Visual Arts

Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

Art, Activism, and Technology: The 50th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement

Berkeley’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture. This series, free of charge and open to the public, presents artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history, from a critical perspective. For the first time ever, the 2014/15 lecture series will be co-presented by...

Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga: “Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons”

April 6, 2015
Reality Environments: Persons as Things, Things as Persons Jose Carlos Martinat and Kiko Mayorga Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
April 6, 2015, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

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Anicka Yi

Conceptual Artist

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, and delves into the cultural conditioning of sense and perception in a way she describes as a "...

José Carlos Martinat

José Carlos Martinat lives and works in Lima, Peru. Martinat’s projects are characterized by exploring a relationship with the context in which it is presented, on a social, cultural or political level, in order to achieve a real and direct communication between the viewer, the work and the space. Martinat works within a multidisciplinary practice utilizing sculpture, robotics, programming, audio, sound, appropriation and interaction where relevant. His work has taken part in various exhibitions in Latin-American, Europe y USA like: Eva+a Ireland Biennial, Mercosur...

Kathy Zarur

Curator & Educator

​Kathy Zarur is a curator and educator based in San Francisco. She has curated exhibitions for the San Francisco Arts Commission, Center for Asian American Media Film Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, Kearny Street Workshop, SOMArts, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, and Museum of the African Diaspora (all in San Francisco). In 2011, she was assistant curator of the Sharjah Biennial. She co-produced artist Wael Shawky’s live installation Dictums 10:120 for the subsequent Sharjah Biennial in 2013. She has worked...

Ajuan Mance

Visual Artist, Author, Editor, and a Professor of Ethnic Studies and English at Mills College

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they intersect. Her work has appeared in a number of digital and print media outlets, including, most recently, The Women’s Review of Books, Blavity.com, BET.com, Transition...

Wendy MacNaughton

Illustrator and Graphic Journalist

Wendy MacNaughton is an illustrator and graphic journalist based in San Francisco. MacNaughton has published eleven books, including three New York Times best-sellers. MacNaughton's work combines illustration, journalism, and social work to tell the stories of overlooked people and places. Her art has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Juxtapoz, GOOD, Time Out NY, 7x7, and Gizmodo. She has created magazine cover images for 7x7 and Edible SF. Her illustrated documentary series, "Meanwhile," was first published in The Rumpus in 2010, then in 2014 as a book, Meanwhile in...

Maya Lin

Architect, Designer, and Sculptor

Maya Lin is known for her large-scale environmental artworks, her architectural works and her memorial designs. Her unique multi-disciplinary career has “resisted categories, boundaries and borders” (Michael Brenson). In her book Boundaries, she writes I see myself existing between boundaries, a place where opposites meet; science and art, art and architecture, East and West. My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings.”

Nature and the environment have long been central concerns for Lin who attended Yale...

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Multidisciplinary Artist

Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social collaboration. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and...

Simon Leung

Professor of Art at UC Irvine

Simon Leung’s foremost concern as an artist is how “the ethical,” broadly defined, can be thought and traced. His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on “the residual space of the American/Vietnam War” (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site/non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson’s reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration...