Film & Media

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!

Allison Arieff

Editorial Director of Print for MIT Technology Review
Allison Arieff gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on Sep 30, 2013.

Allison Arieff is the Editorial Director of Print for the MIT Technology Review. She was previously Editorial Director for the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association). From 2007-2020, she wrote a regular column about architecture, design, cities, and technology for the Opinion section of The New York Times. She has written about design for two decades for Wired, California Sunday, Good, and The New...

Bonnie Begusch

2009 ARC Fellow
Bonnie Begusch was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2019 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Bonnie Begusch (b. 1981 in Oakland, USA) works primarily with time-based media and text. After studying Media Art and Literature at UCLA, she received her MFA in Fine Art from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been screened and exhibited at numerous venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Berkeley Art Museum; Sterling Music Room, New York; SF Film Society, San Francisco; KARST, Plymouth; RUA RED, Dublin; Exile,...