Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Mark Greif

Author, Cultural Critic, Co-Founder of n+1, and Professor of English at Stanford
Mark Greif gave a Visiting Lecturer Talk at the Arts Research Center on February 13, 2017.

Mark Greif covers popular culture and political thought for the journal n+1, which he co-founded. His books include the essay collection Against Everything, and a study of mid-20th century American literature and thought, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Greif’s scholarly work looks at the connections of literature to intellectual and cultural history, the popular arts, aesthetics and everyday ethics. He taught at the New School and Brown before coming...

Susan Greene

Interdisciplinary Artist, Clinical Psychologist
Susan Greene was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the From the Local to the Global Conference at the Arts Research Center on October 8, 2014.

Susan Greene is the director of US based Art Forces. She is an interdisciplinary artist and clinical psychologist. Her practice traverses cultural arenas including video, new media, public art and murals. Greene’s work focuses on the psychologies of space, intersections of trauma, creativity, memory, resilience and resistance. Specifically, she is concerned with the ways in which architecture and tourism reinforce and...

Terra Graziani

Researcher, Tenant Organizer
Terra Graziani was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Terra Graziani is a researcher and tenant organizer whose work focuses on property and personhood. She helps run the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project(link is external) (AEMP), a digital storytelling collective...

John Granzow

Chair of Performing Arts Technology & Associate Professor of Music at University of Michigan
John Granzow was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the made@berkeley Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 15, 2016.

John Granzow applies the latest manufacturing methods to both scientific and musical instrument design. After completing a masters of science in psychoacoustics, he attended Stanford University for his PhD in computer-based music theory and acoustics. Granzow started and instructed the 3d Printing for Acoustics workshop at the Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. He attended residencies at the Banff Centre and the Cité...

Benjamin Grant

City Planner, Urban Designer, Curator, Teacher
Benjamin Grant was a Moderator at the Cross Sector Conference at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2016.

Benjamin Grant is a city planner, urban designer, curator and teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area. He spent over a decade at SPUR, the urban policy research organization, where he served as Urban Design Policy Director, leading research on physical planning, public space and urban design.

He is the author of numerous reports and studies on subjects that include retrofitting suburbs for walkability, the innovation-sector workplace, accommodating regional...

Philip Kan Gotanda

Playwright, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Philip Kan Gotanda was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Over the last four decades, playwright Philip Kan Gotanda has been a major influence in the broadening of our definition of theater in America. The author of one of the largest bodies of Asian American-themed works, he has been instrumental in bringing stories of Asians in the United States to mainstream American theater as well as to Europe and Asia. Gotanda has specialized in investigating the Japanese American family, writing a...

Joe Goode

2012 ARC Fellow
Joe Goode was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2012 – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Joe Goode is a Professor Emeritus in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the Artistic Director of Joe Goode Performance Group with whom he has performed in the United States, Canada, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. His performance installations have been commissioned by the Krannert Art Museum, the M. H. DeYoung Museum, Capp Street Project, and The Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. Awarded a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”)...

Rita Gonzalez

Curator, Author, Media Artist, Head of the Contemporary Art Department at LACMA
Rita Gonzalez was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Rita Gonzalez is the Terri and Michael Smooke Curator and Department Head of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she has curated Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement; Asco: Elite of the Obscure; Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection; Agnés Varda in Californialand,...

Mark Godfrey

Art Historian, Critic, Former Curator at Tate Modern
Mark Godfrey gave a Visiting Lecturer/Curator Talk at the Arts Research Center on November 8, 2019.

Mark Godfrey is an art historian and curator based in London. From 2007 to 2021 he was senior curator of international art at Tate Modern, London, where he curated and co-curated retrospectives of Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Alighiero Boetti, Franz West, and others, as well as the acclaimed exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power. He is currently working on projects with Anicka Yi, Laura Owens, and Jacqueline Humphries.

Ceinwen Gobert

Multidiscliplinary Artist
Ceinwen Gobert was a Visiting Artist at the Arts Research Center in November 2023, participating in a cyclical series of dance rehearsals alongside of Tanya Lukin Linklater.

Ceinwen Gobert was raised in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and later graduated with distinction from the collaborative BA program at the University of Calgary and the School of Alberta Ballet. She is a Toronto based multidisciplinary artist and has had the pleasure of interpreting works for a number of choreographers and companies, including Kaha:wi Dance Theatre, Van Grimde Corps Secrets, W...