Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
The History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series brings to campus leading humanities scholars working on issues of media transition and technological emergence. The series promotes new, interdisciplinary approaches to questions about the uses, meanings, causes, and effects of rapid or dramatic shifts in techno-infrastructure, information management, and forms of mediated expression. Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media, these events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.
2020
Wednesday, March 12 | 5:00 — 8:00 PM | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Feminist Open Access and Internet Publishing
Francesca Coppa, Co-Founder, Organization for Transformative Works
Kristina Busse, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Transformative Works and Cultures
Karen Hellekson, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Transformative Works and Cultures
Co-sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the School of Information, the D-Lab, UC Berkeley Libraries, and the Department of Film & Media
Monday, March 30 | 6:30 — 8:00 PM | Osher Theater, BAMPFA
The Right to Be Creative
Margarita Kuleva, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg
Invisible Russia: Participatory Cultures, Their Practices and Values
Natalia Samutina, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Presented in partnership with the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, the Arts Research Center, the Department of the History of Art, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities.
Thursday, April 16 | 5:00 — 6:30 PM | Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Art & AI
Christiane Paul, Associate Dean of The New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Co-sponsored by AUTOLab and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.