Spring 2019 Schedule Archive
Arts + Design Mondays @ BAMPFA
Monday, January 28, 2019
Art & The City: Cultural Planning in the Bay Area
Christian Frock (Independent Writer and Public Scholar), Jennifer Lovvorn (Chief Cultural Affairs Officer, Civic Art Program, City of Berkeley), and Roberto Bedoya (Cultural Affairs Manager City of Oakland)
Participating Units: Arts + Design, in collaboration with the Civic Arts Commission of the City of Berkeley, Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Oakland, the Global Urban Humanities Department, and the College of Environmental Design
Monday, February 4, 2019
The Paris Review: Women at Work
Emily Nemens (Editor, The Paris Review) and contributors/Authors Shruti Swamy, Margaret Ross, and Venita Blackburn
Participating Units: Berkeley Arts + Design, co-sponsored with the English Department, Art of Writing Program at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, Journalism School, Bay Area Book Festival
Monday, February 11, 2019
News of the Future and the Future of News
Kevin Delaney (Editor and co-CEO, Quartz)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media and co-sponsored with the Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, February 25, 2019
In and out of the Body and into the Machine
Chico MacMurtrie (Artist, New York)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media
Monday, March 4, 2019
A Conversation with Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okorafor (Author), Donna Jones (Associate Professor, English)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media and Co-sponsored with the Department of Architecture’s 'Studio One', the Department of African American Studies, and the Department of English.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Leading with Creative Confidence with Tom Kelley of IDEO
Tom Kelley (IDEO), Rich Lyons (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business)
Participating Units: Arts + Design, in collaboration with UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Monday, March 18, 2019
On Digital Colonialism and 'Other' Futures
Morehshin Allahyari (Artist, Activist, Educator)
Video Forthcoming
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media and co-sponsored with the Department of Art Practice's Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series, the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Stanford University
Monday, April 1, 2019
Rhonda Holberton (Artist, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at San Jose State)
Participating Units: Department of Art Practice
Monday, April 8, 2019
Reporting for the Future: Visualizing Journalism
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism faculty members Richard Koci Hernandez, Carrie Lozano (MJ' 05), Dawn Porter, Andrés Cediel (MJ '04), and current students Drew Costley (MJ '19) and Wesaam Al-Badry (MJ '20).
Participating Units: Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Monday, April 15, 2019
Hate Speech, Algorithms, and Digital Connectivity
Zeynep Tufekci (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Video Forthcoming
Participating Units: Berkeley D-Lab and Digital Humanities at Berkeley, co-sponsored by Berkeley Arts + Design, Berkeley Center for New Media, Digital Humanities Working Group, The Library, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, The Visual Resources Center
Monday, April 22, 2019
Black Magic with Rashaad Newsome
Rashaad Newsome (Artist)
Monday, April 29, 2019
Places in Spaces with Adam Savage
Adam Savage (Mythbusters), Nicholas de Monchaux (Professor, Architecture and Urban Design)
Participating Units: Berkeley Center for New Media, co-sponsored with the Department of Architecture’s Studio One
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.