Technology

The Future of Media in the Trump Era

May 1, 2017
The Future of Media in the Trump Era with Dave Pell, moderated by Deirdre English Monday, May 1 at 6:30pm BAMPFA Theatre, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley

Watch the recording here!

The Future of Media in the Trump Era is part of The Future of Cultural Criticism series, a program that explores the changing role of criticism and cultural content in response to new technologies, new media platforms, and a new Presidency. Sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design...

Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA

Join us every Monday evening to explore cutting-edge thinking and making on topics of current interest to UC Berkeley’s creative faculty. Whether we are exploring new immersive art technologies, the future of cultural criticism, or the role of the arts in social justice, expect an exciting array of ideas and people. All lectures will commence at 6:30pm in the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) Theater. Co-curated by...

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures

Spring 2017 Lecture Series: Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures

We are reprising last year’s Big Ideas course, “Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley,” and once again, this course will open its doors to the public each Wednesday at noon. This year’s theme — “California Countercultures” — is co-taught and co-organized by Natasha Boas, independent curator, and critic of contemporary art and theory, and Michael Cohen...

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: 2015-2016 Series

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: Global Circulations

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.

ARC | Arts + Design is partnering with the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium for...

made@berkeley | Tsar Bell

made@berkeley
Tsar Bell Friday, April 15 through Saturday, April 16, 2016
Sather Tower, UC Berkeley

Does a bell have to ring before it is truly a bell? The Russian Tsar Bell was the largest bell ever cast at over 200 tons. But in 1732, before it was even struck, this Goliath of bells broke. Its parts have been on display in the Kremlin ever since. Now, a team of UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers are making the Tsar Bell ring for the very first time.

With Finite Element Analysis (FEA), they created a computational model of what the...

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...

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...