Film & Media

Weihong Bao

Professor of Film & Media and East Asian Languages & Cultures at UC Berkeley
Weihond Bao was a Moderator at the Temporal Shifts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on Feburary 1, 2013.

Weihong Bao is Pamela P. Fong and Family Distinguished Chair in China Studies and an Associate Professor of Film and Media & East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley. She has published widely on comparative media history and theory, media and environment, early cinema, war and modernity, affect theory, propaganda theory and practice, and Chinese language cinema of all periods and regions. Her book Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in...

Erika Balsom

Film Scholar, Critic, and Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London
Erika Balsom was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the "Curating People" Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.

Erika Balsom is a Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London, focusing on the histories, aesthetics, and politics of nonfiction cinemas.

She has published extensively on the intersections of art and the moving image, often focusing on questions of technological change and/or examining the relationship between artistic practices and their institutional contexts.

She is the author of TEN SKIES (2021), An...

Day With(Out) Art: Red Reminds Me

December 1, 2024
Day With(Out) Art:
Red Reminds Me... December 1, 2024 - All Day Online Video Program

Presented by Visual AIDS and partnered with museums, galleries, universities, and organizations around the world

The Arts Research Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2024 by presenting a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. This is the 7th year the Arts...

New Photos: Indigenous Poetics Lab: Zine Making Workshop with Sierra Edd

November 21, 2024
Joanna Wong

On November 15th, ARC hosted a zine-making workshop facilitated by Sierra Edd, that was open to both experienced and beginner zinesters of UC Berkeley. The workshop featured a step-by-step guided zine making tutorial and also offered a brief background to zine making and Indigenous storytelling through zines. Participants included undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty from across campus.

Edd is a Diné writer and artist who has been collaborating and working on zine projects (including...

New Photos: Internet Tour 2024

October 22, 2024
Joanna Wong

On October 14th, ARC presented the Internet Tour with the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), led by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and created with Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media...

Gavin Kroeber

Freelance producer and co-founder of Experience Economies.

Gavin Kroeber's projects and writings poach from visual art, urban theory, and performance. He produces curatorial projects, artistic research platforms, and performance events that interrogate the cultural dynamics of power and their expression in the poetics of place. He is a frequent contributor to Art in America...

Christian Frock

Independent Writer, Curator, Educator, and Public Scholar

Christian L. Frock is a writer, curator, educator, and scholar with more than twenty years professional experience in the cultural sector. Her work and research focus on the intersection of the arts and humanities, politics, and public life. Her projects center the arts and humanities in social progress and systemic change. Frock’s work bridges museums, private enterprise, civic institutions, nonprofits, grassroots organizations, public space, placemaking/keeping, education, philanthropy, and legacy.

Her books include Rex Ray (2020), Eureka at Thirty Years (2017), Public Works:...

Imanuel Schipper

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Physical Performance at the Estonian Academy of Nusic and Theatre

Imanuel Schipper holds MAs in theatre and dance studies and in acting. He has been working as a dramaturg for many years with the well-known German Performance group, Rimini Protokoll with whom, he has developed a contemporary way of documentary theatre as intervention, as political think tanks.

He has been a deputy professor, senior lecturer, senior researcher at different universities and art academies in Germany, Switzerland and other countries in the field of performance studies, cultural theory and art theory. He works and publishes widley on the interface...

Scott Tsuchitani

Artist and Scholar

Scott Tsuchitani (he/they) is a San Francisco-based visual and media artist and feminist cultural studies scholar. Scott’s art practice-as-research explores how tactical public and online art intervention can transform racial common sense, with a focus on the public museum. His interventions have impacted racial discourse through the generation of dialogue and debate in social and mainstream media, as well as academic press. Scott’s work has been shown in museums and galleries in 12 states, presented in Europe and Asia, and published in academic books and journals in...

Suzanne Lacy

Artist and Professor at USC Roski School of Art and Design

Suzanne Lacy is renowned as a pioneer in socially engaged and public performance art. Her installations, videos, and performances deal with sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, labor and aging. Lacy’s large-scale projects span the globe, including England, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Ireland and the U.S.

In 2019 she had a career retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and at Yerba Buena Art Center. Her work has been reviewed in major periodicals and books and she exhibits in museums across the world. Also known for her writing, Lacy edited ...