Visual Arts

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: 2015-2016 Series

Art, Technology, & Culture Colloquium: Global Circulations

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.

ARC | Arts + Design is partnering with the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium for...

Cal Day 2016

On Cal Day, learn about the campus’ new Arts + Design Initiative and its efforts to feature, fortify, and mobilize existing excellence in the arts and design while fostering new forms of dynamic collaboration, innovation, and public access across all arts and design fields, on our campus, and in public life.

Join Professor Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts and Design, and learn about campus spaces that nurture the arts, expose our students to new ideas, and present groundbreaking new work to our public. The tour will weave through maker spaces,...

Thinking across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life Public Talks, Spring 2016

In January of 2016 a new chapter in the story of arts and design at Berkeley begins with a new building: the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) will open its doors at a new location and will present the exhibition “Architecture of Life.” In partnership with BAMPFA, and in collaboration with the many scholars, artists, and departments across the UC Berkeley campus, a series of public talks will be offered in the spring associated with the Big Ideas course: Thinking Across the Arts and Design at Berkeley: The Architecture of Life...

San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward

June 5, 2015
San Francisco: Looking Back as We Look Forward June 5, 2015

Join the de Young Museum and the Arts Research Center for four unique interventions around the museum, exploring the formal and social concerns of photographers who have made San Francisco their object of attention, focusing on Delaney’s exhibition and considering its connection to a history of San Francisco photography.

Open City/Art City Art and Ideas Festival

October 3, 2014
Open City/Art City October 3-4th hosted by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future

This Art and Ideas Festival will engage the public through a creative and generative weekend that looks at how we transform a city. The October 3 & 4th weekend will consist of IFTF’s Maker Cities’ Conference and Open Cities/Art Cities Art and Ideas Festival, which through art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play, they will invite the Bay Area community to reimagine the city’s urban spaces, and forge new models of innovation...

Art in City: The City in the Art

July 17, 2015
Art in City: The City in the Art July 17, 2015 6:00-8:30 pm Wilsey Court, de Young Museum

In an exhibition particularly relevant to the Bay Area, Janet Delaney: South of Market relates the complex history of a changing San Francisco neighborhood through a selection of more than 40 photographs from the 1970s and 1980s. Janet Delaney (b. 1952), an internationally recognized photographer and educator based in Berkeley, photographed the people and places in the South of Market district during a period when redevelopment was threatening to transform it irreversibly.

Rick Lowe: “Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial”

November 17, 2014
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial with Rick Lowe Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
November 17, 2014, 7:30-9:00pm
The David Brower Center, Berkeley CA

Lectures are free and open to the public.

Co-presented with the Regents Lecturer Program.

Reserve your ticket here.

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A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014

A Week of Socially Engaged Art: October 6-12, 2014 Dive in and out of a week-long series of events, and meet artists and institutions that are making waves in the evolving practice of Socially Engaged Art!

This week, the Arts Research Center is partnering with the Center for Art and Inquiry at the Exploratorium as well as New York’s Blade of Grass, to program a series of Bay Area events that demonstrate the range and reach of socially engaged art! With Maya Lin at the David Brower Center, Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Island, Rick Lowe in residence at the Arts Research Center, Paul Ramirez Jonas...

Impact in the Arts Think Tank

January 17, 2014
Impact in the Arts Think Tank January 17, 2014

On January 17, the Arts Research Center brought together Bay Area leaders in the arts and culture and UC Berkeley arts, humanities, and social science professors to address social and economic ‘impact’ in different artistic models. This daylong think tank discussion kicked off a series of related but differentiated activities we are plotting this term to explore a variety of research and art practices that address social and economic questions in the arts.

Our conversation began with reflection on a broad collection of...

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

Spring 2023 Co-Sponsored Events

ARC was thrilled to be co-sponsoring with Arts+ Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry, Center for Latin American Studies, Engaging the Senses Foundation, English Department's Lunch Poems series, Future Histories Lab, Stanford and SFMOMA, and the Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies in Spring of 2023!