Announcing the 2017-2018 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

From new journalism to virtual reality, telepresence to designing brands, this year's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium packs a punch!

Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 Series Theme: Public (Re)Assembly

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Monday Evenings, 6:30-8:00pm
Osher Theater, BAMPFA, Berkeley, CA

2017

09/25 World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Frank Foer, Journalist, NY
In partnership with the Graduate School of Journalism

10/23 Socially Engaged Internet-Art: Aesthetics of Information Ethics
Paolo Cirio, Artist, New York
In partnership with the Department of Art Practice

11/6 We must conjure our Gods before we obey them
Michael Rock, Designer, 2X4, New York
In partnership with the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning

2018

01/29 Indexical Ambivalence
Kris Paulsen, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University, OH
In partnership with the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series and the Department of Art Practice

02/05 Connectivity as Human Right
Nicholas Negroponte, Architect, Cambridge, MA
In partnership with the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

03/19 Yugoexport Is the Name of this Oral Corporation
Irena Haiduk, Artist, Belgrade, Serbia
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series

04/09 new art, flag art, good art, portal art
Ian Cheng, Artist, Los Angeles
In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series

04/16 Regents Lecture 2018
Angela Davis, Activist and Professor, UC Santa Cruz

About ATC

ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
BCNM Director: Nicholas de Monchaux
Arts + Design Director: Shannon Jackson
ATC Assoc. Director: Greg Niemeyer
ATC Assoc. Director: Eric Paulos
BCNM Liason: Lara Wolfe

Additional Sponsors:
Townshend/Lamarre Family Foundation
Office of the Executive VC and Provost