Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Lehua M. Taitano

Poet, Interdisciplinary Artist, and Educator
Lehua M. Taitano gave a Visiting Writer Reading at the Arts Research Center in April 2022, part of the Spring 2022 Flash Reading Series.

Lehua M. Taitano is a queer CHamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam) and co-founder of Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. She is the author of two volumes of poetry—Inside Me an Island and A Bell Made of Stones. Her chapbook, appalachiapacific, won the Merriam-Frontier Award for short fiction. She has two chapbooks of poetry and visual art: Sonoma and Capacity...

Anicka Yi

Conceptual Artist
Anicka Yi gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on January 25, 2018.

Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Her practice questions the increasingly hazy taxonomic distinctions between what is human, animal, plant and machine, and is the result of an alchemical process of experimentation that explores often incompatible materials. She collaborates with researchers to create media that are often inherently political,...

Ken Ueno

ARC Fellow, Composer, Vocalist, Sound Artist, and Professor of Composition at UC Berkeley
Ken Ueno was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2021 with the Poetry & the Senses initiative – he was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Ken Ueno, is a composer, vocalist, improviser, and sound artist. His music celebrates artistic possibilities which are liberated through a Whitmanesque consideration of the embodied practice of unique musical personalities. Much of Ueno’s music is “person-specific” wherein the intricacies of performance practice is brought into focus in the technical achievements of a specific individual fused, inextricably, with that performer’s aura. His...

Stephanie Syjuco

ARC Fellow, Conceptual Artist, and Professor of Sculpture at UC Berkeley
Stephanie Syjuco was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2017 - she was chosen in the Faculty Fellow category.

Stephanie Syjuco works in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and archive excavations. Recently, she has focused on how photography and image-based processes are implicated in the construction of racialized, exclusionary narratives of American history and citizenship. Born in the Philippines in 1974, Syjuco received her MFA from Stanford University and BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She...

Robert Sullivan

Poet, Academic, and Editor
Robert Sullivan gave a Visiting Writer Workshop at the Arts Research Center on September 20, 2023.

Robert Sullivan (Ngāpuhi and Kāi Tahu) has won awards for his poetry, editing, and writing for children, including the 2022 Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a distinguished contribution to New Zealand poetry, Distinguished Visiting Writer at the University of Hawai’i, the Montana New Zealand Book Award for co-editing Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English, the Māori Literature Award for co-editing Puna Wai Kōrero: An Anthology of Māori Poetry in English, and...

Hito Steyerl

Filmmaker, Moving Image Artist, Writer, and Professor of New Media Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin
Hito Steyerl was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium at the Arts Research Center on February 22, 2016.

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker and writer. She teaches New Media Art at University of the Arts in Berlin. Steyerl studied film at the Academy of Visual Arts in Tokyo, the University of Television and Film in Munich, and holds a Ph.D in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. The most formative parts of her education, however, include working as a stunt-girl and bouncer. Steyerl’s work focuses on the...

Lisa Steindler

Former Executive Artistic Director of Z Space
Lisa Steindler was a Visiting Lecturer Panel Participant at the Curating Performance Across the Arts Symposium at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Lisa Steindler formely served as the Executive Artistic Director of Z Space in San Francisco. During her time at Z Space Lisa guided unheralded growth for the organization. In 2009, she engineered a long-term lease on Z Space’s first venue. Presently Z Space operates two venues, a black box and a 244-seat main stage,...

Shannon Steen

Associate Professor the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Shannon Steen was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Shannon Steen writes and teaches about a variety of topics, but primarily about performance in its social and political contexts. Her book The Creativity Complex: Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea will be published with the University of Michigan Press in 2023. Prior to that she authored ...

Eric Stanley

Chair in LGBT Equity and Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley
Eric A. Stanley was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Opacities: Trans Visual Cultures Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 5, 2020.

Eric A. Stanley is the Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity and an associate professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley where they are also affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory.

Eric’s first manuscript ...

Leslie St Dre

Artist, Organizer, Educator
Leslie St Dre was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Art in City: The City in the Art event at the Arts Research Center on July 17, 2015.

Leslie St Dre (formerly Dreyer) is an artist, organizer and educator dedicated to building joyfully militant and intersectional movements for land and housing justice. They’ve spent the past decade honing a tactical arts organizing practice utilizing integrated narrative and media strategies. This work merges popular education, on-the-ground organizing, direct action, performance and visual art towards...