Visual Arts

Urban Ghosts: The Future Of Artists, Place and Displacement in The American City

January 17, 2017
Urban Ghosts: The Future Of Artists, Place and Displacement in The American City Tuesday, January 17, 2017 at 7pm
The David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA (map)

Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
Doors open at 6:30pm.
Accessible from the Downtown Berkeley BART station

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2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick Lowe

The Arts Research Center 2014 Artist-in-Residence: Rick Lowe November 17-November 24, 2014

The Arts Research Center is delighted to host a 10-day residency with acclaimed artist, community organizer, and 2014 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Rick Lowe.

Brett Cook: “Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing”

October 6, 2014
Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing with Brett Cook Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
October 6, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Reserve your ticket here.

Watch the recording here!

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

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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...