Film & Media

Alexandro Segade

Interdisciplinary Artist & Assistant Professor of Art at UCSD

Xandro Segade is an interdisciplinary artist whose queer world-building projects propose speculative group identities. Often working in collectives, Segade makes spaces for critical play, using collaboration to complicate utopian impulses with radical ambivalence. Segade’s practice traces connections across performance, writing and drawing, making video, installation, theater, sculpture, music, costumes and comics that defy genre distinctions, subverting contextual frameworks, disrupting the political imagination.

Segade’s multimedia science fiction performance...

Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on Stages, and in Galleries

June 28, 2012
Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on Stages, and in Galleries April 20, 2012

Participants: Nora Alter, Film & Media Arts, Temple University; Steve Seid, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Jeanne Finley, Film, California College of the Arts; Allan de Souza, New Genres...

“We are not worried in the least” with Jasmina Metwaly

January 31, 2019
“We are not worried in the least" Jasmina Metwaly, filmmaker, artist, and founder of the Mosireen Collective
In conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, January 31, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Dwinelle Hall, Room 142/Nestrick Room

Watch the recording here!

Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center, UCHRI, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, BAMPFA, Berkeley Film & Media Seminar.

Curating People: Erika Balsom

April 28, 2011
Erika Balsom

My research focuses on how and why the projected image has emerged as a major feature of artistic production over the past two decades. In addition to the analysis of key artworks, a significant component of this project has involved examining the various strategies curators and artists have used to display moving images in a gallery/museum space. These can range from the innovative to the exploitative, from the refreshing to the careless. In all cases, I approach these choices after they have been made and delivered to the public; I can speculate on what internal agendas might...

Natalia Brizuela

Former ARC Director, Moderator

Natalia Brizuela is a Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on photography, film and contemporary art, critical theory and aesthetics of both Spanish America and Brazil. She is the author of two books on photography. The first, Fotografia e Império. Paisagens para um Brasil Moderno (Cia das Letras, 2012) is a study of 19th Century photography in Brasil in its relationship to modern state formation, nationalism, modernization and race. The second, Depois da fotografia. Uma literatura fora de si (Rocco, 2014) is a study...

Chris Hoshnic

2023 ARC Fellow - Poetry & the Senses

Chris Hoshnic is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He is currently earning his B.A. in English at Arizona State University. In 2013, he graduated with an Associates in Video Production at Glendale Community College. His short film “Ozzy” premiered at the 2018 Jerome International Film Festival. He was a finalist in screenplay competitions at Austin Micro Film Festival, Phoenix Film Festival and Shore Scripts. In 2022, he was a Writing Fellow with the Emerging Diné Writers’ Institute (EDWI). He was a Special Projects Intern for Thousand Languages Project and...

Nordic Time Zones: Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape

March 26, 2014
Nordic Time Zones Time-based art across disciplines in the Northern Landscape
 Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo

(Closed roundtable, by invitation only)

Day With(Out) Art: Everyone I Know is Sick

December 1, 2023
Day With(Out) Art: Everyone I Know is Sick December 1, 2023 All Day Online

PROGRAM LINK AVAILABLE DECEMBER 01 - watch here.

The Arts Research Center is proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2023 by presenting a video program highlighting strategies of...

Day With(out) Art 2021

December 1, 2021
Day With(out) Art 2021: ENDURING CARE Wednesday, Dec 01 2021 World AIDS Day

Watch the screenings here!

This event is co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, California College of the Arts and Visual AIDS

Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik

February 20, 2019
Artist & Curator Silvia Gruner in conversation with Tarek Elhaik Wednesday, February 20, 2019
5:30-7:30pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126

Watch the recording here or listen here!

Co-sponsors: Arts Research Center and UCHRI.