21 Sep, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture Notes on the Role of the Artist when the world has always been on fire?? with Pope.L Artist, Chicago Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
13 Apr, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture ONLINE: Neural Abstractions *Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, this event has been moved to the online platform Zoom* with Tom White Artist and Researcher Victoria University of Wellington School of Design Cosponsored by Autolab and the CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) and held in conjunction with the DH Faire. Read more
06 Apr, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture POSTPONED: Notes on Recent Work of the Past Five Years with William Pope.L Artist, Chicago Presented by the Department of Art Practice Read more
24 Feb, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture In Search for My Robot: Emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity with Margaret Rhee Assistant Professor, SUNY Buffalo; Visiting Scholar, NYU Co-sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature Read more
27 Jan, 2020 Art, Tech & Culture Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems with Amy LaViers Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab Co-sponsored by the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
04 Nov, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Transience, Replication, and the Paradox of Social Robotics with Guy Hoffman Robotics Researcher, Cornell University Co-sponsored by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
21 Oct, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Non-Human Art with Leonel Moura Artist, Lisbon Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese, CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR), and FLAD — the Luso-American Development Foundation. Read more
23 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture The Copper in my Cooch and Other Technologies with Marisa Morán Jahn Artist, Cambridge, MA and New York, NY Co-sponsored by the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series and the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation Read more
09 Sep, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Robots Are Creatures, Not Things with Madeline Gannon Artist / Roboticist, Pittsburgh, PA Co-sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and CITRIS People and Robots (CPAR) Read more
29 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture Places in Space Adam Savage Mythbusters, CA a conversation on the past and future of spacesuits with Nicholas de Monchaux, Professor, UC Berkeley In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
01 Apr, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Body Without Borders with Rhonda Holberton Artist, Oakland Presented in partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Read more
18 Mar, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures with Morehshin Allahyari Artist, New York In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Stanford University Read more
04 Mar, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor with Nnedi Okorafor Artist, Olympia Fields, IL In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One,the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English Read more
25 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture In and out of the Body and into the Machine with Chico MacMurtrie Artist, New York Read more
11 Feb, 2019 Art, Tech & Culture News of the Future and the Future of News with Kevin Delaney Editor, Quartz In partnership with the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Read more
19 Nov, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture RESCHEDULED: Daemons Tools Art Tech Due to air quality issues, this talk is being rescheduled for September 23rd, 2019. Please check back soon for more information! Read more
29 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson Author, Davis, CA In partnership with the Department of Architecture's Studio One Read more
15 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture Image and Amnesia with Kerry Tribe Artist & Filmmaker, Los Angeles In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
08 Oct, 2018 Art, Tech & Culture The Networked Avant-garde with Kelani Nichole Director, The Current; Founder, TRANSFER In partnership with the Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series Read more
24 Apr, 2018 Special Events Mapping as Research with Trevor Paglen Artist, CA in conversation with Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Art, UC Berkeley hosted by the Arts Research Center co-sponsored by BCNM, BAMPFA and the Department of Geography Read more
10 Nov, 2016 Special Events "Boom California": Launch Party for Special Global Urban Humanities Issue We're celebrating the latest issue of BOOM California Magazine! Read more
19 Apr, 2014 Special Events Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Practicum A practicum of artist-led workshops that develop exercises, prompts, or actions that engage questions of art, labor, and economics. Don't miss out! Read more
21 Nov, 2013 Special Events Critical Time: Claudia La Rocco in Conversation with Shannon Jackson Presented by The Arts Research Center Read more
19 Sep, 2011 Art, Tech & Culture Social Turns and Reciprocal Systems with Shannon Jackson, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Arts Research Center Read more
14 Jan, 2025 Shannon Jackson Leads "A Counter-Imaginary in Authoritarian Times" BCNM faculty member Shannon Jackson leads a multiyear initiative supported by a $2.6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! Read more
20 May, 2024 BCNM's Big Wins 2024 We're so proud to share some our greatest successes from 2023-2024! Read more
05 May, 2024 Congratulating Our Spring 2024 Undergraduate Certificate Recipients We wish them well in their future pursuits! Join us in applauding their accomplishments! Read more
07 Dec, 2023 Congratulating Our Fall 2023 Graduates Omnidirectional wifi speaker, Hae Sung Park. Read more
10 Jul, 2023 Alex Saum-Pascual & Shannon Jackson Named 2023 Townsend Fellows The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities has encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship, fostered innovative research, and promoted intellectual conversation across academic fields. Read more
27 Dec, 2021 BCNM Around the Web December 2021 Check out the great work of our students, faculty, and alumni around the web this past December 2021! Read more
09 Apr, 2021 Shannon Jackson Featured in Berkeley High Jacket Berkeley High Jacket celebrated the women of Berkeley this March and spotlighted the incredible arts organization of Shannon Jackson. Read more
05 Mar, 2020 Shannon Jackson Supports Oakland Arts Scene Our faculty support the arts off campus through their infrastructure and donations! Read more
19 Feb, 2020 Shannon Jackson at After Tomorrow The After Tomorrow: Oakland and Saint-Denis cooperation project officially launched at Cal's Global Urban Humanities Department. Read more
11 Jul, 2019 Announcing the Fall 2019-Spring 2020 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
30 Jan, 2019 BCNM at San Francisco's Night of Ideas BCNM faculty Nicholas de Monchaux, Shannon Jackson and Ken Goldberg, along with DE student Malika Imhotep participated in San Francisco's Night of Ideas. Read more
15 Jan, 2019 BCNM at Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association 2018 Shannon Jackson and alumni Bonnie Ruberg and Caitlin Marshall participated in States of Emergence from November 8-11, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Read more
21 Aug, 2018 Announcing the Fall 2018-Spring 2019 Season of the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Read more
07 May, 2018 Shannon Jackson on Systemic Crises in European Theater Associate Professor at BCNM, Shannon Jackson, was a keynote speaker at a London conference held by the Goethe-institut. Read more
17 Nov, 2017 Shannon Jackson at PARSE Conference 2017 Shannon Jackson participated in the "Vocabularies of Exclusion" strand at the PARSE Conference 2017 this week. Read more
31 Oct, 2017 New Keyword Anthology for Art Across Disciplines Co-Edited by Shannon Jackson Shannon Jackson, BCNM ExComm member, is co-editing a keywords anthology intended to generate understanding across artistic disciplines. Read more
03 Oct, 2017 BCNM 2016-2017 Publications Come check out the round-up of all the amazing work of the BCNM students, alumni and faculty! Read more
23 Aug, 2017 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! Read more
20 Jun, 2017 Berkeley Arts + Design End of Year Reflection Arts + Design Associate Vice Chancellor Shannon Jackson discusses the program's track record this past academic year. Read more
01 Jun, 2017 Shannon Jackson on Arts & Public Service at SFMOMA Jackson was part of a moderated discussion on the future of artistic engagement in public life. Read more
26 May, 2017 Shannon Jackson at Oakland Book Festival Shannon Jackson, professor at BCNM, moderated "Envisioning Equity in the Arts" a discussion at the Oakland Book Festival. Read more
23 Jan, 2017 Walter Hood interviewed by Shannon Jackson in Boom California Read excerpts of this wonderful conversation between Profs. Shannon Jackson and Walter Hood, for Boom California Read more
19 Jan, 2017 Public Servants, Edited by Shannon Jackson, Published by MIT Press Shannon Jackson is Associate Vice Chancellor of the Arts and Design and the Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Professor at UC Berkeley. Read more
18 Jan, 2017 Shannon Jackson’s “In Terms of Performance” Published! An anthology co-edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola, and produced by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the Arts Research Center of UC Berkeley Read more
10 Nov, 2016 Revisited: Shannon Jackson at the Tate Exchange The Tate Exchange is an annual program that brings together international artists, over 50 partners who work within and beyond the arts, and the public Read more
24 Oct, 2016 Shannon Jackson at the Tate Exchange The assistant professor in Rhetoric and Performance Studies will participate in a series of events at the renowned London museum Read more
18 Oct, 2016 Shannon Jackson at SFMOMA on Art & Performance As a part of "Cosmic Ray: Bay Area Art and Experiment, 1950s to Now", a conversation series hosted on Tuesdays from October 11 to November 15th Read more
04 Oct, 2016 Shannon Jackson on How Art Transforms Us at Battery Powered Featured in "The Power of Art & Creativity," a moderated discussion at The Battery Read more
12 Sep, 2016 Announcing the 2016-2017 Season of the Art, Technology & Culture Colloquium This year, our lectures are organized around the theme of "Digital Immersion." Read the full line-up here. Read more
18 Jul, 2016 Shannon Jackson Published in the Journal of Visual Culture The issue was co-edited by UC Berkeley's own Julia Bryan-Wilson, as well as Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon Read more
30 Jun, 2016 BCNM at Minnesota Street Project's How Not to Be Heard "How Not to be Heard: Hito Steyerl's Subversive Strategies." Visit for yourself! Read more
26 May, 2016 Berkeley and the new SFMOMA — partners in art and public engagement Kate Mattingly, Designated Emphasis student, wrote about UCB's relationship with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Read more
03 May, 2016 Shannon Jackson in Open Engagement Open Engagement is part of the larger Cross Sector Conference Read more
19 Apr, 2016 Revisited: Builders Association Berkeley Book Launch BCNM was thrilled to partner with the Arts + Design | Arts Research Center for the launch of Shannon Jackson's contributions to "Builders Association" Read more
17 Feb, 2016 Revisited: BEARS 2016 BCNM was pleased to host an open house for the Berkeley Engineering Annual Research Symposium of 2016 Read more
21 Jan, 2016 Shannon Jackson at ArtCOP21 ArtCOP21 was launched in advance of the UN climate talks in Paris and aimed to upend the notion that climate change discussions belong to political offices and boardrooms Read more
30 Nov, 2015 Shannon Jackson in 809 | Artists as Activists A discussion panel of Chicago-based artists who use their art to create social impact Read more
26 Oct, 2015 Shannon Jackson's New Retrospective of "The Builders Association" Founded in 1994, the company has forged a reputation for work that blurs medium, genre, and temporality through masterful video, architecture, sound, and text interrogation Read more
15 Oct, 2015 Professor Shannon Jackson On The Work of Andrea Fraser This was the first event in the CCA Wattis Institute's year-long season about and around the work of Andrea Fraser Read more
20 Jul, 2015 "The Builders Association" by Shannon Jackson Now Available A new book by Shannon Jackson is now out! Read more
21 Apr, 2015 Shannon Jackson to be Associate Vice Chancellor of Arts and Design faculty member in rhetoric as well as theater, dance and performance studies (TDPS), Shannon Jackson currently directs the campus’s Arts Research Center Read more
09 Dec, 2014 Questioning New Media Final Presentations Honoring the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement Read more
02 Sep, 2014 Announcing the 2014-2015 Arts, Technology, and Culture Colloquium Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium is an internationally recognized forum for presenting new ideas that challenge conventional wisdom about art, technology, and culture Read more