Visual Arts

Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation

February 24, 2015
Creativity Across the Disciplines: Stan Lai and Bruce Beasley in conversation Moderated by ARC Director and Professor Shannon Jackson Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Alumni House, UC Berkeley 4:30-5:00 Light Reception
5:00-6:30 Public Dialogue and Q&A

Watch the recording here!

Questioning Aesthetics Symposium

March 13, 2015
Questioning Aesthetics Symposium March 13, 2015 9:30am-5:30pm
308A Doe Library
History of Art Department, UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public

Watch Part 1 here, Part 2 here, and Part 3 here!

Art of Cultural Criticism Lecture Series Fall 2016

The Art of Cultural Criticism Fall 2016 Lecture Series

The Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center, and the Art of Writing are pleased to present The Art of Cultural Criticism. This yearlong series of conversations features some of the most innovative and incisive writers on culture in its various forms—including visual art, film, old...

Artist Talk with Anicka Yi

January 25, 2018
Sensing as Research: Artist Talk with Anicka Yi Response by Mel Y. Chen (Gender & Women’s Studies) Thursday, January 25 at 5:30 pm
Maude Fife Room, 3rd Floor, Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley

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Artist Anicka Yi will talk about her work and artistic practice as it relates to synthetic biology, bio engineering, extinction, and bio fiction. Using her 2016 Guggenheim Museum Hugo Boss Prize exhibition “Life Is Cheap” as a case study for her...

Making as Research

November 2, 2017
Making as Research Artist Talk with Angie Wilson
Response by Olivia K. Young (African American & African Diaspora Studies) Thursday, November 2 at 5:30 pm
Dwinelle Annex, Room 126 (map)

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Curation as Research

September 19, 2017
Curation as Research: Contemporary Art in Central America Miguel A. López and Emiliano Valdés
in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art) Tuesday, September 19 at 5:30 pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities (map)

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Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum

This past April, ARC presented Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum. This event hosted eight artist-led workshops in the UC Berkeley Museum of Art that developed exercises, prompts, or actions to engage questions of art, labor, and economics; the program also included a series of commissioned writings by critics and researchers whose work focuses on artistic labor and cultural economies in a special two-part issue of Art Practical, a leading Bay Area online platform. Both the publication and practicum asked: What kinds of tactics allow...

Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’

February 20, 2014
Living Time: Art and Life After ‘Art-Into-Life’ February 20 and 21, 2014

In February 2014, and hosted to coincide with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive’s spring exhibition, “The Possible,” this gathering brought together artists, curators, and scholars from a variety of art fields and regions of the world to think about the connections between and boundaries separating “art” and “life.” While past gatherings focused on particular regions of the world, Living Time worked “across time zones.” It considered how we have come to terms with the promise of and the...

Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts

March 15, 2013
Spiraling Time Intermedial Conversations in Latin American Arts March 15 and 16, 2013

Watch Leda Martins's talk here!

Watch Cecilia Vicuña's talk here!

On March 15 and 16, 2013, the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley will present Spiraling Time: Intermedial...

Studio Time: Process/Production

October 25, 2012
Studio Time: Process/Production with Glenn Adamson October 25, 2012

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Glenn Adamson, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, visited campus in October 2012 and gave a talk titled “Goodbye to Craft.” Adamson is the author of Thinking through Craft, editor of The Craft Reader, co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft, and one of the leading thinkers on the concept of craft in our contemporary world. The packed auditorium also listened to...