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Public (Re)Assembly with Shannon Jackson and UC Berkeley Faculty

Mon Sep 11, 2017 6:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Shannon Jackson, Associate Vice Chancellor, Arts + Design, UC Berkeley

Julia Bryan-Wilson, Director, Arts Research Center; Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley

Stephen Best, Associate Professor, English, UC Berkeley

Ken Goldberg, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley

Nicholas de Monchaux, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media, Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley

Deirdre English, Visiting Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Associate Vice Chancellor, Shannon Jackson, launches our series with a public lecture on the Arts + Design Initiative as a vehicle for elevating, fortifying, and 're-assembling' the resources of UC Berkeley’s tremendous creative culture.  While thinking about the artistic, social, and technological future of public higher education, she will be joined by five faculty who will reflect with her on the concept of ‘assembly’ within their respective disciplines: Stephen Best (English), Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art), Deirdre English (Journalism), Ken Goldberg (Engineering), and Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture).

 

Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Department of English; Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia; and the Graduate School of Journalism


Biographies

Shannon Jackson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for the Arts + Design, Cyrus and Michelle Hadidi Chair in the Humanities, and Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric, and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a 2015 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Arts and Humanities Outstanding Service Award. In addition she serves on the advisory boards of several journals and arts organizations and has been a plenary speaker at a variety of distinguished venues, including most recently the Venice Biennial.

Julia Bryan-Wilson is the Director of the UC Berkeley Arts Research Center and a Professor in the Department of History of Art at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches modern and contemporary art. A scholar and a critic, Bryan-Wilson has written various articles that have appeared in journals, and her article Invisible Products received the 2013 Art Journal Award from the College Art Association. She has also held multiple fellowships from the Clark Art Institute, the Henry Moore Institute, and more, as well as won several awards for her teaching.

Stephen Best is an Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Fugitive’s Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession, a study of property, poetics, and legal hermeneutics in 19th-century American literary and legal culture. He co-convened a research group at the University of California’s Humanities Research Institute on “Redress in Law, Literature, and Social Thought.” His work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Hellman Foundation, the Humanities Research Institute, and the Ford Foundation.

Ken Goldberg is an artist, inventor, and Chair of the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley, with secondary appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Art Practice, the School of Information. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed technical papers and his inventions have been awarded eight US Patents. His artwork has appeared in 70 exhibits including the Whitney Biennial, and films he has co-written have been selected for Sundance and nominated for an Emmy Award.

Nicholas de Monchaux is Director of the Berkeley Center for New Media and Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo, winner of the Eugene Emme award from the American Astronautical Society and shortlisted for the Art Book Prize. His work has been exhibited at the 2010 Biennial of the Americas, the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, and San Francisco’s SFMOMA. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and has received additional design awards and fellowships.

Deirdre English is a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. She has contributed articles and reviews to Mother Jones, The Nation, and The New York Times Book Review among other publications, and to public radio and television. She has directed the Felker Magazine course for several years, during which time Brink Magazine, which she edits and produces with her students, has twice been named Best Student Magazine in the nation in the Mark of Excellence competition judged by the Society of Professional Journalists.