Scholar

T. Carlis Roberts

Artist, Scholar, and Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Music at University of Denver
T. Carlis Roberts was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the ARC Salon Series Performance and Conversation at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2015.

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...

Laura Richard

Spring 2010 ARC Fellow and Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art at UC Santa Cruz
Laura Richard was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2010 – she was chosen in the Graduate category.

Laura Richard works in modern and contemporary art with a designated emphasis in film. Her recently completed dissertation, “In Situ and On Location: The Early Works of Maria Nordman,” is a political reappraisal of the films, performances and rooms made by the artist between 1967 and 1979. Other current research interests include Judy Chicago’s smoke works, theories of temporality and the everyday, avant-garde women filmmakers, human geographies, performance art,...

Brody Reiman

ARC Fellow, Sculpture and Installation Artist, and Associate Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Brody Reiman was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category

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...

Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli

Film & Media Scholar, Professor, and Vice Chair in the Cinema and Media Studies Department at UCLA
Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

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...

Leigh Raiford

Professor of African American Studies at UC Berkeley
Leigh Raiford was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

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...

Ronald Rael

ARC Fellow, Designer, Architectural Researcher, Author, Entrepreneur, Professor of Architecture and and Chair of Art Practice at UC Berkeley
Ronald Rael was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2011, 2016, and 2019 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

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...

Ignacio Rábago

Installation Artist
Ignacio Rábago was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at the Arts Research Center in 2004-2005.

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...

Ted Purves

Artist, Writer, and Founder of the Social Practice Program at CCA
Ted Purves was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Questioning Aesthetics Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 13, 2015.

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...

D.A. Powell

Poet and Professor at the University of San Francisco
D. A. Powell gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2021, part of the Spring 2021 Flash Reading Series.

Born in Albany, Georgia, D. A. Powell earned an MA at Sonoma State University and an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His first three collections of poetry, Tea, (1998), Lunch (2000), and Cocktails (2004), are considered by some to be a trilogy on the AIDS epidemic. Lunch was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, and Cocktails...

Cecilia Palmeiro

Writer, Activist, and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Latin American Studies and Gender Theory at NYU in Buenos Aires
Cecilia Palmeiro was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Amateurism Across the Arts Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2018.

Cecilia Palmeiro is one of the founders of the transformative Latin American feminist movement Ni Una Menos, or “Not One Woman Less,” which organizes to end femicide and gender-based violence. The Ni Una Menos collective has been supported by Global Fund for Women since 2017. She is also a writer, literary critic, performer, feminist activist, and queer feminist theorist.

Palmeiro received her MA and PhD from...