Fall 2017 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA
Monday, September 11, 2017
On Public (Re)Assembly
Shannon Jackson (Arts + Design and TDPS, Rhetoric), joined by Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art, ARC), Stephen Best (English), Ken Goldberg (Industrial Engineering), Nicholas de Monchaux (Architecture, BCNM), and Deirdre English (Journalism)
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
Monday, September 18, 2017
Performing Strangers: Revisioning the Political Divide
Arlie Russell Hochschild (Sociology), with performances by UC Berkeley students
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Student Groups (TDPS, Cal Bridge USA)
Monday, September 25, 2017
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Franklin Foer (The Atlantic) in conversation with Nicholas Thompson (Wired)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia; and the Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, October 2, 2017
On Implementing Arte Útil
Tania Bruguera (Artist and Activist)
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Monday, October 9, 2017
Assembling a Native Commons
Assembly and Activism through the Indigenous Artist's Eyes
with Tony Abeyta in conversation with Corrina Gould
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Ethnic Studies
Monday, October 16, 2017
Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement
Kimberly Drew (The Metropolitan of Art, @museummammy)
Participating Units: Arts Research Center; Department of English; The Black Room; Townsend Center for the Humanities
Monday, October 23, 2017
Socially-engaged Internet art. Aesthetics of Information Ethics.
Paolo Cirio (Artist and Activist)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia
Monday, October 30, 2017
The Art of Emotions/Emotions in Art: From the Pixar Film to the Empathetic Museum
Dacher Keltner (Psychology, GGSC)
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative, Science at Cal
Monday, November 6, 2017
We must conjure our Gods before we obey them
with Michael Rock
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia; Department of Architecture
Monday, November 13, 2017
Re-assemblage (Theory, Practice, Form)
Bill Brown (University of Chicago)
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative, Department of English; Townsend Center for the Humanities
Monday, November 20, 2017
Hit Parade: Music as Public Knowledge
Josh Kun (University of Southern California; UC Berkeley alumnus) and special guest Thao Nguyen
Monday, November 27, 2017
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (70 min screening, followed by Q & A )
Isaac Julien (Artist and filmmaker) and Judith Butler (Comparative Literature)
This talk is in conjunction with Playtime, a solo exhibition featuring work by Issac Julien on view at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts through February 11. To learn more about the exhibition, visit their website here.
*Please note that this talk is expected to reach theater capacity. Please arrive early as seating is first come, first serve. Details about possible accommodation of overflow and/or documentation will be released closer to the talk. If you would like to receive news about upcoming programming from Berkeley Arts + Design, please sign up for our newsletter here.
Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Townsend Center for the Humanities
Monday, December 4, 2017
The Aerial View in Motion
Synne T. Bull and Dragan Miletic (Bull.Miletic, 2017 Artists-in-Residence)
Participating Units: Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society; Arts Research Center
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium; the Arts Research Center; the Department of Art Practice; Berkeley Center for New Media; The Black Room; the Doreen B. Townsend Center; the Department of English; the Graduate School of Journalism; The Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society; and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In kind support provided by BAMPFA.