black identity on the island and in the diaspora through the art of dance and music. Live performances by Batey Tambó and Oxil contextualize her talk.
The Story of Everything: Film Screening featuring the Storytelling of Kealoha
April 21, 2023 at 7pm
Doors open at 6:30pm
Wheeler Auditorium, Wheeler Hall
free & open to the public!
co-sponsored with Engaging the Senses Foundation
A creation story connecting consciousness and science, past and present as told by the first Hawaiʻi Poet Laureate Kealoha.
In-Between: Art and Cultural Practices From Here
April 28th, 2023
co-sponsored with the Berkeley-Stanford SFMOMA Symposium
The conference will be oriented around the In-Between, situating art and cultural practice in hybrid spaces and places that are at once particular, and also fluid. Such positioning works to disrupt totalizing logics and reductive binaries, instead offering dynamic possibilities for alternative pasts and futures.
