ARC was thrilled to be co-sponsoring with Arts+ Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Center for Latin American Studies, Engaging the Senses Foundation, English Department's Lunch Poems series, Future Histories Lab, Stanford and SFMOMA, and the Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in Spring of 2023!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
read about the incredible line-up here
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.
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.
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.