ARC Fellows

Alva Noë

ARC Fellow, Philosopher, and Professor of Philosophy at UC Berkeley
Alva Noë was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2015 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Alva Noë is a writer and a philosopher living in Berkeley and New York. He works on the nature of mind and human experience. He is the author of Action in Perception (MIT Press, 2004); Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009...

Marcus Owens

ARC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Washington State University
Marcus Owens was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Initially trained as an Architect, Marcus Owens received a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley. He has worked in a variety of professional contexts, including founding CAMO Studio with Christina Antiporda, focused on community engaged design/build, and with the US Forest Service. His research interests include design research, design/build, and emerging...

Daniel O’Neill

ARC Fellow, Japanese Program Associate Professor, and Head Undergraduate Academic Advisor at UC Berkeley
Daniel O'Neill was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2018 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Associate Professor Daniel O'Neill received his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University and Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Yale University. He teaches courses in modern Japanese literature, cinema, and cultural history. His research interests include nonfiction and experimental media, the intersections of media theory and ecocriticism, the locations of disability in critical sexuality studies and the history of science and technology...

Shari Paladino

ARC Fellow, Artist, Designer, and Educator
Shari Paladino was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Shari Paladino is an artist, designer and educator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has exhibited work at the Berkeley Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Richmond Art Center. She attended University of California, Berkeley, earning her bachelor’s degree in art education and disability studies, as well as a master’s degree in fine arts. Shari developed curriculum for UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice in conjunction with the Jacobs Center for...

Vincente Perez

2021/22 ARC Fellow – Poetry & the Senses
Vincente Perez was an ARC Fellow in Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.

Vincente Perez (He/They) is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis with an interest in the way that artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. Their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience with a stylistic approach...

Beth Piatote

ARC Director, 2020 ARC Fellow – Poetry and the Senses

Beth Piatote is a creative writer, playwright, and scholar. She is the author of two books, including the mixed-genre collection, The Beadworkers: Stories (Counterpoint 2019), which was long-listed for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize, and short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Association “Golden Poppy” Prize for Fiction. The Beadworkers was named the winner of the 2020 Electa Quinney Award for Published Stories. Her full-length play...

Ronald Rael

ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley
Ronald Rael was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011, 2016, and 2019 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design programs.

He is distiguished as...

Amy Rathbone

ARC Fellow and Visual Artist
Amy Rathbone was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category

Amy Rathbone’s process is one of meticulous construction that occurs over an extended period of time. Each element of the work is painstakingly assembled from minuscule parts to form an immersive whole. Wire, sandbags, spray paint, ink and gouache are employed to form a novel environment, which holds its own inner logic. She has shown her drawings and installation work internationally. From 1999-2009 she worked as a draftsperson for Sol LeWitt.

Amy Rathbone was born in...

Amadeus Regucera

ARC Fellow
Amadeus Julian Regucera was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Graduate Fellow category

The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energy of sound and the erotics of its production through concert music, installation, performance art, and video. He has had the opportunity to present works around the world: notably, at ManiFeste (Paris, FR), the Festival Musica (Strasbourg, FR), Voix Nouvelles (Asnières-sur-Oise, FR), the Resonant Bodies Festival and the SONiC Festival (New York City), the Havana Festival...

Brody Reiman

ARC Fellow, Sculpture and Installation Artist, and Associate Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Brody Reiman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category

Brody Reiman works in sculpture and installation. Reiman’s is an art of dis- and re-orientation, where object and place are compositionally and materially confused and confusing. Working for over 30 years as the collaborative castaneda/reiman(with Charlie Castaneda), she explored architecture as a psychic and tactile experience. castaneda/reiman has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary (New York), John Berggruen Gallery (SF), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Baer...