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Creative Time Live Stream

Creative Time Live Stream

In October of 2012 and 2013, the Arts Research Center and the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts partnered with Creative Time to host a live-streaming of their annual Creative Time Summit. The live-streaming event provided a collective viewing experience for Bay Area artists, curators, scholars, and activists who are concerned with arts and social change. In addition to seeing the talks and panels from New York, participants had access to local responses and face-to-face small-group discussions.

In 2012, the focus...

Creative Time Summit: Stockholm Rebroadcast

The Creative Time Summit Re-Broadcast Friday, November 14: California College of the Arts
Monday, November 17: UC Berkeley Co-hosted with CCA Graduate Fine Arts Department and ART SCHOOL X

Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space

Reimagining the Urban Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space September 30, 2013

Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.

Day With(out) Art

December 3, 2019
STILL BEGINNING: The 30th Annual Day With(out) Art Visual AIDS Screening Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Screening starts at 7:15pm
Nahl Hall | California College of the Arts, Oakland campus

Watch the videos here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the California College of the Arts

Artist Talk with Julia Keefe

October 17, 2024
Read more about Julia Keefe and the Indigenous Big Band here

Mother Language Day

February 21, 2024
Mother Language Day Celebration Wed Feb 21, 2024
10 – 11am
Hearst Field Annex D23

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 ...

Michael Pollan

Journalist and Professor of Non-Fiction at Harvard University
Michael Pollan gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on April 24, 2009.

For more than thirty years, Michael Pollan has been writing books and articles about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: on our plates, in our farms and gardens, and in our minds. Pollan is the author of eight books, six of which have been New York Times bestsellers; three of them (including his latest, How to Change Your Mind) were immediate #1 New York Times bestsellers. Previous books include Cooked (2013), Food Rules (2009), In Defense of Food: An Eater’s...

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...

Kim Anno

Painter, Photographer, Film/Video Artist, and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Program at CCA
Kim Anno was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the "ART/CITY" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 16, 2012.

Kim Anno is a painter, photographer, and film/video artist whose work has been collected and exhibited by museums nationally and internationally. Born in Los Angeles, Anno has had exhibitions and screenings at the University of Suffolk, England, 14th Annual New Media Festival, Seoul, Korea, Kala Art Institute,Berkeley, Goethe Institute in Johannesburg, the Durban Municipal Gallery, South Africa in the "Don't Panic Exhibition", Flux Projects, Atlanta...