*Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) precautions, the remainder of our Mondays lectures have been postponed, with the exception of Neural Abstractions on April 13. We invite community members to follow along with our HUM 20 students as they revisit relevant lectures each week from years prior.*
Spring 2020 Schedule
Arts + Design Mondays
Monday, January 27, 2020
Dancing with Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems
Amy LaViers (Assistant Professor in Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director of Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab)
Monday, February 3, 2020
Visualizing the World 2020
Andrés Cediel (Filmmaker, Professor of Visual Journalism at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism),
Cassandra Herrman (Interim Head of Documentary, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism),
Richard Koci Hernandez (Associate Professor and Bloomberg Chair, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism),
Ken Light (Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism, Curator of Center for Photography)
Monday, February 10, 2020
Working as a "Creative" in the Bay Area
Drew Bennett (Artist, Designer/Builder, Curator, Creative Director, Founder of FB AIR)
Monday, February 24, 2020
In Search of My Robot: emergent Media, Racialized Gender, and Creativity
Margaret Rhee (Poet, Scholar, New Media Artist)
Monday, March 2, 2020
Real Big
Autumn Knight (Interdisciplinary Artist)
POSTPONED - Monday, March 9, 2020
Freedom of Speech? Censoring Art on Campus
John K. Wilson (2019-20 Fellow with the University of California National Center on Free Speech and Civic Engagement)
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: On Public (Re)Assembly
POSTPONED - Monday, March 16, 2020
Danez Smith & Patricia Smith
Danez Smith (Poet, Writer, Performer),
Patricia Smith (Poet, Author)
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: Black Magic with Rashaad Newsome
POSTPONED - Monday, March 30, 2020
The Right to Be Creative and Invisible Russia
Margarita Kuleva (Senior Lecturer, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg and Chair, Department of Design and Contemporary Art)
Natalia Samutina (Head, Research Centre for Contemporary Culture at the Institute for Theoretical and Historical Studies in the Humanities, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: Connectivity as a Human Right with Nicholas Negroponte
POSTPONED - Monday, April 6, 2020
William Pope.L
William Pope.L (Artist)
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: Poetry and Protest with Ishmael Reed
MOVED ONLINE - Monday, April 13, 2020
Neural Abstractions
Tom White (Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington School of Design)
*Join us at berkeley.zoom.us/j/582930408*
POSTPONED - Monday, April 20, 2020
Kahlil Joseph in Conversation with Leigh Raiford and Shannon Jackson
Kahlil Joseph (Artist, Filmmaker),
Leigh Raiford (Associate Professor, African American Studies),
Shannon Jackson (Associate Vice Chancellor, Arts and Design)
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement with Kimberly Drew
POSTPONED - Monday, April 27, 2020
Youth Designing our Future Cities
HUM 20: In place of this lecture, watch and respond to: Art, Health and Equity in the City of Richmond OR Art and the City: Cultural Planning in the Bay Area
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Arts + Design Mondays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative. The series is co-curated by the Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium at the Berkeley Center for New Media; the Department of Art Practice; the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Arts Research Center; the Graduate School of Journalism; Poetry and the Senses program at UC Berkeley Arts Research Center in partnership with Engaging the Senses Foundation; Department of Slavic Languages and Literature; Department of History of Art; Autolab, CITRIS People and Robots; and the Richmond Arts and Culture Commission.
The 2020 series of Arts + Design Mondays is made possible thanks to a generous supporters of Berkeley Arts + Design.