Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Tonika Sealy-Thompson

Ambassador of Barbados to Brazil
Tonika Sealy-Thompson was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Movement as Research Lecture at the Arts Research Center on October 18, 2017.

Tonika Sealy-Thompson is a diplomat, academic, social justice and education activist from Barbados. She was appointed ambassador to Brazil in 2019, and also now serves concurrently as Barbados’ Ambassador to Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. Her research explores the links between the women in politics and performing arts across three locations: Barbados, the Bay Area and Brazil. In order to take up the appointment...

Susan Schweik

Associate Dean of Arts and Humanities and Emeritus Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley
Susan Schweik was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the City, Arts and Public Spaces Conversation at the Arts Research Center on April 28, 2011.

Susan Schweik's last book was The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. She is completing a book tentatively titled Unfixed: How the Women of Glenwood Asylum Overturned Ideas about IQ, & Why You Don't Know About Their Work. A recipient of Berkeley's Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and U.C.'s Presidential Chair in Undergraduate Education , she was involved with the...

Mario Santamaría

Postdigital Artist
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024.

The artistic practice of Mario Santamaría (Burgos, Spain, 1985) studies the phenomenon of the contemporary observer, paying attention to two processes, the representational practices and the machines vision or mediation. Using different tactics such as appropiation, remake or assembly, his work involves different fields like the conflict, the memory, the virtuality or the surveillance. He has been a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona, 2015),...

Lucía Sanromán

Director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City
Lucía Sanromán was a Visiting Curator Panel Participant at the Arts and Public Service Gathering at the Arts Research Center on May 11, 2017.

Lucía Sanromán is the Director of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City. She is Curator at Large of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), San Francisco, where she previously served as Director of Visual Arts (2015–18). She was Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego from 2006-2011. As an independent curator, Sanromán was awarded the 2012 Warhol Foundation Curatorial Fellowship and a 2013 Warhol...

Ellen Samuels

Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Ellen Samuels was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Conjoined Histories Symposium at the Arts Research Center on March 9, 2011.

Ellen Samuels is an associate professor and a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative. She is the author of Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race (NYU, 2014) and her critical work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Signs, Disability Studies Quarterly, Feminist...

Poulomi Saha

Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory at UC Berkeley
Poulomi Saha was a Visiting Scholar Panel Participant at the Art as Critique Conference at the Arts Research Center on March 1, 2019.

Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Program in Critical Theory, Poulomi Saha works at the intersections of Asian American studies, psychoanalytic critique, feminist and queer theory, and postcolonial studies. Their work spans from the late 19th century decline of British colonial rule in the Indian Ocean through to the Pacific and the rise of American global power in the 20th century.

They are currently working on...

Warren Sack

Media Theorist, Software Designer, Artist, Chair and Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
Warren Sack gave a Visiting Scholar Lecture at the Arts Research Center and Berkeley Center for New Media on Mar 14, 2018.

Warren Sack is a media theorist, software designer, and artist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches digital arts and digital studies. He has been a visiting professor in France at Sciences Po, the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, and Télécom ParisTech....

Rude Mechs

Multi-Disciplinary Collective of Theater Artists
Rude Mechs gave a Visiting Artist Performance at the Arts Research Center on November 16, 2015.

Since 1996, Rude Mechs has been crafting a genre-defying slate of original theatrical productions infused with big ideas, humor, and stunning spectacle. Their work is characterized by the use of play in performance, theaters as gathering spaces for audiences and artists, and humor as a tool for intellectual exploration. Rude Mechs tours these performances nationally and internationally, operates CRASHBOX, a versatile space for rehearsal, performance, and workshops, maintains a...

Martha Rosler

Conceptual Artist
Martha Rosler was a Visiting Artist Panel Participant at the Creative Time Conference at the Arts Research Center in October 2012.

Martha Rosler works in video, photography, text, installation, and performance. Her work focuses on the public sphere, exploring issues from everyday life and the media to architecture and the built environment, especially as they affect women.

Rosler has for many years produced works on war and the national security climate, connecting life at home with the conduct of war abroad, in which her photomontage series...

Cara Romero

Contemporary Fine Art Photographer
Cara Romero gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 11, 2023.

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective...