What is the role of public assembly in our current moment? And to what degree are new models necessary to respond artistically and technologically to our political climate? After a highly successful launch of Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA in Spring 2017, Berkeley Arts + Design is pleased to present a new suite of exciting lectures that explore the theme of “public (re) assembly” from a variety of perspectives. The word assembly carries a range of associations. It challenges us to think about the democratic right to assemble; it recalls the artistic history of assemblage. It provokes us to imagine new systems of arrangement that respond to a digital age. It asks to consider how UC Berkeley might re-imagine the “school assembly” as a site of social transformation.
Spring 2018 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA
Visualizing the World: Storytelling with Images from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Monday / 1.22.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating unit at UC Berkeley: Graduate School of Journalism
Indexical Ambivalence with Kris Paulsen
Monday / 1.29.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating units at UC Berkeley: Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia; History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
Connectivity as Human Right with Nicholas Negroponte
Monday / 2.5.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating units at UC Berkeley: Berkeley Center for New Media; Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquia; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Emily Jacir: 2018 Regents Lecture
Monday / 2.12.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
Participating units at UC Berkeley: Art Practice, Regents' Lectureship Program
The Natural History Museum and the Future of Nature with Beka Economopoulos and Dan Kammen
Monday / 2.26.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating units at UC Berkeley: Arts + Design, Arts Research Center, Energy & Chair Energy and Resources Group, Science at Cal, BERC (Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative).
The Perennial Mindset in the Era of Ageless with Gina Pell
Monday / 3.5.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating units at UC Berkeley: Arts Research Center; Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents' Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English, all at UC Berkeley.
Public Happiness with Judith Butler and Zeynep Gambetti
Monday / 3.12.18 / 6:30
*Advance tickets required. Tickets will be available ten days in advance of the event. Reserve tickets here.
Yugoexport Is the Name of This Oral Corporation with Irena Haiduk
Monday / 3.19.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM); Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium; Art Practice's Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Carme Pinós: Recent Works
Monday / 4.2.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
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Participating units at UC Berkeley: Berkeley Architecture
New Art, Flag Art, Good Art, Portal Art with Ian Cheng
Monday / 4.9.18 / 6:30
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Abolition Feminisms with Angela Davis
Monday / 4.16.18 / 6:30pm
*Seat reservation required to attend this talk. All reservations have been claimed and the talk and waitlist is currently sold out.
Presented by Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM); Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium
On Social Architecture: Democracy, Design, and New Networks with Eric McDougall
Monday / 4.23.18 / 6:30
Free, no ticket needed.
Reassembling Hope with Rebecca Solnit, Dacher Keltner, Dan Kammen, Shannon Jackson, and Friends of the Bay Area Book Festival
Monday / 4.30.18 / 6:30
*Seat reservation required. Reservations will be available ten days in advance of the event on April 20, 10am. Reserve tickets here.
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co curated by the Arts Research Center; Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium; Berkeley Center for New Media; Graduate School of Journalism; Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation; Regents' Lectureship Program; Department of Art Practice; Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities; and Department of English, all at UC Berkeley.
The spring 2018 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to a generous donation from Jan and Buzz Wiesenfeld. In-kind support is provided by BAMPFA.