Spring 2023 Schedule
A+D Thursdays: Video Art in Context
Thursday, January 19, 12PM
Video Across the Arts: Framing a Cross-Disciplinary Conversation
Shannon Jackson, Hadidi Professor at UC Berkeley and a scholar of cross-media and socially engaged art
See video recording here
Thursday, January 26, 12PM
Video Across the Arts: Film and Cinema
Greg Niemeyer, data artist and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media
See video recording here
Thursday, February 2, 12PM
Video Across the Arts: Painting, Performance Art, and the World of Video
Bart Rutten, artistic director of Centraal Museum
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Thursday, February 9, 12PM
Video Across the Arts: Performance and the Moving Image
NIC Kay, interdisciplinary artist, performer, and conceptual choreographer
See video recording here
Thursday, February 16, 12PM
Video Across the Arts: Secret Meridians and Somatic Films
Ken Ueno, composer/vocalist/sound artist
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Thursday, March 2, 12PM
Video Art and Social Intervention: Indigenous Cross-Media Aesthetics
Jeffrey Gibson, past Macarthur Fellow and multidisciplinary Indigenous artist
See video recording here
Thursday, March 16, 12PM
Video Art and Social Intervention: Out of Out of Africa
Julie Rodrigues-Widholm, director of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Thursday, March 16, 12PM
Video Art and Social Intervention: Forms of Life
William Kentridge, filmmaker, draftsman, and sculptor
Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School
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Thursday, March 23, 12PM
Video Art and Social Intervention: Weerasethakul and Kentridge: From Theater to Gallery and Beyond
Kate MacKay, associate curator of film at BAMPFA
Susan Oxtoby, director of film and senior film curator at BAMPFA
See video recording here
Thursday, April 6, 12PM
Video Art and Social Intervention: The Identities, Avatars, and Algorithms of Lynn Hershman Leeson
Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist and filmmaker
See video recording here
Thursday, April 13, 12PM
Video Art in Circulation: Implicating the Viewer
Danielle Dean, interdisciplinary artist
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Thursday, April 20, 12PM
Video Art in Circulation: Documentation, Access, and the Role of Media Art Platforms
Rudolf Frieling, SFMOMA’s curator of media arts
See video recording here
Thursday, April 27, 12PM
Video Art in (Re)Circulation: Recalling our Conversation across the Disciplines
Shannon Jackson, Hadidi Professor at UC Berkeley and a scholar of cross-media and socially engaged art
Greg Niemeyer, data artist and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media
Video recording will be posted at a later time