Past Events

Conjoined Histories Symposium

March 9, 2011
Conjoined Histories Symposium March 9, 2011

An extraordinary group of scholars and artists at a symposium that responded to the themes and histories addressed in Philip Kan Gotanda’s new play, "I Dream of Chang and Eng".

Featuring: Eric Hayot, Sam Otter, Amma Ghartey-Targoe, Shannon Steen, director Peter Glazer, and Philip Kan Gotanda

Making Time - Curators Re-Skilling/Critics Re-Thinking

April 21, 2012
Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Curators Re-skilling/Critics Re-thinking April 21, 2012

Participants: Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center; Ferran Barenblit, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Madrid Liz Kotz, History of Art, UC Riverside

Response by Sabine Breitwieser, Media and Performance Art, MoMA

Moderated by Jeffrey Skoller, Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley

ARC Salon: Conversation and Performance with Myra Melford

January 30, 2015
ARC Salon Series presents Myra Melford Performance and Conversation January 30, 2015 6pm: Cocktails, Food, and Meet & Greet 7pm: Performance from Life Carries Me This Way 8pm: Salon conversation with Myra Melford and T. Carlis Roberts

made@berkeley | Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology

April 22, 2016
made@berkeley
Change and Stillness: Bodies and Gestures within Sensor Technology Friday, April 22, 2016
2 Sessions: 12:30pm-2:00pm or 2:30pm-4:00pm
Zellerbach Playhouse, UC Berkeley

A collaboration with Theater, Dance and Performance Studies; Cal Performances; Berkeley Center for New Media; Center for New Music and Audio Technologies; Music; Art Practice; and the ARC | Arts + Design Initiative, Change and Stillness is part open lab, part talk, and part live demonstration. This event will showcase the multi-disciplinary art making processes that...

“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.

Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

Art, Activism, and Technology: The 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement

Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the public, presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective. For the first time ever, the 2014/15 lecture series will be co-presented by...

Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga: “Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons”

April 6, 2015
Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
April 6, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Reserve your ticket here.

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The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire

February 22, 2024
The Loft Hour: Solmaz Sharif + Darian Longmire in conversation with Anneka Lenssen Thursday, Feb 22, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The February program features...

The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo

March 21, 2024
The Loft Hour: Iggy Cortez + Juan David Rubio Restrepo in conversation with Salar Mameni Thursday, Mar 21, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The March...

The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye

November 16, 2023
The Loft Hour: Marié Abe + Luanne Redeye November 16, 2023 Noon — 1:00 PM Arts Research Center (Hearst Field Annex, D23)

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The...