Scholar

Dario Robleto

Transdisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Writer, and Teacher
Dario Robleto was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1972 and received his BFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1997. He lives and works in Houston, TX. The artist has had numerous solo exhibitions since 1997, most recently at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX (2024); the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2024); the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University (2019); Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2014); the Baltimore Museum of Art (2014); the New Orleans Museum of Art (2012); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2011). His work...

Jared Robinson

ARC Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley in English

Jared Robinson is a poet and critic from Indianapolis, Indiana. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the department of English, where his work has been supported by the Arts Research Center and the Black Studies Collaboratory. He writes and thinks about autobiography, his own and those penned by others, across multiple mediums. He is currently at work on a dissertation tentatively titled: “To Save My Own Life”: The Injunction to Truth in African American Autobiography, 1785-1865.

Jared was an ARC Fellow in Fall...

T. Carlis Roberts

Artist, Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music at University of Denver

T. Carlis Roberts (he/him) is an artist and scholar who engages sound as a tool for liberation. His professional work has straddled theater, music, film, television, dance, and performance art — each project driven by the desire to disrupt colonial structures and develop new vocabularies for expression. As a composer, sound designer, and music director, T has worked around the U.S. at theaters including Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse,...

Jill Miller

Assistant Professor of Art Practice at UC Berkeley, Founding Director of Platform Artspace

Jill Miller is a visual artist who works across a wide range of media, from video installations to public practices, and many hybrids in between. She often collaborates with individuals and local communities in the form of public interventions, workshops, and participatory community projects. Her work is playful, and she uses humor as a strategy for opening up meaningful conversations about difficult subjects. In past work, she: lived in the remote wilderness in search of the mythical creature Bigfoot, assisted mothers who were harassed for breastfeeding in public,...

Brody Reiman

ARC Fellow, Sculpture and Installation Artist, and Associate Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley

Brody Reiman works in sculpture and installation. Reiman’s is an art of dis- and re-orientation, where object and place are compositionally and materially confused and confusing. Working for over 30 years as the collaborative castaneda/reiman(with Charlie Castaneda), she explored architecture as a psychic and tactile experience. castaneda/reiman has had solo exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary (New York), John Berggruen Gallery (SF), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF), Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (SF), Second Street Gallery (Charlottesville, VA), and Stephen Wirtz...

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Film & Media Scholar, Professor, and Vice Chair in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at UCLA

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli is a film and media scholar whose research has developed in two related directions. One has been in film studies and theory (focusing mostly on political, sexual, and ethnic violence), and the other in digital technologies, social media and surveillance, dispersed techno-human encounters, theories of affect, and the technological unconscious. I am intrigued by the questions emerging at the intersection between “old” and “new” media.

She is the author of ...

Leigh Raiford

Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley

Leigh Raiford is a Professor of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, where she teaches, researches, writes and curates about race, gender, justice and visuality. She is the inaugural director of the Black Studies Collaboratory, a three year project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She also serves as affiliate faculty in the Program in American Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.

Raiford received her PhD from Yale University’s joint program in African American Studies and American...

Ronald Rael

ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley

Professor Ronald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture in the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design, and is also a member of the art faculty in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California Berkeley. His past leadership roles have included serving as Department Chair, Director of the Masters of Architecture, and Director of the Masters of Advanced Architectural Design programs.

He is distiguished as being both a Bakar...

Ignacio Rábago

Installation Artist

Ignacio Rábago was born in Madrid, Spain in 1950 and has been living in Copenhagen since 1978. Being educated as a painter and sculptor, Rábago has specialized in large scale installations. Since his first exhibition in 1974 Rábago´s work has been presented regularly in galleries, museums and public institutions. Among the most important of his exhibitions are: Gallery Hastings, New York, 1981 // Leifsgade 22, Copenhagen, 1985 // De Vonk, Amsterdam, 1987 // Museum of Fine Arts, Málaga, 1987 // University of Amager, Copenhagen, 1988 // Brandts Klædefabrik Museum,...

Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA

Ted Purves was an independent artist, editor, and curator. His work has been exhibited and published in many venues and journals throughout California, as well as in New York, Boston, Albany and several cities in Germany. Purves has won funding from the Creative Work Fund in San Francisco and the Headlands Center for the Arts and been an artist-in-residence at The Djerassi Colony and the Drawing Residency Program. He taught at the California College of The Arts in Oakland and Master of Arts and Consciousness Program in Berkeley. He received his MFA in Photography...