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26 Aug, 2024

Announcing the 2024-25 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Season

We are excited to announce the 2024-25 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 2024 - Spring 2025

2024

9/10 You've Just Been F$%^#d By PSYOPs: UFOs, Magic, Electronic Warfare, Mind Control, Artificial Intelligence, and the Death of the Internet
Trevor Paglen, Multi-Disciplinary Artist, Filmmaker, Investigator, and Technologist
In-person event at David Brower Center's Richard & Rhoda Goldman Theater. Co-sponsored by Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS) and the Arts Research Center (ARC).

10/11 Internet Tour
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; The Indigenous Poetics Lab, Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
In-person bus and walking tour. Presented with the Arts Research Center (ARC) and returning to the Bay Area as part of BCNM's 20th year anniversary. Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

10/21 Black Terminus AR: Bringing Art to Life with Augmented Reality
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
In-person event, location to be announced. Presented as part of BCNM’s Oakland New Media program. Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies.

2025

4/10 and 4/11 BCNM 20th Anniversary Alumni Conference
BCNN alumni Andrea Gagliano, Brooke Belisle, Caitlin Marshall, Cesar Torres, David Humphrey, Katherine Chandler, Kris Paulsen, Laura Devendorf, Naomi Bragin, R. Stuart Geiger, Tiare Ribeaux, Therese Tierney, Will Payne (and more!)
In-person event at Banatao Auditorium (310 Sutardja Dai Hall). Co-sponsored by the School of Information, the Arts Research Center (ARC), the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, and the Department of African American Studies.

Accessibility

BCNM events are free and open to the public. Our 2024-25 Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium lectures will be held in person on or near 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.

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