Music

What Gets Amplified

November 13, 2023
What Gets Amplified with Raven Chacon
Composer November 13, 2023 5:00 — 6:30 PM Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Event hosted by BCNM. You can find the original event page on their website here.

Raven Chacon will discuss his recent works, using scores and field recordings as the medium for...

Art of Cultural Criticism Lecture Series Fall 2016

The Art of Cultural Criticism Fall 2016 Lecture Series

The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing are pleased to present The Art of Cultural Criticism. This yearlong series of conversations features some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms—including visual art, film, old...

Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation

February 24, 2015
Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation Moderated by ARC Director and Professor Shannon Jackson Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Alumni House, UC Berkeley 4:30-5:00 Light Reception
5:00-6:30 Public Dialogue and Q&A

Watch the recording here!

Tarek Atoui: “DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments”

March 9, 2015
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments with Tarek Atoui Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
March 9, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public. Co-presented with the MATRIX program at the Berkeley Art Museum.

Reserve your ticket here.

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John Perry Barlow: “The Death Throes of the Desert God”

September 8, 2014
The Death Throes of the Desert God with John Perry Barlow Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
September 8, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Watch the recording here!

Temporal Shifts: Time Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices

February 1, 2013
Temporal Shifts Time Across Contemporary Chinese and Taiwanese Art Practices Friday, Feb 1, 2013 | 3:00 pm Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive

Free and open to the public.

Temporal Shifts, in February 2013, was organized in conjunction with a residency at the Arts Research Center by renowned Taiwanese playwright/director/filmmaker Stan Lai (Lai Sheng-Chuan), who was on campus for two weeks as an Avenali Resident Fellow in January and February of this same year. This daylong symposium brought together scholars such...

Launch of “Amateurism”

November 12, 2019
Launch of “Amateurism” | Third Text Special Issue With remarks by Abigail De Kosnik and Anneka Lenssen Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Beta Lounge (rsvp to lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu)

Amateurism Across the Arts

March 9, 2018
Amateurism Across the Arts Conference Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30am-6:15pm Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Amateurism Across the Arts is an exploration of vernacular, popular, fannish, kitsch, informal, self-taught, user-generated, and DIY production in music, architecture, literature, the visual arts, dance, and new media– especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered notions of value. How do the implicitly skilled “arts” rupture and reorganize themselves around hierarchies of taste? And how can critical...

The Arts of the Present

October 26, 2017
The Arts of the Present October 26–28, 2017

ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present is an international, nonprofit association dedicated to discovering and articulating the aesthetic, cultural, ethical, and political identities of the contemporary arts.

The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present holds a biennial conference in North America that brings together scholars and artists from institutions all over the globe to share research, debate trends, and generate new projects concerning the “arts of the contemporary.” The upcoming...

Urban Ghosts: The Future Of Artists, Place and Displacement in The American City

January 17, 2017
Urban Ghosts: The Future Of Artists, Place and Displacement in The American City Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 7pm
The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA (map)

Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART station

Watch the...