Visiting Artist/Writer/Curator/Lecturer

Rolla Selbak

Filmmaker, Podcaster, and Storyteller
Rolla Selbak gave a Visiting Artist Lecture/Talk at the Arts Research Center on April 17, 2017. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Rolla Selbak is a Sundance alumna, and a writer/director of film and TV, with TV projects most recently in development at 20th Century Fox and Sony.She imprints her fresh point of view as a Palestinian American, having moved to the U.S after the first Gulf War,...

Adrien Segal

Artist, Furniture-Maker, and Sculptor
Adrien Segal gave a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Arts Research Center on November 30, 2015. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007, and is published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the City of Homer, Alaska, the Museum of Art in Wood in Philadelphia, and the...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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.'...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Mario Santamaría

Postdigital Artist
Mario Santamaría was a Visiting Artist of the Internet Tour at the Arts Research Center on October, 2023 and 2024. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

Craig Santos Perez

Poet, Essayist, and Publisher
Craig Santos Perez was an Poetry & the Senses Cohort Leader for Fellows in the Spring 2023 and a Visiting Writer in 2022. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. He lived there for fifteen years before moving to Hawai‘i. Perez earned his BA in literature and creative writing in 2002 at the University of Redlands in California and his MFA in poetry at the University of San Francisco in 2006.

Perez has authored six books...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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,...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...

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. If you are interested in contacting this artist, please find them on their website.

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...