Arts Lecture Series

Public Lecture Series: Video Art: Connecting Across the Arts

LS25 is a Big Ideas lecture course that is also open to the public. All lectures are located at BAMPFA in the Osher theater.

How have artists made use of the screen? What are the opportunities and hazards of using the screen as a vehicle for connection? A stunning roster of artists, curators, designers, and critics explore these questions and more as we explore the politics and aesthetics of video art. Developed from mixed media experiments of the 1960s through to new digital and virtual aesthetics of our current moment, video and media art offer...

A Year on Angel Island

August 23, 2022

In 2022-2023, UC Berkeley’s Arts + Design Initiative and Future Histories Lab will sponsor a series of music and dance performances, exhibitions, public conversations, and courses using Angel Island’s historic immigration station as a jumping-off point for discussion about race in America, global migration, and architectures of incarceration. We’ll use the arts, design, and historical and landscape interpretation to understand current events and envision better futures.

Today, Angel Island holds important lessons about the history of racism in California and the U.S. At...

http://futurehistories.berkeley.edu/angel-island/

Isaac Julien, Mark Nash and Judith Butler in Conversation

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Isaac Julien, Artist and Filmmaker Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley This talk is in conjunction with "Playtime", a solo exhibition featuring work by Issac Julien on view at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture through February 11. To learn more about the exhibition, visit their website. Participating Units: Arts + Design Initiative; Arts Research Center; Townsend Center for the Humanities

A New Vocabulary: Labor, Narrative, and Radical Possibility in the Work of Black Feminist Artists

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Courtney Desiree Morris, Jacqueline Francis, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle: A New Vocabulary: Labor, Narrative, and Radical Possibility in the Work of Black Feminist Artists Monday, October 25 | 6:30pm Free and open to the public online; livestreamed and recorded on Zoom. Black feminist thought has been a resource for empowerment of language and creative disruption, used for personal and political transformation. Hortense Spillers’s landmark essay “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American...

Art/Politics/Aesthetics with Stephanie Syjuco

WATCH Art/Politics/Aesthetics Stephanie Syjuco, Professor of Art Practice Wed., April 5, 2017 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures Thinking Through the Arts and Design at Berkeley: California Countercultures is co-taught by Natasha Boas, independent curator, art historian and critic, and Michael Cohen, Associate Teaching Professor in the African American Studies Department. The Wednesday public lecture...

Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement with Kimberly Drew in conversation with Stephen Best

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Black Futures: On Race in Art, Curation, and Digital Engagement with Kimberly Drew in conversation with Stephen Best

Kimberly Drew, Social Media Manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Creator of the blog Black Contemporary Art Drew has been dubbed an "international tastemaker in contemporary art" on account of her Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art and her Instagram @museummammy; and as Social Media Manager at The Met, she...