Past Events

"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...

“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: 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...

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-...

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.