Past Events

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: 2015-2016 Series

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: Global Circulations

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.

ARC | Arts + Design is partnering with the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium for...

made@berkeley | Tsar Bell

made@berkeley
Tsar Bell Friday, April 15 through Saturday, April 16, 2016
Sather Tower, UC Berkeley

Does a bell have to ring before it is truly a bell? The Russian Tsar Bell was the largest bell ever cast at over 200 tons. But in 1732, before it was even struck, this Goliath of bells broke. Its parts have been on display in the Kremlin ever since. Now, a team of UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers are making the Tsar Bell ring for the very first time.

With Finite Element Analysis (FEA), they created a computational model of what the...

Cal Day 2016

On Cal Day, learn about the campus’ new Arts + Design Initiative and its efforts to feature, fortify, and mobilize existing excellence in the arts and design while fostering new forms of dynamic collaboration, innovation, and public access across all arts and design fields, on our campus, and in public life.

Join Professor Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, and learn about campus spaces that nurture the arts, expose our students to new ideas, and present groundbreaking new work to our public. The tour will weave through maker spaces,...

Thinking across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life Public Talks, Spring 2016

In January of 2016 a new chapter in the story of arts and design at Berkeley begins with a new building: the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will open its doors at a new location and will present the exhibition “Architecture of Life.” In partnership with BAMPFA, and in collaboration with the many scholars, artists, and departments across the UC Berkeley campus, a series of public talks will be offered in the spring associated with the Big Ideas course: Thinking Across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life...

San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward

June 5, 2015
San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward June 5, 2015

Join the de Young Museum and the Arts Research Center for four unique interventions around the museum, exploring the formal and social concerns of photographers who have made San Francisco their object of attention, focusing on Delaney’s exhibition and considering its connection to a history of San Francisco photography.

Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival

October 3, 2014
Open City/Art City October 3-4th hosted by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future

This Art and Ideas Festival will engage the public through a creative and generative weekend that looks at how we transform a city. The October 3 & 4th weekend will consist of IFTF’s Maker Cities’ Conference and Open Cities/Art Cities Art and Ideas Festival, which through art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play, they will invite the Bay Area community to reimagine the city’s urban spaces, and forge new models of innovation...

Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space

Reimagining the Urban Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space September 30, 2013

Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.

Art in City: The City in the Art

July 17, 2015
Art in City: The City in the Art July 17, 2015 6:00-8:30 pm Wilsey Court, de Young Museum

In an exhibition particularly relevant to the Bay Area, Janet Delaney: South of Market relates the complex history of a changing San Francisco neighborhood through a selection of more than 40 photographs from the 1970s and 1980s. Janet Delaney (b. 1952), an internationally recognized photographer and educator based in Berkeley, photographed the people and places in the South of Market district during a period when redevelopment was threatening to transform it irreversibly.

Questioning Aesthetics Symposium

March 13, 2015
Questioning Aesthetics Symposium March 13, 2015 9:30am-5:30pm
308A Doe Library
History of Art Department, UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public

Watch Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here!

Public Service Showcase

March 10, 2015
Public Service Showcase: Berkeley Arts Connect March 10, 2015
6-8:00 pm
First Presbyterian Church, Mears Room
2407 Dana St. Berkeley, CA

Interested in working in arts administration? Have you heard about the Berkeley Arts Connect program and want to learn more? Visit the Public Service Showcase on March 10 to meet other PSC interns, talk with staff, and to partner organizations.

UC Berkeley Undergraduate Students: to apply to the program for next year, 2015-16,...