Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

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...

Vic Brooks

Filmmaker, Senior Curator of Time-Based Visual Art at EMPAC
Vic Brooks was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Feminist Curatorial Practices Roundtable Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2018.

Vic Brooks was at EMPAC for over a decade and served as co-Acting Director with Jonas Braasch from fall 2022 to spring 2024.

Brooks frequently publishes and consults on the production, infrastructures, and exhibition of the time-based arts, and is editing the bilingual book Tuning Calder’s Clouds (Athénée Press: Bogotá, 2024) on the interdisciplinary intersections of Alexander Calder’s Acoustic...

ARC Welcomes Sabine Breitwieser to Berkeley

April 16, 2012
The Arts Research Center is pleased to welcome Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art, for a week-long residency at UC Berkeley as a 2012 Regents Lecturer. Her visit kicked off on Sunday, April 15 in the galleries at the Berkeley Art Museum, where she and curator Constance Lewallen discussed the current exhibit “State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970.” Their conversation about the “de-materialization” and “re-materialization” of conceptual art was enlivened by cameo appearances by two of the artists...

Sabine Breitwieser

Curator, Art Manager, and Publicist
Sabine Breitwieser was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening at the Arts Research Center on April 20, 2012.

Sabine Breitwieser is an international curator and museum director, currently based in Vienna, Austria, as independent scholar. She was a 2020/2021 Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Center in Los Angeles, a prestigious research program she continued in 2022. From 2013 until 2018 she was the Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Previously, from 2010 until 2013 she served as Chief Curator...

Rizvana Bradley

Professor of Film & Media Studies, Scholar of Contemporary Art
Rizvana Bradley gave a Visiting Lecturer Lecture at the Arts Research Center on September 12, 2019.

Rizvana Bradley is Assistant Professor of Film and Media and Affiliated Faculty in the History of Art and the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the 2023–24 Terra Foundation Visiting Professor at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Bradley’s book, Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Stanford University Press, 2023), moves across multiple histories...