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26 Jul, 2023

Announcing the 2023-2024 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season

Image credit: micha cárdenas, Queering the Ocean

We are excited to announce the 2023-2024 season for the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium!

Founded by Prof. Ken Goldberg in 1997, the ATC lecture series is an internationally respected forum for creative ideas. Always free of charge and open to the public, the series is coordinated by the Berkeley Center for New Media and has presented over 200 leading artists, writers, and critical thinkers who question assumptions and push boundaries at the forefront of art, technology, and culture including: Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Sophie Calle, Bruno Latour, Maya Lin, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Miranda July, Billy Kluver, David Byrne, Morehshin Allahyari, and Osman Khan.

Fall 2023 - Spring 2024

2023

8/28 The ghost in the machine is me.
Jen Liu, Artist
Moderated by Xiaowei Wang
Accompanied by Mia J. Chong, Dancer
In-person event at Maude Fife Room (315 Wheeler Hall). Co-sponsored by the English Department and the Department of Art Practice.

9/11 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
In-person event at 575 McCone Hall. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice and the Department of Geography.

9/18 A Historical Dance of New Media
Eduardo Costa, Artist
In-person event, location to be announced. Presented as part of BCNM’s Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art Practice.

10/12 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
In-person bus and walking tour. Presented with the Arts Research Center (ARC) as part of BCNM’s Critical Infrastructures and Cultural Analytics program. Co-sponsored by Insitut Ramon Llull and the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study.

11/13 What Gets Amplified
Raven Chacon, Composer
In-person event at the Arts Research Center (ARC), Hearst Field Annex, D23. Presented as part of BCNM’s 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.

12/1 Echoes from the Borderlands
Valeria Luiselli, Writer and Visiting Professor, Harvard University
In-person event, location to be announced. 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 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.

2024

2/12 After Man: Alterhuman Ethics and Poetics at the Climate Change Tipping Point
micha cárdenas, Associate Professor, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Performance, Play & Design, UCSC
In-person event, location to be announced. Presented as part of BCNM’s Latinx & Latin American Media Ecologies program.

Accessibility

BCNM events are free and open to the public. Our 2023-24 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lectures will be held in person on the Berkeley campus. We post video, with captioning, of our in-person events to our YouTube channel within a few weeks of the event date. For our online events, we provide live-captioning in Zoom and offer a separate Streamtext window for live-captioning with options to customize text size and display. We strive to meet any additional access and accommodation needs. Please contact info.bcnm [at] berkeley.edu with requests or questions.

For updated information please see:

http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/13/art-tech-culture/

Contact: info.bcnm [​at​] berkeley.edu

ATC Director: Ken Goldberg
BCNM Director: Tom McEnaney
BCNM Liaisons: Lara Wolfe, Raphael Cohen