Film & Media

Sarah Biscarra Dilley

Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Educator,
Sarah Biscarra Dilley was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in January 2025, giving an Artist talk and leading a Workshop: Using Visual Art for Language Reclamation.

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (b. 1986, unceded Nisenan land, unratified Treaty “J” region) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator, member of the yak titʸu titʸu yak tiłhini Northern Chumash tribe and Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project.

Their practice is grounded in collaboration across experiences, communities, and place. Relating land and beings throughout...

Conference – The Archive and Its Forms in the Americas

January 23, 2025
El archivo y sus formas en las Américas 23 y 24 de enero, 2025 Locacion: Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23 (map)

Presented by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with the Arts Research Center

La conferencia será en español, ingles, y portugues. No habrá traducción.
The conference will be in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. There will not be interpretation.

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Organizado por Daylet Domínguez (UC Berkeley) y Adriana Amante (...

Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’

February 20, 2014
Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’ February 20 and 21, 2014

In February 2014, and hosted to coincide with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s spring exhibition, “The Possible,” this gathering brought together artists, curators, and scholars from a variety of art fields and regions of the world to think about the connections between and boundaries separating “art” and “life.” While past gatherings focused on particular regions of the world, Living Time worked “across time zones.” It considered how we have come to terms with the promise of and the...

Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

March 15, 2013
Spiraling Time Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts March 15 and 16, 2013

Watch Leda Martins's talk here!

Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!

On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial...

Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res with Shuddhabrata Sengupta

November 7, 2018
“Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res” Shuddhabrata Sengupta in conversation with Professors Natalia Brizuela & Poulomi Saha Wednesday, November 7, 2018
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Room 315

Watch the recording here or listen here!

Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures

March 5, 2020
Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures with Tourmaline + Chris Vargas In conversation with Eric Stanley Thursday, March 5, 2020 | 5:30-7:00pm
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality

September 12, 2019
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality Rizvana Bradley History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University Thursday, September 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A, Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Read the news post here!

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

Amanda Strong and Bracken Hanuse Corlett at BAMPFA

February 10, 2025
Aimee Chang
Arts Research Center Artist-in-Residence Amanda Strong and Visiting Artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett: Screening and Discussion at BAMPFA

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Art as Critique Conference

March 1, 2019
Art as Critique Conference Friday, March 1, 2019
9:00am-6:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Watch the recordings of Panel 1, Panel 2, Panel 3, and Panel 4!