21 Oct, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality
with Damien McDuffie
Creative Technologist, Digital Archivist, Augmented Reality Artist, Founder of Black Terminus AR, and Black Public Media Visiting Artist Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Oakland New Media event co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies Read more
14 Oct, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places
by Alex Saum-Pascual, Poet and Assoc Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, and Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, BAU, College of Arts and Design of Barcelona. With the participation of Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor of Art Practice, the Fall 2024 Class of Questioning New Media, and the Indigenous Poetics Lab at the Arts Research Center. Read more
10 Sep, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
You've Just Been F$%^#d By PSYOPs: UFOs, Magic, Electronic Warfare, Mind Control, Artificial Intelligence, and the Death of the Internet
with Trevor Paglen
Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Filmmaker, Investigator, and Technologist
An Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture co-sponsored by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the Arts Research Center (ARC) Read more
12 Feb, 2024
Art, Tech & Culture
After Man: Alterhuman Ethics and Poetics at the Climate Change Tipping Point
with micha cárdenas
Associate Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, University of California, Santa Cruz
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society (CSTMS) Read more
30 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Echoes from the Borderlands
with Valeria Luiselli, Leo Heiblum, and Ricardo Giraldo
Artists
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event, presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS), co-sponsored by the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI) and the American Cultures Center. Read more
13 Nov, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with Raven Chacon
Composer
An Indigenous Technologies event co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Music, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the Department of Art Practice
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12 Oct, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations
An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places
with Alex Saum-Pascual, Digital Artist, Poet, and Associate Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and New Media, University of California, Berkeley; Mario Santamaría, Visual Artist and Lecturer, Elisava University, Barcelona; Jill Miller, Visual Artist and Assistant Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Asma Kazmi, Research-Based Artist and Associate Professor, Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley; Beth Piatote, Writer, Playwright, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley Read more
18 Sep, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
A Historical Dance of New Media
with Eduardo Costa
Artist
A Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies event co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice Read more
11 Sep, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
with Jesse Colin Jackson
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography Read more
28 Aug, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
The ghost in the machine is me.
with Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei R. Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice Read more
13 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with Osman Khan
Professor, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the South Asia Art Initiative Read more
06 Mar, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
with
Teddy Cruz, Professor, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego
Fonna Forman, Professor, Department of Political Science and Director, Center on Global Justice, University of California San Diego
Co-sponsored by the Department of Architecture, the Department of Art Practice, the Arts Research Center, and the Center for Latin American Studies Read more
30 Jan, 2023
Art, Tech & Culture
Generative Art and Deep Learning AI
with Nettrice Gaskins
Digital artist, academic, and cultural critic
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center, the Jacobs Institute for Design, and Media Studies Read more
14 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
George's Blues: An Investigation of George Washington Carver’s Legacy as an Artist and Cook
with Seitu Jones
Artist, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Presented in partnership the Department of Art Practice and co-sponsored by American Cultures. Read more
13 Apr, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
Culture capture, additive defacement, and other tactics towards realizing Indigenous futures
with Adam and Zack Khalil
Filmmakers
This event is the first in a two-part series, presented with the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) as part of the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium and the Indigenous Technologies Initiative. Read more
14 Mar, 2022
Art, Tech & Culture
with Margarita Kuleva
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Rescheduled from Spring 2020
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Department of the History of Art, the Arts Research Center, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities. Read more
04 Oct, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
Colonial Practices and Cultural Repression by the Municipality against the Community Museum of the Valle de Xico but “It is our 25th anniversary and we are still here.”
with Maria Thereza Alves
Artist
Moderated by Edgar Fabián Frias
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, the Center for Race and Gender, the Arts Research Center, and and The American Indian Graduate Program.
Read more
13 Sep, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
How Can a Maori Girl Recolonise the Screen Using Mighty Pixels
with Lisa Reihana
Artist, Aotearoa/New Zealand
Presented with Berkeley Arts + Design and co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and The American Indian Graduate Program. Read more
05 Apr, 2021
Art, Tech & Culture
with Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Artist, Dubai
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Arts Research Center, and the Department of Art Practice Read more
07 Nov, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
The Sinofuturist Trilogy: Sinofuturism (1839-2046 AD), Geomancer, and AIDOL
with Lawrence Lek
Artist, Filmmaker and Musician
Co-sponsored by the Arts Research Center and the Department of Art Practice. Read more
21 Sep, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire??
with Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
13 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
ONLINE: Neural Abstractions
*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom*
with Tom White
Artist and Researcher
Victoria University of Wellington School of Design
Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire.
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06 Apr, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years
with William Pope.L
Artist, Chicago
Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
24 Feb, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
with Margaret Rhee
Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU
Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020
Art, Tech & Culture
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
with Amy LaViers
Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab
Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
04 Nov, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics
with Guy Hoffman
Robotics Researcher, Cornell University
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Leonel Moura
Artist, Lisbon
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies
with Marisa Morán Jahn
Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Robots Are Creatures, Not Things
with Madeline Gannon
Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
Adam Savage
Mythbusters, CA
a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with
Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
01 Apr, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
with Rhonda Holberton
Artist, Oakland
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
18 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
with Morehshin Allahyari
Artist, New York
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
04 Mar, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
with Nnedi Okorafor
Artist, Olympia Fields, IL
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
In and out of the Body and into the Machine
with Chico MacMurtrie
Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019
Art, Tech & Culture
News of the Future and the Future of News
with Kevin Delaney
Editor, Quartz
In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
19 Nov, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech
Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth
with Kim Stanley Robinson
Author, Davis, CA
In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One
Read more
15 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kerry Tribe
Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
The Networked Avant-garde
with Kelani Nichole
Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
10 Sep, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Roxane Gay
Author, Indiana Read more
16 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Angela Davis
Activist and Professor, CA
interviewed by Leigh Raiford, Assoc. Professor of African American Studies and Malika Imhotep, PhD Candidate in African American Studies and Designated Emphasis in New Media
A 2018 Regents Lecture
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09 Apr, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
new art, flag art, good art, portal art
with Ian Cheng
Artist, Los Angeles, CA
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, and as part of the Arts + Design Monday Nights at BAMPFA program. Read more
19 Mar, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Yugoexport Is the Name of this Oral Corporation
With Irena Haiduk
Artist, Belgrade, Serbia
Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
05 Feb, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
Connectivity as a Human Right
with Nick Negroponte
Architect, MIT, Massachussetts
Presented in partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
29 Jan, 2018
Art, Tech & Culture
with Kris Paulsen
Associate Professor of History of Art and the Film Studies Program at The Ohio State University
An Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium lecture. Presented in partnership with the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series as part of Monday nights as BAMPFA. Read more
06 Nov, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
We Must Conjure Our Gods Before We Obey Them
With Michael Rock
Designer, 2x4, NY.
Presenting in partnership with the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning Read more
23 Oct, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
with Paolo Cirio
Artist, NY
Presented in partnership with the Department of Art Practice Read more
25 Sep, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
with Frank Foer
National correspondent for The Atlantic and fellow at the New America Foundation.
Presented in partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism Read more
03 Apr, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Remapping History: The Unwanted Population - CANCELED
with Tiffany Chung, internationally noted cartographer Read more
02 Apr, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Mediating Reality: The New Role of Visual Journalism - CANCELED
with Richard Koci Hernandez, Emmy award-winning innovator in journalism and multimedia Read more
17 Jan, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Collecting the Uncollectible
with art collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich in conversation with Larry Rinder, BAMPFA Director Read more
12 Jan, 2017
Art, Tech & Culture
Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini
with Tanya Zimbardo, a contemporary art curator based in San Francisco Read more
08 Dec, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Designing Spatiality for New Media Art
with Andrew and Deborah Rappaport,
founders of the Minnesota Street Project Read more
28 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Deep Dreams: Between Inspiration and Hallucination
Mike Tyka in conversation with Josette Melchor Read more
17 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
The Peaks and Valleys of Kinetic Sculpture
with Reuben Margolin, American-born artist and sculptor Read more
09 Nov, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Unnatural: People, Energy and Materials in Three Acts
Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, author, design entrepreneur, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture Read more
17 Oct, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Sculpture. Simulacrum. Ritual.
Tom Sachs
Sculptor, NY
In partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Art Practice Department Read more
22 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
with Hito Steyerl, renowned German artist Read more
01 Feb, 2016
Art, Tech & Culture
Four Thoughts about the Impact of Globalization on Artists
with Sarah Thornton, writer, ethnographer and sociologist of culture Read more
30 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Material Evidence: Scientific Inquiry, Sensory Experience, and the Creative Process
with Adrien Segal
Oakland-based sculptural data artist and designer Read more
02 Nov, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Working the Stack: Exploits, Topologies, Ontologies
with Julian Oliver, a New Zealander, Critical Engineer and artist based in Berlin Read more
28 Sep, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
Everything I Know Will Be Yours: Surveillance In Plein Air
with Vito Acconci, American designer, architect, performance and installation artist Read more
13 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
A Hack in the Odious Machine: Digital Organizing Tools for the Precariat
with Jesse Drew, UC Davis Professor, and Glenda Drew, artist and designer Read more
06 Apr, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
with Jose Carlos Martinat, artist, and Enrique Mayorga, researcher Read more
09 Mar, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
DeafSpace and Making Musical Instruments
by Tarek Atoui, electroacoustic composer Read more
23 Feb, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
by Rirkrit Tiravanija, renowned Thai artist Read more
26 Jan, 2015
Art, Tech & Culture
What Is a Work of Art in the Age of $120,000 Art Degrees?
An ATC lecture by Caroline Woolard Read more
17 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Social and Community Engaged Work: The Genuine and the Artificial
An ATC lecture by Rick Lowe Read more
03 Nov, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Creative Interventions and Social Activation
A lecture by Cheryl Haines on her collaboration with Ai Weiwei, at the David Brower Center Read more
04 Oct, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Embodying Liberation: A Dialogue on Community and Healing
A lecture by Brett Cook, Read more
29 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
This not-to-be-missed lecture by renowned American architect, Maya Lin Read more
08 Sep, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
The Death Throes of the Desert God
An ATC lecture by John Perry Barlow, cattle rancher and Grateful Dead songwriter Read more
31 May, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
Lossy: On the Politics of Networked Flows and Degraded Systems
A part of our Arts and Technology Colloquium, Stephanie Syjuco - visual artist and educator - bestows a lecture Read more
10 Mar, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
How Complicated Could a Metronome Be?
Witness this lectre by an American pioneer in the field of sound synthesizers, a part of our ATC series Read more
24 Feb, 2014
Art, Tech & Culture
ULTRACONCENTRATED: Image, Media, Software
Casey Reas, LA-based artist and educator, talks about the possibilies of software in the visual arts Read more
02 Dec, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
From Timelapse to Timecollapse
Zhang Ga, media art curator and Professor at Tsinghua University, on "Rethinking New Media Art and Platform China" Read more
18 Nov, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Your Presence is Required: Performance, Control, and Magnetism
A lecture by Laetitia Sonami -- composer, performer, and sound artist Read more
14 Oct, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Skin Play: Visual Ethics and ”Race” in Digital Art
with Jennifer Gonzalez, UCSC History of Art and Visual Culture instructor Read more
16 Sep, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Avatar Syndrome: Past Imperative, Future Conditional
with Allan deSouza, UC Berkeley faculty and photographer Read more
04 Mar, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Meredith Tromble (SFAI) and Dawn Sumner (UCD) on "Imaging and Imagination in Collaborative Research" Read more
04 Feb, 2013
Art, Tech & Culture
Social Prosthetics: Technology and the Human Form
A lecture by Kate Hartman, leader of wearable technology Read more
03 Dec, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Luminous Currents: Tracing Modernism from Bauhaus to Beehive
An Arts + Technology Colloquium lecture by JoAnne Northrup, former chief curator at the San Jose Museum of Art Read more
19 Nov, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Telesthesia: How Class and Power work in the Post-Internet Age
In this ATC lecture, McKenzie Wark (Associate Prof. of Media and Culture at the New School) will talk about the changing meaning of digital communication within class relations Read more
01 Oct, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Visualization and the Joy of Revelation
with Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg, artists and lead researchers of Google's Big Picture" visualization research group Read more
17 Sep, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
A Tale of Two Eyes, One Brain, One Hand, and One Pen
with Ryan and Trevor Oakes, visual artists whose work has been featured in Chicago's Millennium Park and Palazzo Strozzi Museum in Florence Italy -- to name a few Read more
23 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
On Vanishing: New Mythologies for Choreography in Museums
with Jonah Bokaer, international choreographer, media artist, and artist space developer Read more
16 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
Media Bichos and other Displays for Engaging People to Watch Videos in the Museum
with Sabine Breitwieser, Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art in New York Read more
02 Apr, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
The Comatose, the Cadaver, and the Chimera: Alternate Anatomical Architectures
An Arts + Technology Colloquium with Stellarc, Read more
13 Feb, 2012
Art, Tech & Culture
All the West is Wasteland: Art in the Post-Agrarian Landscape
with Fernando Garcia Dory, artist and agro-ecologist Read more
05 Dec, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Heaven Can Wait: The Revolving Restaurant as Hypercinema
Bull.Miletic: Synne Bull and Dragan Miletic, recipients of the Bay Area Video Coalition's "Video Maker Award" Read more
21 Nov, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Performance and Humor in the New Media Landscape
with Marc Horowitz, interdisciplinary artist. A part of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
31 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Present Continuous Past(s): The Centre Pompidou New Media Collection
with Christine Van Assche, Chief Curator and Curator of New Media at the Centre Georges Pompidou Read more
10 Oct, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface
with Kal Spelletich, SF-based artist Read more
19 Sep, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems
with Shannon Jackson, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Arts Research Center Read more
03 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Finding Christopher Alexander’s Fifteen Fundamental Properties in the Berkeley Rose Garden
A unique field trip to the Berkeley Rose Garden, led by Maggie Alexander Read more
02 May, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth
with Christopher Alexander, Prof. of Architecture here at UC Berkeley Read more
25 Apr, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Pure Engineering – Decoupling Technical Innovation from Utility and Consumerism
with Raffaello D’Andrea, an artist and Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Read more
28 Mar, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Sophie Calle, Artist Presentation with Q&A
Hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. Arrive early to claim your seat! Read more
07 Feb, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Surfaces of Constant Simultaneity
Jose Alvarez on his own personal journey of investigation into the realms of consciousness, mysticism, spirituality Read more
24 Jan, 2011
Art, Tech & Culture
Rhinoceros Beetles, Kissable Frogs and other Close Encounters with Biodiverse and the Tasty Future
An Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lecture by Natalie Jeremijenko Read more
06 Dec, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
with Matthew Passmore, an artist and a principal at Rebar, an art and design studio based in San Francisco Read more
15 Nov, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Architectural Communication in the Knowledge Economy
with Jeffrey Inaba, founder of INABA, an architecture firm based in Los Angeles Read more
11 Oct, 2010
Art, Tech & Culture
Art and the Utopian Imaginary
with Mark Tribe, artist and occasional curator whose interests include art, technology, and politics Read more