Past Events

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

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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...

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“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.

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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...

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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: 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...

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The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski

October 19, 2023

The Loft Hour: Zamansele Nsele + Nicole Starosielski October 19, 2023 Noon - 1 p.m. 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-...

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Keeping San Francisco Alive: A Frank Conversation

June 12, 2015

Keeping San Francisco Alive: A Frank Conversation June 12, 2015

The second of three “Friday Nights” celebrating the work of Janet Delaney, this evening offers a historical and contemporary perspective on the role of the arts in urban planning and public policy in San Francisco. Discussions across the museum will explore exemplary case studies, pivotal policy decisions, creative compromises, and new alternatives that affect the changing cultural life of the city.

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Cross Sector Conference

Open Engagement Pre-conference | CROSS-SECTOR Thursday, April 28, 2016, 10am to 6pm Friday, April 29, 2016, 10am to 1:30pm The Magnes Collection, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA
Accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART station CROSS-SECTOR pre-conference will be free and open to the public. Kindly REGISTER here for the plenary talks, break-out sessions, and closing lecture so we can track attendance.