Visiting Artist

Chris Chafe

Musician, Scientist, Director of the Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Chris Chafe was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley event at the Arts Research Center on April 16, 2016.

Chris Chafe is a composer, improvisor, and cellist, developing much of his music alongside computer-based research. He is Director of Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). In 2019, he was International Visiting Research Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies The University of British Columbia, Visiting Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, and Edgard-Varèse Guest Professor at the...

Tiffany Chung

Multimedia Artist
Tiffany Chung gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 3, 2017.

Tiffany Chung is globally noted for her interdisciplinary and research-based practice consisting of hand-drawn and embroidered cartographic works, paintings, photographs, sculptures, texts, and videos. Chung’s artistic praxis reflects her intellectual inquiries into a complex framework of social, political, economic and environmental processes, at times entwined in landscape archaeology and historical ecology. Cultivated through archival and field research into specific locales, her...

Susanne Cockrell

Artist, Educator
Susanne Cockrell was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

Susanne Cockrell is an artist and educator who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her social and documentary projects consider the ways people live into specific places over time, amplifying the emergent choreography of landscape, shared experience, and participatory actions in shaping collective and civic life. Early research in experimental dance, environmental studies, and eastern philosophy continue to...

Brett Cook

Interdisciplinary Artist, Educator
Brett Cook gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 6, 2014.

Brett Cook is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who uses creative practices to transform outer and inner worlds of being. His public projects often involve community workshops featuring arts-integrated pedagogy along with contemplative practices, performance, and food to create a fluid boundary between art making, daily life, and healing.

Teaching and public speaking are extensions of Cook’s social practice that involve communities in dialogue to generate experiences of...

Michael Creedon

Teacher, Fine Art Photographer, Digital Imaging Consultant
Michael Creedon was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward Symposium at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Michael Creedon is a Fine Art Photographer and Digital Printer. He was an instructor of Digital and Film Based Photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2001 through 2012. Since 1984 he has documented the Mission Bay Area of San Francisco, showing how this 300 acre site has slowly evolved over the past 25 years as the political and economic wind swirls over this proposed City within the City....

Douglas Crimp

American Art Historian, Critic, Curator, AIDS activist
Douglas Crimp gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 26, 2016.

Douglas Crimp (1944-2019) was the Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester and the author of On the Museum's Ruins (1993), Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002), "Our Kind of Movie": The Films of Andy Warhol (2012), and Before Pictures (2016). He died in July 2019, as reported by ...

Bojana Cvejić

Professor of Dance Theory at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Bojana Cvejić gave a Visiting Artist Presentation at the Arts Research Center in Feburary 20, 2014.

Bojana Cvejić’s work spans philosophy, performance practice and theory and dance. She studied musicology (BA, MA, University of Arts, Belgrade) and philosophy from which she received a PhD at Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy in London. Cvejić has made more than twenty theater and dance performances since 1996 as (co)director (five experimental opera stagings, performances with Jan Ritsema) or dramaturg (in choreographies by among others Xavier Le Roy,...

Beatriz da Costa

Interdisciplinary Artist, Tactical Media Practitioner
Beatriz da Costa was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Continuous Bodies Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 12, 2007.

Beatriz da Costa (1974 – 2012) was an interdisciplinary artist and tactical media practitioner working at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering, and politics. Her work takes the form of public participatory interventions, locative media, conceptual tool building, and critical writing. Issues addressed in her work include the use of emergent technologies to investigate context-specific configurations of...

BBB Johannes Deimling

Visual Artist
BBB Johannes Deimling was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Nordic Time Zones Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 26, 2014.

BBB Johannes Deimling, born in 1969 in Andernach, Germany, is a visual artist working in the fields of performance art, video art, art film, drawing, and painting as well as art education.

Deimling has invested a large part of his artistic research in teaching and learning performance art processes since 1997. In 2008 he founded the international art and education project...

Janet Delaney

Photographer, Educator
Janet Delaney gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on June 5, 2015.

Janet Delaney uses research, interviews and photography to record the untold stories of cities in transition. Her first project bore witness to the 1980s gentrification of a working-class neighborhood in San Francisco and was published as South of Market (MACK, 2013). In Public Matters (MACK, 2018), Delaney documented daily life as it unfolded alongside protests and parades in Reagan-era San Francisco. Her color photographs of New York City in the 1980s were...