Arts + Design Fridays @ BAMPFA

February 4–April 29, 2022

Join us every Friday afternoon to explore cutting-edge thinking and making on topics of current interest to UC Berkeley’s creative faculty.

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  • Friday, April 29, 12:30 PM

    Salience!: Finding the Point in Nineteenth-Century Art

    Elisa Tamarkin, UC Berkeley Professor of English and author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance, talks about the paintings of Winslow Homer and other nineteenth-century American artists as pragmatic works with salience and interest that reveal versions of events that feel apropos of our lives.

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  • Friday, April 22, 12:30 PM

    CANCELED—Conversation with Angélique Kidjo

    Cal Performances is thrilled to welcome singer, composer, activist, and humanitarian Angélique Kidjo as their first season-long artist-in-residence, in which she will work closely with the campus community on topics close to her heart, including the issue of equity in the fields of technology and data.

    BAMPFA

    This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

  • Friday, April 15, 12:30 PM

    The 52nd UC Berkeley MFA Show: Six Artists Discuss Process

    BAMPFA Curatorial Assistant Claire Frost leads a panel discussion with the six Department of Art Practice MFA students (2022) about their artistic practice and the process of making work for their culminating MFA exhibition.

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  • Friday, April 8, 12:30 PM

    CREATE: Art in the Post-COVID Classroom

    This presentation includes anecdotes from participants of UC Berkeley student-run program CREATE (Creative Residencies for Emerging Artists Teaching Empowerment) about teaching online and transitioning to in-person instruction in the past year.

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  • Friday, April 1, 12:30 PM

    Berkeley Dance Project 2022: Shifting Live Dance to the Screen

    Drawing on their years of exploration at the intersection of choreography and technology, Bay Area dance companies Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts (SWDA) and Kinetech Arts collaborated with dancers at UC Berkeley to create two original films.

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  • POSTPONED

    POSTPONED: Curator's Eye

    BAMPFA Chief Curator Christina Yang and UC Berkeley Professor Lisa Wymore speak about new practices of care and museology as seen through a career arc of interdisciplinary practice and intersectional knowledge making.

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    This program has been postponed to the fall semester. We apologize for any inconvenience.

  • Friday, March 18, 12:30 PM

    Data & Life in the Metaverse

    Join our panel of media innovation experts and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities awaiting our curious explorations in this emerging space of critical data futures.

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  • Friday, March 11, 12:30 PM

    The Welcoming [IV]: New Ways of Making under a Pandemic

    Erika Chong Shuch and SanSan Kwan talk about new, pandemic-inspired forms of making that center care, listening and hospitality such as the ritual series The Welcoming, a product of the Artists & Elders project of Schuch's performance group For You.

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  • Friday, March 4, 12:30 PM

    Animation!: Frame by Frame Filmmaking

    BAMPFA Director of Film and Senior Film Curator Susan Oxtoby shares a selection of works recently acquired for the collection and offers insights into how filmmakers who work in the field of animation approach storytelling, thematic concerns, and the concept of time.

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  • Friday, February 25, 12:30 PM

    Ephemeral Monuments

    Executive Director of the Global Urban Humanities Initiative Susan Moffat speaks about work from UC Berkeley's Future Histories Lab, which offers students a chance to research and reveal Bay Area histories in partnership with local communities.

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  • Friday, February 18, 12:30 PM

    Visualizing the World ‘22

    Join our panel of media innovation experts and practitioners to discuss the challenges and opportunities awaiting our curious explorations in this emerging space of critical data futures.

    BAMPFA
  • Friday, February 4, 12:30 PM

    Livestream: A Conversation with Robert Moses

    An online conversation with choreographer, writer and composer Robert Moses, creator of numerous works of varying styles and genres for his highly praised dance company since 2008.

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