Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Chris Carlsson

Writer, San Francisco Historian, Photographer, Book & Magazine Designer
Chris Carlsson gave a Visiting Writer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015.

Chris Carlsson, is a writer, San Francisco historian, “professor,” bicyclist, tour guide, blogger, photographer, book and magazine designer. He’s lived in San Francisco since 1978 and has been self-employed in various capacities since the early 1980s. He has written four books (When Shells Crumble, Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories; After the Deluge; Nowtopia...

Edmund Campion

Composer, Performer, Collaborating Artist, and Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music & Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley
Ed Campion was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Edmund Campion (b. 1957) is Professor of Music Composition and Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley. An internationally recognized composer, performer, and collaborating artist for over 30 years, he continues to produce highly personal music that often mixes emerging technologies with acoustic instruments and electronic sounds. In March of 2024, Professor Campion...

Jindong Cai

Director of the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Music and Arts at Bard College
Jindong Cai was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Dream of the Red Chamber Conference at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2016.

Conductor Jindong Cai is director of the US-China Music Institute, professor of music and arts at Bard College, and associate conductor of The Orchestra Now. Over his 30-year career in the United States, Cai has established himself as an active and dynamic conductor, scholar of Western classical music in China, and leading advocate of music from across Asia. Born in Beijing, Cai received his early musical training in China,...

Sarah Cahill

Pianist, Radio Host, Writer, Producer
Sarah Cahill was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Revisions in Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Sarah Cahill, hailed as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times and “a brilliant and charismatic advocate for modern and contemporary composers” by Time Out New York, has commissioned and premiered over seventy compositions for solo piano. Composers who have dedicated works to Cahill include...

Judith Butler

Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley
Judith Butler gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center on January 30, 2017.

Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. They are the author of several books: Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987), Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (...

Johanna Burton

Director of The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Johanna Burton was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Johanna Burton is the Maurice Marciano Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Prior to joining MoCA, Burton served as executive director of the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, and as Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, New York. Burton has been active in the contemporary art field for more than 20 years, including more...

Bull.Miletic

Collaborative Artistic Pair Focused on Media Installations
Bull.Miletic gave a Visiting Artist Talk at the Arts Research Center on December 4, 2017.

Bull.Miletic is a collaborative artistic duo comprised of Synne Tollerud Bull and Dragan Miletic. Through their award-winning media installations, Bull.Miletic focus on the transformative effects of media technologies and the way they infiltrate and take effect in the physical environment of everyday life. Bull.Miletic have shown internationally at venues including Venice Biennale, California Biennial, WRO Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco,...

Zoya Brumberg-Kraus

Scholar, Editor
Dr. Zoya Brumberg-Kraus was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Berkeley/Stanford Symposium at the Arts Research Center on April 7, 2018.

Dr. Zoya Brumberg-Kraus is a scholar-writer and editor located in the Detroit Metro Area. She holds a PhD in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA in Art Studio from Mount Holyoke College. In 2023-24, Brumberg-Kraus was a Research Fellow at the Frankel Center for Advanced Judaic Studies for the theme year Jewish...

Linda Brumbach

Creative Producer
Linda Brumbach was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Re-staging / Re-construction / Re-enactment Symposium at the Arts Research Center on August 13, 2012.

Linda Brumbach is an independent creative producer based in New York City working across mediums of performance, installation, and film. She founded her company Pomegranate Arts in 1998 to center her practice around both helping to realize an artist’s vision and supporting ambitious provocative work that often falls outside of traditional genres and structures. Pomegranate Arts has produced the Olivier Award-...

Tania Bruguera

Artist, Activist
Tania Bruguera was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Spiraling Time Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 15, 2013.

Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera, a politically motivated performance artist, explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to use and adapt, she defines herself as an initiator rather than an author, and often collaborates with multiple institutions as well as...