Technology

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...