Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations
*co-sponsored event
Thurs Sept 3, 2026 | 4-6:30pm
Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Anthropology & Art Building Rm 116
Attend the opening of Hidden Layers: AI Infrastructures and Hallucinations, an exhibition curated by Antonio Somaini with Hannes Bajohr, Sonja Thiel and Elena Yu, in dialogue with the France–Berkeley research initiative The Latent Spaces of Culture.
Presented by the Depts of German and Art Practice, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
The Loft Hour: Mark Minch-de Leon + Latanya d. Tigner
in conversation with Tadiwa Madenga
Wed Oct 7, 2026 | 12-1pm
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a series that invites Berkeley Arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The year will kick off in October with welcoming Mark Minch-de Leon (Associate Professor, Film & Media) and Latanya d. Tigner (Assistant Professor, Dance) in conversation with Tadiwa Madenga (Assistant Professor, English).
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
Trans Negativity Symposium
*co-sponsored event
Thurs Oct 8 - Sat Oct 10, 2026
Maude Fife Room and The Lab SF
Engaging various senses of the negative and elaborating its implications for trans study, the Trans Negativity Symposium gathers scholars and artists working across psychoanalysis, aesthetics, theory, and political history, taking on negativity as an occasion for collective thought and practice.
Organized by Be Schierenberg and Simon(e) van Saarloos, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Steffani Jemison: Artist-in-Residence
Wed Oct 28 - Mon Nov 2, 2026
Arts Research Center & BAMPFA
Interdisciplinary artist and writer Steffani Jemison visits the Arts Research Center as the first Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence, beginning a new three-year long Artist-in-Residence program at ARC.
Presented by the Arts Research Center in collaboration with BAMPFA
Ashon Crawley: Open Rehearsal 1
Thurs Nov 12, 2026 | 4-5:30pm PST
Online Event
Inaugurating the Open Rehearsal series is Ashon Crawley, a multidisciplinary artist working in the visual and the sonic and a Professor of Religious Studies and African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
Day With(out) Art 2026: seeds in a dying colony
*co-sponsored event
Tues Dec 1, 2026
Online Digital Program
Join Visual AIDS for seeds in a dying colony, a program of four newly commissioned videos that move through the afterlives of colonialism and the ongoing HIV epidemic. Across fractured histories and landscapes marked by extraction, the works trace how systems of power shape the body, memory, and experiences of care.
Presented by Visual AIDS, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Poetry for the People: A Blueprint for the Future
*co-sponsored event
Fri Dec 4, 2026 | 9am-9pm
David Brower Center
The day-long convening will bring UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff together with Poetry for the People (P4P) program alumni, P4P instructors from around the country, and Bay Area community organizations to reflect on the past and envision the future of P4P at UC Berkeley and beyond.
Presented by the Depts of African American and Gender & Women's Studies in partnership with Adrienne Torf, co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center
Rosy Simas: ARC & TDPS Artist-in-Residence
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency
Mon Feb 22 - Fri Feb 26, 2027
Transdisciplinary and dance artist Rosy Simas will visit UC Berkeley as the 5th Artist-in-Residence in the Indigenous Performing Arts Residency program.
Co-presented by the Arts Research Center and the Dept of Theater, Dance, & Performance Studies, with support from the Dean's Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
Jessie Cox: Artist-in-Residence
Tues Apr 6 - Wed Apr 7, 2027
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Jessie Cox is an Assistant Professor of Music at Harvard University and a composer, drummer, and scholar.
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities
Imani Mason Jordan: Artist-in-Residence
Mon Apr 26 - Thurs Apr 29, 2027
Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23
Imani Mason Jordan is an interdisciplinary writer, editor, artist and curator interested in performance and poetics.
Presented by the Arts Research Center with support from the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts & Humanities