ARTS + DESIGN MONDAYS @ BAMPFA

What do we make now of the classic opposition between fact and fiction? For centuries, artists and critics have placed pressure on both of these terms, questioning how we distinguish truth from lies, the real from the artificial. Addressing a range of political contexts and utilizing an array of creative forms, speakers in this series offer new approaches to these age-old questions. Asking for both solutions and speculations, accuracy and imagination, we consider the role of critical creativity in education and in politics, for our region and for the world. Doors open at 6 pm.


Schedule

* Monday, September 10, 6:30 PM
Roxane Gay: With One “N”
https://bampfa.org/event/roxane-gay-one-“n”

An evening with the acclaimed cultural critic and author of Bad Feminist, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, and many other fierce and funny works.

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media


* Monday, September 17, 6:30 PM
Cities, Territories, and Borders with Amos Gitai
https://bampfa.org/event/cities-territories-and-borders-amos-gitai

The acclaimed filmmaker discusses his work and reveals how his training as an architect informs his use of space to propel narratives of war, politics, religion, and human relations.

Presented by the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design


* Monday, September 24, 6:30 PM
Arts + Design & the Global Climate Summit: Reflections and Next Steps with Shannon Jackson, Dan Kammen, and Orville Schell
https://bampfa.org/event/arts-design-global-climate-summit-reflections-and-next-steps-shannon-jackson-dan-kammen-and

At the close of the Global Climate Summit, join UC Berkeley faculty, artists, and others to reflect on the climate challenges facing our world, and to discuss possible solutions.

Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design, the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, and AC 2ES


* Monday, October 1, 6:30 PM
Systems and the Politics of Representation with Charles Gaines
https://bampfa.org/event/systems-and-politics-representation-charles-gaines

The artist discusses his work using systems, numerals, language, and representation, rethinking notions of subjectivity and how they are manifested in works of art.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice


* Monday, October 8, 6:30 PM
The Networked Avant-Garde with Kelani Nichole
https://bampfa.org/event/networked-avant-garde-kelani-nichole

Nichole, a design strategist and exhibition maker, talks about the challenges and potentials of a new, network-based artistic culture.

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media


* Monday, October 15, 6:30 PM
Image and Amnesia with Kerry Tribe
https://bampfa.org/event/image-and-amnesia-kerry-tribe

The video and installation artist considers how art, technology, and the moving image can sensitize viewers to their own and others’ experiences.

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media


* Monday, October 22, 6:30 PM
Night Watch with Shimon Attie
https://bampfa.org/event/night-watch-shimon-attie

The artist (and Berkeley alumnus) discusses his site-specific media installations, ranging from Berlin to Israel and Palestine to the United States.

Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice


* Monday, October 29, 6:30 PM
The Good Anthropocene: Terraforming Earth with Kim Stanley Robinson
https://bampfa.org/event/good-anthropocene-terraforming-earth-kim-stanley-robinson

The bestselling science fiction writer talks about the notion of the Anthropocene era and the possibility of creating a “good Anthropocene.”

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media


* Monday, November 5, 6:30 PM
The Other 1968s: Counterrevolution, Communism, and Desublimation with Todd Gitlin
https://bampfa.org/event/other-1968s-counterrevolution-communism-and-desublimation-todd-gitlin

Sociologist and cultural critic Gitlin, this year’s Avenali Chair in the Humanities at UC Berkeley, delivers a lecture marking the fiftieth anniversary of the watershed political year 1968.

Presented by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley


* Monday, November 19, 6:30 PM
Daemons Tools Art Tech with Marisa Morán Jahn
https://bampfa.org/event/daemons-tools-art-tech-marisa-morán-jahn

The artist and media maker discusses creative technology as a form of mythmaking and the process of designing technologies with and for underserved communities.

Presented by the Berkeley Center for New Media


* Monday, November 26, 6:30 PM
ART21 Season 9 Screening and Conversation with Stephanie Syjuco, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and Tina Kukielski
https://bampfa.org/event/art21-season-9-screening-and-conversation-stephanie-syjuco-lynn-hershman-leeson-and-tina

A screening of highlights from the ninth season of the Art21 TV program Art in the Twenty-First Century, with Syjuco and Hershman Leeson—both featured in the show—in person.

Presented by the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice and Art21


* Monday, December 3, 6:30 PM
Branches from the Same Tree: The National Academy on the Role of Humanities and Art in “STEM/M” Learning
https://bampfa.org/event/branches-same-tree-national-academy-role-humanities-and-art-“stemm”-learning

Join a roundtable that responds to a seminal report on the necessary role of the arts, design, and the humanities in the future of work and higher education.

Presented by Berkeley Arts + Design and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UC Berkeley