Past Events

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!

Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate

April 22, 2020
Reading by Joy Harjo, U.S. Poet Laureate in conversation with Beth Piatote Wednesday, April 22, 2020 5:30 – 7:00pm PDT

Watch the recording here!

Please inquire for an educational copy of the full recording.

Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold

February 6, 2023
Theater as a Site of Public History: Dillon Chitto in conversation with Laurie Arnold February 6th, 2023

ARC SPRING 2023 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

in conversation with Laurie Arnold

with Beth Piatote as interlocutor

Watch the conversation here(link is external)!

Reflection of the event by our very own...

Jake Skeets Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

October 6, 2022
Jake Skeets Craft Talk: The Memory Field in conversation with ARC Director Beth Piatote Thursday, October 6, 2022 4pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center & the Berkeley English Dept with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc. ​

The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora

August 28, 2006
The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora August 28, 2006

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents a panel of scholars and artists exploring the impact of the African diaspora on various forms of historical and contemporary music and dance.

Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center, with Depts of African American Studies and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies.

Featuring: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Linda Tillery, and...

Art/Politics/Aesthetics with Stephanie Syjuco

April 5, 2017
Art/Politics/Aesthetics Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures Stephanie Syjuco, Professor of Art Practice Wed., April 5, 2017 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is co-taught by Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic, and Michael Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in the African American Studies Department. The Wednesday public lecture series is organized by Natasha Boas....

"The Software Arts" by Warren Sack

March 14, 2018

UCSC professor Warren Sack's "The Software Arts" argues that computing grew out of the arts. This argument will be a provocation for some, especially for those who see a bright line dividing the “two cultures” of the arts and the sciences. For others, the argument will not seem provocative at all. Important computer scientists have argued that computing is not a science, software is a literature, and computer programming is a kind of essay writing. For those who see no clear distinction between the arts and the sciences, The Software Arts will be an old saw with some new teeth. .

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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...

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

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...