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Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’

February 20, 2014
Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’ February 20 and 21, 2014

In February 2014, and hosted to coincide with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s spring exhibition, “The Possible,” this gathering brought together artists, curators, and scholars from a variety of art fields and regions of the world to think about the connections between and boundaries separating “art” and “life.” While past gatherings focused on particular regions of the world, Living Time worked “across time zones.” It considered how we have come to terms with the promise of and the...

Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

March 15, 2013
Spiraling Time Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts March 15 and 16, 2013

Watch Leda Martins's talk here!

Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!

On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial...

Studio Time: Process/Production

October 25, 2012
Studio Time: Process/Production with Glenn Adamson October 25, 2012

Watch the recording here!

Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, visited campus in October 2012 and gave a talk titled “Goodbye to Craft.” Adamson is the author of Thinking through Craft, editor of The Craft Reader, co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, and one of the leading thinkers on the concept of craft in our contemporary world. The packed auditorium also listened to...

Creative Time Live Stream

Creative Time Live Stream

In October of 2012 and 2013, the Arts Research Center and the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts partnered with Creative Time to host a live-streaming of their annual Creative Time Summit. The live-streaming event provided a collective viewing experience for Bay Area artists, curators, scholars, and activists who are concerned with arts and social change. In addition to seeing the talks and panels from New York, participants had access to local responses and face-to-face small-group discussions.

In 2012, the focus...

Location/Translation: Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global

September 19, 2012
Location/Translation Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global September 19, 2012

Watch the recording here!

Timed to coincide with SFMOMA’s transnational exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” a panel of curators, artists, and scholars discussed how regional circumstances affect curatorial practice in international art contexts–and how “global” conversations can redefine what we think of as “local” production. The roster included curators from local...

Creative Time Summit: Stockholm Rebroadcast

The Creative Time Summit Re-Broadcast Friday, November 14: California College of the Arts
Monday, November 17: UC Berkeley Co-hosted with CCA Graduate Fine Arts Department and ART SCHOOL X

The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe

September 13, 2018
The Politics & Poetics of Imagination in the Black Mediterranean with SA Smythe Thursday September 13, 2018
5:30-7:30pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126

Watch the recording here or listen here!

Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the University of California Humanities Research Institute

Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality

September 12, 2019
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality Rizvana Bradley History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University Thursday, September 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A, Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Read the news post here!

The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy

April 18, 2024
The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik Thursday, Apr 18, 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 April 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...