Visual Arts

Location/Translation: Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global

September 19, 2012
Location/Translation Art + Engagement from the Local to the Global September 19, 2012

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Timed to coincide with SFMOMA’s transnational exhibition, “Lines of Flight,” a panel of curators, artists, and scholars discussed how regional circumstances affect curatorial practice in international art contexts–and how “global” conversations can redefine what we think of as “local” production. The roster included curators from local...

Creative Time Summit: Stockholm Rebroadcast

The Creative Time Summit Re-Broadcast Friday, November 14: California College of the Arts
Monday, November 17: UC Berkeley Co-hosted with CCA Graduate Fine Arts Department and ART SCHOOL X

Reimagining the Urban: Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space

Reimagining the Urban Bay Area Connections Across the Arts and Public Space September 30, 2013

Reimagining the Urban is a daylong symposium examining art, nature, economic development and equity in the Bay Area metropolis. Artists, curators, real estate developers, environmentalists and social justice advocates gather to discuss the uses and abuses of the region’s creative and natural resources.

Mediations & Collaborations with Susan Meiselas

September 10, 2018
Mediations & Collaborations: A Conversation with Susan Meiselas Monday, September 10, 2018
12:00-1:30pm
Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities

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Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res with Shuddhabrata Sengupta

November 7, 2018
“Kinetic Contemplation: Raqs Media Collective in Medias Res” Shuddhabrata Sengupta in conversation with Professors Natalia Brizuela & Poulomi Saha Wednesday, November 7, 2018
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall, Room 315

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Dark Humanisms, Surplus Visuality

September 12, 2019
Dark Humanisms | Surplus Visuality Rizvana Bradley History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University Thursday, September 12, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A, Doe Library, UC Berkeley

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On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”

November 8, 2019
On “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” Curator Mark Godfrey, Tate Modern, in conversation with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle Friday, November 8, 2019
4:00-6:00pm
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Downtown Berkeley

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Please note, this event is free and open to the public. Seating is first come, first served (no tickets). Co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice.

Julie Mehretu, in conversation

October 22, 2019
Julie Mehretu in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, October 22, 2019
5:00-7:00pm
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall, UC Berkeley
Please note, seating is first come, first served.

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Co-sponsored by The Arts Research Center, the Department of Art Practice, The Center for the Study of Sexual Culture, and the Center for Race & Gender

Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture

February 27, 2020
Contingent Intimacies: Queer Criticalities + Photographic Portraiture
With Horace Ballard In conversation with Justin Underhill Thursday, February 27 | 5:00-7:00pm
Visual Resource Center, Room 308A | Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Co-sponsored by Arts Research Center, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Berkeley Center for New Media

A photograph is many things. It is a relationship, an index, a text, a betrayal. It is a contract. It is a sustainable fragility. It is a political act of community-making. It is a matrix of entangled signs and...

Artist Talk with Dario Robleto

March 15, 2022
Artist Talk with Dario Robleto ARC Spring 2022 Artist-in-Residence in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson Tuesday, March 15th 2022 4:00 – 5:30pm PST Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall Watch the recording here!

Presented by the Arts Research Center with co-sponsorship from the Departments of Art Practice and Ethnic Studies, the Berkeley Center for New Media, the Latinx Research Center, and the Program in Critical Theory

Dario Robleto is an artist, researcher, writer, and...