Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is a collection of thought-provoking lectures organized by faculty from across the Berkeley campus. The 2016-17 program featured topics ranging from new immersive art technologies, cultural critique, the role of the arts in social justice, and other timely offerings. The 2017-18 series will explore the theme of Public (Re)Assembly across a range of topics that consider the future of assembly in the arts, politics, digital technologies, journalism, and public education. Stay tuned for the program announcement in Summer 2017.
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative, the Arts Research Center (ARC), and BAMPFA. Participating presenters include UC Berkeley’s Art of Writing; ARC; Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium (ATC); Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM); The Black Room; Department of Art Practice; Department of English; Digital Humanities at Berkeley; and the Townsend Center for Humanities. The program is sponsored by Arts + Design.
View select lectures from the season below or view them on our YouTube channel.
Gender, Identity, Memoir
Judith Butler, Professor of Comparative Literature
Maggie Nelson, author and Professor of Critical Studies, California Institute for the Arts
Mon., Jan. 30, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | The Future of Cultural Criticism
Collecting the Uncollectible
Pamela and Richard Kramlich, founders, the New Art Trust
Lawrence Rinder, Director of BAMPFA
Mon., Feb. 6, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Video is not available.
Body, Intellect, Resistance
Mark Greif, Professor of Literary Studies, New School for Social Research and co-founder, n+1
Linda Williams, Professor Emerita of Film and Media
Mon., Feb. 13, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | The Future of Cultural Criticism
Technology, Race, Popular Culture
Jenna Wortham, technology reporter and staff writer, The New York Times
Nadia Ellis, Professor of English
Mon., Feb. 27, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA; The Future of Cultural Criticism
Audio forthcoming.
Black Sun: Reflections on Otto Piene and Aldo Tambellini
Tanya Zimbardo, Associate Curator of Media Arts, SFMOMA
Mon., March 6, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Video is not available.
Art, Activism, and Freedom in the American Carceral State
Jackie Sumell, artist
Mon., March 13, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA; Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Designing Spatiality for New Media Art
Andrew and Deborah Rappaport, founders, Minnesota Street Project
Mon., March 20, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
Cultural Criticism in the Age of YouTube
Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker and founder, Webby Awards
Rolla Selbak, filmmaker
George Strompolos, founder, Fullscreen
Mon., April 17, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | The Future of Cultural Criticism
Radio, Podcast, and Contemporary Cultural Criticism
John Horn, radio host, The Frame
Glynn Washington, Host and Executive Producer of Snap Judgment
Chloe Veltman, Senior Arts and Culture Editor at KQED
Mon., April 24, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | The Future of Cultural Criticism
The Future of Media in the Trump Era
Dave Pell, founder, Next Draft
Mon., May 1, 6:30 pm
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA | The Future of Cultural Criticism