Past Events

The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy

April 18, 2024
The Loft Hour: Cathy Park Hong + Timmia Hearn DeRoy in conversation with Abigail De Kosnik Thursday, Apr 18, 2024
12 – 1pm
Hearst Field Annex D23

Hosted by the Arts Research Center and supported by the Dean’s Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities

Elevate your lunch break with The Loft Hour, a new year-long series that invites new arts faculty to riff on their work over lunch, in an informal conversation moderated by an ARC-affiliated faculty member. The April program features ...

Art/Politics/Aesthetics with Stephanie Syjuco

April 5, 2017
Art/Politics/Aesthetics Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures Stephanie Syjuco, Professor of Art Practice Wed., April 5, 2017 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is co-taught by Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic, and Michael Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in the African American Studies Department. The Wednesday public lecture series is organized by Natasha Boas....

Jake Skeets Poetry Reading & Craft Talk

October 6, 2022
Jake Skeets Craft Talk: The Memory Field in conversation with ARC Director Beth Piatote Thursday, October 6, 2022 4pm Arts Research Center, Hearst Field Annex D23

Co-presented by the Arts Research Center & the Berkeley English Dept with generous support from Engaging the Senses Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Tom Colby, the UC Berkeley Library, the Morrison Library Fund, the Dean’s Office of the College of Letters and Science, and Poets & Writers, Inc. ​

"The Software Arts" by Warren Sack

March 14, 2018

UCSC professor Warren Sack's "The Software Arts" argues that computing grew out of the arts. This argument will be a provocation for some, especially for those who see a bright line dividing the “two cultures” of the arts and the sciences. For others, the argument will not seem provocative at all. Important computer scientists have argued that computing is not a science, software is a literature, and computer programming is a kind of essay writing. For those who see no clear distinction between the arts and the sciences, The Software Arts will be an old saw with some new teeth. .

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Diné Nishłį or, A Boarding School Play

April 10, 2024
Indigenous Performing Arts Residency Program Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) or, A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson April 10 – 13, 2024 Staging by AlterTheater Directed by Daniel Leeman Smith Produced by Karen A. Smith Cast: Honokee Dunn (Shawna), Sage Hemstreet (Rosie), Lea McCormick (Ms. B), Zoey Reyes (Kaylene), Sabrina Saleha (Jolene), and Shawna Shandiin Sunrise (Ms. K)

Co-sponsored by a partnership between the Arts Research Center, the Department of...

The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora

August 28, 2006
The Old World in the New: Performing Diaspora August 28, 2006

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents a panel of scholars and artists exploring the impact of the African diaspora on various forms of historical and contemporary music and dance.

Consortium for the Arts & Arts Research Center, with Depts of African American Studies and Theater, Dance & Performance Studies.

Featuring: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, Linda Tillery, and...

Reclamation Poetry Gathering

February 15, 2024
Reclamation Poetry Gathering February 15 – 18, 2024 Public Programming: February 16 – 17, 2024

A trans-Indigenous conversation, with juxtapositions that decenter European thought and begin to translate an oceanic-to-desert-to-river-to-forest poetic imaginary

Reclamation gathered 19 fellows chosen to participate in the 2023 Poetry & the Senses program for a weekend of readings, conversations, and workshops. Three readings, hosted at...

Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on Stages, and in Galleries

June 28, 2012
Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Screening Time: Film & Video in Cinemas, on Stages, and in Galleries April 20, 2012

Participants: Nora Alter, Film & Media Arts, Temple University; Steve Seid, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Jeanne Finley, Film, California College of the Arts; Allan de Souza, New Genres...

Conjoined Histories Symposium

March 9, 2011
Conjoined Histories Symposium March 9, 2011

An extraordinary group of scholars and artists at a symposium that responded to the themes and histories addressed in Philip Kan Gotanda’s new play, "I Dream of Chang and Eng".

Featuring: Eric Hayot, Sam Otter, Amma Ghartey-Targoe, Shannon Steen, director Peter Glazer, and Philip Kan Gotanda

Making Time - Curators Re-Skilling/Critics Re-Thinking

April 21, 2012
Making Time: Art Across Gallery, Screen and Stage Curators Re-skilling/Critics Re-thinking April 21, 2012

Participants: Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center; Ferran Barenblit, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; Madrid Liz Kotz, History of Art, UC Riverside

Response by Sabine Breitwieser, Media and Performance Art, MoMA

Moderated by Jeffrey Skoller, Film & Media Studies, UC Berkeley