Spring 2022 Schedule
Arts + Design Fridays: Perseverance, Renewal, and Reflection in a Changing World
Friday, February 4, 12:30 PM
A Conversation with Robert Moses
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Robert Moses (Choreographer Founder, Artistic Director, Robert Moses’ Kin), Lisa Wymore (Professor, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, Faculty Advisor, Berkeley Arts + Design)
See video recording here
Friday, February 18, 12:30 PM
Visualizing the World ‘22
Presented by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Kori Suzuki (UC Berkeley School of Journalism student ‘23), Brian Wollitz (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism ‘21), Kristen Hwang (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Graduate School of Public Health ‘21, reporter, CalMatters)
Recording unavailable to protect intellectual property
Friday, February 25, 12:30 PM
Ephemeral Monuments: Place-based storytelling through installations, audio, and augmented reality
Presented by the Global Urban Humanities Initiative.
Susan Moffat (Creative Director, Future Histories Lab, Executive Director, Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Executive Director, Love the Bulb)
See video recording here
Friday, March 4, 12:30 PM
Animation!: Frame by Frame Filmmaking
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Susan Oxtoby (Director of Film and Senior Film Curator, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive)
See video recording here (*first 30 seconds of Janie Geiser animation shown to protect intellectual property)
Friday, March 11, 12:30 PM
The Welcoming [IV]: New Ways of Making Under a Pandemic
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Erika Chong Shuch (Choreographer, director, and performance maker, Co-Founder, For You), SanSan Kwan (Professor, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies)
See video recording here
Friday, March 18, 12:30 PM
Art, Data & Life in the Metaverse
Presented by Human Technology Futures Group and the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley.
Edgar Fabian Frias (UC Berkeley MFA Student '22), Emma Fraser (Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley Media Studies, The Berkeley Center for New Media), Don Hanson (Designer, Internet Based Artist, New Art City), Wade Wallerstein (Digital anthropologist, Strategist, Curator, Silicon Valet, TRANSFER Galler, Gray Area), Richmond Wong (Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity)
See video recording here
Friday, April 1, 12:30 PM
Berkeley Dance Project 2022: Shifting live dance to the screen
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies.
Lisa Wymore and Sheldon Smith (Choreographers, Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts), Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva (Choreographers, Kinetech Arts), Ben Estabrook (Videographer), Swetha Prabakaran (Assistant Videographer), Wendy Sparks-Rehl (Costume Director, UC Berkeley Theater, Dance & Performance Studies), Ray Oppenheimer (Lighting Lecturer, UC Berkeley Theater, Dance & Performance Studies)
Video recording will be available in June
Friday, April 8, 12:30 PM
CREATE: Art in the post-COVID classroom
Presented by the ASUC, Public Service Center, and CREATE (Creative Residencies for Emerging Artists Teaching Empowerment).
Connie Liu, Tannya Tang (21-22 CREATE Program Managers), Grace Hunzicker (21-22 CREATE Program Manager, Visual Arts Student Teacher), Lena Lee (Visual Arts Mentor, CREATE), Min Min Fong, Alexis Balashov (Visual Arts Student Teachers, CREATE), Adrian Ruvalcaba (Theater Mentor, CREATE), Raksha Rajeshmohan, Andrea Soto (Theater Student Teachers, CREATE), Ela Banerjee (Creative Writing Mentor, CREATE), Ariel Amarkarian (Creative Writing Student Teacher, CREATE)
See video recording here
Friday, April 15, 12:30 PM
The 52nd UC Berkeley MFA Show: Six artists discuss process
Presented by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and UC Berkeley’s Department of Art Practice.
Claire Frost (Curatorial Assistant, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive), Erica Deeman, Hala Kaddoura, Ahn Lee, Rivka Louissaint, Edgar Fabián Frías, Kavena Hambira (UC Berkeley MFA '22 Cohort)
See video recording here
Friday, April 29, 12:30 PM
Salience! Finding the Point in Nineteenth-Century Art
Presented by UC Berkeley’s Department of English.
Elisa Tamarkin (Professor, UC Berkeley Department of English)
See video recording here
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Arts + Design Fridays is organized and sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Office of Berkeley Arts + Design. The series is co-curated by the ASUC, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Cal Performances, CREATE (Creative Residencies for Emerging Artists Teaching Empowerment), Department of Art Practice, Department of English, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, Global Urban Humanities Initiative, Graduate School of Journalism, Human Technology Futures Group, and the Public Service Center. In-kind technical support and presentation offered by BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities. In-kind technical support and presentation offered by BAMPFA and the UC Berkeley College of Letters & Science, Division of Arts & Humanities.