Fall 2023 BCNM Events
Mark your calendars for an incredible lineup of speakers this fall! Featuring multi-disciplinary visual artist Jen Liu, UC Irvine Professor of Electronic Art & Design Jesse Colin Jackson, Indigenous Technologies lectures by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon and Dartmouth Professor Martina Broner, an “AI and The Humanities” roundtable discussion with Black in AI co-founder Timnit Gebru, plus so much more!
Monday, August 28, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall)
The ghost in the machine is me.
Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice.
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Monday, September 11, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, 575 McCone Hall
Tectonic Echoes in the Information Age (ten years later)
Jesse Colin Jackson, Associate Professor, Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine
Moderated by Asma Kazmi
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography.
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Monday, September 18, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Location to be announced
A Historical Dance of New Media
Eduardo Costa, Artist
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice.
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Monday, October 2, 2023
12:30 — 2 PM, BCNM Commons (340 Moffitt Undergraduate Library)
Tim Evatt, Production Designer at Pixar Animation Studio
Presented as part of BCNM's Commons Conversations.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
5:00 — 7:00 PM, Geballe Room (220 Stephens Hall)
AI and the Humanities: Generative Creativity and Interpretation
Timnit Gebru, Founder & Executive Director, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR); Vikram Chandra, Writer and Co-Founder, Granthika Co.; Hannah Zeavin, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley
Presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, as part of BCNM’s History and Theory of New Media lecture series, and Critical Infrastructures and Cultural Analytics program.
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Thursday, October 12, 2023
9:30 AM — 12:30 PM, Locations to be announced
Internet Tour: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations
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
Presented with the Arts Research Center, as part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium, and Critical Infrastructures and Cultural Analytics program. Co-sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull, the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley.
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Monday, October 16, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Location to be announced
Rerouting Media in the Living Forest
Martina Broner, Assistant Professor, Department of Arts & Sciences, Dartmouth College, and Co-Founder of the Amazonia Section of the Latin American Studies Association
Presented as part of BCNM's History and Theory of New Media lecture series, Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies program, and Indigenous Technologies initiative. Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), the Media Studies program, and the Department of Art Practice.
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Monday, November 13, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Arts Research Center (ARC), Hearst Field Annex, D23
Raven Chacon, Composer
Presented as a part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Indigenous Technologies initiative. 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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Friday, December 1, 2023
5:00 — 6:30 PM, Location to be announced
Valeria Luiselli, Writer and Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Presented with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), and the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS),as part of BCNM’s Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies program. Co-sponsored by the Latinx Research Center, the Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry (CICI), and the American Cultures Center.
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For more on our lecture series:
2023-2024 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium events
2023-2024 History and Theory of New Media events